Textiles inspired by the Bierdemeier exhibition, "The invention of simplicity", showing at the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Albertina, Vienna; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berling; and the Louvre, Paris. Architex chose the motifs and imagery from pieces including wallpaper samples and silver works to inspire its twist on Biedermeier styled and textile designs. To increase aplication use all patterns are woven in Trevira CS and flame resistant polyester blend making the textiles appropiate for uphostery, drapery and panel.
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Paragon Prairie Tower
Paragon Prairie Tower
Mosaic prairie to encircle metro office park beacon
Urbandale will soon be home to an unusual artwork that builders say will be the largest mosaic glass tile mural in the United States.
Workers are now wrapping a 5,000-square-foot scene of an Iowa prairie around a 120-foot tall tower located at the entrance to R&R Realty Group's new Paragon Office Park at 123rd Street and Meredith Drive in Urbandale.
Craftsmen are attaching nearly two million pieces of colored Italian glass in a year-long project that melds art and engineering with high-tech tile manufacturing.
The Paragon Prairie Tower will "look like a watercolor painting" when seen from Interstate Highway 35/80, but will actually comprise individual tiles that are each less than 1 square inch, said Des Moines artist David Dahlquist, who designed the image on the tower and helped oversee manufacture of the glass tiles in Ravenna, Italy.
The tower will cost an estimated $1 million to create, according to R&R President Daniel Rupprecht.
It is "a tribute to Iowa and Iowans," Rupprecht has said. "We intended for it to draw businesses to the Paragon Office Park, but also be a visual reminder of our Iowa heritage."
Office parks frequently offer amenities, including outdoor sculptures, corporate lakes and other park-like features to attract tenants. Some also employ visually iconic structures, ranging from giant signs to oversized architectural features that can serve as landmarks to help guide potential clients to a particular location.
But the Paragon tower will be more than a commercial landmark, Dahlquist said. At the center of the state north of the juncture of two interstate highways, it will be "a cultural landmark for the state of Iowa," he said.
By week's end, workers at the tower were nearly a third of the way up in applying 1-foot-square sheets of tile to the tower. Each sheet contains 144 individual pieces of glass tile that were prearranged by Italian tile manufacturer Sicis to create a prairie image that includes grass, wheat and corn.
Artisans from Des Moines Marble and Mantel expect to complete the installation in early July, said Steve Bennett, president of Construction Services Inc., an R&R subsidiary that's overseeing construction of the office park.
The 120-foot tower is 16 feet in diameter, creating an exterior circumference of about 50 feet.
A mobile scaffolding system is hung from the top of the tower and was designed specifically for this project, Bennett said. The scaffold is powered by four motors at the top of the tower so it can be raised and lowered as different phases of work on the tower progress.
Each piece of glass tile was colored at the factory in Italy and assembled by a computer into 1-foot-square sheets, which when properly applied to the tower, will reproduce the prairie image created by Dahlquist.
The 1-foot-square sheets were carefully packaged and numbered so that when they were unloaded in Urbandale, the craftsmen installing the tile just needed to follow directions and install the sheets in the proper order, working clockwise around the tower.
Installing the tile is an art of its own, Dahlquist said, because tolerances for how much grout can be placed between individual sheets of tile are very small.
The tower is visible to motorists as they round the northwest corner of Interstate 35/80 and begin heading south. It also can be seen by motorists headed south on Iowa Highway 141 a mile or two before that highway joins the interstate.
Follow this link in order to view the Paragon Prairie Tower Website
All the tiles of the Prairie Tower are from the Art Factory 
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Natasha Marshall
Natasha Marshall's innovative approach to pattern ensures that her contemporary, yet timeless designs will enhance any space. Natasha's designs can be recognised by their elegant and simple geometric work that has gained the respect of leading architects, interior designers and retailers around the globe.
It is Natasha's love of colour and her strong belief that the use of pattern can create a distinctly individual interior that inspires her when designing each new collection. Whether an interior has one wall of pattern or a beautiful mix of various styles, you can use Natasha Marshall's designs and exquisite colour palette to create and enhance your own unique interior.
Natasha Marshall
Granada Design
Collection:"Zahra"
"Zahra" is the latest wall decoration artwork in the "Gardens" collection, it measures 70 x 100 cm, Artwork is manually screen printed onto the fabric then mounted and stretched on a canvas.
Finally, it is framed with high-quality, lacquer-finished wooden frames.
This product is entirely handmade. This design is available in three color variations. Designed and manufactured in Barcelona,Spain.
Granada Design® - Wall Decoration Collections
Healthier wall
Healthier Wall, Fresher Air
The air we breathe impact our health. We spend about 90% of our time indoor, daily, and we usually think it is safer and healthier to stay indoor. However, in study conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indoor air is 2 to 5 times, and sometimes can be 100 more polluted than outdoor air, which poses greater health risks.
Look around our surroundings, in our homes and our office buildings. 80% surrounded by closed walls. An enclosed building itself causes health hazard. Most building materials around us contain formaldehyde, VOC which are classified under as the pollutants which can cause lung cancer.
Whether we like it our not, most office buildings are air-conditioned and not as well ventilated as we would like. With poor ventilations, the discharge of chemical substances from the furniture, various contruction materials would cause sore eyes and sore throats, and thus causing allergy and asthma.
Indoor air quality (IAQ) refers to the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of air in the indoor environment within a house, building, an institution or commercial facility. Factors influencing indoor air quality include the following.
Factors influencing indoor air quality include the following.
* Inadequate supply of outside air, i.e. ventilation of air
* Contamination arising from sources within the building (e.g., combustion products including carbon monoxide and environmental tobacco smoke; volatile organic compounds such as formaldehyde, VOC which are cancerous, from building materials, fabric furnishings, carpet, adhesives, fresh paint, new paneling, and cleaning products; ozone from office equipment; mold from water damage).
* Microbial contamination of ventilation systems or building interiors. Poor indoor air quality in your home, school or workplace can cause a number of health problems, such as asthma, allergies, coughing, wheezing, dizziness, nausea, headaches, inability to concentrate, short-term memory loss and hyperactivity. Babies and children may be especially vulnerable to the poor air quality.
While there is no universal solution, there are complementary ways to control aspects of our indoor air quality. Usually the most effective way to improve indoor air quality is to minimize or eliminate the use of products and materials that cause indoor pollution, employ good hygiene practices to minimize biological and chemical contaminants and use good housekeeping practices to control particles, dust, pollen, bacteria and mold.
Japanese Wall with diatomaceous earth, which is a natural material from the riverbed and marine, is created for those who would appreciate natural beauty, zen and healthy environments. Japanese wall is made up of natural sand, natural clay, diatomaceous earth and straw.
It is a healthy alternative of paint and wallpaper which is not only filters bad air, but also easy to maintain. Most importantly, Japanese Wall is a Non VOC, Non-Formaldehyde water-based materials which is also a good heat insulator and humidity controller.
Controlling the home environment is a very important part of asthma and allergy care. Breathing clean indoor air promotes good health, more energy, better sleep and helps prevent chronic respiratory diseases later in life, thereby living longer with a healthy lifestyle. It becomes help of the health problem cancellation which is represented in crotch lining house syndrome, maintains kind clean interior environment at the person.
JapaneseWall: Uncovering our Surroundings
Feng Shui
Mind you, Fengshui is not a superstition. It is an old practice since a few thousand years ago of achieving a harmonious balance (yin and yang) between the environment and the space we live in. Strictly speaking, it is a common sense, but most people usually forget about a balanced lifestyle. So how can Jwall enhance fengshui? Fengshui is literally translated in water and wind. To quote Larry Sang, the chi which rides the wind stops at the boundary of water. Everything around us, including people, weather, food, and many things affect us mentally, physically, psychologically, emotionally; thus produces certain "chi" - positive or negative which indirectly affect our health, wealth, personal relationship and emotional feelings.
As Jwall is produced to provide a much fresher and cleaner air within the space we live in, it directly produces positive chi. When this chi is produce, those who live within the space would definitely be healthier and happier. Don't think this is a marketing gimmick, just read on the benefits which have been posted on www.japanesewal.com, or request for lab report or data.
Ultimately, drink lots of water (doesn't have to be ionized, as long as clean and safe to drink), work out to keep fit and always think positive, stay happy and laugh with open heart. When you can do that positive chi will be produced all around you.
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