Modern Architecture

Most of us probably never notice our traditional white panel radiators, and when sprucing up the interior design of our home they’re the last thing we think of. Consequently, we may not even be aware of the sheer number of choices open to us with modern ‘designer’ radiators in terms of colour, shape, materials and functionality. Nowadays radiators can be affordable and attractive features in our homes rather than intrusive, dull, blocks of metal in the background.

Types of Designer Radiators

Whether it’s column, tube or panel, vertical or horizontal, the range and choice is enormous and includes:

Electric Radiators – a versatile and flexible solution, with fantastic heat output, and can be wall mounted.

Period Radiators – if you have an older property and want authentic interiors, or if you want to bring a period look to a modern home.

Low Level Radiators – unobtrusive but very effective, keeping the clean lines of your rooms.

Tubular Radiators – great looking, and the whole surface area of each tube working to bring more warmth.

Panel Radiators – exciting and modern design ideas have now been applied to the familiar panel radiator that many of us have in our homes.

Architectural Radiators – glamorous and artistic designs, who says radiators can’t look stunning?

Mirrored Radiators – a two-in-one striking and space saving way to bring warmth, with the mirror framed by imaginative radiator designs.

If you want something even more individual e.g. if you need a radiator to fit on a curved surface, there are companies who provide a radiator curving service. This means you can have beautifully designed curved radiators that fit your home like a glove.

For spaces where a hot radiator surface would be a hazard e.g. schools or hospitals, you can install low surface temperature (LST) radiators.

The Benefit of Designer Radiators

Choice is the main benefit of modern designer radiators:

No need to stick to white, designer radiators are available in a wide range of colours to match your interior design ideas perfectly.

There is now choice of materials. Aluminium and tubular steel bring more responsive and economical radiators which are easy to clean and can be made into a fantastic array of shapes and styles.

You can now choose whether the radiator sits on the floor or on the wall, and it can be tall, short, wide, horizontal or vertical.

Your radiators can now be as individual as you, which means that you can have a living space that’s totally in harmony with your design ideas. At last there are heating solutions that are attractive, affordable, functional and economical.




By: Paul Link

I was privileged enough to recently attend a brief introduction to Paul Smiths forthcoming attractions hosted by one of his Australian representatives. The whole experience was naturally inspirational, and encouraging in so much as his favourite phrase “inspiration can come from anywhere” had been incorporated in my own collective of philosophical rimes for many years. This was gratifying for me and I felt immediately in tune with his design ideals. Listening to the talk was easy because I understood fashion as a culmination of past, present and future.

At the end of this informative talk we were kindly offered a collection of trinkets, including a disposable camera in classic multi coloured striped box, a photograph of Sir Paul rollicking, and trying to strangle members of the Manchester United Football team, and a note pad titled “Paul Smith Space”. On the cover was a space age photo of a telescope in a slightly abstract observatory, which reminded me a little of a scene in the dark “1984” film.

I accepted the tokens with great delight and upon returning home I set the objects above my kitchen work bench in full view from the lounge and dining area, this serves as a constant reminder of the philosophy of “Inspiration can come from anywhere.

I opened up the Paul Smith Space Book and wrote this heading “My Ideas in Paul Smiths Space” followed by my ideas, which had been rolling around in my mind for yonks risking forgetfulness, and, scattered on pieces of paper all over the place like a dog’s dinner.

Designing for me does not start with any kind of commercialism in mind, it’s driven by an almost dogmatic sense of creative energy that with out a release I’m sure could cause an explosion. Once an idea begins to develop I must see it through at all odds, it is not energy zapping, or mundane in anyway, conversely it seems to produce boundless energy that drives me onward from dawn till dark, and, it is only at the end of the day that I consciously decide enough is enough and lay down to sleep.

After many years hard slog, my ideas are coming to fruition in colourful floral ties and ornately enamelled cufflinks, depicting favoured architectural styles and paying tribute to innovators like Jean Patou the creator of the very first designer tie way back in 1920. This is where the past, present and future meet briefly at the point of design conceptualization.

And as for creativity; I was fortunate enough to suffer with chronic dyslexia through out school and thereafter, even more fortunately I never saw this condition as a weakness, because I recognised my own strengths and stayed focused on them. So if you suffer with dyslexia, don’t let anyone convince you that it is a disability or weakness otherwise you’ll spend the rest of your life trying to overcome dyslexia and neglect your own strengths.

As Albert Einstein famously quoted “Knowledge is limiting, imagination encompasses the universe”

I take a leaf out of the books of Mr Einstein and Sir Paul Smith as my main inspirers, along with Richard Branson, Jean Patou, Frank Lloyd Wright, Isambard Brunell and the natural ever changing environment.

The Paul Smith Space book is filling with ideas and each one will come to fruition, this is my goal.

A closing tribute to the Father of modern architecture.

In Falling water, which was built as a weekend retreat for Edgar J. Kaufmann, we see Wright’s greatest expression of “organic architecture” –the union of the structure and the land upon which it is built. Falling water is considered Wright’s masterwork.




By: Patrick McMurray

Japan is a modern country as well as a traditional country, as the No. 2 economy great power in the world, Japan has created a economy miracle, who has a lofty level of modernization, while whose land area is just as small as one of Chinese provinces…



In recent years throughout Japan there raised a hot trend of home reconstruction, which is in the ascendant still.

In order to pursue a more comfortable and convenient living environment, in virtue of home design, Japanese try to take full advantages of spaces and setting modern appliances, furniture in their current narrow residential space.

In past time the demand rank of life in most Japan families was arranged according to food, clothing, transportation and living, now that has shifted to a new order as living first, transportation next, then clothing, and food last, which put the improvement of home living conditions to the first place.

Now in Japan, the space features and design ideas they pursued has following specific performances. ..



1. Purified, Abstract Design Style 

— to make the decoration style attain to a beauty purification realm

Famous post-modern architect Hans Hollein had been engaged in a lot of architectural designs and interior design works, whose work has broken traditional frame and very different from modernist architectural designs. His designs mainly used symbols, metaphor techniques, and applied to modern technique materials and combined with special colors and patterns, thus to create a purified particular ideal environment.

Hans Hollein’s design has put a considerable influence on the world, as extended to his design idea, many Japanese designers follows a step forward, they applied with implied functions and the same time emphasis on the simplicity and abstractness of design, they applied with geometric form elements and managed interlaced arrays of simple lines and surfaces to avoid pop out of objects and shapes, and try best to eliminate all excessive marks; they also adopted the restrained method of removing detailed decorations to embody the essence of space, and make the room space take on concise and lively modern effect.



Nordic think design is an integral part of their lives, Americans keep it as a money-making means, while Japanese believe that design is a important way for national survival….




By: Krista QQ(www.123giftfactory.com)