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Linda Bergroth designs “user-centric” Cover Story paint shop in Amsterdam

November 23, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Interior designer Linda Bergroth has added colourful beams to the Amsterdam concept store for plastic-free paint brand Cover Story, which was designed to streamline the redecorating process for shoppers. The “paint studio” is the second iteration of Cover Story outlets designed by Bergroth, who also created the interiors for the Finnish brand’s flagship Helsinki store.

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GAF applies solar-reflective coating to mitigate Los Angeles heat islands

June 8, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

American roofing firm GAF has completed the first phase of a public-private initiative that seeks to mitigate urban heat in Los Angeles through solar-reflective coating. The GAF Cool Community Project completed the first phase of their public project in Los Angeles’ Pacoima, covering asphalt roads and public areas in a 10-block radius to see if

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“The world ran out of pink” due to Barbie movie production

June 8, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

The sets of Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Barbie movie required such vast amounts of hot pink paint, they swallowed up one company’s entire global supply, according to production designer Sarah Greenwood. Speaking to Architectural Digest, Gerwig revealed that the team constructed the movie’s fluorescent Barbie Land sets almost entirely from scratch at the Warner Bros Studios

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Estudio Santa Rita places saw-tooth roof over Mérida art studio

September 16, 2022 James Brillon 0

Estudio Santa Rita has completed a compact and efficient building with colourful storage units and a saw-tooth roof that houses the offices and workshops of a creative couple in Mérida, Mexico. Estudios MF is for a couple, a fashion designer and a painter, who commissioned Estudio Santa Rita to design and build their workspace. The

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Cover Story plastic-free paint shop encourages visitors to play with colour

October 11, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Cover Story shop interior by Linda Bergroth

Finnish plastic-free paint company Cover Story has opened its first shop: a “paint studio” fitted out by interior designer Linda Bergroth to offer customers multiple ways to explore colour. The Cover Story Paint Studio is located in a small shopfront in central Helsinki. The brand considers this one of its points of differentiation from how

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Laura Owens covers Vincent Van Gogh exhibition in colourful handmade painted wallpaper

September 12, 2021 Alice Finney 0

American artist Laura Owens has covered the walls of an exhibition of Vincent van Gogh’s works in colourful handmade wallpaper. Currently on show at Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, the exhibition Laura Owens and Vincent Van Gogh explores the relationship between the seminal artist and the contemporary painter. Seven of Van Gogh’s paintings, which have been

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“Whitest paint on record” reflects 98 per cent of sunlight to cool buildings

April 16, 2021 Jennifer Hahn 0

"Whitest paint on record" developed by researchers from Purdue University led by Xiulin Ruan

Researchers at Purdue University have developed an “ultra-white” paint that reflects 98 per cent of sunlight and deflects infrared heat, allowing buildings to cool below the surrounding air temperature. The paint, which the university describes as the “whitest paint on record”, owes its cooling power to barium sulphate – a pigment derived from the mineral

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