Strain bar stool offers a dynamic, saddle-inspired seat made from solid wood, shaped for ergonomic comfort. The interwoven steel leg structure provides a built-in footrest while reinforcing stability and visual identity. Available in three heights, it adapts to a range of interior settings, from residential kitchens to hospitality bars, always balancing comfort, function, and sculptural clarity.
Founded in 2013, SMPDO is a Zagreb-based industrial design agency working on various projects ranging from industrial and spatial design to site-specific installations, art direction and design consultancy.
An interesting architectural configuration with it's fractured surfaces fits perfectly into the ambience of the bay, giving the impression of being a part of the natural configuration. In the interior, the wooden details, discrete lighting and comfortable furniture in warm colours, make a great contrast to the simple white surface of the exterior.
One Suite Hotel is situated in Srebreno, halfway between Dubrovnik and the airport in Čilipi.
The new six-storey building complex showcases a state-of-the-art and environmentally friendly design with high-grade infrastructure, offering personnel a comfortable and innovative working environment.
The Strain barstool dominates the interior of the Greenhouse Bistro of the Kortrijk Xpo, the city’s well-known congress center. A love of craft and design permeates this architectural project, by BuroB.
An extraordinary example of industrial design in a residential space – a team of Belgium architects from Boost Architectuur showed us how to use big/large concrete surfaces in a residential space, and combine them with warm materials, interesting details and good lighting, to achive impressive and yet cosy atmosphere.
Perched on the coast of Privlaka, House H is designed as a dialogue between architecture and the Adriatic. It stretches across a 600 m² plot, where sea and sky are ever-present, thanks to floor-to-ceiling glass façades that invite the horizon indoors.
The NOXX Hotel in Marburg, designed by Studio ABERJA, is a reinterpretation of a former locomotive shed into a contemporary hospitality experience.