Last year, Tile Envy featured a peek at a space designed by Piero Lissoni as inspired by the Showtime series- The Tudors. This month marks the last season of this acclaimed series, and while revisiting previous episodes I was reminded of the "old with new" or historic with modern theme we started out with this week.
Carrying forward with that theme, today I'm presenting the new renovations of the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands as favorite industrial design blog, Designboom, takes us on a tour. Many of the spaces have a Tudors-meets-the-Jetsons flair. Hows that for old with new?
The new entrance hall to the museum was created by Dutch design firm Studio Job,
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They also have a new digital visitors' information center created by Spanish artist Jaime Hayón.
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The museum restaurant created by Dutch designer Maarten Baas includes his new series of chairs and lamps sculpted of clay.
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And to wrap the exterior of his Mendini Pavilion, Italian designer Alessandro Mendini designed his own tile cladding.
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There are many reasons why this is one of my favorite new public spaces. But the floors- well they take the cake!
(please click any photo for more from this designboom story)