Ultimate tree house ?

or ultimate bird house ? i’ll let you decide.

Kitch designs, patterns, textures, colours are exploding off home decoration at the moment. The UK is producing the goods, exhibiting the likes of Warhol, Hirst, Sarah Lucas and more. The project sends a message across a variety of  current issues including political diplomacy, warfare, racism, cultural conflicts and gender.

Each group or theme jumps from playful words like subversion, commodification, imprisonment and sexuality.

Enough said ? I’ll let the walls do the talking:

Here are some quite extra ordinary spaces, all with extravagant designs and an overal alternative vision. This is what happens when you have too much money to own a normal work space, and feel like making a statement.

Vodafone can:

Vodafone’s well publicized Portuguese headquarters is located on Avenida da Boavista in Porto (Oporto), the namesake of Port wine and Portugal’s second global city after Lisbon.

Other inspired businesses have gone to the extremes of turning their 9 to 5 job into a Fantasy World, so that a day in the office can seem like you are walking on a cloud. In some cases quite literally !

Ogilvy & Mather’s Guangzhou office has been selected as one of the recipients of the third annual China’s Most Successful Design Award 2008, sponsored by FORTUNE China magazine and China Bridge International.

We are quite spoilt to have such a nice space in our Sheung Wan showroom, but it is always nice to take a sneak peep into someone else’s office. Hmm, I wonder if they have Nespresso Coffee ?