New Opera ‘Anna Nicole’ Taps Into Vanity

Last week saw the world premiere of the latest opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Anna Nicole at the Royal Opera House, London, based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith. A sordid, tragic tale of fame and fortune, last night the Mix team managed to bag tickets to a sold out performance and couldn’t help seeing similarities in the set design to our Vanity trend, forecast for Spring Summer 2012.

An oversized dusky blue satin mattress, powder pink patterned carpeting and lashings of gold and hot pink; the perfect interpretation of the overtly feminine story that featured in Mix Trends issue 22.

For more information, visit our website to purchase Mix Trends for Spring Summer 2012. The opera runs for only a few more nights, for more information contact the Royal Opera House.

Supermachine Studio’s bold designs for Bangkok University Creative Centre

Here at Mix, we are loving the latest project by Thai architects Supermachine Studio, designed for the Bangkok University Creative Centre.

With the interior of one of Bangkok University’s  new four-storey buildings as its canvas, the group has designed over 600 square meters including a workshop, library, exhibition space, viewing room and office.

Our favourite element of the project has to be the Lo-Fi pixel wall. Covering  180 square meters of wall surface with 10,000 rotating four-sided plastic pieces, each of which have a blue, green, yellow and pink side, visitors can rotate each unit to create different patterns or messages on the wall.  Framed with our colour of the month, Shocking Pink, this feature creates a bold and beautiful entrance to the city’s creative centre.

For further images of the project you can visit the Supermachine Studio blog at http://supermachine.wordpress.com/