Cool way of making use of the pipes and hence saving materials!  

Reclaimed wood used to make bed headboards, nice!  

Good design works for People, Planet & Profit! Let’s go for the Triple Bottom Line.  

Second hand rocks! Less resources, less waste, more personality, more stories.  

We want to keep the interiors local and long-lasting, so what better lamp than Barcelona designer Miguel Milá’s TMM Lamp that just turned 50?!  

I can only imagine the cooking classes and local food tasting sessions we could have around this culinary landscape at the hotel…  

Would you be smiling or annoyed if you found this in your hotel shower? by Hu2 design  

Wow! Can we have one of these lamps? Barcelona does emit a lot of CO2 and is lacking some trees… is this a solution? This Micro-Algae Lamp Absorbs 150-200 Times More CO2 than a Tree!  

It just occurred to me that if you could have Tyler Brûlé work with Victor Papanek, you might have gotten the perfect hotel design!

I love this fantastic flow-chart of what people really need by Victor Papenek (one of my gurus!) from his book Design for the Real World  

Here’s Petz’s view on eco-design and its role in Spain at the moment, as told to Monográfica magazine in 2011. Entrevista a Petz Scholtus from Monográfica.org on Vimeo.

Nice pot by Joan Rojeski that grows with your veggies, and it’s locally produced in Spain.  

Roca’s w+w sink and toilet in one saves water (but not space and materials!)… has anyone seen a more elegant and economic version of this?! 3000€ is a bit too pricey.  

The R3project is Petz’s renovation of her eco-flat in Barcelona in 2006. This project is what inspired and motivated her to create a hotel project a few years later, when she decided she did not want to create more things. As an […]

20 New Rules of Green Marketing, by By Jacquelyn A. Ottman on Triple Pundit -nice!