Bone furniture by Joris Laarman
Laarman’s Bone Chair and Bone Chaise, the first products from the Bone Furniture range, were launched at Design Miami in December. This principle allows the designer to revolutionize the design process and optimize material allocation and weight. Joris Laarman’s aluminium chair is the first in a series of works which are designed according to the way bones develop; growing where strength is needed, and shrinking where it is not.
Hannah Martin’s Jewelry
Designer Hannah Martin has launched a luxury jewellery and accessories brand. Collaborating with the fashion, music and film industries, Hannah has created an international collection appealing to both men and women. The young designer already has a devoted following that includes Vivienne Westwood, Christopher Bailey and shoe designer Georgina Goodman and she has been asked to consult for Givenchy and Cartier. Hannah Martin latest collection is called Forgotten Treasure Of The Infamous Aguila Dorada.
Bedding and Modern Bedroom by Amenity
Inspired by nature, Amenity bedding and modern bedroom linens are designed to capture the warmth and beauty of the outside and bring it into your home. The modern bedding features large-scale organic silhouettes that create a beautiful focal point to any bedroom.
Rikke and Line Clevin Jensen’s Jewelleries
Danish designers and twin sisters, Rikke and Line Clevin Jensen, combined creative forces after graduating from Central St Martins College of Art & Design in 2000. Since 2003, they have developed their designs into a unique range of silver jewellery.
The special technique of transferring images onto silver is a closely guarded secret, which adds to the playful mystery of these beautiful designs.
The Keating Hotel by Pininfarina
The new ultra-chic Keating Hotel, which sports a Ferrari-red interior, looks like it’s going 225 mph standing still.
No wonder. It’s the first lodging property that Italian automobile designer Pininfarina, famous for the Ferrari and other fast cars, including Maserati, Jaguar, Alfa Romeo and Fiat Spider, has ever put its stamp on.
But it won’t be the last. Edward Kaen, whose family owns the historic downtown building that houses the 35-room boutique hotel and lounge, and Paolo Pininfarina, vice chairman of Turin, Italy-based Pininfarina, are taking their act on the road.
April 19, 2007 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Gaggenau LiftMatic wall mounted oven
Gaggenau LiftMatic oven is an innovative product that will revolutionize the way you cook. At the touch of a button, the base of this oven will lower directly to the countertop so that dishes can be easily loaded or unloaded.
This design is ideal for small kitchens and will benefit large kitchens by freeing up a significant amount of space.The built-in Gaggenau LiftMatic oven can be incorporated into the upper cabinets of your kitchen or can be built directly into the wall. Besides the convenience it provides, this Gaggenau oven is also powerful and quite versatile, offering 11 different methods for heating your food, including convection cooking. Functional and elegant, the LiftMatic features a sleek stainless steel finish with a tinted glass front, as well as ample halogen lighting to illuminate the oven’s interior.
Edouard Francois
The Parisian architect mixes architecture with ecology: a fashionable fifty-year-old with a diverse background and designer of the offbeat Tower Flower in Paris.
Tower Flower
Edouard François emphasises the meaning of architecture by analysing it in a way that is both elementary and profound. ‘Man can live solely within architecture. He needs a complex building which must be decorated. Only in this way can he be happy.’ Indeed, in François’ view, working with nature offers a welcome complexity: ‘Watch a tree. It has a thousand branches, it moves, grows, changes colour!’ François uses nature to make his designs more complex.
April 18, 2007 - Category: Architecture, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Sony TAV-L1 32 in, HDTV-Ready LCD Television
The TAV-L1 all-in-one home theater system features a motorized audio unit that with a push of a button automatically slides down, revealing a 32-inch LCD flat-panel HDTV. The combination LCD TV/home theater system incorporates a slot-loading DVD/CD/SACD player, two powerful vibration canceling subwoofers.
Electric Table by Broberg & Riddersträle
The electric table is “decorated” with electrical outlets on all sides and mixes electronic aesthetic with furniture and function. As the designer Broberg and Ridderstrale points out, this encourages the integration of gadgets in our homes.
theANEMIX by Ximena Muñoz and Paulina Villalobos
The theANEMIX is a new lighting system that creates unique 3D effects in space. It´s a panel composed by a luminescent and a reflective layer, which can be modified to create a wide range of visual effects. The designers chose OSRAM LED technology to be the light source of this system, as it´s efficient, small and with a very low cost of maintenance. The glass-aluminium technology was developed by GLASSTECH, a specialized glazed Chilean company.
The system was developed by LUXIA, a Chilean company formed by two young architects and lighting designers, Ximena Muñoz and Paulina Villalobos. They use the uber-efficient OSRAM LED technology to create panels that use dual layers (one luminescent, one reflective) to give off a lovely, bioluminescence-inspired 3D glow.
Fantasy by Hannspree
This baby blue elephant swings his wrinkly trunk and wiggles his soft little tail right into your heart. Kids will be delighted with this playful way to watch TV. The plush covering is soft to the touch and so fun with baby-blue body and round pink feet.
TWIN bookshelf by Zeynep Cinisli
The bookshelf is a cabinet when closed, when it is pulled to sides, the shelves representing the bridges become apparent. Via the selves with rails the TWIN becomes dynamic.
TWIN bookshelf represent the two sides of Istanbul, Asian and European, and the bridges connecting them. It compares this connection with the relation of twins.
April 17, 2007 - Category: Furniture, Life Story - Posted by: Hans - Comments: 0
New Gold Mountain by Cassandra Fahey
Designed by Cassandra Fahey, New Gold Mountain is new bar in Melbourne. For this project, Fahey took the old tailor’s studio on the outskirts of the city’s Chinatown district and created a space that works to a distinct opium-den theme.
April 16, 2007 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Pimp my Airbus A380 Designed by Edése Doret
Private Jet bragging rights among the ultra rich have just taken a quantum leap to a lavish flying palace that is being created inside the biggest passenger plane ever built. The plane is the Airbus super jumbo A-380, the double-decker that can carry up to 800 passengers if it is configured with only the cheap seats. There will be just 82 passengers in the private version.
Ultra Slim Shower Head by Signorini
One way to “get away,” and at the same time to enhance your home’s value is to turn the bathroom into an in-home spa. This shower designed by Signorini Design uses ultra slim metallic blocks and attached lights to rain down the water in color, illuminating the streams in yellow, red, blue, or green.
La Cabane Perchee by Daniel Dufour
“La Cabane Perchee” is designed by Daniel Dufour and founded by Alhin Laurens. They realized the dream that we all had as children… living in the trees to observe, read or write…
“La Cabane Perchee” is based in Provence, France and has already been built in Switzerland, Spain and Portugal.
April 13, 2007 - Category: Architecture, Green - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Mika Ninagawa
The artist director and photographer Mika Ninagawa was born in 1972. She belongs to the new breed of Japanese women artists, like Hiromix or Rinko Kawauchi. Represented by the famous galleries Yoshitomo Nara and Tomio Koyama , she is one of the contemporary artists that you can’t afford to miss in Japan.
April 13, 2007 - Category: Art, Life Story - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Ecospace, Garden studio
I love the idea of this simple respite space out in the back yard, somewhere to retreat and get some work done or just go and take nice long nap. The small space is seemingly perfectly scaled, small but certainly not too small. The warmth of the materials used in construction really help to make this space so wonderful.
April 12, 2007 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Hans - Comments: 0