Category: Architecture
Posted by Anthony on 8/31/2004 2:55:00 PM
Now with a second story
 Michelle Kaufmann has updated the Glidehouse to include a second story. Check out the renderings at LiveModern.com:
"Glidehouse 2 builds on the successful approach of the Glidehouse to offer affordable clean, green living on an urban lot. The 2-story Glidehouse is designed for smaller or urban lots, but also can be deployed to help preserve views from a hillside. The second story can orient the bedroom windows at the ends, or facing out. The Glidehouse 2 stacks two modules, each 15'6" x 54', to create a 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath, 1,674 sf home. A basement/garage foundation can also be easily engineered."
[Thanks, Doug]
Link: Glidehouse 2 (LiveModern)
Related: Glidehouse (Land+Living)
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Category: Furniture
Posted by Anthony on 8/31/2004 10:22:00 AM
Outdoor dining
 "PicNik is a table-seating combination specially created for the balcony, small surfaces and semi-public spaces. Made from a standard, massive plate of aluminium (10 mm), PicNik behaves like a ‘piece of art’, while integrating itself into its surroundings. Its simplicity in design and its contemporary colours (5 colours available) make it a must-have for the urban ‘bourgeois-bohemian’. Also available in a junior version (scale 2:3)."
Designers: Dirk Wynants & Xavier Lust
Link: Extremis
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Category: Green
Posted by James on 8/31/2004 9:19:00 AM
Do urban trees really help reduce pollution and clean the air?
Yup.
The answer may not be as surprising as this fact quoted in the article: New York City has 5 million trees.
Link: Environmental News Network
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Category: Furniture
Posted by James on 8/30/2004 11:06:00 AM
Translucent screen/partition wall
 We are all about screens and dividers here at L+L (exhibit a, b, c, d), well, actually it's the other guy who is more than I... see, there, I just put up a divider between us. Ahem, anyway... here is a great piece that I saw at CA Boom.
The screen is made up of rotating translucent resin panels mounted on stainless steel rods. So nice.
Link: em [collaborative studio]
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Category: Books
Posted by James on 8/30/2004 10:06:00 AM
The Life and Legacy of George Nakashima
 George Nakashima was a leader of the American modern craft furniture movement.
Acclaimed furniture designer George Nakashima (1905-1990) made boldly original pieces prized for their superb craftsmanship and their organic use of the natural lines and grain of wood. Today his beautiful creations are avidly sought by private collectors and are housed in museum collections all over the world. This survey of Nakashima's life and work-written by his daughter, the noted designer Mira Nakashima-is the most revealing look we have ever had at this woodworking genius and his profound influence on contemporary design. Mira Nakashima chronicles not only the furniture designs for which her father was best known, but also his equally fine work as an architect. Wonderful modern craft furniture
Link: Amazon
Designer: George Nakashima Woodworker
Bio: Designboom (with images)
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Category: Art
Posted by Anthony on 8/28/2004 10:40:00 PM
Photographer and graphic designer.
 Recently while browsing the web for new prints, I came across the gallery of Abba Richman. I was drawn to many of Abba's prints, primarly because of his composition and how he captures the bold colors of many objects that we see, and perhaps ignore, everyday. His "Alphabet Series" (featured at right) is a wonderful photo essay using common everyday items to recreate the alphabet.
"There is nothing to be invented in our visual world, it's all there. I shy away from photographing glorious sunsets, flowers, animals and beautiful things (or people). I find myself again and again looking at ordinary everyday objects, at garbage, old things, discarded junk, stuff lying around and at the man in the street; looking at things really close up and trying to find beauty in their colour and form. Sometimes I find that beauty, more often I don't. Now and then I am satisfied with what I have photographed, occasionally very satisfied and sometimes... well, I just start again and continue looking."
Link: Abba Richman
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Category: Accessories
Posted by Anthony on 8/28/2004 6:57:00 PM
Modern Miniature
 From Christoph Bitzer and Wolfgang Sirch comes the coolest dollhouse ever built. This modernist dollhouse comes with plexiglass sliding doors, beech furnishings, a kitchen island and shower.
Could this be the perfect place to showcase your Vitra Miniatures?
UPDATE: MocoLoco has found additional pictures of the dollhouse.
Via: NY Times (Registration Req'd)
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Category: Furniture
Posted by James on 8/27/2004 6:06:00 PM
Honeycomb structured paper chair
 Don't let the cat near this one, and keep your clumsy friend away too... the one who always spills his drink... you know who I mean.
This chair is made of paper. Yup. The Honey Pop chair designed by Tokujin Yoshioka is created from a two dimensional build up of 120 pieces of glassine paper which are glued together and precisely cut. The structure is then "opened" forming a strong three dimensional honeycomb structure. The chair is custom molded by the shape of the person who sits on it and comes in three sizes, large, medium and child. Plus it makes a crunching sound when you sit on it... and that's just cool.
Link: Tokujin Yoshioka Design
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Category: Lighting
Posted by Anthony on 8/26/2004 11:48:00 AM
I asked the guy, "why you so fly?"
 "A funky luminescent wall panel made of matte acrylic. A wide variety of color blends are easily obtained by simply turning a switch. Two color assortments are included, each of them offering a numerous possibility of combinations. Available in square and rectanglular formats."
Link: Snowlab Design
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Category: Landscape
Posted by James on 8/26/2004 12:16:00 AM
Fine Gardening's Guide to Pronouncing Botanical Latin
OK, this is really boring, but for those with an interest in landscape, well... you'll probably be bored as well. My compatriot here at L+L says that I butcher the Latin names of plants. Admittedly, my Latin stinks, but at least I know that Pinus, Latin for "pine," is pronounced PY-nus, unlike a certain client who was confused with a part of the male anatomy... wrong kind of wood, my dear.
Link: Fine Gardening's Guide to Pronouncing Botanical Latin
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