Accessories
Our CA Boom V coverage begins (FINALLY!!)
CA Boom V follows in a tradition of providing sensory overload to design professionals and aficionados alike (hint: the architects are normally the tired looking folk, since the wardrobe no longer reveals anything apparently), and this edition did not let anyone down in that respect.
Unfortunately for us (and for you), we were unable to go on the architecture tour on Friday, so there is no coverage of that excursion.
Fret not, since we provide you with links to all the architecture offices involved (after the jump). You will have to imagine our witty banter and myopic architectural insight when perusing the web sites of the participating architects, but, let’s face it, you like the pictures best anyway.
Reference: Back to the Boom
Should this be considered an IKEA hack?
Do your friends think they've stepped into an IKEA showroom whenever they enter your home? If so, here's a great way to distinguish your stock IKEA wares from the masses. Bemz.com offers a wide variety of slipcovers that fit a good selection of IKEA's sofas and armchairs. Prices hover around $140 or so and some fabrics are available in 100% cotton while others are a linen/cotton blend. The Stromstad sofa (above) is shown in Harmony-Chestnut Brown.
Via: LA Times
Link: Bemz.com
Soft and, uh, fluffy.
I've always thought those dogs with dreads were cool and the canine was the first thing that came to mind after seeing this throw pillow from Neelee.com. Made from ultra-soft fleece, each pillow is made by hand. Dimensions are 55 x 55cm.
Link: Neelee.com
Designer: Idit Friedberg
Via: CribCandy
A quick trip into the archives
CA|Boom I
Can you believe its been three years since CA|Boom burst onto the design scene? Check out our coverage from the design show's freshman year.
Teardrop Vase from Derek Chen
Veneered plywood vase shell, bent in a teardop shape. Sealed and weighted with opaque colored resin. Exposed resin bottom, fully waterproof with a satin lacquer finish.
Favela Chair
Wood scraps never looked better. Designed by Fernando and Humberto Campana.
Fix Lighting
Simple, elegant, and modern. Light fixtures designed by Wonderwall.
Porch House
"With a solid understanding of modern design and its application in residential architecture, Greg Lavardera has put together several plans that definitely take the bland and boring out of stock plans."
Ok, I know, this laptop stand has been out for a few years now...
Link: iLap Laptop Stand
Completely unnecessary things you'll want
I received an email this morning that screamed a bunch of one-liners at me about what ATYPYK is and is not. Such as:
ATYPYK IS NOT THE BEST TO EXPLAIN ATYPYK
ATYPYK ENJOYS MAKING COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY THINGS
ATYPYK PRODUCTS CONTAINS SMALL PARTS DANGEROUS FOR CHILDREN
ATYPYK MAY CONSIDER ACCEPT MONEY FROM STRANGERS
On and on the list went. And they were right when they said, "NO BIG SURPRISE THAT YOU NEVER HEARD ABOUT US THEN" because I've never heard of them. You probably haven't either. So, whatever. I don't really feel like trying to explain who or what they are but they've got some interesting sh*t on their website (seriously, and it's "lucky" as well) so just click through and check out the site for yourself. And watch where you step.
Link: ATYPYK
Coolahhh
This just may be America's most wanted cooler. Ice down those libations and Express Yourself by adding some chill atmosphere to your par-tay...
Designed by Danny Venlet for Belgian outdoor furniture company Extremis, Ice Cube is made from white polyethylene with fluorescent bulbs inside. But priced around $1650 (without lightbulbs, by the way)... it's All About the Benjamins, baby.
Drink It Up, yo.
Designer: Danny Venlet
Manufacturer: Extremis - Ice Cube
Retail therapy for a little less coin.
There are some kickin summer sales going on out there.
West Elm is a retailer we want to hate but can't help but love. West Elm has a rather large inventory of discounted merchandise at the moment.
Design Within Reach is currently hosting a nice summer sale. In addition to their normal selection of overstocks and discontinued items, they have a limited time page where certain merchandise is discounted.
For a limited time, of course.
There are bargains to be had at the Moma store as well. While the selection isn't quite as large, I found something I just couldn't live without. This spice grinder is coming home to live with me.
More sales:
Link: Sprout Home
Link: Well Dressed Home
Link: Crate and Barrel
Link: cb2
Link: Room and Board
100% natural rubber decorative products
I'm clearly a sucker for bright and bold colored product. But when the material is rubber as opposed to ceramic or porcelain, it's just that extra special.
Case in point is the line of rubber items from Assembly Bangkok. From a distance you think nothing of it until you get them in your hands.
You just want to keep touching them !!
Link: Assembly Bangkok
Well balanced design
Working out of his workshop in San Francisco’s SOMA district, designer Brian Schmitt has put together a nice variety of mobiles under the appropriately titled moniker Adrift.
The mobiles come in a number of finishes including natural bamboo, amber bamboo, maple and walnut. All of which are finished with a non-toxic natural oil.
Also of note, Brian recently participated at last months HauteGREEN exhibition that showcased "the best in sustainable design".
Link: Adrift Mobiles
Link: HauteGREEN
Interlocking system puts fabric scraps to use
San-Francisco-based designer Galya Rosenfeld has created a system that uses fabric scraps which can be attached and configured without glue, stitching, buttons, etc. to create a wide variety of objects. One of her creations from this ingenious system are Modular Pillows. The beauty of the system is that there are practically infinite configurations of colors and forms - damaged pieces can be replaced and the entire object can be disassembled and recycled.
Galya will be featured at HauteGREEN later this month.
Link: Galya Rosenfeld
Via: Treehugger
Contemporary Furniture Design Exhibit
THAW is one of the largest contemporary design exhibits in Western Canada, and will take place during The Works Art and Design Festival from June 23rd to July 5th, 2006. THAW 2006 is looking to showcase medium to large sized furniture, accessories and lighting designs.
The show is juried and curated by the Industrial Designers of Edmonton Association (IDEA), a group with which our very own Adriean is affiliated.
Deadline is April 1, 2006... no foolin'.
Link: THAW 2006 Call for submissions (pdf)
Link: IDEA
Hanging garden
An interesting take on the archetypical terra cotta pot by French designer Vincent Vandenbrouck.
The pots are grouped via steel bars which slot into slices on each side. The steel bar and wire suspension system allows eight or twelve pots create a vegetable wall. Might create a mess when you water... but whatever. Single pots are also available in a non-hanging version.
Available through Paris showroom Compagnie.
Design: Vincent Vandenbrouck
Link: Edition Compagnie
Via: Reluct
From recycled to molten to unique
At first glance, I was somewhat reminded of The Great Bowl of Fire but the shapes are much more organic. The Splash Form Bowls by Melt Modern are created with a technique that consists of throwing molten aluminum onto a sand mold one splash at a time until the bowl is complete. Needless to say, each bowl is unique.
Splash Form bowls come in three different sizes with prices starting at $195.
Link: Melt Modern
Designers: Matt Proctor, Aixe Djelal
Template-based system for hanging pictures
Looking for the perfect arrangement of pictures? It's quite possible that The Picturewall Company has a solution. Using a template-based system along with an assortment of frames, they allow you to arrange the frames to make a perfect, well, arrangement. The template system is easy to use and offers you the ability to preview the arrangement before you commit your hooks to the wall.
Link: Picturewall Company [Thanks, Erich]
Architecturally designed hardware and furniture by Cutler Anderson Architects
Founded with the intent to partner with architecture firms to create a line of products and buildings (thank you Michael Graves), Reveal Designs has begun to market and sell furnishings and hardware designed by their charter partner,f Cutler Anderson Architects of Bainbridge Island, Washington.
I have admired James Cutler's modern arts-and-crafts-inspired detailing and design for some time, and the introductory line exemplifies these traits drawing from the firm's custom detail designs for past projects. The product line currently includes designs made metal or a wood/metal combination: door-levers and knobs, drawer pulls, a door knocker, chairs, tables, etc. The designs are elemental and purposeful revealing construction and function in their form.
Link: Reveal Designs
Link: Cutler Anderson Architects
Via: Inhabitat
Today Japan, tomorrow......
Danish design company, Essey, was recently honoured with the Good Design Award 2005 in Japan for their intricate wastebasket, Bin Bin. The competition is through the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO), which is apparently the countries only comprehensive design promotion body.
With Bin Bin, designer John Brauer has definitely created a wastebasket that easily stands apart from it's contemporaries. Made of high density polyethylene, Bin Bin was designed to look exactly like the crushed paper it was meant to contain. It's a case of re-thinking an everyday object that normally gets taken for granted, and breathe some new life into it.
Link: essey
A Finnish design collective
This Finnish foursome of product designers originally met at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, and last year banded together to form a critical mass at design shows and the like.
Designers of the group are linked together by their desire to create honest and simple objects. Word Rehti is Finnish and means honest way of working and acting. Members of the group work as freelance designers both as individuals and as a group.
Based in Helsinki, the collective is formed by Mikko Laakkonen, Aleksi Penttilä, Mika Tolvanen and Jari-Petri Voutilainen.
Link: Rehti
Via: Wallpaper
Martha Sturdy and the art of casting resin
Martha Sturdy is a Vancouver BC master of casting resin. People who have worked with resin say that it is a substance that you love to hate, and hate to love and that the unexpected is bound to happen, which is not always a good thing. But Sturdy, who graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design back in the early 80's, has spent years dedicating her professional career to the control and manipulation of resin, a dedication that has yielded polymeric magnificence at a very large scale.
Link: Martha Sturdy
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A bed that goes out to catch some sun
I've always thought of a day bed as a piece of furniture that is a lounge seat by day and a bed by night. José Gandia takes the term a little more literally. This is a bed for high noon on the beach or in the backyard. The 80" cubic canopy is a picture of luxurious simplicity, surrounded on all sides but completely open to light and air. The frame is made of anodized aluminum, with removable panel upholstery and a polyuretane foam mattress. (We hope pieces like these will soon meet their "eco" alter ego.) This is the item you were imagining all those times you tried to make a tent with tapestries and giant umbrellas. Now if only it came with the Spanish coastal backdrop.
Link: Gandia Blasco
Via: LifestyleNavigator
Hey buddy, can ya give me a hand?
A fun little accessory for your tub or sink. The Help! drain stopper is available in orange and green.
"A rubbery hand extends up from the plug mimicking a reach for help out of the watery depths. while essentially providing a non-slip surface for an easy and firm grip in the sink or tub. green."
Link: Modern Poverty
Minimalist, sustainable, functional
This slick smoke detector has been talked about quite a bit, but it is such a simple and graceful solution that it warrants yet another plug.
Created by brothers Jason and Geoffry Rosenblatt of San Francisco, the Modern Smoke Detector has a minimal profile and uses sustainable technologies... no radioactive material here as in other smoke detectors.
It is designed to lie recessed and flush-mounted into gypsum board finished wall or ceiling surfaces. Custom painting is available.
Link: Architectural Devices
UPDATE (12-11-06) - Now available. The first shipment has sold out, orders for the second shipment are currently being accepted.
Note: Land+Living does NOT sell these. You must contact the manufacturer, Architectural Devices, for sales information.
Stand 'em up, knock 'em down
Not to be confused with Big Head Todd and the Monsters, these Big Head coasters are a great accessory for your boring coffee table. They can be easily stacked for storage or, impress your friends by lining them up in a row and knocking them all down, domino style. They are sold in sets of 4 and claim to include both "boy" and "girl" models, however, that appears to be anatomically incorrect.
"the coasters are manufactured using heat resistant rubber moulded in the form of either a boy or girl figure with an enlarged ‘head’, which provides space for your drink. the coasters have ‘feet’ so they can be stacked together and stood up to attention when not in use! when you need them, just flick them down and place your drink on their big heads. the ‘boy’ and ‘girl’ forms mean your drinks need never get muddled up again!"
Link: J-Me Big Head Coasters
Lighting the way
Based in Spain, Luzifer Lamps manufacturers suspension, floor, wall, and table lighting in a wide range of styles. Shades are available in materials such as timber, veneer, parchment, and polypropelene. If you're the type that enjoys matching fixtures throughout your home, Luzifer makes many of their styles in each of their lighting categories. However, since variety is the spice of life, why limit yourself to one style? Go ahead, mix it up a little!
Link: Luzifer Lamps
Art framing systems
Aluma Designs manufactures framing products from free-standing tabletop models, wallhanging models, and their versatile panel systems. They have a frame available to accomodate just about any size print. Their panel system (below) can be custom configured in many different sizes, colors, and configurations:
"The Aluma Panel Systems are also perfect as large conceptual art pieces for lofts, homes and or commercial spaces that want the industrialy modern look. You can cut images and frame them in the different panels to make up one image, like the photo on this page, or frame a different image in each panel. The Aluma Panel System offers you limitless possibilities in the creative arena of conceptual design."
Link: Aluma Designs
Modern home decor and lifestyle products
PlushLiving is a Los Angeles based studio that designs colorful and bold accessories for the home. Their current lineup includes pillows, shower curtains, coasters, journals, and wall art.
"All PlushLiving design revolves around the principle of using striking and contemporary color palettes, high quality materials, and innovative packaging. Each product is highly stylized to create a glamorous statement."
Designers: Kenneth W & Shirley C
Link: PlushLiving
"Wood is a living material"
Based in Finland, Albicantes specializes in wooden interior objects. Wood varieties include aspen, birch, mahogany, maple, oak, and walnut. We're especially fond of the Wind vase (featured at right) along with the Motion tray (below).
All Albicantes products are designed and crafted for everyday use. The products are coated with natural tree oils and wax. Direct contact with water is not recommended for any wooden surface though wood can be wiped for cleaning with a wet cloth. The coating keeps the wooden surface naturally lively and protects the material from dust and humidity.
Link: Albicantes
Scandinavian design by way of San Francisco
Born in Finland, raised in Sweden and now residing in San Francisco, California, self-taught designer Lotta Jansson creates a range of beautiful screen-printed home products. Her colorful and fun designs include ceramics, table linens, bags, stationary and more.
Lotta has both a deep appreciation for nature’s limitless beauty and a love for modern urban style. The balance between these two worlds is unequivocally present in Lotta’s contemporary organic designs.
She started Lotta Jansdotter in 1996, and opened her San Francisco studio and store front in 2002. Lotta's designs are also available online and at retail stores around the world.
Link: Lotta Jansdotter
Via: urbanSPY
Zense the Difference
Danish company Zali has a whole collection of matching products designed around glass and stainless steel. That's great if you're into matching all your accesories in sort of an "early 90's Z Gallerie" sort of way but with these accessories, we definitely think moderation is key. Don't overdo it :-) Featured at right is a piece from their Candle Series.
ZALI expresses man’s natural striving for necessary aesthetics. Aesthetics that have actual function and which are also a delight to the eye. A combination of robust, high quality natural materials and the stringent strengths of metals provides a living reflection of expression.
This reflection wanders forever with the changing light – where nothing and everything is new at the same time.
Link: Zali
A nice piece of glass.
What do you get when you introduce a millionaire food entrepreneur with a passion for the arts to a skilled glass blower? Sorry, no punch line here other than some fantastic looking hand blown glass. The website features two collections, the Adam Aaronson Collection and Adam Aaronson Architectural, along with several one off pieces.
Adam Aaronson Collection is a range of stylish functional glass developed in a contemporary colour palette and fired with silver or gold leaf. These pieces are all handmade to Adam's designs, in our Earl's Court Studio.
Designer: Adam Aaronson
Link: Aaronson Noon Glass
Home decor and accessories from Rios Clementi Hale Studios
notNeutral is... well... not neutral. And not ashamed of it. A division of Los Angeles multi-disciplinary design firm Rios Clementi Hale Studios, notNeutral offers "confident, hip and streetwise products that express individuality and choice." It's kind of like the anti-Pottery Barn.
Their products offer a broad range of dinnerware, pillows, vases, children’s furniture, and home accessories of all kinds. It's funky groovy stuff, as if four decades of design and style have collided... and it works.
They have their own retail store on Melrose in Los Angeles, a web store, and are carried by specialty retailers.
Link: notNeutral
Dual Zone Alarm Clock by Sebastian Conran
The design of this funky alarm clock is both Jetsons-retro and iPod fresh. Part of the Equilibrium collection designed by British designer Sebastian Conran exclusively for Bliss (though it can be found all over the web it you care to look), the clock is chrome-plated die-cast zinc with a duel time display allowing two time zones to be displayed simultaneously.
Link: Bliss
Via: Urban Spy
One of a kind hand-thrown tableware
Timothy Foss is a Seattle based potter who strives to "capture the beauty of modernism and Japanese pottery".
"Making Ceramic art is like working with flesh that becomes bone. It enlists every element: earth, water, fire, and wind to become what I ask of it. It awkens all the ancestry of vessels or rejects hollowness and is massive. It is strenuous to work with as well as easy. My body learns from the feel of it, and the puzzle that is the process, helps my head."
Link: Timothy Foss
Contemporary Danish Pottery
These wonderful handmade ceramics by Copenhagen based Anne Black are well worthy of the fine tradition of contemporary Scandinavian design. There are currently two collections, "Tilt" tablewares and "Seam" interior accessories.
The products are porcelain cast in plaster forms or hand thrown and are glazed with non-toxic glazes. Many of the designs feature a graphic red silk screened design.
Beautiful.
Link: Anne Black
Contemporary bamboo home accessories
Lately, it seems as if bamboo products are popping up everywhere and obviously for good reasons: It's a fantastic material to work with and it replenishes itself in half the time as other wood (yes, we know it's technically a grass). On that note, Ekobo has an entire product line crafted from bamboo. Trays, bowls, and stools to name just a few.
Made of eco-friendly bamboo, ekobo is a line of contemporary tableware designed in France and hand-crafted in Vietnam in respect of the rules of equitable commerce.
Designer: ekobo
Link: illico design [Thanks, Thomas!]
Not exactly modern, but definitely retro cool.
Imagine for a moment that you had one of these retro-cool turnkey doorbells installed in your place. How many people do you think would have no idea how to use it or for that matter, even know what it was? I can see it now, "look at this guy, his deadbolt was installed the wrong way!"
This is really what used to be a corridor bell, as it was originally used for flats in apartment blocks. But the neat bell mechanism, made completely without the use of plastic components, can also be heard in the average-sized family house. The key twist mechanism is designed to fit doors of 6 cm thickness, but can be shortened for thinner doors by cutting the square shaft with a hacksaw. The quality nickel-coated steel plate bell can also be mounted outside.
Link: Manufactum
Via: The Red Ferret Journal
Clock. Coat. Hanger.
From Lapalma Design comes the clock/coat hanger. Available in natural maple or stained cherrywood.
The clock dial is white lacquered with quartz movement.
Designers: Shin and Tomoko Azumi
Link: Lapalma
Business signage from Square One design
Distinctive business signage from this Michigan-based design firm.
"Need the bathroom? Gotta check your voicemail? Time for a caffeine fix, pronto? Life's minor emergencies call for signage that speaks loud and clear, in any language. Out of the ordinary yet obvious, our highly visible 3-D signage brings a sense of order to your work environment, all with a creative spin and whimsical touch. Our icon based signs are made of flame retardent, high-density black PVC. Installation is accomplished lickety-split, thanks to brushed aluminum brackets that require just two screws."
Link: Wheresthebathroom.com
Link: Square One Design
Mobile for indoor or outdoor use
Stunning mobile from Miranda Watkins.
"Mobiles are dynamic, kinetic, sculptural structures. A strong breeze or a gentle touch will set the delicately balanced elements in motion, offering a limitless array of visual possibilities.
Precision engineered in high-grade stainless steel and anodised aluminium, mobiles are suitable for internal or external spaces. The structures are created from a series of frames, which gently rotate around a central axis, suspended from a stainless steel ceiling unit.
The mobile at the right is constructed from a series of matte, frosted anodised aluminium panels contrasting with machine turned segments."
Designer: Miranda Watkins
Link: Panel Mobile
Suspended Fireplace
The Fireorb is a wood-burning suspended hearth with a 360 degree rotation field. It's fabricated by spinning steel according to a CAD-governed form. The Fireorb can be used in any space: living room, bedroom, greatroom. The dimensions of the Fireorb are 26.5" x 36.5" while the lenght of the flute can be fitted to accomodate almost any space.
[Thanks, Andrew]
Designer: Doug Garofalo, AIA
Link: Fireorb
Fun for a girl or a boy.
"It walks down stairs, alone or in pairs and makes a slinkity sound." Oh wait, wrong toy, but this vase from Elsewares sure reminds us of one of our favorite childhood toys.
"This anodized aluminum vase is encased within a galvanized steel coil, so the outside can be reshaped to your heart's content. 8.5" h x 3.5". Made in Brooklyn."
Link: Elsewares
Reproduction "space age" molded fiberglass planters
These neato planters by Austin, Texas based Hip Haven are "faithful reproductions" of the original bullet planters manufactured in the 50's. The planters are available in 9 fiberglass colors. The stands are metal in a choice of 4 finishes and are available in 3 different heights. Suitable for indoor or outdoor use.
Peachy keen.
Link: Hip Haven
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)
Another fun bentwood product
Veneered plywood vase shell, bent in a teardop shape. Sealed and weighted with opaque colored resin. Exposed resin bottom, fully waterproof with a satin lacquer finish.
Available in white oak, macassar ebony, ebony veneer, douglas fir, walnut, and zebrawood. Resin colors are available in red, blue, white and yellow.
Designer: Derek Chen
Link: Urbana Design
DIY project: useful origami vessel
OK, so you're sitting in front of the tube watching the Olympics this weekend with a bag of chips in one hand and a piece of paper in the other. HELLO! Opportunity is knocking! While Bob Costas is driveling on and on, go ahead and make yourself a stylish little container for those chips. Now that's what we call design within reach.
Link: greggman.com
Fantastic cushions from this London based designer.
From the "pillows that make me want a martini" category:
"Anne Kyyrö Quinn, a London based Finnish designer, produces stylish contemporary home accessories which are all handmade to very high standard in the UK. Her signature style of raised relief detailing, not only gives a sculptural three-dimensional effect to her collections of home accessories, but it also enhances the surface with a highly desirable tactile quality."
Link: Anne Kyyrö Quinn
Gear for the modern baby and beyond
Babygeared features essentials for the urbane parent from world-renowned designers and manufacturers--everything from the Karim Rashid Kapsule Chair to Lulu DK luxury crib linens, chic diaper bags, sporty strollers, gives, and more.
Link: Babygeared.com
For a good time.
With all the talk in the news today about Martha's sentencing, we thought we'd highlight one of the items we like from her. A few months back while running errands, we stumbled across her Newsroom Clock. With a brushed aluminum (?) finish and a cool retro font, we decided we had to have it. And for less than $25 we figured it was quite the bargain (I'm thinking that we may have lucked out on the aluminum finish because I can only find the bronze finish online). Of course, if we were pulling down a salary like Martha's, we'd opt for the Max Bill Wall Clock from DWR. But, alas, we're not.
Know of any other cool clocks? Post a comment and tell us about it.
Link: Newsroom Clock (Bronze)
Link: Max Bill Wall Clock
Textile patterns designed by Bruce Mau
"Bruce Mau Designs collaborates with some of the world's leading architects, artists, writers, curators, academics, entrepreneurs, businesses and institutions." Just a couple of his well known designs are the font commissioned for the Walt Disney Conert Hall in Los Angeles (yes, a Frank Gehry connection) and the design for Rem Koolhaus's book S, M, L, XL. How about a little Bruce Mau on your couch? He has created several panel fabric patterns for Maharam.
MegaNano by Bruce Mau challenges the predictably static appearance of panel fabric in the corporate office environment with the introduction of two series of patterns, each centered on a singular theme presented in macro (Mega), micro (Nano) and mixed (MegaNano) scales. Constructed with 100% post-industrial recycled polyester, MegaNano Structure, Mega Structure and Nano Structure depict an elemental organic grid, while MegaNano Point, Mega Point, Nano Point and the over-scale Giga Point are based on perforated punch cards that recall the origins of our computerized society.
Maharam also produces textile patterns by such designers as Charles and Ray Eames, Hella Jongerius, George Nelson and Verner Panton just to name a few.
Link: Maharam
Designer: Bruce Mau Design, Inc.
Understanding the universe precisely
"In collaboration with top international designer Philippe Starck, Oregon Scientific is moving the art of understanding the environment to a new level - with the introduction of a new Time and Weather Collection."
Designer: Philippe Starck
Link: Oregon Scientific
Via: ID Online
When a simple door wedge won't suffice
Love this.
"Doorman doorstop designed by Gaby Klasmer for Memphis Milano. The doorman is part of the 'post design' series from Memphis Milano- a collection designed by students from the Royal College of Art, 1999, under the direction of Ron Arad. stainless steel, 11.5" height."
Link: Memphis-Milano
Designer: Gaby Klasmer
Link: Unica Home
Modern aesthetics with true sustainability.
"True Sustainability - We believe that true sustainability strikes a balance between process and materials to make a minimal impact on the environment. To achieve this, we take
painstaking care in our choice of materials, the process by which fabrics are made, and even how our interior furnishings go to market. We also use water-based inks, recycled paper stock and FSC (forestry stuardship council) approved paper products for our printed material."
Link: Looolo Textiles
Cool your water the natural way.
"This innovative product cools water to twelve to fifteen degrees below room temperature, or retains the chill in previously refridgerated water, through the natural evaporative process of terra cotta. For centuries terra cotta has been used for decorative pottery as well as to create utilitarian vessels for food and water. Made of all natural materials, the terra cotta carafe leaches no harmful chemicals into your drinking water. Comes complete with a matching, non-porous plastic, drip tray and cap. 4"dx9"h,2.5 lbs. There is a plastic stopper and there is a plastic tray. Since it is Terra Cotta it will leach."
Link: Green Home
Beautifully simple and functional glass teapot and cups
"The tea lantern by Todd MacAllen and Stephanie Forsythe is clearly a model of product design in the great tradition of Mies and Jacobsen. The Canadian designers have used latest glass technology to create a transparent teapot with an integral vacuum jacket, which conserves heat and allows the simple cylinder to be picked up by hand."
The Architectural Review, ar+d awards 2002 - highly commended
Link: Molo
Via: A Daily Dose of Architecture
Designers: Forsythe + MacAllen Design
Modernist quilts by San Francisco Bay Area artist and graphic designer Sushma Patel-Bould
"Modernist quilting," who knew there was such a thing? "Traditional craft meets minimalist design."
The geometric, bold colored and handcrafted inaugural collection is called Bauhaus. Wall hanging, napping, and bed quilt sizes are available. Dare we call it a modern heirloom?!
Link: Sushma Quilts
A different way of looking at the basics
Clever designs for the home by Nicolette Brunklaus. Those Dutch know how to design, don't they?
Brunklaus criss-crosses across the line between an item's art and an item's use. Screen printing with delicate images of reshaping an item gives an ambiguity and serves to infuse the eye with that sought for spark, that grasp of the unexpected to look again and see what we've seen."
Link: Brunklaus Amsterdam
Turn your television into a disco light show? Where can I get one?!
The Groovetube is simply a translucent plastic box that suction cups to the screen of your television. It has a grid of dividers inside it that diffuse the colors from your T.V. producing an amazing colorful abstraction of anything you watch.
Link: groovetube
