What about sitting on a big and comfortable bean bag with vibrant colors? Fatboy pays respect to innovation by letting fashion icon Marimekko use the Fatboy as a three-dimensional canvas for their exciting prints. Marimekko was founded in1951 by Armi and Viljo Ratia in Finland and became a fashion icon in the60's whenFirst Lady Jackie Kennedy included seven Marimekko(r) dresses in herwardrobe. Therange includes Unikko red, blue and black and Kaivo red.
The latest artwork in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall is 'Sunflower Seeds' by Ai Weiwei, 100 million hand made porcelain sunflower seeds have been spread over the floor. Visitors are able to walk over and touch the seeds.
(Winter dots plates, West Elm)
Cose che sembrano qualcos'altro: uno dei trucchi meglio riusciti in fatto di dècor d'interni. Coriandoli nel piatto del dessert? Sì, ma dipinti a mano. Un muro rivestito di lana? E invece è carta da parati. La radio dal look nostalgico? Bella, soprattutto perchè ci puoi collegare l'iPod. Nella decorazione dei nostri appartamenti, quindi, meglio non prendersi troppo sul serio. E' questo il trucco.
(Tryco wallpaper, Koziel)
Snug is a design studio based in Hannover. Their products are absolutely poetic: cloud-shaped kitchen stuff, wooden jewelry and lamps that in their past life were cups.
Check out their site here (pics from snug blog).
There's a new roastery in town and we're in love. 160 Berry Street, you might mistake it for a warehouse front like any other in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. But make no mistake ladies and gents, half roastery and half coffee bar, BlueBottleCoffee has migrated from the west coast and is drawing in the coffee lovers by large handfuls. And they come in all forms - band members discussing their music, mothers carrying their babies, a New York sculptor and a Parisian architect catching up, Williamsburg grunge-sters needing their fashionably complimenting paper coffee cups. It may be the definite sound of NYC indie music leaking through the space. Or the smell of roasting coffee, throwing a grin on your face before you even order at the bar. White marble, dark woods, neutral grays and gleaming steel sets the stage for the caffeinated creations. There's the sound of coffee beans being poured out of burlap sacks and the Marzocco gurgling away happily. A lineup of eight hand drip coffee stations hold their glistening ceramic pieces, winking in the light. A side wall showcases a glass and metal laboratory for slow drip coffee. It just might succeed in giving even the most wizened caffeine junkie, a proper heart jolt! Don't exclude yourself from this dream!
Il 4 ottobre 2010 SoloAltoDesign inaugura il primo shop online su Facebook per l’arredo e i complementi di design, con una promozione vantaggiosa: il 40% di sconto sui prodotti Modà a brand of Di Liddo & Perego.
A partire da lunedì 4 Ottobre SoloAltoDesign, e-commerce specializzato in complementi e arredo di design Made In Italy per svariati brand, darà il via ad una promozione, della durata di una settimana, per l’acquisto online di tre splendide lampade, della linea Organza, di Modà.
SoloAltoDesign offrirà agli amanti del design la possibilità di acquistare le lampade Modà, con lo sconto del 40% sul prezzo di listino direttamente dal sito, aggiungendo un ulteriore sconto del 5% acquistando direttamente dallo shop SoloAltoDesign su Facebook e solo per i fans della pagina.
Atmosfera onirica a due passi da Porta Garibaldi: l'hotel della Maison Moschino è questo ed altro. Inaugurato la scorsa primavera, è una creatura di Rossella Jardini, direttore creativo Moschino, in collaborazione con Jo Ann Tan, direttore artistico e interior designer. Inoltrarsi nella hole è già una magica esperienza: poltrone e pecore (..si avete letto bene: pecore!) ricoperte di petali e lampade-manichino dalla luce calda e accogliente. Le stanze non potrebbero essere descritte se non una ad una. Qualche esempio: alcune rientrano sotto il nome di “Junior Suite” e strizzano l'occhio al mondo di Alice nel paese delle meraviglie, con enormi tazze al posto dei tavolini. Le camere “Classic”, invece evocano atmosfere oniriche, tra tutte basta citarne due: “Dormire in abito da sera”, nella quale il letto si dirama in uno splendido vestito rosso rubino e la stanza “Zzzzz”, in cui un grande moscone ronza sul soffitto. Da non scordare poi le stanze monocromo, la Oro e la Blue...ce n'è decisamente per ogni gusto. L'hotel regala un tocco di brio e di leggerezza alla Milano degli affari, unito ad un ottimo servizio e molteplici comfort: il perfetto equilibrio tra glamour, provocazione, favola e realtà.
Industrial designer Patrick Frey’s “Gregor Calendar” poignantly illustrates the unbearable lightness of being by slowly unraveling with the passage of time into a useless heap on the barren floor of infinite nothing.
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Lychener Str., mid block just south of Helmholtzplatz hides Signorina Yv. It's a mixture of vibes, neither homey nor exclusively posh, resting comfortably in between the Standard Hotel and your typical Parisian bar. An elderly couple enjoy the rare sunshine, sunglasses on, still chic. A young mother looks after her son, her demeanor is as if with a history in modeling. An oversized gray sweater accented with a green scarf cycles by. A light blue suit walks in, the silk peeking out of his coat pocket speaks volumes. A roll of paper in hand, he takes a seat, a teddybear as his companion on the white bench by the window front. Touches of red and pink accent the space. The soft music, the sparkling glasses, wooden furniture, flowers, the smell of freshly ground coffee - all quite disarming; One can spend hours in this little space...say with an Auster or a Fforde? Friends chitchat at the counter, each customer greeted with a smile, and the owner waves to locals strolling by. Morning croissants are fantastic here with some jam and the coffee??...well the customers keep coming back all day long so INCLUDE YOURSELF!
A line between earth and sky – an escape route – the harmonious yin-yang balance – recollections of a sea-crossing and getting to a safe harbour. Spontaneous symbols and references for a piece of almost ready-made functionality and designer aesthetics. A hanging rope for attaching whatever can he hung. Vestibule, bathroom, kids’ room, bedroom, studio, restaurant. Wall or ceiling-mounted clothes-hanger in pleated nautical rope. Apparel hanging accessories and wall-or ceiling anchorage hardware in metal. An idea by Lapo Ciatti available at Designtoday.
Float è un tavolo composto da 64 cubi legati insieme attraverso fili d'acciaio e mantenuti in equilibrio dalla forza magnetica tanto che sembrano galleggiare uno sopra l'altro.
Il tavolo ricorda, con la sua forma, il mitico cubo di Rubik e può essere ordinato su misura, scegliendo numero e dimensione dei singoli elementi oltre che il rivestimento.
Float è opera dello studio di design newyorchese RockPaperRobot: dallo studio escono anche Brag, un tavolo a forma di diamante, e Gleam, un lampadario in alluminio che si trasforma a seconda della luce presente nell'ambiente.
German designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen exhibited her 365 knitting clock at DMY International Design Festival Berlin. The clock includes a circular knitting machine with 48 needles, a thread spool, a thread holder, and roll of yarn. The design seeks to make time a tangible, physical thing. It moves clockwise and after one year, creates a scarf two meters long. | ...
The Italian brand, Serralunga, in collaboration with designer Raffaella Mangiarotti (deepdesign) redesigned this classic piece, making it both innovative, comfortable and for the first time, practical to use outdoors. Serralunga's revisioin makes the chair easy to stack, thus, a great space-saver, especially for contract use by substituting the quilted leather with the practicality of plastic while still keeping the ?capitonnè' effect for the backrest. The allure of this classic piece was made possible through the use of plastic materials in a sophisticated rotating molding system, a technique in which the Biella company is the worldwide leader as furniture manufacturer.
Clamp is a suspension lamp designed by Enrico Zanolla and Andrea Di FIlippo of DZstudio. The inspiration comes from the pattern of Chesterfield sofas (Capitonné) applied to the exterior surface of the lamp. The contrast between the smooth interior and the sophisticated, deep buttoned exterior is ideal for a modern interior space with a touch of glamour and classic style.
