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You may find it hard to believe that what you’re seeing in the pictures below is not a single villa, but a great sample of architecture via Pagano wooden prefab homes. The Italian design company has produced six structure concepts, all of them residential and made entirely out of wood—perfect both as a cabin perched atop a mountain, as well as a [...]
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While we’re not opposed to luxuriousness in the least, sometimes we like our design clean and simple, like the brand-new Inventory Ceramics collection. The famous online store, which features a highly exclusive array of (expensive) items, has now enriched its selection to include homewares, debuting this feature with a new line of beautiful ceramics, designed by Shino Takeda. All items are entirely [...]
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These stunning Terzani lighting fixtures come to us via the company by the same name, a family affair founded by Sergio Terzani in 1972. The Florence-based enterprise is well-known worldwide for the uncanny way in which it blends art, luxury, design and practicality, into stunning objects, such as the lighting fixtures featured here. Throughout its history, the company has collaborated with such [...]
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If you like your tea warm and your design incredibly clever, then you will absolutely adore the Menu Tea Warmer and Tea Kettle combo. The coupled items have been designed by Danish company Menu, who are virtually contemporary classics of well-designed everything. Their lines are usually simple, sleek, and resolutely ascribed to the no-frills school of philosophy and aesthetics. The combination between [...]
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Whenever we bring you news and info on rides, it’s usually a fierce new supercar or a modded bike—yet this time it’s an awesome boat concept, the Zaha Hadid Z Boat. The boat was commissioned by Kenny Schachter, an esteemed London-based art-dealer, who placed his design order with Zaha Hadid. The limited edition speedboat will measure eight meters in length and will [...]
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When gadgets meet (urban) art, we get something as unavoidably cool as these Urban Fidelity Art Speakers, which are simply popping with color. Need more art and more awesome in your living room? Forget investing in your generic speakers from Sony—pick the Urban Fidelity products, as the company seems bent on a grand-master plan of revolutionizing the field and bringing back the [...]
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The Solar Tree by Ross Lovergrove featured here is a design statement that will grace London’s St. John Square throughout the 2012 Olympics. The installation was designed by the aforementioned Welsh designer and produced by Artemide for the Clerkenwell Design Week 2012. It uses solar panels, LED lights, solar cells and a battery system with an electronic control device. The organic shape [...]
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Add a touch of funky design to your entrance hallway with the Drop Coat Rack by Julian Appelius for Pulpo. You can purchase it online for $88, in either green, bright fuchsia, black, white or three other color variants and it can hold just about anything no matter how sleek and fragile it may look (jackets, bags, coats, etc.). It’s great for [...]
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Wowing us with awesome vintage design and great functionality, here’s the Killspencer Precision Pocket Card Carrier for iPhone. The smartphone accessory costs quite a hefty $89 and is compatible with both the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S. The material is Rosewood, cut with laser precision and using it is as simple as attaching it to the back of your phone. The [...]
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Animal-inspired design took over the fashion runways earlier this year, with the reveal of the brand-new collection of Burberry A/W12 umbrellas. The price tag is steep to put it mildly, as a single such umbrella costs between $850 and $1,295, but many are of the opinion that it’s all worth it, if anything, then at least for the stunning handles they feature. [...]
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Life in Spiral by Hideaki Takayanagi is a brand-new architecture project meant to wow us as most such initiatives headed our way from Japan. The home was designed by the afore-mentioned Tokyo-based studio, and, like most homes situated in the Japanese metropolis and capital, it suffers from the same chronic lack of space. Since the ground print was small and narrow to [...]
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If you’ve been looking for innovative ways to play basketball, leave it up to the Arbre a Basket by a/LTA, a French design studio. The structure is essentially a tree with numerous hoops, which allows players of all ages and heights to play at the same time. Everybody gets a fair shot at scoring a hoop, but this doesn’t make the game [...]
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It’s a regular architecture miracle that brings us this Polish ‘crooked house’, a.k.a. the Krzywy Domek by Szotynscy & Zaleski. The askew structure really looks like this in real life – there is no Photoshop, or any other type of image manipulation involved. As a matter of fact, the crooked home, which looks like something straight out of the portfolio of renowned [...]
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The most amazing thing about good design is that it can bring a sense of wonder to the most banal of spaces, as does Kinetic Rain by Art+Com, a kinetic installation in Terminal 1 at the Singapore Airport. The Changi Airport has been adorned with well over 600 aluminum drops painted gold, who move according to a fifteen-minute long choreography. The ‘dance’ [...]
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Holly Wood by La Souris Sur Le Gateau is a series of digital sculptures produced with the aid of some major graphic design skill. The French graphic design team is very inventive, to say the least—as is immediately apparent from their ingenious website and its unusual navigation functions. The project itself includes some of the world’s most beloved film, video game and [...]
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When it comes to phone cover design, kitsch is always waiting right around the corner, but definitely not so with the Benny Gold Material6 Wood iPhone Backing. The exclusive design, which features the Benny Gold popular native print, from the artist’s Valencia Collection, was produced in collaboration with Material6. The backing is compatible with the iPhone 4 and 4S from any carrier [...]
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The Meyerhofer Residence by Osborn Architects is proof that privacy and sustainability are two of the main goals in contemporary architecture. The Glendale-based studio completely refurbished a mid-century single-family home in La Canada, California, turning it into an elegant space, in which the boundaries between indoors and outdoors are all but abolished, yet there is still a sense of privacy and intimacy, [...]
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We’re here with a serving of creative design: the Half = One Hanger by Tess Hill, an item that goes to show how far repurposing can reach. The item was designed by a Spanish artist, who decided wooden chairs aren’t just for sitting, they can also be turned upside down, hung up on walls and used as striking clothes hangers. Granted, the [...]
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