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Bubble Lamp featured in House and Home Magazine
Modernica's Triple Fixture, design: George Nelson - photo: modernica.net
Modernica's Triple Fixture bubble lamp is featured in Canada's House and Home Magazine, January 2011 issue. You can find in the in the "Focus" section as part as the "Light it Up" feature article on statement multi-headed ...
Binic by Ionna Vautrin for Foscarini
Binic by Ionna Vautrin for Foscarini - photo: ionnavautrin.com
The most awesome thing happened today. I reached into my filing cabinet and stumbled upon a small, single, delicious truffle in a ziplock bag leftover from my Christmas treat stash. How this little wonder escaped my awareness for ...
The Bouroullec Brothers ... again.
I can't get enough of these guys! Ronan and Erwan have paired up with Spanish area rug company, Nanimarquina to create "Losanges" - an awesome area rug that salutes traditional persian style with a modern interpretation.
This rug is handmade through and through. The 13 colours of afghan wool ...
Hella Jongerius, in Ceramic
Hella Jongerius featured this installation of 300 vases at her a recent show: "Misfit" in the museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2010.
The vases are documentation of the designer's experiment in colour and glaze application. She used industrial paint in standard colours for the first 82 ...
Eye Spy... Butterfly Stool by Sori Yanagi
Butterfly Stool by Sori Yanagi for Vitra, 1954 - photo: vitra.com
A butterfly, a bird, a whale's tail ... there have been several comparisons drawn from this stool for several animals, insects, and various forms of organic design. This beautiful sculptural seat is made of two pieces of molded ...
2010 an Eventful Year for Emeco's 111 Navy Chair
Emeco's 111 Navy Chair - photo: emecowithcoke.com
Emeco's 111 Navy Chair, made from 111 plastic Coke bottles, had an exciting year. It was a big hit during its debut at Milan's Furniture Fair in April and made waves (er... icebergs?) in London while frozen in a one-ton block of ice.
Emeco's ...
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Creators of the Year 2011
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec - photo credit: ola rindal
Maison et Object have selected Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec as one of their "Creators of the Year" as result of the large impact that they have made on the French design scene. Interior architects Gilles and Boissier and architect Edouard ...
Eye Spy ... Flos Tab light
Tab, by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby for Flos is an elegant, modern, minimal design in both table and floor lamp versions.
Available in black, white and blue , this light boasts big visual value for a small footprint. It's rotating head swings horizontally, making it a great task light on top ...
Canadian Prefab at Home in Manhattan
Meka ALP320 in Manhattan. Image: Daniella Zalcman/The Wall Street Journal
At $100.00 per square foot, the Meka ALP320 is a sweet deal. At least, those in Manhattan sure think so after one of these little modern/ular home nuggets was transplated at the corner of Charles and Washington Street. ...
Gifts Gifts Gifts!
In case you haven't noticed... Christmas is nearly here! Considering my lack of posts over the last couple of weeks, one might think that I have been busy shopping shopping shopping and have my list completely checked off. Yah ... not so much. I do have a couple of things sorted out (she says ...