Archive for May, 2013
Design
Light switches
Usually, when we renew our house we miss some details, one of them is undoubtedly the choice of light switches, often we simply choose their color or, even worse, we allow the electrician to choose them in our place. Try to spe...
Design
A clock by Thorunn Arnadottir
This clock comes from Iceland and enhances the natural rhythm of the day by highlighting the slowness of time. Instead of parsing time into seconds, this clock doles out the time in leisurely 5 minute intervals. A Clock encoura...
Design
Illuminated Bathtubs by Antonio Lupi – OIO
We can find clearly fun features, but not only, in the personal reinterpretation that Belgian designer Michel Boucquillon put into this line of baths and washbasins, signed Antonio Lupi. Polyethylene (a material that is 100% re...
Architetti
A Tower of Babel in Milan
The Tower of Babel symbolizes the pride of men who defied God by creating a building that can touch the sky, unacceptable to God who punished them by preventing them from speaking the same language. For me, the myth of the Towe...
Design
Ugly Kitchens
When I look at some houses, the first question that springs to my mind is “why?” Why have the owners made those choices? Why did they want such an ugly kitchen? It cannot be to save money, because spending the same ...
Design
New design trends
A long ago, to knit was one of women’s skills, but times change and industrial production took over from them. This way of knitting or crocheting soon became obsolete, but never fell into disuse. In 2011, design saw the r...
Architettura
A vertical forest in Milan
65,000,000.00 euros should be enough for the first vertical forest designed by Stefano Boeri‘s Milan-based studio. Each of the four sides of the building will house 900 trees. The same amount of trees, shrubs and plants i...
Design
Smoke
Encapsulating the diffusion of a plume of smoke in a glass orb, Lehanneur’s SMOKE lends material substance to its often ethereal and ephemeral qualities of deceptively delicate gases.
Design
Larry e Nancy Buechley
In a remote mountain village in New Mexico live a husband/wife furniture design duo that I greatly admire: Larry e Nancy Buechley. Every now and then they come to the limelight of design with their new interpretations of classi...
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