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Spout is the latest product design concept from Melbourne-based industrial design consultancy Charlwood Design.
Spout is a minimalist bathroom basin design with an internal sensor-activated tap. The user placed hands in the sink to activate the water. The temperature can be adjusted with the simple dial. In the center of the dial is a button that can be pushed to activate continuous water flow for filling the sink.
Chris Ruhe has created storage cabinets from old doors and cabinets giving them a new life as one big cabinet.
Urban Butik launched an innovative new personal design by Kähler at the NYIGF. Designed by Helena Rohner, My Life is a modern take on the traditional locket. Instead of opening a necklace locket to find a photo, these necklaces are USB drives. Carry photos of loved ones and any other personal data you wish with you wherever you go.
The newest piece from TOUCH is a stool called Open, a visionary, multifunctional stool designed in Portugal and manufactured local to TOUCH in Los Angeles.
On the Open stool, TOUCH worked with designers Cláudio Cardoso and Telma Verissimo of Studio Verissimo. Open is carefully and attentively assembled at a small woodshop in Los Angeles. Manufactured using FSC-certified sugar pine, the design of Open is based on a traditional Portuguese stool, but incorporates a new vision as it can be used in a variety of ways. With a slot cut out of one side, the stool can serve a second purpose as a doorstop or even as a side table. Open was designed to incorporate functionality and mood — blending traditional style with contemporary details such as the color accent on each stool.
Editor’s note: Please welcome our newest contributor, Leo Lei of lvlup design. He is passionate about minimalistic furniture and architecture and will be sharing his finds weekly in a new column called Minimalicious. Learn more about Leo on our About page.
What better than to start the Minimalicious column with the simplistic, yet elegant works of Shinichi Ogawa & Associates. Ware House, located in the suburbs of Higashihiroshima-shi in Hiroshima, Japan, is one of their latest realizations.
HGTV has partnered with The Residences at W in downtown New York City to give away a furnished apartment designed by HGTV host and designer Vern Yip, as well as an Acura ZDX.
You can get their first on-air tour of the home during the HGTV Urban Oasis 2010 special on Monday, September 6, 2010, at 8 PM ET.
But if you can’t wait, you can get a glimpse of it now at HGTV.com/UrbanOasis — check out the slideshow tours. This is one sweet prize. You can start entering on September 1st once a day at HGTV.com and FrontDoor.com! If you’ve ever wanted to live in the heart of NYC this is your chance. The sweepstakes entry period runs September 1, 2010 October 20, 2010.
The Boomerang Wok by Nikolai Carels allows you to flip omelets back onto themselves or cook without flinging food out of your pan. The pan has a strategically-designed inner lip that curves inward to keep food from flying over the edge.
Completed in 2010, this pool house by Philipp Baumhauer actually makes me want to live in a pool house. Just set me up right next to the riding mower.
The 25-square-meter pool house is located in a private garden and contains the pool filter system, a bathroom with shower, storage, and changing room. There are movable curtains so you can adjust your level of privacy.
This Incase collection of Apple accessories was designed for the November 2009 opening of the Apple Store, Carrousel du Louvre, in Paris, France. It features a bold graphic pattern that is inspired by the Louvre Pyramid. It is available exclusively at the Apple Store, Carrousel du Louvre and includes a Messenger Bag, 13″ MacBook Pro Sleeve and iPhone 3GS Slider Case.
The Zuiderzee Stool by Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters is a design assigned by the Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen, The Netherlands. The stool is an element of the redesign of the information center of the museum.
When Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters began working on the stool project they spent some time visiting the depots of the museum. In one of the storage units they discovered a small yellow stool most likely used for milking cattle.
