Interior designer Trip Haenisch resounded loudly on our radar when his work was featured on the cover of Elle Decor last summer. Yup, the one with Courteney Cox on the cover. Of course, to Haenisch, working with celebs is all part of a day’s work, as he also counts Aaron Sorkin, Christina Aguilera, and Cher (Cher!) among his clients. But don’t get the wrong idea. Haenisch’s work reveals not a trace of bling. His style is understated and clean. His Friday Five feels wonderfully insider-y — in addition to a concept car and very famous fashion designer, Haenisch spotlights his favorite photographer, furniture designer, and yoga retreat.
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For the launch of Samsung’s new interactive Smart TV with Smart Interaction, Smart Content and Smart Evolution, they’ve cooked up a kooky commercial that is full of cheese: a bunch of dorky dudes mistakenly think beautiful woman (in this case me in my pajamas – OK – it’s really it’s a model) is beckoning them, then they race and fight for her affection only to find out she wasn’t flirting with any of them, after all. See if you can spot some famous faces in the commercial:
Even though we just bought a Samsung Smart TV barely two years ago, the idea of using my hand to turn the volume down or change channels is enticing. Plus, you have to see how thin this thing is…
To see more behind-the-scenes footage and stills from this silly shoot, visit the Samsung Electronics Facebook page at http://on.fb.me/KsGi8w.
Remember The Ultimate Workspace Contest we hosted with Intel? Well, part of the prize, besides a new Lenovo IdeaPad U300e Ultrabook laptop, was a “Where I Work” office tour here on Design Milk. I think you’re going to love the space of our lucky winner, Sarah Lederman, author of Chevrons & Stripes, and freelance stylist and interior designer.
And now for another edition of “Why didn’t I think of that?” starring Jung Soo Park’smagnetic hammer named Neo. One of the most frustrating things when you head up a ladder is having nowhere to put your nails. Jung Soo Park has tried to solve that problem by creating a hammer with a magnetic bottom so that the nails attach to it, freeing up your extra hand to stay safe on the ladder and keep dirty nails out of your mouth. Smart! Watch the video here.
We’re hardly slaves to the trends, but when a look as fun as fluoro comes along, it’s hard to resist. Neon fashions bring to mind armfuls of brightly-colored jelly bracelets à la Madonna and her legions of Material Girls from the ’80s, but back then, when it came to decor, mauve was having a moment. Not so right now. For this week’s CMYLK, we chose a dozen neon + bright pieces we’d be happy to have at home.
From the Munich, Germany-based designaffairs studio comes FLYM, a foldable speaker concept that is so portable it fits in your pocket. Anytime you want to listen to music, simply unfold it and adjust the magnetic latch. It requires no battery and just plugs into any device with a headphone jack. Using a super thin speaker film, the speakers are lightweight and convenient enough to join you on the go for impromptu dance parties or music listening.
Dan Black and Martin Blum founded black+blum in 1998 and are based in London, where they work out of an historic building with tons of character, but it wasn’t always like that (think: working out of a caravan). They design, source and market their own range of products, which are now sold in leading design stores all over the world, like the recently-featured Eau Good Water Bottle. We popped into their digs to check out where they come up with their best-selling designs. When we arrived, Martin was not present because he and his wife recently welcomed twins! So, Dan thought it would be fun to create a life-sized cutout of Martin to pose for pictures — these are my kind of guys!
This month, Design Store(y) goes a little farther downtown, and across the bridge, to brownstone-filled Brooklyn to tour Module R, an architect-owned and curated enterprise that specializes in, you guessed it, modular art and design products. Indeed, all the items in this red-fronted shop on the border of Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill can be reconfigured, customized, stacked, nested, and otherwise personalized. That’s what we call focus. We chatted with the man behind the movable pieces, owner Donald Rattner.
Hosted in Milan’s Ventura Lambrate, RCA Paradise challenged students to “contemplate the discovery of something or somewhere more wondrous.” The products they presented are all inspired by a “quest for a better future.”
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