Heart Home Rug
I just thought this rug was really sweet.
Designer Dailies: MOS My Own Space
We're off to La Jolla to visit modern furnishings shop MOS My Own Space!
Friday Five with Randy J. Hunt of Supercorp
See what one of the brains behind Supermarket draws inspiration from.
MOTIVO™ by CaesarStone
There’s nothing I like more than taking a material traditionally used for one specific function and totally reinventing it. For example, what Machine Histories did with Corian. Now, CaesarStone has branched out beyond the simple countertop too — into wall coverings, taking their quartz countertop surface and transforming it into a texturized relief suitable for just about anything from wall decor to furniture.
Grass Mirror by h2o Architects
“Antique philosophers often turned to nature for contemplation. Nature was used as a mirror. The Grass Mirror project revisits, in a way, this idea of contemplation. But to convey a contemporary image requires further complexity. Nature overflows, it is multiplied by the different reflections. One’s own image is fragmented. Frontiers between nature and culture are blurred. It is the twist (geometric deformation) of the rectangle which reveals this nature. The plants sit in the hollow of the deformation. This basic figure can be repeated indefinitely, from object to surface and surface to object. The whole is a little more than a multiple of its parts…”
–Miguel Mazeri, anthropologist
El Pino & The Volunteers
David Pino, an Amsterdam based graphic designer and lead singer of El Pino & the Volunteers dropped a line to let us know about their new music video. You might enjoy this video if you’re a fan of 3D typography. I’m pretty impressed with the set production…must have taken a while to get all those letters to hang perfectly.
THE NEW – Jonathan Nesci
Volume Gallery, Chicago’s newest cutting-edge design gallery, debuts with an exhibition of new works by American designer Jonathan Nesci, aptly titled: THE NEW, March 19-23, 2010. Volume Gallery will take over the Andrew Rafacz Gallery for the first in an ongoing series highlighting freshly commissioned work from American contemporary designers.
Each piece in THE NEW is born from Nesci’s observations of the world around us and the banal designs that inform our lives, forms many of us never stop to consider, such as the edge of a curb, the base of a street light, etc. With these pieces, Nesci picks up the torch of 20th Century design and carries it into the 21st century, stating, “I am informed by the work that has preceded me and aim to add a building block in the continually changing landscape of product and process.”
Nesci’s translated observations reflect his inspirational sources and modern design ideals through the use of industrial materials — concrete and metal. All the pieces in THE NEW, created specifically for Volume Gallery, embody the spirit of traditional American mid-century design. The finish is matte white, to absorb the light and its surroundings; the pure minimal forms, prevalent in Nesci’s body of work, echo the essence of the design in our surrounding landscape.
Friday Five with Eyal Kattan of Generate Design
I love Generate. They are such a unique online shop, and their Limited Editions section blows my mind. I also love Pipeline, their blog, which I used to post a bit for. But, my favorite part about Generate is the people. Eyal and Ronnie Kattan are amazing, super nice, and totally down to earth. Eyal launched Generate Design in 2003 and Generate Japan in 2007. Prior to that, he was Founder and Publisher of alternative weekly Montreal Mirror, as well as a world traveler.
Things I’m digging:
Bakery Calendar by Futura 2/2
The Bakery Calendar by Futura 2/2 is an interesting approach to telling the date. The rolling pin prints the 2010 calendar on a sheet of dough.
[via Swissmiss]
Atipico New Products
The Crudo collection consists of a jug and two glasses, salad bowl and four plates, another set of plates, bowl and bell and the set consisting of a tray, salad bowl, plate and bowl.
The collection is from Atipico, designed by Barbara Busatta, Dario Buzzini, Robin Bigio, Martin Maler and Olivero Zanon, who were united by the desire to relate and reinterpret the pureness of daily gestural expressiveness through the preciousness of materials and their transformation. The entire collection explores the combinations of raw materials and their workmanship, precisely like a recipe reworks the ingredients into a dish. It includes various types of containers for food and liquids, designed in elementary shapes, in basic colors of white and brown, with a touch of color.
Getty Lamp
The Getty Lamp by Marcus Tremento is like a neon squiggly floating in the darkness. It is made from electroluminescent wire and perspex, and is a limited edition of 10.
Villa Dali in The Netherlands by 123DV Architecture
This home, called Villa Dali by 123DV Architecture, is spectacular. It might not be for everyone, but if you love architecture or art (or both) I bet you’re gonna love this one. It was also selected for the WAN long list for Best House of the Year, 2009.
“Home is where the art is” is the theme of this home, which captures the character of Dali, Jugendstill forms, Spanish facades and nautical life in one villa.
The clients asked for a very personal house which would reflect their passions. They are nautical minded and have a love of art, sculptures and especially the work of Salvador Dali. During the initial design discussions 123DV architecture were also shown pictures of ancient Spanish architecture. They were fascinated by the closed white stucco facades and metal fences in Jugendstill design. So, the challenge was to combine in one villa the beautiful Jugendstill forms, the closed facades, the treasures of the diving world and the unique works of the artist Dali.
For the design of the house, 123DV Architecture made use of the Paranoiac-critical method by Salvador Dali (creating optical illusions). The result is a cylindrical white stucco main building with a nautilus spiral structure inside; representing the world of diving. The closed facade facing the street represents the so called Spanish architecture with a blown up Jugendstill pattern in the six meter wooden panel as the entrance. In the center of the house there is a double story cylindrical space. The furniture has also been custom designed. Traces of Dali’s fluid watch art can be found in their design.
