Israeli designer Hagit Pincovici is a third generation artisan and continues the legacy of solid craftsmanship but adds her own modern aesthetic to her work. She designed the A line chest of drawers for the Italian design label Colè.
Working alongside Eugeni Quitllet, Philippe Starck has recently designed Home/Gym/Office for Alias’s fitness collection. The HGO collection is composed of a gym mat, barbell, jump rope, multipurpose hook, and rack. The gym mat is constructed of leather and polyurethane foam with non-slip rubber used in the lower portion.
Plug Lamp was designed by Form Us With Love for ateljé Lyktan to solve a simple problem: we’re always looking for more plugs to use! For our smartphones, computers and tablets we always need a charge, so the Plug Lamp is here to help make it easier to fin a nearby electrical socket. Made of powder-coated aluminium with a bulbous lamp shade shape, the dimmable Plug Lamp is also pleasant to look at. This would be perfect for on my nightstand!
Visit a taco kiosk on the streets of Mexico and you’re sure to see a plastic bag full of water hanging from the ceiling.
Rarely do architects in Vienna, Austria get the opportunity that Lakonis Architekten did with the renovation of the top floors of this historic building. They were able to build a modern loft space in an original building without compromising the historical aspects of what the location brings. At first glance you see a classic four-story corner building; then looking up you spot a modern roof structure that is made of steel, wood, and concrete.
You might remember that last year I was asked to be a part of an event called Break-Down: Design in Your Hands with Stylefactory at Bobby Berk Home in Soho and it was really successful – we had somewhere around 400 people come through the store. This year, I decided I really wanted to plan my own event and Bobby agreed to host it again this year, so I would like to invite you to the first (hopefully of many) official “Design Milk Presents” event and exhibition: Reinvention; Writing History in Aluminum. I’m so excited!!!
Join Design Milk and Bobby Berk Home celebrate as Brad Ascalon and Frederick McSwain (AM) and Neal Feay Studio unveil a new breed of objects, lighting, and furniture at Bobby Berk Home on Saturday, May 19th from 6-9PM. Through a rich visual vocabulary of texture, color and form, viewers are invited to actively explore and discover the inherent subtleties of each design. Reinvention; Writing History in Aluminum runs through May 27th.
You can RSVP to the event on Facebook or just stop by. Everyone is welcome!
What: Reinvention; Writing History in Aluminum
When: Opening – Saturday, May 19, 2012 from 6-9 PM; Exhibition – May 19-27, 2012
Where: Bobby Berk Home Soho, 59 Crosby Street, New York, NY
A special press preview will be held on Sunday, May 20th from 9:30 to 10:30 AM where you can speak with the designers and Neal Feay Studio. Please RSVP for the press event to info@design-milk.com.
Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, AKA Nervous System, are back with a new project that makes me want to say, in my best Monty Python impression, “and now for something completely different.” Leave it to Nervous System to completely re-imagine the jigsaw puzzle and marry it to their nature-meets-science method. The whole process is fascinating – keep reading…
The three members of Front merged their actual doodles that they had drawn during design meetings to create the pattern of the Doodle Sofa for Moroso. The sofa form comes from a circular shape that is folded to make the perfect little sofa. But the best thing about it is the “absent minded” doodling they were able to capture and inscribe into the piece showing bits of their creative minds.
Pierre-Félix So re-created Richard Sapper’s Tizio Lamp out of LEGO bricks. What famous lamp would you like to see made of LEGO next?
