Located in central Florida, Lake House is set on a sloping, lakefront lot and is the first LEED-certified residence in the city of Winter Haven. Designed by Max Strang Architecture, the 5,500-square-foot, 4-bedroom, 4.5-bath house was built with the idea that the interior living spaces were lodged within an outer “shell” made of stucco. The shell features eight-foot overhangs that provide the house with much needed protection from the sun.
Jeni Oye takes old bike tires and makes them into creative cuffs for guys and gals. Made from aluminum and old tires, they’re the perfect gift for bike lovers. Available exclusively at Oye Modern.
The California Roll House is a futuristic concept design for a prefabricated house that Christopher Daniel of Violent Volumes has created. The house was designed with a desert setting in mind with its exterior wrapped in an energy-efficient material that reflects heat from the sun. The house appears rolled to form a tube-like shape with glass on either end that is controlled electronically to change the transparency for privacy and light control. The modular nature of the design makes for easy assembly and disassembly on site.
Jordan Castro and his family-owned business Port Living Co. create eco-friendly kitchen and home designs in concrete, recycled marble dust, cork, aluminum and rubber. Based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the small company spent over a decade perfecting the concrete mixes to make them both functional and beautiful. Each piece is one of a kind and cast in a handmade mold to cure for about week. They are then burnished by hand and finished with two coats of carnauba wax.
Pictured above are the large Hexagon Pattern Concrete Coasters.
&Tradition‘s Victor Vetterlein-designed Trash Me Lamp is created from the paper pulp of 4-paper egg cartons that are spread over a mold and left to dry. The concept word behind the piece is “transient,” in that people’s attention and interest in things is somewhat brief. The lamp can be taken apart quickly and then recycled into something new once it is no longer desired.
Based in Mexico, Masiosare Studio is composed of three young industrial designers that aim for functional and accessible design. Flaca, which is Spanish for skinny, is a lamp they designed that meets both of those goals.
Christian Vivanco, in collaboration with the Casa Gutierrez Najera gallery in Queretaro, Mexico, created the lighting project, Las Gordas. Las Gordas is a series of lamps in varied sizes made from a commonly used plastic colander. The colander is used as the base of the lamp in combination with a translucent shade. The idea behind the project was to take an object and to reinterpret it into a different context, thereby making it a new object. In other words, the series of lamps reinforces the idea that we should rethink what is already available, instead of creating entirely new objects in a world completely oversaturated.
We spotted these recycled wood necklaces on Australian web shop Moose and were immediately drawn to them. It’s one of those, “Oh, I could do that” items, but of course you didn’t, and if you’re anything like us, probably won’t. They’re made TreeHorn Design, a one-man shop in Richmond (that’s a suburb of Adelaide), Australia. The man is Joe Chester, a slave to his woodshop, with a background in Tasmanian timber design.
The popular Water Bobble bottle has given birth to a new sibling – the Bobble Jug. The jug, designed by Karim Rashid who also designed the original Bobble, can be used for home filtration and holds up to 64oz of water. Just like Bobble, it filters chlorine and organic contaminants, as well as copper, lead, mercury and cadmium, among others. Available in six fun colors, it will retail for $30 on waterbobble.com.
