Hedge Gallery in San Francisco presents Not Furniture, an exhibition of work by American sculptor/designer Forrest Myers. “I’m a sculptor, and I use use furniture as a venue, as an idea, a jumping off place to make sculpture.” says Myers. Top image: Parker. Above: 125 Mph The exhibition, which runs until November 8, is presented in collaboration with New York gallery Friedman Benda. Above: Love ..
Designer Yves Béhar of Fuseproject has unveiled Le Cube, a TV receiver, remote control and graphic interface for French broadcaster CANAL +. Designed , Le Cube’s design and user interface is designed to make consuming its services easier and more enjoyable. See a movie about Le Cube here. The following is from Yves Béhar: – DESIGN STATEMENT This game-changing TV experience project is a rare feat..
A table covered with charcoal by Dutch designer Anke Weiss is on show at Eat Drink Design as part of Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Weiss covered the MDF table top with fixative-treated charcoal sticks by hand. An area of the table’s surface is leveled while the rest is raised and bumpy. “That is the place for a person to sit down and enjoy the view on this hypnotic structure,”..
Here’s another project from Dutch designer Anke Weiss, this time a table made from 150 bonsai trees. The trees take seven years to grow. Weiss then joins them using traditional carpentry techniques and coats the structure with epoxy resin. The flat top of the table exposes the structure of the wood itself, achieved through years of compressed growth. Weiss also created the Packaging Lights we fe..
Dutch Design Week: designer Anke Weiss has created a series of lights from used food and drink packaging. Weiss traces the patterns and text on the packaging with hundreds of pin-pricks, which allow the light to shine through. The lights were exhibited at Eat Drink Design in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week last month. Update 20/11/07: Weiss has just sent us some further information about the ..
La Casa K es un bloque estrecho que atraviesa el lote separándolo en un jardín anterior y un jardín posterior. Esta posición en el terreno favorece que la casa sea vista casi siempre de frente y percibida como una pared hueca cuya profundidad apenas alcanza para albergar los espacios habitables. El bloque provee espacios que reciben la luz desde diversas direcciones. Esto se acentúa por medio de..
rojkind arquitectos - La nueva construcción para el Museo del Chocolate elevada sobre el jardín alberga un área de recepción, un teatro que prepara a los jóvenes visitantes para el viaje al mundo del chocolate, el pasaje hacia el túnel existente que circula sobre las áreas de producción en el interior de la fábrica y la tienda de chocolates y afines, al final de recorrido. Rojo por fuera y blanc..
Architects: 100 Planos Arquitectura Location: Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal Client: The Portuguese Heath Ministry Engineering: ASL&Associados L.da Contractor: MonteAdriano SGPS Design Year: 2004-2007 Construction Year: 2007-2008 Photographer: Pedro Serapicos “The hospital was a hospital like any other in a big city. It had a sinister look, bleak, repulsive, of things that are done by necessity, an o..
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