Jaime Hayón, photo (c) Nienke Klunder They say that the most important mergers and creative deals happen outside the board room. In this case one of the most creative mergers between great craftsmanship and great design inspiration commenced by a simple question posed at the Designtide Tokyo in 2009 by Maruwakaya a neo-traditional Japanese product design brand, headed by Hirotoshi Maruwaka, esta..
Sticks and Stones Furniture, a Canadian producer of cast concrete products, have sent us some photos of them in the process of making their concrete firebowl that was designed by Marcyn Ward of Vancouver-based Down to Earth Landscapes. from contemporist
Image Courtesy of Leica Camera AG Two exclusive limited edition cameras with stunning leather finishes in orange and étoupe 16 November 2009: Leica Camera AG has today announced a very special limited edition of its classic 35mm rangefinder system camera: the LEICA M7 Edition ‘Hermès’. As the successor to the ‘LEICA MP Edition Hermès’ launched in 2003, this is the second series of cameras create..
The concept ride is meant to appeal to city dwellers long on cash but short on parking spaces. The very idea of a luxury car used to be synonymous with a big hulking sedan or SUV that declared your net worth through its outsize footprint. But then along came the Prius, driven by the likes of Tom Hanks and Leo DiCaprio. And then there's the fact that city dwellers, the richest consumers out there..
‘Seeing things from different angles, changing the perception of what we are seeing’ – New Angles is an interactive installation reflecting the juxtaposition of subversive thinking and visual perception. The project was created by SuperNature, the knowed Shanghai based multi-discipline design company which is specialized in interactive design, visual communication & media technology. New Angles ..
Last week we posted about the new installation by David Letellier and Lab [au] for their gallery in Brussels. Now we have some great new details, supplied by Jerome Decock of Lab[au]. The installation was inspired by the notion of ”tessellation”, a term applied to the geometric subdivision of a surface into plane units. It includes a suspended topography of 4 x 2 m, subdivided into forty triangu..
Binic is the name of a little lighthouse on the coast of Brittany. And it is the Breton seafaring world that has inspired this young French designer’s small, fun table lamp. Binic’s curious form recalls the “wind socks” that are used as ventilation systems on sailing ships. Its odd shape stimulates the imagination to create a wide range of interpretations. Because of its small size and fun, colo..
Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola designed the MANGAS rug collection for Gandia Blasco. MANGAS (engl. SLEEVES) is based on a patchwork of different wool knits, to create a collection of various typologies with different shapes, going from Manga farol (bellowed sleeve) to Manga de campana (bell-shaped sleeve).
Image Courtesy of CITROËN & LACOSTE Two names, CITROËN and LACOSTE , have come together with a shared vision to cultivate boldness, creativity and optimism. The result of these common values is the CITROËN LACOSTE concept car. The new model is an emblem of a state of mind and a lifestyle, clearly alluding to leisure and pleasure. It takes a simplified, no-nonsense approach to motoring – without ..
Luxury pump in embossed patent leather combined with a vero cuoio rustic 'shell'. from zuzanaserbak
