This is still pretty much how 75% of Chelsea Art Galleries like to say a “Warm Welcome” to their average visitor!

My friend and I actually had the same idea of doing a series like “Sentry” by Andy Freeberg a while ago. Guess it was not that “original” after all. Nevertheless… my hat goes of to Andy Freeberg for pulling it off!

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Let’s just say celebrated Apple Design Wunderkind Jonathan Ive “might” be aware of the work Dieter Rams did for Braun… which in the end, makes Apple even smarter.

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Featured Sandwich: Pastrami

Featured Sandwich: Bologna

When you thought everything had be done… Selleck Waterfall Sandwich comes along…

After a few disputes with various bureaucrats, the Whitepod Camp has finally found a home in Les Giettes, Switzerland!

The resort provides an alternative means to explore the Swiss Alps. With the use of the pods (dome shaped tents), pitched on wooden platforms, Whitepod offers low impact accommodation in an untouched and pristine alpine environment. Isolated from all urban pollution, the mountain region lends itself beautifully to such an eco-tourism development.

Member of « The Luxury Camps & Lodges of the World » and rewarded with the World Prize for Sustainable Tourism in 2005, the Whitepod Resort aims to be a model for sustainable tourism by using a number of measures to limit its impact on nature…

Definitely not your regular camping experience!
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Spending 4h in a bar yesterday with ONE barstool… cause all the others broke… inspired me to post the Mater Stool. It’s an absolute beauty and i would not have minded spending those 4h sitting on one of them.

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Wim Delvoye, Art Farm Yang Zhen, 2005, 140 x 100 cm, tattoo on pigskin, tanned

Ok, it’s not excactly this piggy… but one of his siblings is going on sale for an estimate of 65 to 95k at Philipps de Pury at their London Contemporary Art Auction February 12th.

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“Personally paying for the cost of the prints, David Choe has requested that all proceeds go to Yele Haiti, a foundation created by Wyclef Jean. This print measures 18″x24″ inches and is a Giclee print on archival paper. Limited to 50 editions, the print is hand-signed by David Choe.”

Available at Hemway Industries

“Totem II (Raven Steals the Light)” by Josh Keyes

Josh’s artwork measures 8″ wide by 10″ tall.

This unsigned edition will be available January 26th through February 2nd, 2010. It will no longer be available for purchase after that date. $15 dollars from each print sold will be donated to Partners in Health.

The reverse side of each archival print has been hand-stamped with our authentication insignia and hand-numbered.

Prints ship with a corresponding numbered certificate of authenticity that has been hand-stamped with the edition’s date and intitialed by the head of Tiny Showcase’s in-house print studio. The archival artwork has been printed on a 290gsm natural white printmaking paper.

Available at tinyshowcase

Go visit Christopherstleger.com for more images.

Artillery, 2005, Sarah Pickering

The graphic explosion seen in this photograph, Artillery, is not aimed to destroy anything per se, but rather to document the use of detonation as a study tool for British military soldiers. Here, the tactical use of controlled explosions works to add realistic stress to training exercises and familiarize soldiers with various munitions. Having captured controlled trials and simulated environments throughout her different series, Pickering’s work emphasizes the secrecy and uniformity ever present in the world of civil defense. Taken from the Explosions series, Artillery explores the paradox of planning for the completely unexpected. Set in an uninhabited field, Artillery sheds light on a system that is necessarily orderly and chaotic at once.

Available at Aperture

Robin Grasby designed this Homework Desk with designers, architects, illustrators, teachers, and students in mind. It might not make your kids scream “Homework… Yes please!” But you have to admire this adaptable work desk from a guy who just graduated school himself.

Robin Grasby