Posts from — February 2010

Seen at Canadian House & Home, totally loving the way Massimo Vitali got in the mix… and that they keep their sheep in the living room!

This smooth, simple oak table has a musical secret under its hood– lift a door on its side and you’ll expose a full, 88-key electric piano.  The Piano Table by Georg Bohle is one of the most inventive pieces of furniture we’ve seen in some time, merging the musical with the modern.

Perfect for the Revival of the “Salon Culture” that i’ve been preaching about! All i got to do now is learn to play… or listen to Diana (Click it!)

via the coolist

The Vitrahouse by Herzog & De Meuron… or what else could happen… when two of the local architecture and design firms get together to build a house…

www.vitra.com

Working with the idea that the history of art is often lost in the broad view of things, Immer started taking a closer look at how people view that history , what exactly they might be looking at and started “toying” with it.

I wish he would start a service, where you could hand in those old paintings you inherited from your gramps and transform that attic dust collector into an edgy main floor centerpiece!

More of his works… William P. Immer

01. Good design is innovative.
02. Good design makes a product useful.
03. Good design is aesthetic.
04. Good design makes a product understandable.
05. Good design is unobtrusive.
06. Good design is honest.
07. Good design is long-lasting.
08. Good design is thorough down to the last detail.
09. Good design is environmentally friendly.
10. Good design is as little design as possible.

This and more design wisdom by Dieter Rams, the godfather of minimal design, is currently on display at the London Design Museum. The exhibition runs until March 7th 2010 and showcases Dieter Rams landmark design work for ”Braun” and “Vitsoe”.

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Or what happened when Spencer Tunick did a shoot and nobody showed up…

“Immaculate” by putting himself on the pictures, Ruben Brulat uses his naked body to express this feeling of anonymity he experiences in the La Défense neighborhood in Paris.

“When i started taking photographs of myself, it became obvious that it was easier to understand the malaise i had in these places, by getting naked i was feeling in total symbiosis. The more i was taking shots, the more i was understanding. Because, creating a fiction, may bring you closer to reality.”

Not sure i get his concept…lol… but i do like the aesthetics of Ruben Brulat’s work.

Cézanne couldn’t tell you what an apple looked like, not empirically (who could?), but his paintings shocked audiences by conveying what apples looked like to him. Painter Silke Schöner turns landscapes on their heads with extraction, paving fields and sky with empty plains of space that we can fill in.

Silke Schöner was born in 1968 in Krefeld, Germany. She has worked as an artist in Kassel, Germany since 1989 and has been widely exhibited in Germany, Japan, and the U.S.

Read an interview with her at The Morning News

Black and white is often right… as can be seen viewing this beautiful parisian flat designed by E-C-O-L-E. I love love love the stairs!

Facing the Eglise Saint-Gervais on one side and the Hôtel de Ville de Paris on the other, this 95 sqm apartment occupies the whole of the the two top floors of an 18th century building. The project comprised a full restructuration of the existing space and the conception of some design elements. The first floor, formerly consisting of  a long corridor and four rooms has been largely cut open. Thus, the entrance, the living room and the kitchen form one single continuity. The guest space (a bedroom and a bathroom) has been built on the same floor. A steel staircase links the living room to the owner’sv private space underneath the roof.

These are going to be the trend interior design colors of 2010… and yes… I just totally made that up now.

There’s definitely something happening in the image series “Something is happening” by Amsterdam based Photographer Erwin Olaf!

With an incredibly detailed eye for life in the 1950s and ’60s, Erwin Olaf’s photographs offer much more than what’s seen at first glance. Subtle variations in color and the tiniest of precise touches render his models into actors whose stories transcend the moment in which they are photographed.

View much more images at The Morning News