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Archive for December, 2009

Modeling & Drawing: Timeless or Dying Architectural Arts?

[ Filed under More or in the Art of Design category ] Gone are the times of the actually-blue print and waning are the days of drawing architecture by hand. Today, more models than not are also programmed into…

Designer Spotlight: Gaspard Live

Gaspard Live is an explorer. Physically, he moves from place to place looking for inspiration in new settings. Aesthetically, he explores new avenues for whimsical furniture design that are informed by his travels. His ethos is that design is…

Level Up: Sloped Hillside Home has Super-Slanted Floors

[ Filed under Offbeat or in the Architecture category ] Stairs and ramps have slopes and slants, but building floors are precision-tuned to be as flat as they can be constructed … right? This topsy-turvy rural dwelling inverts tradition…

MamaLittleHelper Baby Hammock Motion Bed Cradle

Mamalittlehelper’s Baby Hammock is uniquely designed to help babies sleep better. Young babies feel foreign in this world since they have been living in mama’s womb for over 9 months. Mamalittlehelp

Bathroom Mirror

Looking for an instant update to your bathroom?  Consider adding a contemporary mirror.  With this one minor change, you can easily modify the entire look.  The Bentwood Mirror pictured here measures 25″ and has a dark espresso finish on…

Flat Kitchen Table Folds into Tiny Gable-Roofed Play House

[ Filed under Transforming or in the Furniture category ] Ever wonder how those robots in the movies seem to transform into objects much larger or smaller than themselves? Laws of physics teach us what we intuitively know: it…

Uniquely Unlucky: Custom-Cracked Decorative Wall Mirrors

[ Filed under Lights & Mirrors or in the Fixtures category ] If shattering a single mirror brings seven years of bad luck, this artist is in for a rough decade or so. Definitely not made to fit in…

Designer Spotlight: Marc Th. vander Voorn

An independent designer, Marc Th. vander Voorn uses his prestigious Minerva Art Academy education to produce lighting fixtures that are playful and sophisticated at the same time. The Moon Light, top, and Starling Lamp, bottom, are examples of his…

Extreme Home Addition: Period House + Modern Makeover

[ Filed under Architecture or in the Additions category ] Choose a side: do you prefer ‘conjunctive’ additions to buildings and cities (i.e ones that blend in and appear to have always been there) or do you appreciate ‘disjunctive’…

DIY Work of CNC Art: 3D Topographic Wood Table Project

[ Filed under Tables & Stands or in the Furniture category ] These days, you can make almost anything with the right tools. The question then shifts from one of possibility to one of choice – not ‘can’ but…