There are a few of the Perriand style desk light left for sale. Unique and yet timeless piece with modern halogen fixture available for special online price of $350. Email us.
4/23/09
Atelier desk light
There are a few of the Perriand style desk light left for sale. Unique and yet timeless piece with modern halogen fixture available for special online price of $350. Email us.
The Hand of the Architect
The catalogue “La Mano dell’Architetto” (”The Architect’s hand”) carries all the drawings, besides texts and biographies, donated to FAI by 110 of the worldwide most important architects, as a tribute to Piero Portaluppi to raise funds for Villa Necchi Campiglio, designed by him in 1932.
The catalogue can be bought either at the exhibition sites or by addressing an order to shop@abitare.rcs.it.
The selling price is Euro 49,00 + delivery charges.
4/22/09
Design Parade competition 2009. Villa Noailles
Between 1924 and 1930, Robert Mallet Stevens built a modern original villa for the Noailles in Hyères in the South of France. The interior decoration was intrusted to Pierre Chareau, Marcel Breuer and collaborators like Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, Luis Bunuel...Today, the villa de Noailles is a center for the arts, dedicated to support international creative works in architecture, design, fashion, photography. There will be 10 nominations only. Deadline march 31, 2009 Villa Noailles
Jasper Morrison Trattoria Chair
New from Jasper Morrison: the wood and plastic Trattoria Chair for Italian design company Magis, just released at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. A future classic?
RIO
Visible and constant change - that’s the basic concept that the design bureau 1:2:3 and Kristoffer Sundin has developed for the cinema Rio. The concept consists of interior design and a graphic identity, both of which refer back to the original design of the 1940s’ cinema, but at the same time it introduces a space in transformation. dezeen
4/21/09
4/20/09
Anglepoise Redux
The Original 1227 is the a relaunch of the original Anglepoise from 1934 designed by George Carwardine. This coincides with the lamps 75th Anniversary.anglepoise
Symba - Return of the honda super cub
In 1958, Honda, with the help of San Yang Motorcycle company of Taiwan, introduced the Super Cub motorbike. The two-wheeler saw immense popularity the world over, but Honda stopped selling the bike in The States in 1983. San Yang Motorcycle has decided to introduce an updated version of the bike called the Symba.Symba US
4/19/09
The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X–197X
An explosion of architectural little magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture with the architecture of the magazines acting as the site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold
Sansdstone Architecture
For an ambitious landscape design project, Magnus Larsson, a student at the Architectural Association in London, has proposed a 6,000km-long wall of artificially solidified sandstone architecture that would span the Sahara Desert, east to west, offering a combination of refugee housing and a "green wall" against the future spread of the desert.Read on bldg
ARCHIGRAM Continuous city for 1.000.000 human beings
Alan Boutwell became acquainted with the ideas of the megastructuralists during his studies and was particularly impressed by the thoughts and designs of Archigram. In 1965, his first designs of modular building systems were released, in which he experimented with new technologies and materials. The project of a gigantic linear city that he created together with Michael Mitchell caused a sensation. It spanned on hundred meter high pillars straight across the American continent. Its interior combined all classical functions of urban life and was connected by a complex traffic system that was differentiated by speed, transportation and distances.
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Soft Parcel by TAF
Milan 09: Swedish architects and designers TAF will present Soft Parcel, a furniture range wrapped in fabric like parcels, in Milan next week.dezee
4/18/09
Take care of Yourself
Sophie Calle rose to challenge an ex's breakup email suggestion to "take care of yourself" by asking 107 professional women to analyze and interpret the email's content.
Sophie Calle April 9 - May 22 at Paula Cooper Gallery
4/17/09
Galleria Massimo de Carlo
Massimo De Carlo is one of the most authoritative and interesting art dealers on the Italian scene. His gallery represents contemporary art superstar artists, such as Maurizio Cattelan, Rudolf Stingel, Piotr Uklanski and extraordiary artists such as Carsten Holler, Tino Sehgal, Armin Linke. While the attention is on Milan's Design fair make sure to check the galleria Massimo De Carlo which offers 2 shows: Il Merda - Parte Prima of Diego Perrone, and the collettiva Public. April 17 till May 23.
Space-Based Storm Control
California solar energy firm – SolarEn – hopes soon to construct "orbiting solar farms" that will harvest electricity in space. Each "farm" would be "a set of solar panels in outer space that would beam enough clean energy back to Earth to power half a million homes and could one day potentially help save the planet.
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4/15/09
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