I saw Tom Price his PP Blue Rope Meltdown Chair for the first time over a year ago when he presented it during the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Apparently he made more variations of the initial chair with different materials. The production technique is quite simple. You take a pile of some sort of plastic, then you press a very hot metal seat in it and you’re done. These ones are made with fleece clothing. Excellent!
found at designboom weblog
Gustafson Porter and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol are the landscape architects who designed this installation called ‘Towards Paradise’, for this years Venice Biennale Architecture. They used helium balloons to create these floating clouds over the garden of the Arsenale in Venice.
All I think of now is the music video of Little Fluffy Clouds by The Orb.
found at e-architect
Plus is the name of these salt- and peppermills designed by Norway Says for muuto.
‘String To Picture And Back’ by Benjamin Fischer.
Sourcecode manipulation of images to create imagery without having a visual control like in classic image editing applications. I generated tons of images with amazing pixel-patterns and effects I never had expected …and lots of corrupted files to…
Another season, another Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal collection. My 2 favs: the Evening Suit and the Balloons Jacket.
Seesaw Bench by Martin Nicolausson & Tom Eriksson.
An attempt at getting strangers to conversate start a conversation in public spaces. This bench requires cooperation to be functional.
EDIT:
The original bench was designed by Lars Gunnars for the city of Stockholm in the early 90’s.
I guess the worst client for an architect is a colleague, the second one could be an industrial designer. Koji Tsutsui Architect & Associates was asked to do the private residence of an industrial designer in Tokyo. The result: I would move in tomorrow if I could.
It’s official now, I’m a fan of Japanese modern architecture.
Philips de Pury & Company is holding a design auction next week. Here is my wish list:
Left: Prototype ‘Sketch Chair’, by Front Design, ESTIMATE £20,000-30,000.
Right: Prototype ‘Light Frame’ ceiling light, Stephen Burks, ESTIMATE £2,000-3,000.
Left: Unique ‘Fractal Cloud’ ceiling light, by Arik Levy, ESTIMATE £5,000-8,000.
Right: ‘Talpo’ ceiling light, by Paolo Venini, ESTIMATE £4,000-6,000.
Left: Early and rare ‘Barcelona’ stool, c. 1929, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, ESTIMATE £7,000-10,000.
Right: ‘Infinito in Scatola’ or ‘Conversazione ‘Aleph’ table lamp, Xavier David in collaboration with Dante Bandini, ESTIMATE £5,000-7,000.
