“Cinderella’s Chair” by Anna Ter Haar is a collection of chairs with prostheses made of glass. Each prothesis was blown onto the chair to make fit perfectly. Glass however, is a very fragile material but the legs of glass are strong enough to carry weight.
You can go and try the “Broken Self Sculpture” by Rafaël Rozendaal at the AFK Sculpture Park in Berlin till September 26th. It’s based on his Broken Self .com piece.
The Facade of 10 Hills Place in London is very different than anything I’ve seen before. Hills Place is a very narrow street, so the architects at Amanda Levete Architects decided to cut open the facade and to install sky orientated windows to attract some daylight into the office spaces. I think it looks great with the aluminum skin.
found at designboom weblog
I couldn’t really find much information on these sculptures by Phillip Low, except that you can buy them at Maryam Nassir Zadeh.
found at but does it float
Teruhiro Yanagihara is a Japanese interior and product designer with a really minimal style. You might remembed the interior of this hair salon in Tokyo. His website is actually brand new, somehow I like it somehow I don’t.
The 5.5 Designers were inspired by Roland-Garros when they designed “3 Sets”. The names of the 3 objects are of course tennis related. The stool is called BREAK and was corded by the official Roland-Garros official cordeur Laurent Lucas. The decanter and glasses are called ACE, they look like the typical tubes where you store your tennis balls in. The last item is the 15-30 BOARD which is a homage to the mythical scores board in Paris.
found at designboom weblog
