New York-based Japanese designer Nao Tamura has taken her award-winning design ‘Seasons’ into production. The silicone serving platter, having won the Salone Satellite Award at the Milan Salone Internazionale Del Mobile 2010, is now being fabricated and will distributed by COVO and MoMA in the US.
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In the film at the end of this post Thomas Heatherwick talks about his design for a riverboat in France.
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It’s the case that I live in a converted barn myself and, also, that The English group looks after websites (and blogs) for one business that is focused towards West Country farms and native breeds, and another business pointed towards homes built upon traditional oak framed constructions…
…consequently, I seem to have lots of reasons to be interested in architecture and interiors such as this.
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The stylish letterhead used by Hugh Hefner in 1955, just two years after the first issue of Playboy was released.
A book published by Taschen documents the collated works of 15 illustrators from the late 1800′s called Album Vilmorin.
I have been lost in research for one of The English Group’s clients and one post in particular, that was posted by dancer Karen Ruimy, caught my eye. The strikingly sculpted ballet dancer Sylvie Guillem is both supremely talented and, also, an interesting subject for the camera.
A well designed apartment called East Village studio. This beautiful studio designed by Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture makes efficient use of every inch of space in the apartment, creating the illusion of even more space.
The diagram in red shows all areas where the opportunity for storage has been maximised.
Some beautiful illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 – 1717) who was a naturalist and scientific illustrator who studied plants and insects and made detailed paintings about them. Her detailed observations and documentation of the metamorphosis of the butterfly make her a significant, albeit not well known, contributor to entomology.
Illustrator extraordinaire - James Jean, who’s work we have previously featured here has painted the walls of gallery ‘Ivory & Black’ – opening night is tonight from 6pm…
South African beauty Candice Swanepoel is on the cover of the summer issue of MUSE Magazine., but it seems like the magazine couldn’t express her hotness with just one cover, so they opted to give the blonde beauty four covers instead.
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