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Interior Design
Rich Man, Pour Man    Check out this absolutely stunning new 3.2.1. glasswear by Jeff Miller for Kontextur featuring large and small ultra cool, hand blown and etched Czech crystal decanters which morph from triangle to circle. Small and large tumblers are also available to compliment. Prices start at around $400 |
Hold on Tight   Colleen Whiteley has, quite cleverly and simply, come up with what I consider to be a rather brilliant design. Hold on Tight shelf works in a similar fashion to a work-bench clamp...A thin channel in the middle of the shelf allows a sliding aluminium block to be pushed up against books at almost any point on the shelf and is tightend in place by an oversized wing-nut. The books are held tight at the other end by a vertical panel in the same finish as the shelf itself. |
Alux - Christian Vivanco    Alux, by Christian Vivanco for Valencia based furniture & lighting comapny Almerich is a neat little bedside table and light combination introduced at Valencia design week. According to Mayan mythology, Alux is a forest-dwelling goblin-like creature or a naughty elf and, apparently, this is the inspiration for the Alux dual-function table/lamp. |
Tears Off Wallpaper    Collaboratively created by ZNAK, Dutch conceptual artist Aldo Kroese and the Berlin design duo Studio Hausen, Tears Off Wallpaper is an innovative, modular style wall covering. It's made of paper (as you'd expect) but is perforated in such a way that you can 'tear off' sections allowing the colours and textures below the surface to show through allowing you to create your own individual and unique space. |
Glassbulb Light  Just saw this product and thought I'd share it with you...The Glassbulb Light by Studio OOOMS is a lamp shaped like a wine glass. Designed as atmospheric lighting, the internal LED's have a life expectancy of over 30,000 hours which, in laymans terms, is around 10 years worth of romantic evenings! |
Flight Case     I'm not sure about you but for me, flying in this day and age is a wholly unpleasant experience. Airports are over-crowded, expensive, noisy, the queues are massive and somebody always insists on looking in my shoes. All this before sitting for hours on end in an uncomfortable seat being sold things of no real use or interest which you only buy because there really isn't anything else to do. After all this you're forced to go through the whole airport experience again but this time with the added bonus of having to convince an unsmiling, guilt inducing and often armed border agent that you're just there for a holiday, nothing more, nothing less. That (rant) being said, there are some aspects of air travel that are really cool. Modern aircraft have attention to detail in design that you'll be hard pushed to find anywhere on the ground. Every fitting, handle, catch and accessory having been tailored not only to the specific model of aircraft but often to the operating airline itself. For me, it's the storage aspect that fascinates, every space that can be used is, usually with the aid of a specially designed, moveable container. And that neatly brings me to my point.
German firm Skypak have given a new lease of life to the excess galley trolleys used for drinks, food, duty free and, I'm sure, when the aircraft is flown empty, some sort of sledding hi-jinks by the cabin staff. These trolleys could have any number of uses around the home or office like, say, a drinks cabinet, filing system, DVD rack or bathroom closet. With a start price of around 1,200 euros, they aren't cheap, but when you consider the specification of these things and the punishment they were built to withstand, they were never going to be! more info can be found www.skypak.de/en/
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Repellant! If this works against wasps (aggressive, striped little...) I'm a fan! |