Don't Let Your Martini Suffocate!

Toby — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:59:46 -0700

As a red wine drinker, I know that to fully experience its bouquet and taste, red wine should be poured into a wine decanter and left to sit for between one hour and two days, depending on its age, before it is tasted. I did not know that aerating was important for white wines, champagne, and even martinis!

What's Drawer-ing Me To 'Affordable Housing'?

Toby — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:18:33 -0700

Drawer space. One never has enough of it. The designer of Affordable Housing has created a large chest of drawers, for sure. But look further to discover its magnificence!

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What's In The Cauldren? Death By Chocolate

Toby — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:21:50 -0700

Mori ex Cacao, or Death By Chocolate, is very close to the most sensory experience you can give to a chocolate lover, on Halloween or any other occasion, so be ready to create an environment for it.

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A Practical, Adorable, And Ghostly Salt Squad From d-VISION

Toby — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:38:23 -0700

When something grabs you, well it just does, and you can't forget it. This happened to me when I spotted the Salt Squad on the d-VISION website. The attitude, the freshness, the impish, ghostly appearance of the Salt Squad shakers just drove me nuts... so now you can go nuts too!

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Is This Bacon Art For Consumption Or Introspection?

Toby — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:50:32 -0700

Perhaps Simone Racheli doesn't even know that bacon scarves are a craze and that the bacon scarf designers wish that their creations looked as realistic as Racheli's sculptures. What he has created, though, are sculptures of inanimate objects, that have animal (and human) insides, like fat, meat, guts, bones... And, like animals prepared for consumption, their skins have been removed.

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Loofah Gone Wild! 8 PIE Studio Natural Fiber Seating Designs

Toby — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:43:19 -0700

Looking like huge modeled loofah scrubs, some of the seating designs by Project Import Export (PIE) Studio may look, at first, like misfits for home interiors But the furniture lines are sensual, the shapes are contoured, and with a few cushions they look really smart and very comfortable.

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12+ Padded Walls And Other Exquisitely Tufted Designs

Toby — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:40:11 -0700

In all the old Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies, decor was so voluptuous, so plump, so satiny... The more geometric the lines, the more rich and expensive-looking was the decor. That's the way it is with tufting - what the French call capitonnage or capitonné.

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Small Bathroom? Make It Vertical With Vertabrae®

Toby — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:30:00 -0700

Hate your small bathroom? Vertebrae® is a new vertical bathroom design by Design Odyssey Ltd. that will give you your space!

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Thanks For Coming, Now Go Away!

Toby — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:21:40 -0700

Don't you sometimes wish that you could tell your guests to leave? Maybe it's not that they bore you, you're just not in the mood for company. Well, come in and see this crazy doormat....

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The Dazzling NEW Museum Of Arts And Design (MAD)

Toby — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:54:19 -0700

It's taken a few years from design to realization, but the Museum of Arts And Design (MAD) will finally re-open in its new dazzling diggs on September 27, 2008. Its new address: 2 Columbus Circle, right at the southwest corner of Central Park, and right at the heart of New York City's world stage for theatre, ballet, orchestra, opera, and now arts and design.

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9 Design Lab '08 Finalists: Brilliant Kitchen Appliances For The IGeneration

Toby — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:35:53 -0700

Wow! The finalists in the 2008 Electrolux Design Lab competition sure are some tough competition for their more seasoned colleagues. These undergraduate and graduate students in industrial design programs have created some awesome designs for the techie kitchen. I don't know how the judges will pick a winner this year. See if you have a favorite.

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Memorialize The Banana With The DIY Chiquita Chandelier!

Toby — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:56:23 -0700

There's been a world-wide banana shortage since early 2008, and some have even predicted that the banana, as we know it, may become extinct. While you still can, you may want to create a memorial to the tasty, nutrient-rich banana, with this DIY project from Dutch designer Anneke Jakobs... The Chiquita Chandelier!

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Design Imitates Nature in Enviro-Friendly SunShade

Toby — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:23:10 -0700

Like a flower opening to the sun, Lianne van Genugten's SunShade design opens at daylight and closes at dusk. Its power comes from the sun, like the flower....

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7 Ways To Vote For President With Your Tongue

Toby — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:25:28 -0700

Food lovers! If you'd rather support your candidate with your taste buds than your t-shirt, here are seven hot companies cashing in on the political season and tallying your votes. Oh, you can vote more than once in these Presidential races; actually, it's encouraged.

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Create Your Own Fireworks With The Bright Star 'Antares'

Toby — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:45:29 -0700

British lighting design company, Abraxus, has been providing festive commercial lighting for 15 years. Antares, its "star" constellation LED lighting design, is very popular in retail and hospitality settings, but this year, at London's 100% Design, Abraxus has introduced a line of more colorful and user-friendly Antares designs that can be used to create your own fireworks at home.

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5 Awesome Designs Inspired By Nature: Enea Studio

Toby — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:43:03 -0700

The constellations and their stars, the sweet light of snow on the trees, falling leaves in autumn, waves in the ocean... Visuals from your latest relaxation tape? Or something more tangible, like furniture and lighting inspired by those visions?

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Prefer To Work In A Fish Bowl Or A "Jelly Box" Jell-O Mold?

Toby — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:59:04 -0700

Ever think about what it would be like to see the world from inside a Jell-O mold? Looking like a Jell-O mold, but calling itself the Jelly Box, this new workspace is now on display at the Truman Brewery during London 2008 Design Week. This clever design by architect David Hingamp of the London firm of Archic, has just been named runner up in the 2008 Urbantine Project.

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15 Furniture Wall Stickers That Will Trick Your Eyes!

Toby — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:39:36 -0700

Trompe l'oeil is French for "trick of the eye." Trompe l'oeil was first mastered by Greek painters and the style became popular again among European painters during the Renaissance. It is a style of three dimensional art that is so close to the likeness of the object it represents, that it can make you believe it is the object! Here are 15 trompe l'oiel wall stickers for your home decor...

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"Hook And Go" Because You Can't Get An Octopus To Carry Your Grocery Bags

Toby — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:24:23 -0700

An octopus could easily handle my grocery bags, but one would certainly cause concern in my local market. Octopuses are terrible cleptomanics. But thanks to the Hook and Go people in San Francisco, I'm going to can the octopus.

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New York City Tap Water - TAP'D NY™ - Now Available In Bottles!

Toby — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:52:30 -0700

You knew that New York City had the finest water in the world, right? You heard that from a New Yorker. Well, a new company called TAP’D NY™ has recently been formed to exploit that fact and bring that tap water to you… in a bottle. This company has been making a big splash lately, particularly in the press…..

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Sharing A Meal Begins In The Oven! "Brivet" by DK Ahn

Toby — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:53:36 -0700

DK Ahn's new designs, debuting at the London 100% Design show, are a small but varied banquet of practical, cultural, intuitive and spiritual sides of the artist, as well as the enormous talent, both as a designer and an inventor, Ahn possesses to express those sides.

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Can Design Teach Us Better Judgment? The "View" by DK Ahn

Toby — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:52:26 -0700

It's rare for such a young designer to communicate a profound behavioral observation about people and attempt to teach them an opposite behavior all at once in the same design. Does DK Ahn succeed?

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Mirror, Mirror, On The... Ball Light Stand

Toby — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:50:18 -0700

Tom Dixon's newest addition to his Mirror Ball lighting series is an awesome space-age collection of Mirror Balls ... On A Stand! You can drop kick it if you like. You never have to worry about seven years of bad luck.

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Playful Storage Solutions For The Future At 100% Design

Toby — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:57:49 -0700

Though only two years old, Creosa was chosen by 100% Design to participate in its 100% Futures show, representing the best of what's to come. Creosa has created some very playful, downright fun, storage designs you've got to see!

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Solitude Bathtub Sets Sail At 100% Design

Toby — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:52:20 -0700

Ok, so first you're going to ask yourself, what does this Solitude Bathtub have that I don't already have. You know the answer? Everything!

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10 Masterpieces of Contemporary Design From Christie's Historic Sale

Toby — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:31:05 -0700

Christie's, the London-based auction house, which has restricted itself to the sale of original antique art and design for 250 years, will be auctioning its first outstanding pieces of contemporary design at Rockefeller Center in New York City on September 8, 2008. This gives private design collectors the opportunity to bid on items from some of the most renowned furniture designers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Angel To Get Wings At 100% Design!

Toby — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:24:34 -0700

Ms. Kimberley Langstone,19, began what was to be the Angel project while at Stratford-upon-Avon College studying Fashion and Textiles. It was there that she perfected a special sewing method to make Angel. Now, exclusively handled by Within4Walls, the interior couture Angel is certain to take on wings!

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Studio Lawrence Debuts 'Dutch Flowers' Wall Tapestries At 100% Design

Toby — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:45:35 -0700

The Dutch design team of Bart Eijking and Patrick O’de Louwere of Studio Lawrence are readying for the debut of Dutch Flowers at the 2008 100% Design show in London in two weeks. Dutch Flowers is a series of custom-made,100 percent wool felt, wall tapestries created with a new technology, also developed by Studio Lawrence.

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10 Stunning Fan Designs For The Modern Home, Office, or Head

Toby — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:23:10 -0700

After being wowed by about 40 fan designs created by second year students in the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, it occurred to me why I hide all my room fans when guests come to my home. They're eyesores! They're throwbacks to the 1890's! What are they doing in my post-modern home?

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Creativity Unbound: 7 Furniture Designs of Dima Loginoff

Toby — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:55:21 -0700

Dramatic, exhuberant, romantic, firey, eclectic, electric! Dima Loginoff's furniture designs shout volumes about him, his intelligence, spirit, creativity, and fearlessness in his work. Oh, Loginoff says, he has many fears... but they are certainly not about creating.

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