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Fade out-chair by Nendo

11-14-2009   Japanese design studio Nendo will be displaying a collection of their works at the museum of arts and design in new york in an exhibition entitled 'ghost stories, new designs from nendo'. the ...

Frank Gehry: on Line

11-14-2009 World-renowned architect Frank Gehry considers drawing a conceptual tool: his fluid, unpredictable sketches demonstrate how he searches for ideas with his pen. This handsome book, slipcased in a cardb...

La chose (the thing) - Cedric Ragot

11-09-2009 3 new editions for the stool La Chose, designe by the young french designer Cédric Ragot. He was previously edited by the Tools Galery, Paris, well known for his distribution of contemporary ceramic...

Nimrod 2009

11-06-2009 New versions for the Nimrod chair, designed by Marc Newson for Magis. Low chair. (New version). Year of production: 2007. Material: shell in polyethylene or polyethylene painted glossy. Cushions i...

Slump table, rarity

10-23-2009 This table is a very rare model of the Slump table, designed by Marc Newson for Cappellini in the 90s. Existing items of this table should be only 3. The prototype shown at Milano was broken during t...

Our choice on Ebay

Vintage Howard Miller MERIDIAN Wall CLOCK George Nelson

Location: Connecticut

Country: US

Price: 178.5 USD

Bids: 8

End time: 2010-03-18

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Philippe Starck Mimi Bayou drawer pulls - NOS

Location: raleigh

Country: US

Price: 127.5 USD

Bids: 4

End time: 2010-03-17

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Rare Philippe Starck Colucci Stool / Bin Driade 1986

Location: raleigh

Country: US

Price: 214.5 USD

Bids: 5

End time: 2010-03-17

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Ebay auction of the week

Mid Century Frank Gehry Cross Check Chair Eames Knoll
Location: SOUTH LOS ANGELES/BUENA PARK,CA 90620
Country: US
Current Price: 760 USD
Bids: 13
End time: EndTime: 2010-03-22

Our comments:
A rare Frank Gehry Cross check armchair, in a wonderful condition.

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HallMfg: 24 chairs in 24 hours - Core77 - 11:31

Andy Hall, of HallMfg in Chicago, has produced a set of 24 chairs in 24 non-consecutive hours in an empty retail space in Chicago's Loop, provided by the Chicago Loop Alliance. The chairs were made from a collection of salvaged building material donated by the Rebuilding Exchange. This project shares a space with Martino Gamper's 100 chairs project, in that the designer is constrained by time and materials in the production of furniture. Unlike Martino, Andy uses this format to explore a translation from drawing to production—the profile of...

CHROMAesthesiae Devotion - Core77 - 10:37

SOFTlab is the New York-based multidisciplinary design studio of Jose Gonzalez and Michael Szivos. Their most recent installation opens tomorrow at Devotion - a new gallery in Williamsburg focusing on the intersection of art, science, new media, and design. CHROMAesthesiae is a flourishing landscape of color, blooming across the ceiling in high contrast-gradated clusters. This installation is an investigation on the spatial and chromatic perception of space. SOFTlab uses modularity as a core modality in order to generate complexity from repetitive form, allowing for rapid expansion or contraction of every...

Christie's is seeking an eDesigner in New York City - Core77 - 10:28

eDesignerChristie'sNew York, NY We are searching for an experienced web designer to join our dynamic in-house creative marketing team for a 6 month assignment. A strong background in graphic / web design is essential. Work will consist of creating exciting, dynamic, engaging and innovative email campaigns such that experience of HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Illustrator is a must. » view The best design jobs and portfolios hang out at Coroflot.(more...)

Augmented Sculpture - DesignSpotter - 10:07

The core of the installation is a 2,5m tall wooden sculpture that builds the screen for a 360° projection with virtual content. The projection con..

Folding Plug by Min-Kyu Choi Wins the Brit Insurance Design Award 2010 - Core77 - 06:21

On tuesday night the Awards Ceremony of the Brit Insurance Design Awards was held in the Designmuseum in London. We are very pleased to announce that the recent Royal College of Art graduate Min-Kyu Choi has won the overall prize and therefore successfully competed with all the winners of the other categories: Alexander McQueen (fashion), Jair Straschnow (furniture), Elemental (architecture), The Newspaper Club (graphic), The Graffiti Research Lab, The Ebeling Group and Tony Quan (interactive) and Yuneec International (transport). The judging criteria was to select work that...

Lene B�dker show, Maastricht - Wallpaper - 06:14

Every year in March, the�quiet city of�Maastricht nearly splits its seams as dealers and�collectors of antiques descend on it for the high octane�fine art fair that is�TEFAF. While the event is primarily Louis XIV in leaning, each year the design section quietly grows. To coincide with this years' fair, Leon Salet, one of the city's most contemporary galleries, is showcasing…

Mou - DesignSpotter - 05:48

Two leather money boxes to answer crisis time with style.Their form change as they fill up, making it easier to know in what financial state they (and..

101 » Wall of Shame - Dwell blog - 17-03-2010

It started out as a great idea: Do away with wet-plaster wall construction, which required multiple workers taking days or weeks to plaster a house (and weeks or months for the plaster to set). So, in 1894, an ex–Navy engineer named Augustine Sackett designed and obtained U.S. patent 520123 for “a board or plate used as a substitute for lath and plaster”: the first successful drywall. But Sackett’s felt-wrapped board remained a specialty item in the building trades; plaster-and-lath wall construction predominated until the 1940s. The postwar building boom changed that. Using assembly-line...

101 » Absolutely Fabricated - Dwell blog - 17-03-2010

We talked to a handful of movers and makers to see what's in store for the wider manufacturing world.

101 » Slag Solution - Dwell blog - 17-03-2010

Enter Serious Materials and its EcoRock drywall. EcoRock is not all-natural drywall—–that would be called “wood”—–but it is an attempt to do away with wasteful gypsum drywall manufacturing by taking the leftovers of other manufacturing processes and turning them into something useful. The “rock” in EcoRock is primarily slag, a mineral-like solution of silicates and oxides that is left over at the bottom of the furnace during glass or steel manufacturing. (Slag is to natural rock what Lady Gaga is to Joan Jett.) In the old days of cheap manufacturing, furnace...

101 » Let’s Get Small - Dwell blog - 17-03-2010

101 » An Introduction to Manufacturing - Dwell blog - 17-03-2010

by Patrick Di JustoIf the design world feels like an endless parade of products, then the gnashing maws of industrial production assuredly underpin it all. Take a look at how leading manufacturers make what they make, with a special eye on how to clean up what is often a messy act.

Blog » Lawrence Halprin Oral History Project - Dwell blog - 17-03-2010

by Aaron BrittAs a San Franciscan I'm very fortunate to live every day with the work of landscape architecture pioneer Lawrence Halprin, who passed away last October. Yesterday I was descending the towering, winding staircase down the east side of Telegraph Hill, and it spit me out on Sansome Street just west of Levi's Plaza. Never one to miss a chance to wander around one of Halprin's cleverly designed spaces, I took a few extra minutes to walk the Plaza on one of the city's first truly glorious spring days. As ever,...

Home and Housewares Show 2010: hide your valuables in plain sight - Core77 - 17-03-2010

Though it's easy to chalk up the Home and Housewares Show to mostly wandering around overstimulated and disoriented by the thousands of things on display, there's actually (surprise) quite a wealth of information and narrative to be had there. Case in point: we got the guy from Southwest Specialty Products (we love their generic name), who makes the Rock Safe, Flower Pot Safe, Can Safe, CD safe, etc, to start talking about the particular depth of fakery involved. For example, each Can Safe is a licensed product, made from real cans provided by...

Home and Housewares Show 2010: Bodum's bringin' Memphis back - Core77 - 17-03-2010

Here's maybe the last thing I expected to find being launched at the Home and Housewares Show: a kettle designed by Ettore Sottsass for Bodum in 1986, during the Memphis period. Jørgen Bodum—the co-owner of Bodum and son of company founder Peter Bodum—worked with Sottsass Associates on the design, and shows it off for us below, pointing out a few distinctly Memphis moments, and the manufacturing problem that kept this off the shelves until now. According to Jørgen, the kettle had been designed as part of a line of Bodum electrics, but was...

Chihuahuas & Pugs - DesignSpotter - 17-03-2010

Vain Chihuahuas and slouchy pugs - these slightly eccentric lap dogs reclaim the territory of china figurines with a lot of attitude and a hint of hum..

EREBUS by Georgios Cherouvim - DesignSpotter - 17-03-2010

Synthetic Aesthetics: Call for Participants - Core77 - 17-03-2010

Synthetic Aesthetics is a new project between Stanford and Edinburgh that brings together synthetic biology and design in the interest of encouraging new kinds of collaborations to emerge. For two weeks, through 12 funded residencies, 6 synthetic biologists will spend two weeks in artistic studios and design workspaces and 6 artists/designers will spend two weeks in synthetic biology laboratories, developing a project together over the month. E. Chromi, a project by Synthetic Aesthetics Design Fellow Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, that proposes how synthetic biologists may use color in the near and far future, is...

Architecture » Modular Retreat - Dwell blog - 17-03-2010

by Erika HeetArchitect Jim Garrison of Brooklyn-based Garrison Architects was asked to design a lakeside retreat for visiting families at a boarding school for troubled teens, Star Commonwealth, in Albion, Michigan. To drastically reduce academic interruption and cut site noise, Garrison decided early on to create an 1,100-square-foot modular building dubbed Koby, with two bedrooms on opposite sides of the structure and a common dining area in the middle “as a therapeutic space for families to gather and eat together.” The retreat, which was manufactured by Kullman Buildings (founded in...

Chihuahuas & Pugs - DesignSpotter - 17-03-2010

Vain Chihuahuas and slouchy pugs - these slightly eccentric lap dogs reclaim the territory of china figurines with a lot of attitude and a hint of hum..