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The chandelier is very sturdy. Each piece of glass is carefully packed in soft foam. The lamp can be assembled in various forms; and each element can ..

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pAnother development in the increased role auction houses are beginning to play in promoting the next wave of design talent: a href=”http://www.sothebys.com/”Sotheby’s/a is now taking an interest in selling work produced by newly emerging designers. To do so, they have teamed up withmdash;who elsemdash;the a href=”http://www.designacademy.nl/intro.htm”Design Academy Eindhoven/a to sell work produced by several of last year’s top graduates. (For more on auction houses + new design, read our mini-post on Chicago’s a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/the_design_efforts_of_wright_auction_house_13718.asp”Wright Auction House/a). /p

pThe work from Eindhoven will be presented at Sotheby’s London between May 14 and 18, 2010 after a stop at the Milan Furniture Fair. Much of the work from the graduating class can be seen in our a href=”http://www.core77.com/gallery/photos_search.asp?context_id=1album_id=112″Dutch Design Week Gallery/a from October, but detailed descriptions and press images of three favorites follow. /p

pbInflatable Void, Yoeri Treffers/b (top):br /
blockquoteIt is difficult to close yourself off from everything and everyone around you. Images, sounds and objects surround us almost everywhere. Because many people, according to Yoeri Treffers, do need to be completely by themselves sometimes, he devised an inflatable cube made of polythene. The cube is inflated within 20 seconds by a fan hanging from the ceiling. The exact shape taken by the cube is dependent on the objects in the environment, so can vary each time. With its dimensions of three cubic metres, it is large enough for an average living room or bedroom./blockquote/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/sothebys_meets_design_academy_eindhoven__16047.asp”(more…)/a
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After launching our redesign on Monday we’ve received a ton of great feedback and constructive criticism as well as a few bug reports.

Lagging behind the launch of the site we’ve gotten our CH Daily email newsletter back up and running with our new host and RSS is now fully repaired. You can subscribe to either of those here if you’re not already.

While the overwhelming response to the redesign has been positive, a few of you have voiced your distaste for our new body copy font, Courier. We like that it’s retro and feel strongly about having a different body font from the headers and nav, but understand that a monospace serif is not the easiest on the eyes. So we’re asking you, which you’d prefer, Georgia or Times. Drop us a line and let us know your choice. To help the decision, this post is repeated below in each.

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After launching our redesign on Monday we’ve received a ton of great feedback and constructive criticism as well as a few bug reports.

Lagging behind the launch of the site we’ve gotten our CH Daily email newsletter back up and running with our new host and RSS is now fully repaired. You can subscribe to either of those here if you’re not already.

While the overwhelming response to the redesign has been positive, a few of you have voiced your distaste for our new body copy font, Courier. We like that it’s retro and feel strongly about having a different body font from the headers and nav, but understand that a monospace serif is not the easiest on the eyes. So we’re asking you, which you’d prefer, Georgia or Times. Drop us a line and let us know your choice. To help the decision, this post is repeated below in each.

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After launching our redesign on Monday we’ve received a ton of great feedback and constructive criticism as well as a few bug reports.

Lagging behind the launch of the site we’ve gotten our CH Daily email newsletter back up and running with our new host and RSS is now fully repaired. You can subscribe to either of those here if you’re not already.

While the overwhelming response to the redesign has been positive, a few of you have voiced your distaste for our new body copy font, Courier. We like that it’s retro and feel strongly about having a different body font from the headers and nav, but understand that a monospace serif is not the easiest on the eyes. So we’re asking you, which you’d prefer, Georgia or Times. Drop us a line and let us know your choice. To help the decision, this post is repeated below in each.

The Savannah Bee Company recently released a new trio of honey created for purposeful pairings. Their Cheese, Grill and Tea honeys are a finely tuned food accompaniment, utilizing the golden nectar’s subtle sweetness.

The Cheese honey is rich and full, pairing well with salty cheeses while the Grill honey caramelizes barbecued fare, adding a hint of sweetness without overpowering. Tea honey easily infuses any tea, upping the antioxidant level.

The honeys are available online from the Savannah Bee Company for $12 each.

One of the 31 back-lit collages that Chris Rubino created for the Distrikt Hotel.

A New York hotel that celebrates New York—that’s the concept behind the new Distrikt Hotel, which opened last week in midtown Manhattan. The 155-room hotel was designed by New York-based OTTE Architecture, and the firm tapped artist and designer Chris Rubino to create collages, murals, and typographic work that explore Manhattan from Harlem to the Financial District.

Each of the hotel’s 31 floors features an eight-foot-long lightbox by Rubino, who sought to highlight the distinct feeling and features of the city’s diverse neighborhoods. “One of the beautiful things about New York is that you can be walking down Eighth Avenue for an hour and feel like you’ve visited five different cities,” he told us. “I know people say New York City has become homogenized, and of course it’s cleaned up now, but I still have no problem feeling which part I’m in.” A challenge of the long-term project was making sure that the neighborhood-themed works didn’t feel isolated from one another. “I tried to find a consistent illustrative collage aesthetic that I could carry throughout the 31 floors while trying to capture a certain feeling in each,” said Rubino. “I didn’t want Midtown to feel like Chinatown.”

After creating a unique collage for every floor of the Distrikt, Rubino decided that the hotel’s cafe neeeded to represent all of them. The result: two 22-foot-long murals that offer guests the opportunity to see elements of the works—and neighborhoods—on floors other than their own. “I took sections of each collage and combined them to create these new images mixed with an illustration of an Althea Bloomingdale, which once grew wild on that very piece of land in the days long before 32-story hotels,” said Rubino. We couldn’t resist asking whether he has a favorite among all of those works. “I really like the Central Park piece (above), that park means so much to me,” he said. “Plus, I had the opportunity to work the Guggenheim into that one, my favorite!” Another intriguing reason to take a closer look? “There is also a hidden secret in that one.”

A mural by Rubino in the Distrikt’s cafe and a typographic treatment on the a hotel wall.

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