Un rangement et une bibliothèque en forme d’alphabet et de lettres typographiques. Elle peut servir à la fois pour des livres, des CD et des magazines. Cet objet intitulé “Aakkoset” a été produit par Kayiwa à Helsinki en Finlande. Il est disponible en noir, bleu, rouge, blanc etc.
Dutch studio Ruud Visser Architects have tranformed a 1930s church into a house in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
The architects have created a new volume within the existing building, allowing inhabitants to walk between the new structure and church walls.
The open plan interior incorporates the wood-panelled vaulted ceiling and windows of the original building.
A glass façade at the rear of the house looks out onto a river.
Photographs are by René de Wit.
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Our project A House in a Church is a beautiful example of adaptive reuse. The 1930’s church had ended its career as a religious sanctuary and was being used as a garage for fixing and selling cars before a family came along and wanted to transform it.
With the help of Ruud Visser Architects and Peter Boer, the church was adapted into a home fit for a family of four.
The volume of the church is larger than most average family homes. In order to create the impression of a normal-sized home, the architects decided to place a house within the church rather than using the whole space for the home. So you can actually walk around the new house, while walking inside the church.
The last part of the church, the transept, is held open. This was the place of the pulpit. Lightened by the original ‘leaded light’ windows.
Situated on the back of the church, directly behind the transept, a smaller volume is placed. This volume is about 7 meters deep and stands with its back façade directly on the banks of the river De Rotte.
Originally this volume was the church-choir. But in the existing situation this volume was in complete decline.
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Ruud Visser Architects replaced the church-choir with a new modern volume, with exactly the same form as the original choir, but shorter. This new volume has floor-to-roof windows.
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By this, the house in the church is opened now to the beautiful landscape. And the transept has become a buffer, between the public outside and the private house inside.
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Bunnies and black magic in a bi-coastal illustrator’s new line of home furnishings
While brands making up stories is nothing new, it’s increasingly more common to see products like W/Heart, which founder Jacqueline Bos conceived around the very idea of “things that have a story behind them, things that you can see the care put into making them.” While the collection of textile housewares builds on the past five years that Bos has worked as a printmaker, she’s no stranger to the commercial world, having worked clients as varied as independent fashion designers AIRA to MySpace, for which she designed the recently-launched new theme.
Bos has also found success by selling her print work through Urban Outfitters’ collaborative print shop with Society6, and a recent illustration of hers for M. Ward’s album The Transfiguration of Vincent ended up in Uppercase Magazine. “I heard he lives in Portland now,” said Bos, who splits her time between the City of Roses and Brooklyn. “Matt! If you’re reading this, you should totally come over for coffee, drawing and music time.”
Anchoring W/Heart’s laid-back sensibility, the napkins, pillow cases and stuffed animals shows the same rigorous attention to detail as her print work. Bos prints each item by hand with water-based inks on organic cotton, hand-sewing each so as not to waste any fabric. While the craftsmanship of each piece is unmistakable, Bos admits that producing W/Heart is pretty hard work. “I haven’t decided yet about a follow-up collection. This ended up being a much larger undertaking than I had initially anticipated.”
W/Heart sells online, with prices spanning $35 to $60. For Bos’ illustrations and other works, check out her website and Etsy shop.
The Economist has a great piece up looking at the product development story of the Glif, a simple kickstand that attaches to an iPhone and doubles as a tripod mount. What didn’t seem simple was getting the thing made: Tooling the mold would require $10,000.
So last month New-York-based Glif designers Tom Gerhardt and Dan Provost, the latter of whom works for frogdesign, turned to online funding platform Kickstarter to raise the cash. “We thought it would take weeks [to raise the cash], and a lot of effort,” said Gerhardt. But in three days they had $70,000.
The Glif project, needless to say, is well under way, with the assistance of short-run injection molding firm Protomold. Read the full story here.
Un meuble complet et original intitulé “An Furniture” par le studio et groupe design coréen Kamkam. Cette collection propose des compartiments et des rangements basés sur les formats papiers (A3 ou A4). Chaque bloc peut être séparé et peut servir d’élément à part entière.
Scotch & Soda is a clothing line from Amsterdam sporting more than great clothing.
They’ve built a web experience that’s beautifully curated, very visual and user friendly. I particularly like the grab-and-drag navigation on the ‘collection’ page. Showing their product in real life situations tells a great brand story, being able the shuffle through them with ease makes it even better. Have a look for yourself here.
Mass produced green glass bottles will get new individual shapes when designer Klaas Kuiken works with them. He blows them one by one into unique obje..
French filmmaker Benoit Millot sent us a short film he made on behalf ot the CELC Masters of Linen, supporting the Linen and Hemp Industry in Europe. Watch as the film travels from linen and flax fields in Northern France to combing factories in Normandy and spinning centers in Belgium, illustrating how the plants are transformed into versatile materials suitable for use in many industries. Fifteen minutes long and beautiful the entire way through.
One of the most esteemed purveyors of classic eyewear gets an online store
To score a sunglasses fitting with the exclusive Vintage Frames Company, it wouldn’t hurt to be a hip-hop mogul or Russian princess. But now the largest distributor of its kind is offering hundreds of choice styles each month—from legendary labels like Alpina, Carrera and Silhouette—to the masses through its just-launched webshop. “The point [is] to offer a selection of frames to the public who have been dying to purchase them for the past years,” says owner Corey Shapiro.
Based in Montreal, Shapiro and his team of fashion historians search the world for deadstock designer eyewear. His warehouse has more than 150,000 mint-condition frames, spanning the 1950s to the 1980s. “Old eyewear manufacturers took time and love to produce eyewear,” explains Shapiro. “Any of the handcrafted details put into eyewear cannot be added to today’s eyewear, as those factories have long been closed.”
Nostalgia and manufacturing techniques aside, Vintage Frames has become a leader in shaping optical trends, as their reputation as a highly sought source of long-lost classic and original models has grown. “We also run a rather large division aiding today’s new eyewear designers through a historical look of eyewear, renting them all kinds of frames as production samples,” adds Shapiro.
Such tight relationships with brands makes for a pretty amazing commemorative reissue as the label celebrates its fifth anniversary this month and online grand opening with a collaboration. “We have made a very special Cazal 951, which is the first frame I ever owned in my collection,” he says. “The status of a man in a certain crowd could be judged by how deep he went into accessorizing his 951. Diamonds, snakeskin, leather, gold—all that!”
Visit the Vintage Frames Company’s webshop for this month’s selection before it’s gone.
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