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The Dezeen Book of Ideas, a selection of over 100 great ideas by the world’s best creative brains, is now available for pre-order!

Featuring 116 buildings, interiors and products, this book provides a compelling snapshot of cutting-edge creativity across every discipline.

All the examples in the book have been selected from the thousands of projects published on the Dezeen website, which celebrates its fifth anniversary in November 2011. Each entry has been comprehensively revisited for the book and is accompanied by stunning imagery.

Dezeen Book of Ideas is edited by Marcus Fairs and is published by Spotlight Press.

Pre-order your copy at www.dezeenbookofideas.com

Barrì Gotic è il centro storico di Barcellona. Qui nei vecchi tapas bar si incontrano talvolta personaggi davvero singolari, gli stessi che hanno ispirato le ultime tele dell’ ottimo Riccardo Guasco.

Twisted bricks create openings in the walls of a speakeasy-style bar in Bangkok, allowing passers-by a sneaky glimpse inside.

Thai architects Studiomake designed the bar, where cigars for sale are showcased inside a glass-fronted enclosure.

Storage closets are made from dark-stained teak, shelves are affixed to the wall by black steel brackets and chairs are finished in black leather.

The bar is named Dude Cigar Bar to assert that men are the targeted patrons.

A similar recent project on Dezeen is a former slaughterhouse with walls of stacked roof tiles – see the project here.

Photography is by Nantiya Bussabong.

Here are some more details from Studiomake:

Dude Cigar Bar by Studiomake

Dude Cigar Bar maintains an uneasy relationship with its neighbours. Located next door to a busy Au Bon Pain and meters away from a brightly lit Boots pharmacy, there is plenty of context worth ignoring. In a very public, somewhat unlikely location we sought to create the exclusive feel of a speakeasy without being exclusionary.

The front brick wall attempts to balance this task by presenting an imposing solid front, however it features a surface treatment that begs for closer inspection. Select bricks rotate in plan to allow a peak inside; a humidor is revealed, and glimpses of dark teak, hound’s tooth cloth and black leather start to reveal the nature of the place.

The name refers not only to the character of its clientele but is also a play on the Thai word ดูด. “Duut” means to suck, on an object, and here we are specifically talking about cigars. Once the brick wall draws you over and invites you around the corner, you are presented with a direct view to the humidor. Come on in and check out our Habanos.

Inside the manly materials abound—wrinkle black powder coated steel brackets affix the shelves to the wall, support the long bench, and form the base of the small tables. The Dude logo delights in its manly iconography as it flexes and gloats from the furniture and hardware. The place is tiny, and that suits the owner just fine, he wanted a place to hang out with his friends, and if you want to come in and have a whisky or a cigar, then cool.

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Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office	Slowpoke Cafe by Sasufi	D’espresso by Nemaworkshop

Max Lamb‘s book ends were created by cutting a standard brick in two

For its latest exhibition, Object Abuse, London’s KK Outlet challenged a group of leading artists, designers and stylists (including Chrissie Macdonald, Hudson Powell, Jiggery Pokery, Michael Marriot, Noma Bar, and Wilfrid Wood) to transform an everyday object, repurposing it to create an entirely new item, using as little additional materials as possible…

“The aim of the project,” says KK Outlet, ” is to create a collection of re-imagined objects which highlight not only how everyday items can be recycled into something new, but also how we think differently when we work with our hands and how physical interactions creates new ideas over and above working through concepts on screen.”

Here are some of our favourite concepts from the exhibition, which opens tomorrow and runs until September 25:

Lamb also found attaching a handle to a brick turned it into a handy door stop

Product designer Alex Hulme created a mudguard for his bike out of a discarded fruit box:

Femke Agema created a facemask out of an old plastic milk bottle

Set designer and prop-maker Kelly Angood could well apply to be in the A-Team: she created a half frame 35mm pinhole camera out of this cardboard box

Inventory Studio didn’t really come up with a new concept: they created a car arial out of a coathanger. Rarely, though, has a coathanger car aerial been created with such illustrative aplomb. I love the how-to instruction guide created with illustrator Natalie Ashman:

Sanderson Bob‘s handwritten instructions to create a salt shaker out of a ping pong ball is also rather charming:

… as is artist Wilfrid Wood‘s illustrated imagining of a chandelier made out of bicycle handlebars:

The chandelier, now built, looks like this:

Dominic Wilcox turned paintbrushes into coathooks (yes, they are functional)

Furniture design studio Deadgood cut up For Sale signs and rebuilt them as bird boxes

Object Abuse runs from September 2- 25 at KK Outlet, 42 Hoxton Square, London N1 6PB as part of London Design Festival and the ICON Design Guide. For a full list of contributors and for more info, visit kkoutlet.com.

All proceeds of exhibition sales will be donated to the St Monica’s of Hackney Primary School Art Department.

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