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Milan 2014: the second project debuted by London studio Doshi Levien for Danish design brand Hay this year is a collection of mirrors with geometric shapes resembling jewels.

The 13 different mirrors in Doshi Levien‘s Maya series are produced in variations on diamond, oblong, octagon, almond, drop and circular shapes that can be combined to create unique wall installations.

“The shapes are coming from a meeting point between Indian tribal culture and modern geometric abstraction,” Jonathan Levien told Dezeen. “The forms were thought of as jewels for the wall, as constellations or sentences of different shapes.”

Combining the mirrors in different configurations allows the user to create arrangements comprising practical and decorative elements.

“The larger mirrors are designed to offer face-height reflections, whereas the smaller ones are like satellites to accompany the larger mirrors, or to be used in numbers simply to bring glimmering light into the space,” Levien added.

Doshi Levien originally designed the mirrors in 2012 for a room they curated as part of an exhibition called India Art Now at Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen.

The mirrors were installed on a wall opposite portraits of famous Indian icons displayed in similarly shaped frames and were intended to “bring the steely grey sky of Denmark into the space.”

The designers showed the mirrors to Hay, which chose to add them to its collection and now produces them from laser-cut glass set in pressure die cast aluminium frames with a black powder-coated finish.

Doshi Levien also created a chair for Hay with a curving shell that references the shape of a traditional Japanese paper fan.

Both projects were presented by HAY during last week’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile.

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Le site Underwater Photography a annoncé les gagnants de l’édition 2014 du concours Underwater Photography dans différentes catégories : Wide Angle/Natural Light, Temperate Waters, Macro Nudibranchia, Wide Angle Marine Life, Topside, Wide Angle Divers, Over/Under, Fashion, Wide Angle Wrecks.

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Wide angle close focus category, 1st place. Photo by Helmy Hashim

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Wide angle/Natural light (no strobe) category, 2nd place. Photo by Ellen Cuylaerts

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Temperate Waters category, 1st place. Photo by Jeremy Axworthy

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Macro Nudibranchia category, 1st place. Photo by Marchione Giacomo

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Wide angle marine life category, 1st place. Photo by Paul Colley

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Wide Angle/Natural Light (no strobe) category, 3rd place. Photo by Shane Gross

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Wide angle divers category, 1st place. Photo by Nadya Kulagina

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Topside category, 2nd place. Photo by Tony Cherbas

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Over/Under category, 1st place. Photo by Uwe Schmolke

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Fashion category, 1st place. Photo by Dmitry Vinogradov

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Wide angle wrecks category, 1st place. Photo by Ellen Cuylaerts

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Macro Not Swimming category, 2nd place. Photo by Ellen Cuylaerts

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Macro not swimming category, 1st place. Photo by Giuseppe Piccioli

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Macro Close-up category, 1st place. Photo by Goos ven der Heide

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Under/Over category, Runner up. Photo by Marjan Radovic

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Wide angle/Natural light (no strobe) category, 1st place. Photo by Nadya Kulagina

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Wide angle close focus category, 2nd place. Photo by Gleb Tolstoy

2014 Underwater Photography Photo Contest winners, Macro Swimming category, 3rd place. Photo by Uwe Schmolke

This week in nouveau-Cold War news: MIT researchers will present plans for floating nuclear reactors, adapting existing technologies towards a goal put to rest during the Ford Administration. Floating reactors might sound futuristic—or dystopian—but they’re not a new idea, having been proposed first in 1971 by Offshore Power Systems (a joint venture by Westinghouse Corporation and Tenneco). That original plan combined several of the features the new MIT design hopes to capitalize on: mass producibility, increased distance from populations and use of the sea as a buffer against damage.

This new design combines modern oil rig sensibilities with light water nuclear reactors in a package that can be mass produced and towed into position five miles offshore. A crucial benefit of oceanic operation is the protection from tsunami and earthquake damage. Deep water insulates well against both seismic waves and the destructive end of tsunami swells, making it an obvious boon for growing, catastrophe-prone energy markets like Japan.

This kind of mass-produced floating reactor fleet was originally scuttled due to economic instability and raging environmental concerns. The 1979 Three Mile Island accident led to over 300,000 people evacuating their homes, and left the public with a powerfully bad taste for the energy source. Subsequent catastrophic failures and willful breaches of safety (see: Chernobyl, Hanford, Fukushima Daiichi) have perpetuated nuclear power’s troubled reputation, but nuclear power development is still on the rise.

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Now you see it… now you don’t. This clever lamp is my latest obsession! Simply called LIGHT, it brings new meaning to “throwin’ shade.” Flip it on and light shines through a finely cut hole to create the illusion of a classic lamp shade shape against your wall. Minimal with a touch of humor, it’s attractive, interesting and a total conversation starter!

Designer: YOY

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