Il duo Anderssen & Voll spiega che questa bellissima caffettiera è un ibrido tra moka italiana, manifattura giapponese e look norvegese. Il mix pare funzionare alla perfezione. Poco importa se il sapore del caffè è buono o meno, a noi basta osservarla per capire che non ci sbagliamo sul suo conto.
Pour ce troisième best-of de Septembre, nous avons rassemblé les escaliers les plus originaux, de toutes formes et de tous matériaux : qu’ils soient technologiques, purement esthétiques, ludiques, minimalistes ou fonctionnels. Nous vous laissons parcourir cette belle sélection dans la galerie de photos de Fubiz.
Staircase by Storage Associati.
Stunning Wooden Staircase by Arquitectura en Movimento Workshop.
Risa Staircase by Tron Meyer.
Tunnel Staircase by David Hotson And Ghislaine Vinas.
Geometric Staircase by Edit Architects.
Suspended Staircase by Haptic Architects.
High Object by Mieke Meijer.
Ribbon Staircase by FAK3.
Sculptural Staircase by Pavel Voytov.
Spiral Staircase of Strasbourg Hotel by Jouin Manku.
Infinite Staircase by David McCracken.
Storage Staircase by Jordan Parnass Digital.
Lighted Staircase by Luxo.
Minimalist Staircase by Ecole.
Staircase at Wieden + Kennedy Office by WORKac.
Staircase at Puma House by Nendo.
Staircase In A Butter Factory Transformed Into Sculptural Apartment by Adrian Amore Architects.
Bookshop Staircase by Plural And TotalStudio.
Outside And Inside Staircases by Sou Fujimoto.
Sensualscaping Staircase by Atmos Studio.
Staircase at Brandbase Pallet Office by Most Architecture.
The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein is hosting a major retrospective exhibition of work by late Finnish Modernist architect and designer Alvar Aalto, a year after Vitra’s acquisition of Aalto’s furniture company Artek (+ slideshow).
The Second Nature exhibition at Vitra Design Museum covers Aalto’s life work, from his best-known buildings and designs to lesser known projects, aiming to reveal new aspects of his designs.
Related story: Artek buys factory where Alvar Aalto developed his furniture
The retrospective encompasses the full range of scales used by the architect – who died in 1976 – from large urban planning developments down to the door handles and light fixtures created for the interiors of his buildings.
It also features his iconic plywood furniture pieces, such as the Stool 60, the Paimio Lounge Chair and the 900 Tea Cart.
Some of Aalto’s architectural projects, including the 1935 Vyborg Library in Russia, have been captured specially for the exhibition by German photographer and film maker Armin Linke.
“A building by Aalto is like a kaleidoscope. You cannot capture it from a 90-degree angle,” Linke told the exhibition’s curator Jochen Eisenbrand.
The exhibition is divided into four sections, each focussed on a different theme in Aalto’s life and work, with a loose chronological order.
The first space is dedicated to his early work as it evolved towards Modernism, up to the design of the Paimio Sanatorium, completed in 1933.
In the second space, Aalto’s relationship with art and artists of his time is examined.
Pieces by Alexander Calder and Jean Arp are used to demonstrate this, presented alongside Aalto’s 1930s Villa Mairea in Noormarkku, Finland and his 1950s Maison Louis Carré in Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France.
The third space displays furniture, glassware and lighting produced by Aalto’s company Artek, which he founded with his first wife Aino and two collaborators in 1935 to manufacture and promote his own designs.
These items were made in a factory in Finland that Artek purchased in January after being acquired by Swiss furniture company Vitra.
Large-scale architecture and urban planning projects are presented in the fourth and final space.
These include the 1940s Baker House student dormitory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an apartment building in Berlin’s Hansaviertel – built as part of the Interbau building exhibition in 1957 – and the Wolfsburg Cultural Centre completed in 1962.
The exhibition runs until 1 March 2015 at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
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We’ve seen drones used or proposed for package delivery, elaborate selfies, action sports capture, movie promotion, and even weather control. But a recent creative collaboration points to the possibility of a more domestic usage that we think could be the killer drone app of the future: How about floating lamps? Which is to say, just the lampshade and a light source, no stem, no cable, hovering in mid-air, able to follow you around the room if need be.
In the video below you’ll see what it would look like, but before it becomes domesticated, there are just a few (completely solveable) technological hurdles to clear:
Noise. To cancel out the incessant whining of a hovering drone, a small on-board speaker could project a noise cancellation frequency.
Power. During the daytime, the drone could dock itself, perhaps to something attached to the ceiling, where it would recharge the batteries required for both the light and its own sustained flight. (Ideally the power would come from solar, so you’re not wasting a bunch of coal-fired juice on an admittedly frivolous technology.)
User Interaction. Remote control, gesture control or voice activation could turn it on and off, adjust the brightness and hue, and ask the lamp to follow you around or focus light on a particular area.
At any rate, a floating lamp would give you one less thing to vacuum around, if replacing a floor lamp, and free up some table space if replacing a desk lamp.
Maybe it sounds silly but it looks beautiful in practice. Check out this sweet video created in a collaboration between performance group Cirque du Soleil, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and drone developer Verity Studios:
Here’s how the team came up with the idea and pulled it all together:
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Il dubbio era se aspettare la fine delle quattro fasi del concorso Reemix o fare tutto prima. Quando però si tratta di fare festa, non ci hanno pensato due volte. L’appuntamento è quindi per Giovedì 2 Ottobre al Limelight di Via Castelbarco 11, a Milano, con alcuni degli artisti protagonisti della seconda stagione della serie The Producers: Branko, The Nightskinny e Populous. A chiudere la serata ci pensano i 100% PRESI BENE. Conotrolla l’evento Facebook con tutte le info.
Se vi dicessi che questa sedia è stata disegnata da Eric Trine durante il primo semestre della graduate school per il progetto The 5 Chairs Project molto probabilmente iniziereste a pensare che è ora di darsi una svegliata. Non contento del successo ha deciso di metterla in vendita sul suo store e arrotondarsi il mensile.
BUM BUM, questo 4 ottobre il Berga Urban Museum aprirà le sue porte per la prima volta nella piazza dello storico quartiere Borgo Berga di Vicenza.
100 opere di 25 illustratori internazionali e nostrani in un museo a cielo aperto, aperto 24/24 ma soprattuto gratuito. Vi cito solo alcuni dei nomi coinvolti, così giusto per decidere di organizzare una bella gita questo week end: Noma Bar, Jeremyville, Jean Julliet, Olimpia Zagnoli, Mauro Gatti, Ale Giorgini, Francesco Poroli, Simone Massoni e il buon Riccardo Guasco che inaugurerà il tutto con un’opera realizzata in live da lasciare tra le mura del borgo. Io che vi scrivo sarò a pedalare in terra senese per l’Eroica ma giuro che con il pensiero vi sarò vicini.
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