Blue Bottle founder James Freeman discovered designer (and CH favorite) Joey Roth through his incredibly attractive Ceramic Speakers, which have long been a staple at Blue Bottle’s Brooklyn and Rockefeller Center locations. As the story goes, Freeman……
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What do you get the designer or design buff who has everything (besides another typography-themed calendar)? No, really, what do you get them? We’re asking because we’ve decided to assemble the first ever UnBeige Holiday Gift Guide, a round-up of design-minded gift ideas—or just plain nifty things. So what are you giving or hoping to get this Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and/or Voodoo Day? Let us know by e-mailing your ideas to unbeige AT mediabistro.com with “gift guide” in the subject line. You’ve got until Thanksgiving, at which point we’ll be making our list, checking it twice—oh, you get the picture.
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“I was born in Rotterdam, but when I was four months old my parents took me to Amsterdam, and I never went back until I was thirty-eight and needed to decide where our architecture office would be located. I had just returned from America and had to choose between Amsterdam and someplace else in the Randstad. My instincts told me that Rotterdam would offer the best breeding ground for the kind of architecture we wanted to create, and I was vaguely aware that, since [Second World] War, and partly because Rotterdam was destroyed then, the city had systematically fostered the whole idea of modernity in the Netherlands.”
—Rem Koolhaas
Pictured: A recent addition to the Rotterdam skyline is the OMA-designed De Rotterdam, a mixed-use slab-tower conceived as a “vertical city” on the river Maas.
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Produit par SoLab et réalisé par Romain Laurent, voici le nouveau clip de Trevor Dickson pour son titre « Powers », extrait de son album « Passion Fruits ». Dans une ambiance de bord de mer, nous suivons le chanteur complètement ignoré par une femme, dansant un peu partout autour de lui, et qui tente de se faire remarquer.
Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar is back for another year! For 2014, we’re bringing you an iconic chair design every day in the run up to Christmas – starting with A: the Air-Chair by Jasper Morrison.
The British designer’s 1999 lightweight stackable seat for Magis is made in one piece of injection-moulded polypropylene.
In his book 21st Century Design, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs described the Air-Chair as a “simple yet technologically advanced product.”
“The design exploits a technology that was relatively new when the chair launched called gas-injection moulding, in which inert gas is pumped into the hollow centres of still-molten plastic inside the mould, creating enough pressure to ensure the plastic does not shrink away from the mould’s surface,” explained Fairs.
This technique makes it possible to create complicated forms economically, requiring less material and time to produce, meaning the chairs are more affordable than most “designer” furniture.
The first single-piece Air-Chair was produced in 1999 . A second version consisting of three parts joined by pivoting pins was released in 2001.
“A disciple of the simple, elegantly function approach of 20th century pioneers such as Dieter Rams, Morrison pairs down his designs to the minimum, yet consistently manages to produce timeless, iconic forms,” said Fairs.
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News: BIG‘s competition-winning design for a new public square at London’s Battersea Power Station has been revealed.
Malaysia Square will form the heart of the £8 billion redevelopment of the iconic former power station site in south London, and will feature a flower-shaped fountain and an array of bridges.
Rumours that BIG, the firm led by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, had been appointed to design one of the key spaces of Rafael Viñoly’s 17-hectare masterplan circulated last month, but have been confirmed today by London mayor Boris Johnson.
The space will link the pedestrianised high street at the centre of Frank Gehry and Foster + Partner’s proposal, known as Electric Boulevard, with the southern entrance of the Grade II-listed landmark, which is being revamped by Wilkinson Eyre.
New images of the proposals show the public square’s design as a “two-level urban canyon”, with integrated bridges and stairways “inspired by Malaysia’s landscape and geology” – a nod to the Malaysian company responsible for the development.
Materials will include a mixture of limestone, granite, marble, sandstone and gravel, with dolomite striations to direct people through the space. There will also be amphitheatre featuring a five-petalled fountain shaped like a hibiscus – Malaysia’s national flower.
“Situated at the very foot of the towering Battersea icon, the new Malaysia Square derives its shape from human flows, creating a cascading landscape carved into the street,” explained Ingels, whose current projects also include a visitor centre for Lego.
“As an urban canvas of possibilities for cultural expression, where landscape, architecture, urbanism and media design are in complete harmony, the new Malaysia Square lends dignity to the majestic industrial heritage while paving the way for a new Malaysia identity.”
Malaysia Square will be Ingels’ first project in the UK. Other architects working on the project include British firms Ian Simpson Architects and dRMM, who are creating new housing in the first of seven development phases.
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When the cruel and punishing weather wreaks havoc on the skin, it comes time to brush the dust off your humidifier, load up on the fatty fish (and vitamin C) and of course, add some formidable ammunition to your skincare arsenal. Below are some options……
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Ann Arbor, Michigan’s Ghostly International is a creative force unlike any other within the industry of, and culture surrounding music. With Matthew Dear as co-founder, it’s no surprise their artist roster is impressive to say the least. Not to mention……
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Sur des fonds colorés, la photographe Cécille Chavez expose des compositions d’aliments monochromatiques, en suspension et même en lévitation. Des clichés intéressants et très visuels où les éléments tels que les sauces, pépites, nouilles et packaging voltigent comme par magie. À découvrir dans la galerie.
Colourful cakes and pastries are displayed in glass vitrines against a stark monochromatic backdrop in this Montreal patisserie by designers Atelier Moderno and Anne Sophie Goneau (+ slideshow).
Having previously run the business elsewhere in the city, the owners of À La Folie decided to relocate the store to a space on Avenue du Mont-Royal and invited Atelier Moderno and Anne Sophie Goneau to renovate the interior.
The designers said the proprietors of the patisserie “were open enough to understand that they had to get out of their comfort zone” with the design of the new shop.
Named À La Folie, the 60-square-metre shop features black and white surfaces on both its interior and exterior, designed to act as a “backdrop to the vibrancy of both the street and the pastries within”.
“The only colour we wanted to show is the colour of the product,” the designers told Dezeen.
On the outside of the patisserie, three generously sized windows encourage customers into the store, while the entrance sits to the right above a worn tile step.
Inside, the lengthy space is divided into two sections – the customer area and the kitchen with a small WC – by a mid-height wall placed towards the centre-back of the floor.
Pastries are displayed in three custom-made, steel-framed refrigerating units that stand in the centre-left of the space. A long, thin strip of LED lights hangs above.
Black storage units, flanked by two cast iron radiators, are hidden away behind.
On the ceiling over the pastry display units, the designers have fitted a band of hemlock wood slats that stretch the depth of the space and descend part of the back wall of the customer area.
According to the designers, these unpainted slats were installed as a nod towards production line industries, “recalling the aesthetic of the wooden pallet or the conveyor belt” while attempting to create “a link between the kitchen and the front”.
The payment counter – a taller variant on the display case units – stands towards the back of the shop floor. Above it hang three Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec-designed AIM pendent lamps. These were chosen, said Atelier Moderno and Goneau, because they display both a “laboratory and artistic look”.
An open entrance to the kitchen sits behind the payment desk. The designers wanted to allow the sounds and smells of the kitchen to bleed through to the customer area, hoping that this would “tease the senses of the patrons”.
Photography is by Stéphane Groleau
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