The Evrgrn Campfire Rocker is a rocking chair in a compact, portable design that’s easy to pack with you. It is a portable rocker that easily folds up into a carrying case so you can take it anywhere. It also features a side stash pocket to place a phone or something.(Read…)
Les tableaux de l’artiste Michelle Hinebrook sont d’une complexité créant des effets visuels impressionnants. Avec des effets de transparence, elle donne de la profondeur à ses toiles, dont les graphismes et les couleurs sont un subtil mélange entre caverne de cristaux et explosions de couleurs kaléidoscopiques.
SpaceX a récemment dévoilé cette série de trois posters aux illustrations de style vintage qui promeut avec humour les voyages touristiques sur la planète Mars. Sur ces affiches, le touriste est invité à découvrir la planète rouge, décrite comme terre martienne de gouffres et de cratères.
White curved walls merge into a tapered ceiling inside this yoga and meditation studio in New York, designed by Clouds Architecture Office to look like a fog has descended (+ slideshow).
Clouds Architecture Office was asked to convert a former office into a community space suitable for yoga and meditation, but that could also be used for other activities, such as photography.
The architects wanted the space to embody all of its different uses – so came up with a concept based on the idea of transcending reality.
This involved removing as many of the room’s hard edges as possible, creating a volume designed to “recede and disappear, as if a fog had entered the space and obscured its limits”.
“Given the typology of the program, we wanted to create a space that would transport people to an unexpected place where one could forget the everyday,” Clouds AO partner Ostap Rudakevych told Dezeen.
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“We tried to create a studio of emptiness for people to relax and concentrate their mind.”
Aiming to partially blur the edges and depth of the room, dampened plasterboard was moulded to create the curved walls.
The architects hoped that by creating a single crease along the curved walls and ceiling, they would provide the room with “aspects of finitude and infinitude, restriction and openness,” reminding occupants that “the edge is meaningful and gives a sense to the space it encloses”.
The ceiling tapers towards a large window, which acts as the horizon point of the room.
“The maximal edge which defines the common space within which we all live is the horizon,” said the architects. “The edge of the horizon anchors us, grounding our psyche”.
To accommodate the range of activities taking place in the studio, the architects chose cork flooring for its soft and durable nature.
“It’s an ideal material for this application since it’s comfortable against the body when sitting or laying down, and it has great acoustic properties,” explained Rudakevych.
Just outside the studio, visitors can hang their belongings on wall-mounted wooden pegs, created by local designer Farrah Sit.
Photography is by GION.
Project credits:
Name: CRS Studio
Type: Studio, Office
Location: New York, NY
Completion: May 2015
Designer: Clouds AO, New York City
Project Designers: Masayuki Sono, Ostap Rudakevych
Lighting Designer: Brian Mosbacher
Client: CRS (Center for Remembering and Sharing)
Builder: Toderic Inc
Photography: GION
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Star Trek TNG Ties from Thinkgeek.”These 100% polyester ST:TNG ties come in three colorways: Command Red, Engineering/Ops Gold, and Sciences Blue. They have a keeper loop on the back to keep your tie looking nice and neat when you lean over to tell Guinan something confidentially over a drink. Now that we think about it, maybe her hats had sound dampening effects. They certainly cut down on the lip reading abilities of those behind her.”(Read…)
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created a range of wavy-edged ceramic vases that nestle together as a group (+ slideshow).
The Bouroullec brothers designed the Cloud vases to accompany signed copies of their book Drawing, which features sketches of the duo’s designs and is published by JRP Ringier.
“In the context of a limited edition to accompany our Drawing book, we decided to make an object to be in keeping with our drawings,” Ronan Bouroullec told Dezeen.
Thirty sets of four vessels – each with a different height – were produced in black enamelled ceramic.
“We did some tests with different materials and we found ceramic, with its imperfect and vibrant character, to be the right answer,” said the brothers.
Each of the vases has the same plan and features eight tubes for holding flower stems.
The wavy edges, which create the outline of a cartoon cloud when viewed from above, are shaped so the pieces sit neatly together as an ensemble.
The designers wanted to create 3D objects that related directly to their sketches, and settled on the cloud-shaped forms as their preferred representation.
“It was difficult to associate a finished object with this profusion of drawings, but the principle of clouds – based on the articulation of shapes and on the possibility of composition through these kind of organic black stains – turned out to be the best solution,” said Ronan Bouroullec.
Handmade in France, the vases will be presented during this year’s D’Days design festival in Paris, taking place from 1 to 7 June.
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If nothing else, the exit of Nikki Finke from the Hollywood trade trenches in favor of writing and curating meaningful fiction about The Town Where Assistants Never Sleep has mercifully tamped down the endless speculation about her countenance. The new photo is out there, the over/under on cats is no longer an active betting line and an in-person visit from a New York Times reporter is possible.
From the top of Ravi Somaiya’s West Hollywood house call:
If Nikki Finke had not been a journalist, she says she could have been a detective. The police in New York, where she reported decades ago, used to show her “these gruesome homicide photos,” she said, to try to freak her out. Instead she found them fascinating.
The memory came up on a recent day in Ms. Finke’s obsessively tidy apartment, overlooking a swath of the city from West Hollywood toward the airport. Her stomach for the unsavory side of the business was never in question as she built her reputation as perhaps the most feared reporter in Hollywood.
Finke wouldn’t talk about her settlement agreement with Jay Penske, but Somaiya suggests it bars the 61-year-old journalist from any online coverage of The Industry until she is around 71. That should leave more than enough time to mount a west coast version of what Dorothy Parker once used to survey at the Algonquin. Per some other candid personal details provided to Somaiya, Finke is also well rested.
“Common technique” of @Nikki Finke is telling a source “he is a bad person and demanding he justify…why he is not” http://t.co/8Y1ztxghhs
— Kate Lee (@katelaurielee) May 30, 2015
@ravisomaiya Your verdict on these photos after seeing Nikki? http://t.co/1Z1aqnIEcv
— Romenesko (@romenesko) May 30, 2015
Good on @politico for making a run at @NikkiFinke http://t.co/0lmDeSDuuC
— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) May 30, 2015
The new, new @NikkiFinke https://t.co/pZOavoEQRD
— Raju Narisetti (@raju) May 30, 2015
change a name or two and finally tell the whole story. roman a clef 2015! MT .@nytimes .@NikkiFinke turns to fiction http://t.co/gFhEYGF5hv
— barry layne (@bclayne) May 30, 2015
The lower level of this village doctor’s surgery in Spain is sunken down below road level and partially embedded in a slope, allowing it to appear the same size as the surrounding buildings (+ slideshow).
Barcelona studio Vora designed the two-storey surgery for a hilltop village called Paüls in Spain’s Tarragona Province.
From the street, Paüls Doctor Surgery appears to be just one storey high, but a significant change in ground level across the site allowed a concealed lower storey to be created below. The full height of the building is only revealed to the valley below the village.
“The doctors’ surgery is a small building integrated into the fabric of the village,” said the architects.
“The project defines an access path that grants serenity and calm, until being attended by a doctor.”
There were subtle variations in the treatment of the white mortar facade. In some areas it has a rough and mottled texture, while in others the raked strokes of the plaster’s serrated trowel are visible.
The asymmetric gabled roof is covered in rows of white ridged tiles. It features one long side that slopes away in the direction of the hillside and one shallow side facing the village.
Glazed doors lead patients into the waiting room on the upper floor of the building, where two medical rooms are framed by low partition walls.
Sections of glass were inserted above the white walls to allow natural light from a full-height window at the back of the waiting room to permeate the building.
The glazed waiting room wall offers a view out over the landscape beyond the village. The aim was to give “views to the calm of the mountains, so in need during the waiting and the possible anxiety”.
It also provides an indirect light source for the more private clinical spaces beyond.
“Two distinct environments are defined in these wards: the area of attention with a high ceiling in continuity with the waiting room with a large window; and the cure zone protected and warm, with low ceilings and indirect natural lighting,” explained the architects.
A staircase descends into the basement, where toilets and storage rooms are located.
Photography is by Adrià Goula.
Project credits:
Project architect: Vora – Pere Buil, Toni Riba
Project team: Eva Cotman, Jordi Palà
Structure: Manuel Arguijo y Asociados
Services: AIA
Budget control: Guillem Llorens
Building coordination architect: Vora – Toni Riba
Building technical architect: Joan Josep Piñol
Contractor: MJ Gruas
Client: Gisa
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