Lacking unsightly screws or nails, the new Pfeiffer + Evernote tablet stand is made from one piece of bent plywood, creating an organic appeal. Built to display your tablet at just the right angle for comfortable viewing, the platform also features……
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With their debut product being a quality, 100% natural lip balm (“that softens your lips on a sunny morning after a swim in the lake,” the minimalist packaging reads), many (incorrectly) considered the mysterious brand Kiyoko to be a new skincare……
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The MINI Avent Baby Monitor is a safe, user-friendly product that helps parents keep an “ear” on their own mini-me. In the car, home or anywhere else, simply place the compact device near baby and it will alert parents when the little one has woken from a nap. Using the dedicated smartphone app, parents can set it remotely and listen in from their phone.
Designer: Luka Bassanese
Secret Garden est un projet photographique imaginé par le photographe polonais Slevin Aaron. Ces magnifiques portraits de femmes dont le visage et les mains emergent d’une eau laiteuse incarnent la nature d’une manière onirique et rappellent par leur atmosphère funèbre, le célèbre tableau d’Ophélie réalisé par Milais.
Après les séries Back to Black et Beautiful Wrinkles, nous vous présentons ces délicieux mets fleuris composés par la talentueuse artiste Bettina Güber. Cette fois-ci, l’artiste sublime la beauté des fleurs et d’autres végétaux en les présentant dans des assiettes très raffinées et saupoudrées d’un délicat soupçon de sucre glace.
La propriétaire du Shar Pei nommé Paddington, regroupe sur son compte Instagram les clichés dans lesquels elle met en scène son ami à quatre pattes. Qu’il soit déguisé, en compagnie de son ami chat ou mis en scène avec des objets, ce chien saura vous attendrir ou vous faire sourire. Des tranches de la vie d’un chien à découvrir.
Graduate students of a Colorado university design-build programme have completed a pair of cabins on the Navajo reservation made of rusted steel and reclaimed barn wood (+ slideshow).
The cabins were designed and constructed by architecture students and faculty at the University of Colorado Denver as part of the Design Build BLUFF programme. The team worked in collaboration with the Mexican Water Chapter of the Navajo Nation. Faculty from the University of Utah also contributed to the project.
Called the Red Sand Cabins, the dwellings are intended to accommodate visitors to the remote desert region ringed by mountains. The area features Monument Valley, a cluster of tall sandstone buttes that draws 400,000 tourists each year.
“Influenced by the landscape and distant views of the Blue Mountains and Monument Valley, the programmatic design and materiality led to the development of two ‘sibling’ cubes,” said the design team.
“One rests on the landscape while the other emerges from it. Each cabin establishes its own identity while simultaneously evoking the same language together.”
The 300-square-foot (28 square metre) cabins – one named ‘Sunrise’ and the other ‘Sunset’ – are clad in weathering steel, with attached patios framed in reclaimed barn wood. The patios are located on the northern side of the buildings and provide shade during the summer.
The orientation of each cabin is based on the Navajo tradition of eastern entry, where the door is always located on the east side to welcome in the sun.
Inside, the flooring, sinks and counters are made of concrete and the walls are sheathed in reclaimed wood.
Windows frame views of the sky and the surrounding landscape. Skylights and carefully positioned electrical fixtures fill the rooms with diffused light and are designed to emphasise materiality.
The Sunrise Cabin contains a sunken-bed platform for two, while the Sunset Cabin has a bed, futon and loft that can accommodate up to six guests.
Design Build BLUFF is a graduate architecture program that was started in 2000 at the University of Utah and expanded to the University of Colorado Denver. The program provides students with hands-on, cross-cultural experiences and works in partnership with the Navajo community of San Juan County.
Each autumn, students in the program’s studio course design a pre-identified architectural project for the Navajo Nation. In past years, the programme has mostly created single-family homes, including a residence for a Navajo woman in 2012.
The students study indigenous architecture, read building specifications, create working drawings, and draw up project management documents. In the spring, they live on a remote campus in Bluff, Utah – a small community of roughly 300 people – where they work with locals to construct the buildings.
“BLUFF is an absolutely transformative experience for everyone who participates in it,” said the programme. “It has turned idealistic students into professionals not just invested in public interest rhetoric but an ability to execute it.”
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British designer John Pawson has unveiled his plans to convert a former convent and hospital in Tel Aviv’s Jaffa port into a hotel and apartment complex for the W hotel brand (+ slideshow).
Pawson is working with Israeli studio Ramy Gill Architects and Urban Designers to transform the former School of the Sisterhood of St Joseph and the 19th-century French hospital into the W Tel Aviv – Jaffa Hotel and Residences.
The buildings occupy adjacent plots by the sea in Jaffa – Tel Aviv’s oldest district. Pawson will also add a new six-storey wing to house 38 luxury apartments, which will range in area between 90 and 540 square metres, and have their own private entrance.
“The aim of the architectural intervention currently in progress is to preserve the site’s powerful atmosphere, while retuning the existing buildings and adding significant contemporary components to the composition,” said a statement from Pawson’s studio, which is also currently working on the new home for London’s Design Museum.
The W Tel Aviv – Jaffa Hotel and Residences is set to complete in summer 2016.
It will be the first hotel in Israel from the brand, which launched in 1998 in New York and already has hotels in over 20 countries.
Restoration work began on the site three years ago and much of the 19th-century stucco work and stained glass has been refurbished, while fragments of stonework dating back to the 12th century have also been conserved.
The hotel bar will be set in the chapel of the former school and will feature stained glass windows, arched ceilings and decorative plasterwork, including a small moulded dove.
The 12th-century ruins will frame the hotel lobby and a restaurant will be located in the complex’s vaulted basement.
The project was commissioned by New York developer RFR Holding and the hotelier Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, which owns the W brand.
Renderings are by Alex Morris.
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The Terrain Rug, made of 100% hand-dyed New Zealand wool, was a bespoke project undertaken when a client challenged Christopher Fareed Design Studios ..
We here at Core77 wouldn’t have let founding partner Allan Chochinov out of the office four years ago, if he hadn’t gone off to do an important thing: Co-founding and chairing the School of Visual Arts’ Products of Design MFA program. Chochinov has been toiling away at the innovative program for nearly half a decade now, turning global citizens from diverse vocational backgrounds into the world’s next generation of change-savvy designers.
So how has the program shaped up thus far? Pretty darn well, see for yourself:
The video was shot by filmmaker and faculty member Michael Chung, and by all accounts the tough part wasn’t shooting it, but editing it: “Honestly we had too many great stories we wanted to tell,” Chung says. “Trying to narrow them down and fitting them into a few-minute timeframe was really our biggest challenge—too many good quotes and too little time!”
There’s a quick Q&A with Chung on the project here. And for those of you ready to up your design education, you can learn more about the program here.
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