Not all of the cocktails below were developed specifically for the holiday season, but all do embody the flavor profile bar-goers tend to lean toward this time of year. There is plenty of apple and winter spice, cherries and toasted vanillas and caramels……
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Designer Tom Givone has overhauled a farmhouse in rural New York, with the addition of a glass-fronted extension overlooking a creek.
Self-taught designer Tom Givone transformed a dilapidated building in Eldred – a small town in upstate New York – to create a large, light-filled residence with generous kitchen, dining and lounge spaces.
The extension also features a veranda that projects out across the surface of a neighbouring creek, hence the name Floating House.
The two-storey house was built in the 1820s and has original colonial revival touches, such as white-painted timber cladding, original wood floors and beams, double hung sash windows and a small arched attic window.
Givone overhauled the interior, exposing original beams and hardwood floors, and adding a new wood-burning stove in the kitchen. The home is completed by polished concrete floors, a vaulted ceiling and large quantities of natural light, brought in through the new glazed wall.
“Sited at the edge of a pristine creek, with a waterfall cascading over an ancient dam of hand-laid stone, the Floating Farmhouse was a sinking ship when first discovered,” said Givone.
“After a design and renovation process spanning four years, the 1820s manor home is now a study in contrasts: fully restored to its period grandeur while featuring purely modernist elements, including a curtain wall of skyscraper glass in the kitchen, and polished concrete and steel finishes,” he said.
The floor plan was reconfigured, allowing a large living room to takes up much of original ground-floor footprint. A double-height fireplace centres the space, with the kitchen addition on its other side.
Also on the ground floor is a separate entrance, a utility room, a small bathroom and a bedroom. Two separate staircases lead upstairs, where these is a large master bedroom with a fireplace and a private bathroom, as well as a second bathroom and two bedrooms that face the street.
Antique pieces feature in the bathrooms, such as an Italian marble hand-chiseled sink from the 18th century.
Givone discovered this in a hillside on the outskirts of Rome. “I mean hillside literally; it was lying in the dirt on a grassy slope littered with other ancient stone artefacts,” he said.
A heavy steel angle bracket is hidden in the wall to hold the sink.
The wood and copper bathtub dates back to the late 1800s, and was salvaged from a tenement living in the Lower East Side of New York City.
“I wrapped the tub in stainless steel to emphasise its clean architectural lines and recast it in a thoroughly modern context,” said Givone.
Floating House bears some similarities to another renovation project that Givone has completed – a curvaceous extension to a traditional house in rural Pennsylvania. Both projects combines antique furniture pieces with white, light-filled spaces.
“The Floating Farmhouse is an experiment in how opposites attract,” added the designer. “The hope at the outset was to combine archaic and modern elements throughout the home in a way that enhances the innate beauty of each by virtue of its contrast with the other.”
Photography is by Mark Mahaney unless stated otherwise.
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I hate folding my clothes, so automatically, I’m a hanger junkie. My wardrobe is just lined with hangers that hold my clothes upright so that they don’t wrinkle… so much so that I think that I may have a hanger problem. The Teeth Hanger was designed for my kind, combining the functions of a clothes-pin and a hanger into something that’s clearly much more advanced than the hangers I’m accustomed to using.
The Teeth Hanger basically not just allows you to hang your clothes in shape, it allows you to hang multiple clothes in shape. The hanger can be used conventionally, while also as a clothes pin, letting you clip multiple clothes together. Now you could either use this to create outfits, pairing apparel that you’d wear as a set… or you could be like me and cut down on the bazillion hangers you have so that you can use one Teeth Hanger to hang as many clothes as you need!
The Teeth Hanger is a winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award for the year 2017.
Designer: Mainetti (HK) Limited
Over the past decade, we’ve seen a shift in the use of watches from being a functional timepiece to a strictly aesthetic extension of one’s style – with functionality under scrutiny and form being the life giver; it’s hard to find a balance.
Introducing the X-Series Timepieces by MNML – the first edition of the series is the limited 001 (200 timepieces available). Bold yet restrained, with an attitude that is uniquely MINIMAL, the X-Series is a celebration of outright good design and an understanding of design fundamentals from a world-class team of designers. Being an owner of the Braun ceramic analog watch, I thought I was future proofing myself from not needing, not desiring another timepiece but the X-Series Timepieces are something special.
A sapphire window on the back of each watch is laser-etched with a unique serial number to express the exclusivity of the object further, making each watch as unique as the last. Bold, confident graphics are stamped through the X-Series sandwich dial construction. The sharp contrast between the face, indices, and numbering — set in Neue Haas Grotesk and illuminated with Lumibright — make the face supremely legible without needing to shout.
Designer: MNML
Seems that each year more folks discover the allure of unpowered hand tools. Using a properly-balanced tool that can swiftly achieve results, without needing to be plugged in, is wildly satisfying. Here’s a look at some of our faves for 2017:
Our resident tool writer David Frane posted a slideshow of his tour to Lie-Nielsen Toolworks, the Maine-based manufacturer of highly-effective old-school hand tools:
Looking to buy classic and used? Shannon Rogers of the Hand Tool School offers both buying tips and a list of resources in “Where to Find Vintage Hand Tools“:
Useful new-school hand tools continue to emerge, as with 3Coil Design’s Crane Knife Portable Scalpel and Puna Multitool:
Leatherman’s Skeletool RX is designed for first responders, and/or those of us that wouldn’t mind having a glassbreaker option on our multitool:
Sometimes you need the convenience of pliers with the precision of a wrench. That’s when the Knipex Pliers Wrench comes in handy:
The Kirk Wrench is an unusual-looking tool that can get into tricky places that regular tools can’t:
When it’s time to destroy something, you’ll want to pick up one of DeWalt’s well-designed Demo Hammers:
Need a different kind of hammer, mallet or maul? UK company Thor makes every kind under the sun, including some wicked rawhide mallets:
Or maybe you’re looking for a single hammer that can be rendered multifunctional with swappable heads. In that case, look no further than the Martinez Tool Company’s Modular Hammer:
Wera makes this handy racheting driver bit with onboard storage called the Kraftform Kompakt Pistol RA. Click on the link to see the nifty GIF of how it pops open:
A design that looks newfangled, but which actually dates back to 1975, is the assisted-splitting Chopper1 Axe:
An unusual tool the likes of which I’d never seen, but which leathercarvers all know, is the swivel knife. Click the link to see how it operates, it’s pretty darn cool:
Lastly, using a lot of different hand tools without some way to secure the workpiece in place would be impossible. Journalist and woodworker Christopher Schwarz resurrected a forgotten 17th-Century design for a workholding device that has now become one of my most useful purchases, the Moxon Vise.
More of the best of 2017:
Our Favorite Transportation Stories from 2017
2017 Best of Transforming Furniture
The Best of Footwear Design in 2017
2017 Best of Workshop Furniture and Hacks
Two of our readers provided creative suggestions for how to recycle holiday cards in the comments section of our Holiday gifts: Out with the old in with the new post. Not wanting to have them lost in the shuffle, I wanted to pull them out to everyone’s attention.
From Jan:
I recycle my Christmas cards. They arrive in the mail, I read them, I cut the writing off the back, I turn them into a Christmas post card with a friend’s address, stamp and short message and repost immediately.
From Kate:
Once the holidays are over, I “massacre” [cards] into gift tags for next year using a pair of pinking shears.
For even more great ideas, check out the comments below and our other post on uncluttering holiday greeting cards.
This post has been updated since its original publication in 2007.
Post written by Erin Doland
The future is right around the corner, with that being said, it seems as though car manufacturers are falling into the same trap they’re already in – designing fixed vehicles against modular vehicles. There’s an ever-growing demand for the one vehicle that “does it all” but yet here we are with SUVs that are too big for the road, and too spacious for casual trips. Developing an interesting perspective on this topic are the teams over at Bakulin Motors Group and Volgabus Corporation with their vision of the Matrēshka.
Matrēshka is a modular autonomous vehicle explicitly designed for commercial use in mind. With a wide range of modifications, the Matrēshka includes 8–12 passenger buses, cargo platforms, specialized utility vehicles and many more. The slightly rounded rectangle design language of this concept has appeared on many autonomous vehicle concepts, and I can’t help but think there’re more we can do to add excitement back into the contouring of such a simple shape.
With the ingenious ability to chop and change this vehicle dependent on the circumstances, the Matrēshka is designed with adaptability at the forefront. I believe for the ever-quickly changing world we live in is crying out for a vehicle like this.
Designers: Anton Kujilniy, Grisha Reshetnikov, Alexey Filin, Olga Protopopova & Ivan Borisov
The Core77 team spends time combing through the news so you don’t have to. Here’s a weekly roundup of our favorite finds from the World Wide Web:
Something worth watching because any object is better when it’s ridiculously tiny.
“To cure affluenza, we have to be satisfied with the stuff we already own.
Stay updated with that creepy robot named Sophia.
A look at what the coffeeshop experience was like in the 18th century.
Some tips and things to keep in mind when taking photographs or video in cold weather.
Study shows that peoples’ brains respond more positively to tangible objects than images.
Doc Marten boots and their ever-transitioning customer base.
From 2004’s profound Sung Tongs came a track that Animal Collective has just now released live. “Kids on Holiday” was an early indicator of the band’s depth of sonic exploration, and it’s one of 14 songs on Live At College Street Music Hall May 26……
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Available at their Los Angeles pop-up (and online), EVERYBODY.WORLD’s Grandfather T-Shirt is composed of 100% cotton French Terry. It’s stylish but timeless, invoking the clothes of yesteryears with its name and silhouette and yet ultimately delivering……
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