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Designer Sabine Marcelis has used glass, travertine and polished metal to create a collection of sculptural interventions that respond to the materiality of Mies van Der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion.

No Fear of Glass is the latest in a series of temporary installations staged at the pavilion, which is a recreation of the structure built by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich for the Barcelona Expo in 1929.

One of the instructions given to Mies van der Rohe when designing the pavilion was to “not use too much glass”. Marcelis playfully subverted this request by using glass as the main material for her interventions.

The designer created two chaise longues, two pillar lights and a fountain for the installation, using glass, travertine and chrome in a direct response to the materials found throughout the pavilion.

Each of the pieces uses transparency, reflections and ombré effects to distort how they appear as visitors move around the space.

This approach echoes how the pavilion’s architects employed polished stone, mirrored steel and glass to amplify the sense of space inside the structure.

The chaise longues feature bases made from the same travertine as the building’s floor, which appears to pop up to support delicate sheets of curved glass.

These glass pieces seem to have migrated from the building’s outer walls and are treated with a coloured gradient matching hues found in the golden onyx panelling.

In the pavilion’s larger reflecting pool, Marcelis installed a fountain made from layered sheets of curved glass edged with polished aluminium. Water pushed up through the gap between the two glass pieces spills over the edge back into the pool.

The designer also introduced a light fixture that mimics the cruciform mirrored-steel pillars used to support the pavilion’s roof. Marcelis’s version is made from two-way mirror and incorporates a neon light tube that appears when it is turned on.

Marcelis is known for her experimental use of materials such as resin and glass, which she manipulates to “create unexpected experiences” and distort how the viewer perceives their physical properties.

Her previous projects have seen her translate Burberry’s signature tartan into resin display panels, and create a series of resin fountains for Fendi’s presentation at the 2018 edition of Design Miami.

The No Fear of Glass project, delivered in collaboration with Barcelona-based Side Gallery, follows on from several other artistic interventions organised by its owner, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe.

The pavilion has previously been lit up by a laser grid, been completely hidden behind white vinyl screens, and had its glass doors removed and mounted on the facade.

Marcelis’s installation is on show until 12 January 2020.

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Outwardly, the TIC is barely the size of a hip-flask. It’s squarish, slim, and slides right into your suitcase when you travel. Take it out and open it up, and TIC becomes the classiest travel toiletry kit you’ve ever seen. Integrated right into its slim design is a water-tumbler, and a wall or mirror-mountable kit that contains a toothbrush, toothpaste dispenser, and a bottle of mouthwash. For the jet-setting clean-shaven businessman, there’s a TIC kit that includes a complete razor set, along with blades, shaving cream, and even a fold-out mirror. The TIC oral care and razor kits help you do two things. They keep your travel-toiletries well organized, and they help cut out single-use toiletry items like toothpaste tubes and disposable razors out of the environment, all while looking like something I’d imagine James Bond would carry. (I’m aware I make a lot of comparisons to James Bond, but he’s truly the classiest and most modern pop-culture icon ever. Who knows, he may just be a design enthusiast)

The TIC comes in two varieties, an oral-care kit, and a male grooming kit, both which fit within boxes that are the same size. Designed for travel, these kits are roughly the size of a wallet, and slightly thicker, making them perfect to slide into your check-in suitcase. Upon arriving at your accommodation, the TIC kit opens out into a fully functional set of toiletry-instruments. The oral-care kit features an external cover that doubles as a drinking tumbler, and an inner kit that has a microporous suction surface that neatly and securely sticks to flat surfaces like tiles, glass panels, or mirrors. The kit opens out to reveal a two-part toothbrush that assembles with a quick snap, and an integrated toothpaste dispenser that works at the push of a button. There’s even space for a bottle of mouth-freshener, complete with markings that help you consume the right amount at the time, and a slide-out mirror, just in case you’re not around one. When done, the drinking tumbler makes a great tool to rinse up.

The TIC oral-care + razor kit works on the same compact principle as the oral-care kit. It, however, switches the mouthwash bottle for a razor handle and an interchangeable blade-head. The blade-head features a three-blade design complete with a lubrication strip that lets you use it directly on your skin without worrying about razor-burn. You can quite literally use the kit anywhere, relying on the clever slide-out mirror that’s built right into the TIC’s body.

Frankly a much classier and more eco-friendly alternative to those godawful hotel toiletry kits, the TIC is hoping to revolutionize the way we travel. Along with smart suitcases and well-designed carry-ons, the oral care and razor kits work towards a unified goal of being useful, uncumbersome, and extremely desirable, all while ensuring their products aren’t single-use. The TIC kits are made from a combination of materials like ABS and PP for durability, and Nylon, BPA-free PET, and Silicon for health and comfort. The TIC kits are even FDA approved and their patent-pending design ensures you get the highest quality kits with no chance of seeing cheap knockoffs anytime soon. You can choose between slick-looking matte black or white finishes, and the kits, which are available for as little as $11 begin shipping as soon as Feb 2020!

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TIC Oral Care & Razor Kit

Palm-sized toiletry essentials on the go.

BYOT (Bring Your Own Toiletries)

The TIC Oral Care & Razor Kits are a positive step towards eliminating the disposable, single-use toiletry supplies that are contributing to pollution.

Oral Care Kit Usage

Toothpaste Tube.

Toothbrush.

Mouthwash Bottle.

Oral Care & Razor Kit Usage

Razor.

Sliding Functions

Sticker Board

Easy to use.

Sticks to a variety of surfaces.

Easy to clean.

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The “innovation” that we see coming out of the world’s top three economies–the U.S., China and Japan, in that order–are often technology-based, and of dubious value. (At the currently-running CES, you can see a summonable robot whose sole function is to bring you toilet paper if you’re on the bowl and have run out.) Meanwhile we’re seeing effective, ecological-minded steps being enacted by so-called poor countries. For instance Thailand, ranked 26th in GDP, has supermarkets that have started wrapping produce in banana leaves rather than plastic.

Now that country is taking another massive step towards the reduction of single-use plastic, with a newly-enacted plastic bag ban. Major stores are now barred from using them, with smaller shops expected to comply by 2021. As a result, Thai consumers are using all manner of household objects to carry home groceries and such:

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It’s hard to decide which is my favorite, but I feel that the T-shirt guy should get a special mention.

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Tony Futura est un artiste berlinois qui détourne les icônes de la pop culture et les objets du quotidien en créations surréalistes, colorées et décalées bourrées d’humour !

Une jolie manière de dénoncer avec ironie et légèreté les excès de notre société de consommation. On adore !

Découvrez ci-dessous quelques-unes de ses créations. Autrement, allez faire un tour sur sa page Instagram !

Tasting a protected appellation of the liquor only produced on the Amami archipelago

Sometimes considered Japan‘s national beverage, shochu outsells sake in its homeland and the most popular version has been listed among the 25 best-selling spirits in the world. A distilled liquor, shochu carries a 500-year history in Japan. (It’s also related to Korea’s soju.) During our CH Japan excursion to the island of Amami Ōshima—the largest of an archipelago in southern Japan—we toured the Yayoi Kokuto Distillery. It’s home to several different types of shochu, and one in particular that can only be produced among the remote Amami island chain.

Shochu varies greatly in flavor and strength (from 25% to 45%), as it can be distilled from so many different organic materials and through several methods. More than half is derived from barley, but some is produced from rice and others from sweet potato. None come close to “kokuto” shochu, the Amami-specific protected appellation that’s produced from brown sugar derived from sugarcane. Naturally, this is the specialization of the family-owned and operated Yayoi Kokuto Distillery.

Fourth-generation chief brewer Hiroyuki Kawasaki closely oversees production, marketing and more. Kawasaki left Amami Ōshima after high school to work in Tokyo, but returned at age 35 to take on the business. For kokuto shochu, his distillery imports premium Okinawan brown sugar—though the subtropical island does have its own sugarcane plantations, some of which date back to the 17th century. The liquid goes through one single distillation to preserve the characteristics of its source material. That said, although sugar is used, it evaporates during distillation and the final product—often called “yayoi” or “mankoi”—has no sugar content.

Even without sugar content, kokuto shochu tastes lighter and sweeter than those drawn from barley. Yayoi Kokuto Distillery has an adjacent aging warehouse, where barrels lend further flavor to some of their expressions. Their entire range oscillates from light, fresh and fruity to rich and sturdy. Some of these are now available worldwide.

Shochu has become an important component in cocktail-making worldwide, but in Japan it’s often consumed neat, on ice (the recommendation for kokuto shochu) or mixed with water. It can also be served hot or cold. For anyone lucky enough to find themselves on the island of Amami Ōshima, a visit to the Yayoi Shochu Distillery is a must—but for everyone else, kokuto shochu offers a taste of their heritage.

Images by David Graver