Finding a suitable gift for your partner is not always easy, especially on what many might argue is a manufactured holiday—but it’s still love we’re celebrating, and there’s nothing wrong with that. To get into the spirit—some of us with full abandon, others more begrudgingly—we’ve added a range of sweet,…
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Focus sur le photographe Bruxelles5 qui nous rappelle avec diverses photographies à quel point la culture de la tulipe en Hollande permet d’obtenir des champs colorés d’une beauté incroyable. Une superbe série et compilation naturellement intitulée « Tulip Fields » à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Stockholm 2013: Swedish lighting brand Wästberg has unveiled an installation of 30 lamps created from a modular set of parts by Japanese designers Nendo.
Over thirty different lights have been set up in a room at an old skating pavilion in Stockholm to demonstrate the range of possible configurations.
The W132 group of components includes a circular base, two poles of different lengths and three different shades.
The shades can be used without light bulbs to make containers, flipped over to create uplighting or hung from the ceiling as pendant lamps.
Long and short poles fit into the circular bases, shades and each other to create different stand heights that can be adjusted using circular keys.
Additional parts can be added, including table tops and a bird cage.
The installation is on display at the Skridskopaviljongen in Stockholm this week to coincide with the launch of a book about the collaboration.
Nendo is guest of honour at Stockholm Furniture Fair, which continues until 9 February.
Previous designs we’ve featured by the Japanese design studio include bowls so thin they quiver in the wind and glassware made from old Coca-Cola bottles.
Take a look at watches they’ve designed for Noon at Dezeen Watch Store here.
Our coverage of Stockholm Design Week so far includes glass bubbles that look like trees and chairs that can be dressed in different garments.
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Etudiant à la Academy Of Fine Arts en Pologne, le créatif et designer Paul Marcinkowski a eu l’excellente idée de créer une infographie complète sous la forme d’un tatouage, le tout sur l’ensemble du corps. Une superbe idée très bien réalisée à découvrir en détails et en images, dans la suite de l’article.
Product news: British industrial design brand Dyson has launched a combined tap and hand dryer so hands can be both washed and dried without leaving the sink.
Infrared sensors in the Dyson Airblade Tap pinpoint the positions of the user’s hands and release water from the tap, before two high-velocity sheets of unheated clean air are released to scrape water off hands and leave them dry in 12 seconds.
As with the earlier Airblade hand dryers, the system forces air through tiny apertures at 692 kilometres per hour, passing it through a HEPA filter to remove 99% of bacteria from the air first.
Made from an anti-corrosion stainless steel that’s normally used for the construction of boats, the new product is powered by a new 16000 W motor that accelerates from 0 to 90,000 RPM in less than 0.7 seconds. The motor took seven years to develop at a cost of £26.9 million.
Founder of the company James Dyson said: “Using complex computer modelling Dyson engineers have developed a high performance digital motor. The Dyson digital motor self-adjusts 6,000 times a second to maintain optimum efficiency to create high velocity sheet of air that dries hands quickly and hygienically.”
The new motor has also been applied to updated versions of the Dyson Airblade V hand dryer, which is now 60% smaller, and the Dyson Airblade MK2 hand dryer, which has had 1.1 kg of material removed.
Industrial designer James Dyson founded the Dyson brand in 1970, when he invented the first bag-less vacuum cleaner. In recent years the company has launched the Air Multiplier, a fan with no blades, which he discusses with Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs in a podcast we recorded in 2010.
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La marque italienne Long Plate nous propose une série d’assiettes au design charmant, inspirée de la forme des disques vinyles. Visuellement très réussis, ces objets de 28 centimètres de diamètre sont vendus 20 euros l’unité. Les déclinaisons sont à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Voici le nouveau clip de Woodkid (Yoann Lemoine) sur le titre « I Love You » à l’occasion de son futur album The Golden Age prévu le 18 mars 2013. Il met en scène Matvey Lykov sur un stylisme de Kris Van Assche, le tout produit par Iconoclast et One More Prod. A découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Danish brand Normann Copenhagen has launched a table-top mirror with a dish in the base to hold small items, created by Spanish designer Javier Moreno.
The Flip mirror can be turned up, down and rotated 360 degrees. It is available in either black, white or a sand colour.
Javier Moreno says: “The tray design on the base means that flip is both a traditional mirror and an easy and simple storage utility for small items.”
Javier Moreno set up his own studio in Alicante in 2010.
We’ve featured products from Normann Copenhagen before, including a colourful modular storage system by Henriette W. Leth and circular kitchen knifes by Italian designers LucidiPevere Studio.
Maison&Objet took place in Paris last month. See all our stories about design at Maison&Objet here, including cutlery based on chopsticks by Toyo Ito and a chair draped in a wooden mat by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance.
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Paula Scher’s non-traditional approach to cartography formed the basis of the book “Maps,” a collection of her large-scale paintings that purposefully distort representations of famous cities. As a follow-up, Princeton Architectural Press has released a mini-journal series cloaked in Scher’s illustrations. Not only do they make for a gorgeous…
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News: American rapper-turned-property developer Vanilla Ice has designed a collection of chandeliers and wall lamps in collaboration with New Jersey-based company Capitol Lighting.
Ice, whose real name is Rob Van Winkle, unveiled the collection at Fort Lauderdale Boat Show in Florida last month.
The range comprises two wall lamps and a 24-inch and a 28-inch chandelier, available in two finishes: polished nickel or vintage brass. Prices range from $250 to $1400.
Best known for his 1990 hit single Ice Ice Baby, the rapper has since turned his hand to property development and is now the star of his own home renovation TV series, The Vanilla Ice Project.
Vanilla Ice isn’t the first hip hop star to take an interest in architecture and design – we’ve previously featured a chair with tank-like wheels by rapper and producer Pharrell Williams and Kanye West’s minimalist apartment in New York, while rapper and former architecture student Ice Cube went on film to explain how designers Charles and Ray Eames have inspired his music.
Last year we also featured the much-discussed debut furniture collection by Hollywood star Brad Pitt, which includes a marble bathtub for two.
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