Emanuele Canova a présenté le nouveau sofa nommé Bucefalo de la Collection Memento. Inspiré par le cheval noir légendaire d’Alexandre le Grand, ce sofa a été conçu afin de permettre à ce dernier d’être aussi une chaise longue ainsi qu’un espace de rangement de livres.
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A travel mug for diminutive drinks
For those who don’t supersize their coffee, this new
Doppio tumbler is the perfect compact size for toting more petite servings, like espressos and cappuccinos. The double-walled construction (hence the name “Doppio”) and snap-on lid keeps drinks hot or cold on-the-go.
Made by Innate, a Vancouver company that specializes in making outdoorsy products sustainably, you can feel good about your purchase and be sure it will hold up to the elements too. Pick it up for C$9 from Innate’s online store.
Everything old is new again—or rather everything new is old again. Behold Jonas Damon‘s old school take on an iPad charging dock. The cheeky hutch embraces the covetable Apple device in the wooden form of a circa-1970’s or -1980’s television, complete with cathode ray tube housing. Damon, a creative director at frog design, crafted the distinctively shaped dock for his personal use out of a fruit crate and the desire to inject some personality into the sleek tech item of the moment. “I sought to enrich the iPad with something I have an emotional connection to—the home appliances of my upbringing,” he told frog design’s Intrapreneur blog. “This lo-fidelity design language is very appealing in contrast to the gloss-black slick design trends that are currently the norm.” And if you can’t tolerate a term like “craft,” with its associations of frenzied scrapbookers and decoupage junkies, think of its as “folk industrial design”? “Every day we are seeing ordinary people adapting products like the iPad to suit their particular needs, lifestyles, and desires,” said Damon. “The lack of personality of the iPad has enabled people to create their own enclosures.”
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A new line of watches from a Montreal dream team
From close friends and Montreal design-dream-team Mike Giles, Daniel Julien, and Aaron Daley comes a new line of watches for those that appreciate both artistry and convenience. CH has featured time pieces and more from the masterminds previously (including the exclusive limited edition CH x Furni Farmer watch) but never before as a complete trio, launching their first collaborative company, Neuvo.
The “Prospector Collection” will be the first offering from the much-anticipated Neuvo company, featuring four metal, digital timepieces. With the beautifully-crafted vintage feel of your father’s old worn-in watch and all the accouterments of a modern-day digital, the collection refers to a time when things were simple and value was measurable.
Each piece comes loaded with everything one could want in a watch, including a 12 or 24-hour display, chronograph, an hourly chime, backlight, and alarm. The watches are also water-resistant, so you can keep track of the time in style even under a light rain.
The metal watches are plated in either brushed gold, silver, bronze, or black, and only 200 of each is going into production. For those nervous about ordering wearables online (especially limited editions!), Neuvo has even created a free “try it before you buy it” iPhone app, currently available on iTunes. Without the hassle of ordering and returning, you can try on a virtual Neuvo watch on an image of your own wrist. Once you’ve made your selection, the app can take you directly to the purchasing info for your new accessory of choice. Each sells for the very fair price of $45 (plus shipping) exclusively from Neuvo’s brand-new website, NeuvoMonde.com.
Create a paper Gotham city with a new DIY book
As urbanization continues to increase many of NYC’s 20th-century icons–from the Empire State Building to MTA subway cars–have become short-hand for our super-urban-modern existence.
Kell Black’s 48-page Paper New York makes a great gift or DIY diversion for recreating the metropolis from paper. With arcing spans of the Brooklyn Bridge and the hot dog carts that clutter midtown Manhattan, you just need scissors, adhesive, nimble fingers and a monk’s patience to re-imagine all types of city architecture. What better meditation on the the seething city is there than crafting a mini Hayden Planetarium from inside the comfort of your own six-floor-walk-up efficiency studio?
Black, an associate professor of art at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, has also exhibit his dark drawings in the past in Nashville, though this is his first book. Due out 26 October 2010, pre-order it from Amazon.
Japanese firm Avehideshi Architects and Associates have completed this one-person house with a tobacco shop on the ground floor in Osaka, Japan.
A Small Tobacco Shop has been built on a 24 square-metre triangular site between a train line and high-rise block of flats.
The kitchen, bathroom, living space and shop are on the ground floor, with the bedroom on the second, and a walled roof-terrace on the third.
A spiral staircase and slimmed-down first storey floor slab have been used to maximize floor space and ceiling height respectively.
The internal wall enclosing the the spiral staircase has been painted green to give a feeling of depth.
A slit has been cut between the first-storey floor slab and bathroom wall to allow light to flow into the shop floor from above.
All photographs are by Hiroki Kawata.
Here’s some more from the architects:
A small tobacco shop
It is a project for the small tobacco shop where a woman in her sixties lives alone.The central places for living such as kitchen, bath, restroom are located on the first floor together with the shop. The bedroom is on the second floor and the terrace is on the third floor.
This site is located about 500 meters from a major train station in suburban Osaka. It is a lively area with large supermarkets and high-rise apartments.
With construction to elevate the train line and redevelopment of the area around the station, land readjustment led to a former combination store front and dwelling being dismantled and the land being reassigned, leaving this site: a 24.38 sqm small triangular plot.
Not only small but an unusual shape, we decided to take advantage of this by installing a spiral staircase to preserve as much floor space as possible. In addition, we made the 2nd floor slab as thin as we could, and made slits to allow light to pour in from the upper floor. Painting the support wall for the staircase green gave a feeling of depth, creating a space where the room and staircase are one, to finish off this large tobacco shop.
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Architects : Hideshi Abe / Avehideshi Architect and Associates
Location : Osaka , Japan
Principal use : personal house and shop
Structure : steel structure , 3stories
Site area : 24.38 sqm
Building area : 15.55 sqm
Total floor area : 36.98 sqm
Completion : Sept , 2007
Structural engineer : Takashi Manda
Photo : Hiroki Kawata
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