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We’ve known since back in May when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art kicked off their Steve Fagin exhibition “Cell Phone Stories,” that actor Rainn Wilson, best known for his Dwight character on the American version of The Office, would be playing a part at some point. Now it looks like that point might be right around the corner. Teased early on with the exhibition’s launch as Wilson offering “A Twitter-filled weekend of the many, many reasons to never go to LACMA”, just this week the actor Tweeted the message below, implying that we might now be nearing the eve of that very “Twitter-filled weekend.”

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Here’s another espresso machine from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, this time by Israeli industrial design student Yaniv Berg.

The yellow espresso machine is inspired by the the Bauhaus movement and from the same project as Espresso Solo by Shmuel Linski (see our previous story).

Here’s some more information from Yaniv, who is due to graduate next year:

I designed this espresso machine during my last semester.

Influenced by Italians designers and the Bauhaus, I wanted to create a simple espresso machine which was built from 3 tubes at the heart of it.

But also to create a “interesting balance” by separate and lift the upper plate moving a side the main tube from it base.

The logo on the machine is “nespresso”.

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pThe Service Design Network (SDN)mdash;perhaps the biggest promoter of their growing discipline in Europe, headed by Service Design ambassador Birgit Magermdash;are building on the successes of last year’s “Beyond Basics” conference in Madeira, Portugal with the 3rd Service Design Network Conference coming to Berlin in October, under the title “a href=”http://www.service-design-network.org/content/welcome”Connecting the Dots/a.”/p

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Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photos of this wooden folly with mirrored shutters in the mountains of southern Germany by Berlin studio Baumhauer.

The pavilion has a series of deeply set openings and niches that double up as seating, and a ladder leading up to a roof terrace.

The entire structure is clad in larch boards, while the shutters are made from polished stainless steel.

All photographs are by Julien Lanoo.

Here’s some more from the architects:

Folly

The pavillion, which was comissioned privately, was originally conceived and planned as a tea house.

In the course of the planning phase, the project evolved into a decorative and ornamental structure that was given a new purpose.

It grew into a Folly of the kind that populated 18th century landscaped gardens in England  and 
turned into an edifice without a clear definition – a larger than lifesize abstract piece of furniture.

Niches in the facade, the roof as well as the interior, where cushions await, invite reposal.

The exterior consists of planed boards of larchwood, whose smoothness contrast with the weathering process.

No flashing (cover sheet), socket or visible attic detract from the sharp edges and solidity of the structure – in part to ensure that the aging process will appear completely homogeneous.

When not in use, the pavillion is closed with shutters made of highly polished stainless steel.

In this way depth is achieved not only by structural means but in an imaginary and illusional way using the reflecting qualities as a mirror.

Material: larch wood, oriented strand board, highly polished stainless steel
Completion: June 2010
Location: Southern Germany

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Trail House by Anne Holtrop	Dominey Pavilion by Lightroom Studio	Wood Pavillion by Hui and Wong