Jun 22
Jun 22
WohnGeist
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Created for prominent English architect Norman Foster, WohnGeist‘s cabinet of woodshop tools is hardwearing and austerely decorative. The wooden handles—rosewood, boxwood, pear, red oak—are finished with natural products, and the cutting implements feature premium blades.
Established in 1991 by Stefan Senn, WohnGeist of Switzerland carries the tradition of woodworking into the 21st century with its range of custom furniture, cabinetry and accessories. The Basel-based firm embraces an ethos of responsibility, rigorously meeting Swiss industry regulations and using natural materials in more than 95 percent of its manufacturing.
In addition to crafting gorgeous kitchens and other custom furniture, several products in the WohnGeist catalog, from simply-hewn side tables to gorgeous salt shakers caught our eye.
But its their tool chest and sleds for children and adults—which feature solid ash formed by steam, woven seats and stainless steel runners—which make lasting, excellent, and pricey (toolboxes start around €7,000 with tools) gifts.
Jun 22
Tiptoe through the Terraces! In NYC, an Outdoor Space for Every Taste
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UnBeige HQ is home to several excellent chairs and enough design books to make industrial shelving shudder, but our outdoor space is limited to a rickety fire escape of questionable escape-worthiness. Thus our fascination with the rarified species known as the Manhattan terrace. We dispatched writer Nancy Lazarus to join the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) for its exclusive residential terrace safari. The band of intrepid landscape design fans traversed Manhattan last week, stopping at four terrace-endowed residences—from a rooftop pleasure palace hidden atop a classic brownstone near Union Square to a Zen paradise on the Upper East Side. The designers and owners were on hand at each stop to discuss their outdoor pieds-à-terre. Lazarus filed this report.
A penthouse terrace in a brownstone on East 17th Street overlooking Stuyvesant Park was the starting point of the FIAF tour. Chris Myers, the terrace’s exterior designer and principal of Just Terraces described the theme as “a low-maintenance bachelor rooftop spa, accessible year-round.” For Mark Hass, the terrace owner, “The design maximizes the space, over 900 square feet, and the roof deck reflects the footprint of the apartment below.” The amenities included a hot tub, full kitchen with bar and grill, lounge chairs, coffee table, couch, and skylight to his apartment downstairs. Sycamore trees, cherry laurel, and liriope plants added to the casual setting.
The next stop was uptown on East 75th Street, where Christine Guelton owns a ground floor garden terrace. “The Zen theme was inspired by my garden when I lived in Japan,” she explained. “The terrace is an extension of my living room, and at night when we turn on the lights we see the garden through the picture window.” Myers was also the designer here, and Guelton said, “He worked with the original landscape, which was sloped, and he re-used the existing materials.” Crushed marble pebbles were added to create tiered steps and white planters make the area appear lighter. In the winter, snow provides more illumination, while the maple tree forms an umbrella of shade during the rest of the year.
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Jun 22
Volo – Le Dimanche
Posted in: UncategorizedDécouverte du clip de la chanson “Le Dimanche” par le duo Volo sur une réalisation de Tom Haugomat, Quentin Baillieux et Bruno Mangyoku. Un beau travail d’animation 2D produit par Nicolas de Rosanbo et le studio Cube. Le titre est issu de leur album “En attendant”.
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Jun 22
Joining Forces: Solomon Vaughan vs Recom Farmhouse
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Inspired by his brother who designs and models furniture, graffiti artist Solomon Vaughan taught himself to use 3D software Rhino in order to turn a paper model of the work shown below into a virtual one. Then he teamed up with Christoph Bolten of CGI studio Recom Farmhouse to create the image above, one of six collaborative works featured in our June issue’s Joining Forces feature…
“When I saw the model, the first thing I thought was that it has to be taken back to the streets,” says Bolten of Recom Farmhouse, who took photos and ‘HDR-spheres’ on the road outside Farmhouse’s Hackney studio and rendered Vaughan’s 3D model into the images to create the result seen at the very top of this post. “Now we plan to continue and refine this concept and turn it into a series with other graffiti artists,” adds Bolten. “Any potential collaborators – please feel free to get in touch with me,” he urges.
Joining Forces features the work of artists James Joyce, Emily Forgot, Seb Lester, Von, Andy Gilmore, and Solomon Vaughan – and also the CGI studios Taylor James, TIGERX, Happy Finish, The 3D Agency, Saddington & Baynes andRecom Farmhouse. An exhibition of the six images created for the project runs until June 30 at Concrete Hermit, 5a Club Row, London E1 6JX.
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Jun 22
Make A Statement With These Eye-Catching Necklaces!
Posted in: Uncategorized  | Fashion and the apparel you choose to wear helps you express to others who you really are, but it’s usually your choice in accessories that really tells the most about you and your personal style. While small pendants, sweet little charms and thing, delicate chains are always feminine and totally cute, this summer, really make your style stand out with the addition of a statement necklaces. Statement necklaces are any type of necklace that is big, eye-catching and unique that will make your summer ensemble head-turning and one-of-a-kind! Whether they’re colorful and trendy, edgy and tough, or floral and feminine, statement necklaces are a wonderfully stylish way to add interest and texture to a simple and basic summer outfit, or as the focal point to a flirty sundress or sultry summer gown. Plus, statement necklaces can be surprisingly versatile and, as long as you switch up the ensemble or social circle every so often, it’s a flashy piece you can wear again and again … and even into the cooler seasons ahead! Click on the slideshow to see some favorite varieties of statement necklaces and figure out how to work one into your wardrobe! |
Jun 22
Shadow Box
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With Shadow Box technology, your ride doesn’t end when you leave the slopes or the water. The box, engineered by Joe Van Niekerk of Stanford’s winning D.A.R.P.A Challenge team, mounts on anything from snowboards to blimps and uses GPS and G-Force readings to record a “Ride Path.”
Tracking location, acceleration, jump height, distance, hang time, G-Forces, exact object angles, rotation degrees and spin rates, the water- and shock-proof 3.6-inch box has a bracket and a leash making it easy and safe to attach it to nearly anything.
Wakeboard, windsurf, snowboard and kiteboard champions have all touted the ShadowBox as a great teaching tool. Each ride that the ShadowBox records can be viewed on the device itself, uplaoded to a computer via USB and viewed in the 3D Ridetracker Program, and then even exported to Google Earth.
Want to see the height or duration of a specific trick, learn why you’re missing a trick or simply trying to record how high your last bundle of balloons flew? Just make sure that you can recover the $500 ShadowBox to collect your ride data. The basic kit is on backorder as the summer sports season kicks off, but will include the ShadowBox and a mounting kit when it ships.
Jun 22
BP Oil Leak: Ready, Set…Brainstorm! Part II
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