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For a long time now I have a BIG crush on the shelving systems from String! In 1949 Swedish architect Nils Strinning designed this ‘simple’ construction of powder coated steel frames
on which wooden elements hang. It’s timeless, very functional and makes all your books and precious things look more beautiful. {Image above is from City-furniture and below if from Elisabeth Dunker’s home}

While visiting Singapore last month I finally found a shop that sells the String shelves here in Asia… it’s called Style Nordic on Ann Siang Road, one of the nicest streets in Singapore by the way… of course online there is a lot to find about String shelves…vintage ones and new ones are available throughout the web…



{This image if from the beautiful blog Forever is Today}

Set to go into production this Autumn, ‘Furore’ is a ceiling lamp made up of seven arms of curved metal tubes and handmade glass shades. The pendant l..

San Francisco studio CCS Architecture have completed a house comprising two buildings in the Santa Cruz mountains of California, where the roof of one extends over the other. (more…)

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Berit Kalmar is one of a kind. One of those people that will be part of a shuttle launch on Monday and eating hot dogs with hobos on the tracks on Saturday. This sort of understanding of humanity is what has defined most of her work. She’s Swedishmdash;from a small town called Kalix up in the far north. When she was 16 she wanted to get some experience overseas and moved to Sandusky, Ohio. /p

pMost people laugh when they find out that she moved there to work at Cedar Point, ride the coasters, and train in her own way to be an astronaut. It worked though, that’s the thing. After 6 years of doing that and studying around the world, she got a job at the Trans-Continental Space Authority. One of her first assignments was to decide what object should be shot into space to help aliens understand humans. She was on a team of 50, and after several years of ideating and brainstorming they came up with the “Bear With Saxophone” or BWS. It was one of those compressed sponge creatures inside a gel cap- the same thing that you probably played with as a kid. They sent 10,000 of these capsules into space. At the same time, they sold them in grocery stores so kids and adults alike could have a piece of history. The capsules were a huge seller and helped fund the TCSA’s next two missions./p

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pWhile at the TCSA, one of Berit’s main tasks was to use the technology that was being developed in-house for quirky products that normal people could use. Like a lot of people, she thought that the fact that humans called balls of dust “dust bunnies” was great. At the time, the TCSA was working with ink that could hold a static charge. She took this technology and created the dust bunny print-out. It was a piece of paper with the special TCSA ink and a charging stick. These were sold in the mid 1990’s in Western Europe and parts of the Southern US. For a brief period they were also sold in SkyMall./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/design_fancy_berit_kalmar_16500.asp”(more…)/a
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The St. Lawrence Market is one of the great institutions here in Toronto and the municipal government is now into the final stages of a design competition to replace the North Building.

The North Building has been the ugly sister to the grander and more prominent Main Building since it’s most recent replacement in 1968. See more of the designs at Urban Toronto