Hasta La Ideas

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pIt has been a noisy summer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where twenty-one pianos have sat in plazas, parks, and on sidewalks for anyone to play. The pianos have been used to promote a href=”http://www.keysforthecity.com/index.html”Key’s for the City/a, a campaign launched by a href=”http://www.musicforeveryone.net/”Music for Everyone/a “to foster creativity and a sense of community among the general public and to raise awareness for local music and visual arts education initiatives.” /p

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pemMusic for Everyone/em partnered with numerous civic organizations on this project, and some like-minded nonprofits, including a href=”http://www.societyofdesign.org/”Society of Design/a (SOD), an offshoot of the graphic design studio a href=”http://www.gowelsh.com/”Go Welsh/a. SOD elevated the impact of this initiative by recruiting designers, artists, and volunteers to reinvent the appearance of these old, donated pianos. Some were painted bright colors, some became photographic collages, and others were opened up to expose the guts of the instrument. Each piano has a surprisingly distinctive look that attract a broad range of curious pedestrians and city-dwellers who take turns on the pianos. Kids bang out cacophonous notes, adults work through songs they learned as kids, and many skilled pianists filled the streets with nostalgic melodies. /p

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(Photos: New Museum)

Do you like savory tartines with your Rivane Neuenschwander? Want to follow a trippy trial of Brion Gysin‘s “Dreamachine” sculpture with a glass of pseudosangria? (Hell, yes!) Good news, hungry art lovers, because the New Museum has just opened Birdbath, a café created by New York’s famed City Bakery and designed by Brooklyn-based furniture company Uhuru. Located on the museum’s ground floor (which is free to visit), Birdbath will offer a seasonal range of sweet and savory snacks made from locally grown, organic ingredients. The inaugural menu features maple-bacon biscuits, rice milk muffins, smoked chicken paninis, and the scrumptious-sounding “pressed chocolate sandwich with preserves.” Everything is prepared at City Bakery HQ and delivered to the New Museum by bicycle-driven cargo rickshaw, which only sounds like a short film we once saw exhibited at the museum.

The eco-friendliness of the new café (25% off if you come by bike or skateboard) is also reflected in Uhuru’s custom furnishings: chunky stools made from scraps of hardwood collected from local wood shops and communal tables crafted from recycled steel and aluminum and finished with a zero-VOC powder coat. As an alternative to perching on the stools (which are discreetly embedded with the distinctive stacked shape of the museum’s SANAA-designed building), customers can munch ricotta-caramel tartines and sip fair trade tea in Arper “leaf” chairs, selected because of the Italian manufacturer’s commitment to minimize environmental impact at every stage of production. Meanwhile, Birdbath’s goodie-laden countertop only looks like marble. It’s actually durable IceStone, made in Brooklyn entirely of recycled glass and cement. Look for more Birdbaths to spring up in Manhattan later this year, as the City Bakery expands it green bakery brand to Tribeca and the East Village.

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pemTop: Balloon Bowls – Gitta Gschwendtner. A collection of colourful bowls from a sawdust and natural latex composite. Bottom: Mobile Outdoor Kitchen – Nina Tolstrup. A compact mobile kitchen for outdoor entertaining./em/p

pa href=”http://ten-xyz.com/”TEN/a, a collective of ten designers interested in a lower carbon footprint, return to the London Design Festival for the 5th year, with a delightful collection of objects with a DIY-ethosmdash;the plans will be available for download, so the public can make them on their own. /p

pTEN members are: Gitta Gschwendtner, Hector Serrano, Nina Tolstrup, Chris Jackson, Sam Johnson, Stephen Bretland, Tomoko Azumi, Carl Clerkin, Alex Hellum, Michael Marriot. They’ve all got something different, from kitchens to bicycle stands; hit the jump for a preview. /p

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