Great art pieces made from old skate decks.
“Haroshi makes his art pieces recycling old used skateboards. His creations are born through styles such as wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels; where each element, either cut out in different shapes or kept in their original form, are connected in different styles, and shaven into the form of the final art piece.”
Check out his work here.
Situated in the center of Paris, the calming Six Senses Spa services and interiors offer visitors an afternoon of otherworldly respite from daily life.
Recently-opened within the Westin Hotel (one of the chain’s better properties thanks to its location in Paris’ posh 1st arrondissement), the 2,700 square-foot haven includes a menu of pampering treatments inspired by the Far East, as well as some sourced from Paris’ own backyard. Along with herbal Thai-style massage and detoxifying seaweed body wraps, one of the spa’s signature facials relies on honey pollinated from bees in the the nearby Jardin des Tuileries and produced on the rooftop of the city’s celebrated Palais Garnier opera house.
The first French branch of the notable exotic-chic spa and resort chain, other locations include Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Thailand and Vietnam. Designed by French architect Pierre David, a finalist in the recent World Trade Center Memorial competition, the space features a palette of muted tones derived from Brazilian hardwood and Greek marble. One wall displays a digitally-projected panorama of the Parisian skyline (captured in real-time), while a lush vertical garden cultivated with plant species from far-flung locales occupies another.
Even more curious, two cocoons enclose the rooms where treatments occur, lending a warmth that’s undoubtedly good feng shui. Part space pod, part mega-gourd, curved bands of oak treated with a scrim-like fabric on the interior comprise the structures.
Six Sense’s name comes from the body’s five senses, plus the euphoric sensation one has when everything comes into perfect harmony—a name aptly describing this spa.
Some very unique speakers from Chicago’s Specimen. Little Horns are handcrafted entirely in Chicago, Illinois.
These horns turn the audio world upside down. They posses a life-like soundstage unlike anything ever heard. With the Little Horn Speakers, the soundstage gets bigger, the instruments spread apart, the stage unfolds.
A special inverted design enables the low frequencies to emerge at the top of the enclosure. An octagonally fluted horn carries them upward and lets them flourish into the room. The immense structural rigidity of the horns octagonal geometry minimizes resonances yet allows sound waves to expand freely the way nature intended. There is simply something beautiful here, not just bass frequency reproduction, but a spatial imaging that belies the speaker’s size.
See construction process.
Combining the silhouette of a 17th-century classic with modern composition, Context Furniture‘s layered William and Mary side chair takes the reinterpretation of historical lines to a new level. With legs molded after the traditional shapes of the William and Mary style, but produced with compressed ply, the clean lines update the look for today and add some conceptual interplay.
Layered sheets of Baltic birch with either maple or walnut veneer lends a striking variegated appearance, referencing the material’s origins by suggesting a tree’s rings.
Michigan-based husband-and-wife team Bryce and Kerry Moore started the design process with an outline of an object’s iconic form to capture the essence of the object.
Merging industrial with both natural and mass production, as well as hand-craftsmanship, the chair seamlessly marries Bryce’s background in sculpture and furniture design with Kerry’s focus on graphics.
The William and Mary chair ($1,078) along with Context Furniture’s entire collection sells online from DesignPublic.
Designer Robi Renzi of RenziVivian will present a series of cabinets assembled from a patchwork of salvaged wooden components in Milan later this month. (more…)
Dutch artist Ron van der Ende beautifully transforms pieces of found wood into inventive examples of bas-relief, creating sculptures that span the traditional church to a Nascar Charger. Van der Ende displays his labor-intensive works in a new solo show, “A Shallow Wade,” currently on exhibit at Seattle’s Ambach & Rice gallery through 2 May 2010.
Exploring a “fractured American consciousness,” works included in the show demonstrate the Rotterdam-based artist’s concern for the disparate messages emanated by U.S. culture. For example, “Shotgun Shack Row” portrays an aerial view of houses from New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. Seemingly viewed from a helicopter, the contorted angle reminds his audience that parts of the country still experience dread while others prosper, like in works such as “Taylor/Burton.”
A giant diamond constructed from hundreds of small pieces of salvaged wood and painted to reflect the myriad angles of the massive gem Richard Burton gave Elizabeth Taylor in the late ’60s, “Taylor/Burton” represents the excessive nature of America’s upper class. Eventually the bauble sold for over $1million, an idea that Van der Ende’s sculpture calls into question with the humble materials pointing out the absurdity of spending such a lavish amount of money on such a frivolous item.
Ironically, Van der Ende’s “On Re-Entry” depicts a giant log with glowing embers beneath its charred surface, again created from recovered pieces of wood. Like the rest of his works, the log is comprised of copious amounts of thin veneers pieced together onto plywood for an overall stunningly complex relief.
A l’occasion du Milan Design Week, le collectif La Bolleur en provenance d’Eindhoven (Steie van Vugt, Timon van der Hijden et Zowie Jannink) vient de réaliser cette série de mini trous de golf en bois. Une déclinaison complète à découvrir à travers plusieurs images dans la suite.
Smolenicky & Partner Architektur of Zurich have completed thermal baths featuring oval apertures between tall wooden columns at Bad Ragaz, Switzerland. (more…)
Artists Studio Job will present a new collection of furniture decorated with marquetry at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London later this week. (more…)
L’artiste freelance Richard Evans a créé cette oeuvre typographique en découpant chaque lettres de bois au laser et en les peignant à la main. La métaphore de l’eau dans l’évier représente la surcharge d’informations dans la société. Plus d’images dans la suite.
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