Tucked away in the corner of your suburban garden like the bastard offspring of a traditional garden shed and a lunar landing module, the Archipod is a whole new reason to work from home. Centered around the concept of removing the tie between work and home, the Archipod allows for an external working space without the cost, bureaucracy and inconvenience of building an extension or out-building. Of course it’s not just your office you could set up in your ‘pod… it’s an ideal space for a mini recording studio, a rather luxurious playroom for the kids, or perhaps just loading with tools and acting as a designer replacement for your shed… whatever you do with it, you’ll have endless hours of fun watching the neighbours reaction to the wooden spaceship that’s taken up residence in your cabbage patch….
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Not the sort of glamorous location particularly famed for cutting edge architecture and design, this is the first, and could quite possibly be the last, post we write about Aberystwyth. Having said that, London based architects, Heatherwick studio, have brought rural Wales right into the 22nd century with these beautifully futuristic low-cost business units for sixteen start-up arts enterprises for Aberystwyth Arts Centre, part of the University of Wales Aberystwyth. Cheaply produced stainless steel the thickness of kitchen foil creates the unique crinkled appearance of these intriguing business pods whilst reflecting the trees, leaves and sky of the surrounding forest.
It wasn’t too long ago that we brought you ‘Meet at the Apartment‘, a luxurious, chic meeting and conference space in the heart of Manhattan and it seems now that chic conferencing is a trend on the rise, thanks to this stunning new work from Dutch architecture and design consultancy, 123DV. Located in the Jaarbeurs complex, Utrecht, Netherlands, this congress facility with 8 meeting rooms has been designed to offer flexibility for clients who are looking for non-conformist meeting space and is a cacophony of light, space and interactive projections.
The usually involve a lot of pen-top chewing, doodling, watch checking and vacant glances, but business meetings don’t need to be as dull as they often are, or at least that’s what ‘Meet at the Apartment‘ are telling us, and looking at what they have on offer, who are we to disagree. Meet is an innovative new concept in business meeting that is the brainchild of Sara and Marc Schiller. A two-story, 2,500-square-foot SoHo loft has been transformed by the duo, with the help of The Apartment (one of New York’s premier design consultancies), into a creative setting for meetings, conferences, pitches, brainstorming sessions, or whatever meet you may have arranged.
If like us, you spend a quite positively frightening amount of time in front of a computer at a desk then you will already know the importance of making that time as comfortable as possible, although lots of us neglect the aesthetics of our work stations, opting for knocked off office furniture (IKEA at best, or is that worst?) and an unhealthy amount of clutter. We’ve decided therefore to bring you a short guide to introducing some much needed style and elegance into your home office / studio / work place. Enjoy, and stay work-chic
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The latest addition to Tom Dixon's iconic mirror balls collection is this astonishingly beautiful 'Mirror Balls on Stand' floor lamp....
A 20-strong female choir decked out in futuristic technicolour capes who sing and scream about drinking and smoking over a post-dubstep clatter... Gaggle are the London based rebel yell we've all been waiting for. Previously mentioned in our midweek newsletter, their debut, 'I Hear Flies', is released today and yes, it's rather brilliant....
We love this cute little illustration from Central Illustration Agency's Chris Brown for Carluccio's
'The Lambeth Palace' is London's "newest, darkest and dirtiest purpose built cinema".... the temporary space set up by street art legend Banksy is showing his new film until March 4th, there's only a very few tickets left, so if you're in town between now and then, we suggest booking them right now....
Independent Dublin based design studio, Superfolk, are launching a new range of products at this week's Stockholm Furniture Fair, that will pay tribute to Irish heritage... whilst remaining desirably modern.
Loving this high quality print from the ever-impressive Scott Hansen... highly limited to 200 pieces so move quick.
Previously only available in German, Berlin’s Innervisions have released a limited English run of Tobias Rapp’s book, ‘Lost and Sound: Berlin, Techno and the Easyjetset’. Investigating the city's love affair with electronic music and the world's descent upon the German capital in search of the ultimate party....
Ether, the Southbank Centre's annual culture-fest of music, art, technology and experimentation is back from 16th - 24th April with the likes of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio, Broadcast and Gil Scott-Heron... the highlight for us has to be the 23rd where mindfuck genius Chris Cunningham performs a live multimedia extravaganza... expect to be disturbed....
Running from 5th - 13th February at the rather brilliant Darkroom, 'An Exhibitional Orgy of Love Hearts' is a celebration of Saint Valentine's in which a host of creative types have been commissioned to create a piece of work based upon the heart.... All pieces will be for sale for £125, with a portion of the profits going to the Haiti Fund
The latest product from magic industry pioneers, theory11, is this rather tasty set of playing cards that commemorate 125 years of design and development by the US Playing Card Company....
Tom Dixon Floor Lamp
Gaggle: ‘I Hear Flies’
Chris Brown for Carluccio’s
Banksy's Cinema
Superfolk
ISO50 'Adrift' Print
Lost and Sound
Ether 10
An Exhibitional Orgy of Love Hearts @ Darkroom
Bicycle 125 Playing Cards
