Located near the world famous site of Woodstock, 100 miles north of New York City, Ben Ryuki Miyagi’s dramatic renovation of a 1960s home employs what the architect describes as ‘The Landscape of Geometric Mythology’ and was “designed as if a series of mysterious objects from (an) unknown planet have landed on this peaceful landscape with a story to tell”. There’s certainly unique architectural symbolism on show here, with more than a little Asian influence from the Japanese architect, and with additional structures surrounding the villa such as the ‘House of Solitude’, ‘Sky Mirror’, and ‘Tower Gate’, it’s clear that the landscape of the site as a whole is as important to the designer as the home itself. Challenging, unique and, well, frankly more than a little frightening, Villa Metamorphosis is a true one-off – and if you stumbled across this property on a pilgrimage to the famous site of Woodstock, you could easily be forgiven for thinking that acid is responsible for what you see before you….
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Klein Bottle House by McBride Charles Ryan
origami inspired super-home is the ideal holiday retreat....
March 1st, 2010
Seems like another week, another inspirational dose of architecture from Australia’s capital of cool, Melbourne… albeit it that McBride Charles Ryan’s mathematically designed Klein Bottle House is a one and half hour drive from Australia’s second city, nestled between the tee-tree and the sand dunes of the Mornington Peninsula. Based upon the rather over-whelming model of the ‘Klein Bottle’, developed by topological mathematicians – yeah that’s enough education for today – this rather lavish holiday home is the kind of outrageously designed property that people in the ’60s thought the future would look like and, well, we sure wish it did. Laden with international awards, the Klein Bottle House is a refreshing reminder of how thinking outside of the box, literally, can deliver truly inspired results….
360° Lamp by Pavel Sidorenko
brilliantly simple lighting concept from Estonian designer....
February 26th, 2010
We’re loving the simplicity of this lamp shade from Estonian designer Pavel Sidorenko. Designed for Adensen, a fledgling furniture manufacturer founded in Valga on the border of Latvia, the 360° Lamp comprises simply of one sheet of plastic, mirrored on one side, allowing the shade to interact with the light to your own requirements, offering supremely stylish flexibility…..
Founded in Germany, 1950 as a family company, the now Swiss owned design giant, Vitra, have manufactured design classics from the likes of Charles & Ray Eames and in 1987 launched their highly coveted Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany… the fantastically unique building being Frank Gehry’s first European work. Seemingly taking a lead from Gehry’s iconic design, their stately new super-showroom, also located in Weil am Rhein, is a series of traditional house style structures elegantly stacked upon one another, designed by the talented Swiss architects behind Munich’s sensational Allianz Arena, Herzog & de Meuron. Housing a café, design museum shop and their entire Vitra Home Collection, the VitraHaus is the perfect place to be inspired by the staggering amount of inspirational design products that Vitra offer… in fact, being located just steps away from their world famous design museum, it’s the perfect place to just come and be inspired… full stop.
Merchant House by Søren Rose Studio
wonderfully Danish renovation of 18th century home....
February 24th, 2010
Famed for their groundbreaking, über-stylish Milk Desk, Søren Rose Studio’s delightfully sophisticated renovation of a 1770 Danish home is one of the most simple, yet brilliantly effective, interior works we have seen in sometime. Using bold colours for each room, reflecting “the different purposes the apartment has served over time”, the strikingly simple, and so typically Scandinavian, interior is refined, elegant and overall, so respectful to the history of the building, thanks to the fusion of retro and purpose built contemporary furnishings….. this is truly the sort of calm, sophisticated space in which we would love to spend our days….
Vík Prjónsdóttir Blankets
elegant wool blankets from Icelandic design collective...
February 18th, 2010
With blankets dedicated to Sea Eagles, hidden worlds and Michael Jackson, you know that Icelandic design collective Vík Prjónsdóttir have a propensity for the absurd, especially given their famed ‘Beardcap‘. Captivated by nature and with a fervor for local culture and materials, Vík Prjónsdóttir showcased their latest collection at the recent Stockholm Design Week, a range of beautifully diverse blankets made from 100% Icelandic wool, and each telling a tale of folklore and emotion.
Postcarden, Mini Living Gardens
quirky, original, beautiful, oh, and we've got six to giveaway.....
February 18th, 2010
Seeking an innovative solution to bring lasting enjoyment to an age old gift, the greeting card, London based designers, A Studio for Design, decided to… erm, well… put a garden into a postcard!?!? Yes, bordering on the unhinged it may be, but entirely charming it is too, as the conventional element of the card remains intact – it’s postable, has space for a written message, and features a lovely little images – yet the ‘Postcarden‘ also comes with seeds, instructions and a pop-up garden plot that will grow and keep for 2-3 weeks… successfully achieving their desired extent of it’s enjoyment lifespan. Taking the shape of three distinctly British environments, the Postcarden is available as a city, a botanical gardens and a charming allotment, all printed in Wales by ‘Ethical Packaging’, with the seeds also sourced within the UK.
Postcarden Giveaway
we’ve got 2 of each design to giveaway…..
Tomorrow’s weekend edition of our bi-weekly newsletter will contain our exclusive ‘Postcarden Giveaway’… if you’re not already signed up then you had better click here right away…..
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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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
