Yes, it's just a pillow, but it makes me sooo happy! Look at those colors! "Roy" is made from mill ends or leftover fabric from fabric mills. And it comes in two colors (blue -- shown here -- and red).
Mmm, I can just imagine laying my head down for a nice afternoon nap . . .
Concrete you can see through? As light streams through concrete who would have thought it could be done. Is it paper thin or an illusion? Invented by Hungarian architect Áron LOSONCZI in 2001, LitraCon is a combination of optical fibers and fine concrete and glass. It can be produced as prefabricated building blocks and panels. Due to the small size of the fibers, they blend into concrete becoming a component of the material like small pieces of aggregate. The material can also come in different thicknesses with load bearing strength.
Phenomenal!
Wish I knew about this before I built my loft.
For more information visit www.litracon.hu
Last week was my first blog and I used an Americans perspective on Danish Lifestyle. This week I will share thoughts with you from an American so Danish he has been appointed Creative Director of Georg Jensen.
American designer Todd Bracher's own favorite among his design for Georg Jensen is the FLora collection of vases. They capture the essence and spirit of Georg Jensen with their mixture of symmetry and asymmetry. They were inspired by the magnolia bud that Georg Jensen himself found inspiration from. The scale and surface of the pieces sit well within the collection and feel they will stand the test of time as some of the now classic pieces as this was the goal, the idea of contributing at that level to the brand.
FLORA - a polished stainless steel vase with sculptural contours.
The national
flower of Denmark inspired this Marguerite Daisy brooch. Launched in 1940 in celebration of the birth
of Danish Queen Margrethe II, Georg Jensen’s brooch is a favorite of mine
because I remember my grandmother wearing it growing up. My name Mette is the Danish diminutive of Margaret, so I was the lucky
one to inherit my grandmothers Marguerite brooch.
The
Georg Jensen Marguerite collection used to be really popular among older (much
older, like in their 80s) Danish women. After a marked fade in popularity and
years of style hibernation, it was re-launched under the name Daisy and is
currently experiencing resurgence among women of all ages. It is huge in
Denmark once again.
The Daisy is crafted in
sterling silver, gilded with 23K gold and hand painted with white enamel.
It so happens my
favorite Georg Jensen tableware is also inspired by flowers. The BLOOM
serving bowls are perfect to use as part of the dinner table setting but can
also be used as decorative bowls. The matt stainless steel is soft to the
touch. It is modern without feeling industrial.
The Bloom bowls consist of languid high-tensile
steel.
Facial hair themed salt and pepper shakers! What a great way to kick off MO-vember.
Grab them off Etsy.
More images and information HERE.
For my birthday this year, my boyfriend got me a painting similar to this. It hangs above my bed, and the colors and simplicity of the shapes always make me smile and feel a bit more relaxed. They are by Tom of TR Mack Studios and I just adore all of them. They make me want to eat candy in a meadow full of flowers.
"Drawing from environmental cues, programmatic needs, and building technology, our hand serves primarily as the conduit for functionalistic responses. Strongly emphasizing integration of site and structure, all of our work strives to braid indoor and outdoor zones together. The results produce buildings and spaces that take on the unique characteristics of each site and each client."
The Living Wall project, led by Leah Buechley at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, uses magnetic and conductive paints to create circuitry in attractive designs.
The electronically enhanced wallpaper promises not only eye-pleasing
designs, but also the ability to activate lamps and heaters – and even
control music systems.
When
combined with cheap temperature, brightness and touch sensors, LEDs and
Bluetooth, the wall becomes a control surface able to "talk" to nearby
devices. You can touch a flower to turn on a lamp, for example, or set heaters to fire up when the room gets cold.
To create the wallpaper, the team started with steel foil sandwiched between layers of paper that are coated with magnetic paint – acrylic paint infused with iron particles. Over this base they paint motifs such as flowers and vines using conductive paint, which uses copper particles rather than iron. The designs form circuits to which sensors, lights and other elements can be attached.
“It really is just a sheet of paper, and could be produced with existing printing and construction methods,” Buechley says.
Having exposed circuitry on your wall might sound dangerous, but Buechley says the system runs at 20 volts, drawing around 2.5 amps when fully loaded with devices. “You can go up and touch the wall and not even feel a tingle,” she says.
This very charming chair has its design inspired in the crates used to carry fruits and vegetable in the Brazilian`s typical street fairs. Manufactured with sustainable wood, it`s perfect for a unpretentious decoration, and can give a living room a cozy feeling that everybody love! Beck chair can be found at Brazilian shop Espaço 204.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York has unleashed a massive retrospective of Vasily Kandinsky that will make you revise everything you know about this voracious painter.
