This is a gift that keeps giving! With 12 boxes, nested into one another like Russian dolls, Paul Betowski created a perfect calendar for Fedrigoni, the Italian paper mill, that shrinks as the year goes on “…like sand through the hourglass, these are the days of our lives…”
Peter Alexander is an established American artist whose series of resin sculptures, done in the sixties and seventies seems so ultra modern and minimal, really spoke to me. I simply love the gently gradating colours and the precision of his execution. Who does not fall in love with a solid block of resin?
By using a worker’s lamp and an empty lampshade, Marti Guixé Cau created for Danese Milano the perfect alchemy of high-fashion home furnishing with a low-fi industrial appeal.
Constance Guisset decided it a good idea to mix fishes with birds in a beautiful, home proud ‘Duplex’ structure of a cage and tank. So now birds can try swimming and fishes can… well… feel doubly enclosed in a caged up tank?
Aren’t these the most subversive but beautiful things ever! I want a silver talon grabbing my wrists anyday! by Pamela Love via Jak & Jil blog.
The Cut & Paste chair by Icelandic furniture designer Sigurdur Gustafsson is an interesting idea, mashing up four different chairs to form a new one. Comfort is in question of course, but whats comfort if you can look chic and fashionable? via dornob
Ivan Hvam Hvam has some great, wide ranging work on his site, from restaurants to eyewear. The one that caught my eye was the one for Søndervangskolen, a school in the Netherlands that has apparently suffered from bad reputation that caused a rapid decline in enrollment numbers. The resulting solution is fun, young and exciting, and is a great example showing how design and communication is integral for any business, even more so in education. Plus the logo on the ballon is simple adorable!
Richard Wilkinson has amazing skills in photoshop, rendering lifelike birds for a magazine spread. What’s more amazing is that he generously captured his process in an animated GIF for some unadulterated coolness. (The GIFs are huge so may take a while to load, but completely worth your time. I promise.)
An interesting take on taxes and the government. Design studio Beta Tank have designed a chair with moving panels that transform it from a functional object (on which tax is payable at 19%) to an art object (tax payable at 7%). By deliberately creating an object that is purposefully unusable, the object avoids the high tax rate. via Dezeen
Simon Duhamel has an amazing series of photographs, where he perfectly lit a series of bubble packing infront of bright primary coloured background to amazing results.
Silvia Zotta created a wall full of colourful candy-like ceramic installations, showering down on its viewers. Although it reminds me too much of the now defunct Fortis logo, this is still extremely beautiful and perfectly executed.
What a stunning way to light up a spiral staircase! speirs + major eschewed the usual and expected chandelier and instead went with a modern “lighting shaft” that uses fluorescent tubes to great effect. via designboom
A beautiful lamp made from American Oak veneer. Perfect for any home, modern or rustic, now on sale via CoolHunter.
His work broke records at auction houses, and has graced countless products, including a fierce looking BMW. Now Jeff Koons is partnering my favourite apothecary Kiehls in the latest interpretation of the Creme de Corps. A great happy colourful gift just in time for Christmas! via The Luxist.
Raw Edges Studio has done some rather interesting seating and rugs, The Coiling Collection, now on display at the FAT Galerie in Paris. This is fun, colourful and right up my alley!
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