El Cosmico in Marfa, Texas is hosting its summer series, Camp Design Build Adventure June 5th – 10th. Folks will design and build projects for local East Side Play! Park. Hosted by architect Jack Sanders, participants will enjoy four days of furniture designing, fun and hanging out. “Camp Design Build — Continue reading
We’re at ICFF! We’re temporarily suspending the regular sort of programing you usually see around the blog to bring to you the very newest and best from all of our favorite furniture designers and brands that are at ICFF!
Jacal transforms overlooked and mundane household items into reinvigorated objects for daily use. Decorative and functional, the collection includes birdcage luminaires, grilling grid magazine holders, dish rack serving trays, incense burner ash trays, and shower caddy spice racks, to name a few. Pictured below is a typical Central American portable — Continue reading
Ahh the name “Eames.” No other name tends to conjure up such specific images of Mid-Century Modern design. Their home, then, would obviously be a compelling thing for any modern design lover to tour. Nathaniel Ross, of Matter Observed, recently visited the Eames Case Study House No. 8: “A short — Continue reading
We can’t wait to see what buildings and furniture looks like in the future, not just because there will undoubtably be cool designs, but because we’ll have a whole host of really rockin’ cool and futuristic materials to play with! A case of the future hitting a little early: Tingwei — Continue reading
If you have any interest at all in urban development and changing a city’s public architecture for the better, you might have already heard of the Waller Creek project in Austin, which has already been drawing comparisons to New York’s High Line Park in terms of size, type and impact — Continue reading
We LOVE the guys who make up Cerno, one of the most innovative lighting companies creating designs today. They just released an awesome video that really shows who they are, their inspirations, how they do what they do and little bit about why they do what they do. ”Unique Eye — Continue reading
Last year we, if we may admit, rocked your socks off with a 2Modern (Modern) Austin City Guide that was filled to the brim with our suggestions of where to eat, where to shop and where to sleep if you were looking to experience some of Austin’s sleekest and most modern — Continue reading
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Your trusty blog editor (moi) just got back from Las Vegas where I attended the Las Vegas Market at the World Market Center! Wow is all I have to say. First of all HUGE thanks to everyone involved with the market, from the folks who flew us out there and — Continue reading
Las Vegas Market is happening January 30th – February 3rd…and we’re gonna be there (Well Monday through Wednesday, anyway)! Specifically your trusty blog editor-in-chief Adrienne will be. I’ll be scoping out designers and vendors to try and spot trends and new designs that blow my mind. I’ll be meeting with — Continue reading
Boy architecture and art can be eerily and hauntingly beautiful sometimes. What a breathtaking way to start the day out… “A musical sculpture on the top of a hill looking across Burnley, Lancashire. The architectural competition, for “all-seeing” structures on a number of derelict, high-point sites, was organised by Mid-Pennine — Continue reading
We like how the name of Casamania really sort of sums up the heady feelings we get when we check them out. A great, innovative furniture company from Italy, they’re another company that caught our eye as we’ve been taking attention to last week’s imm cologne. Specifically, we’re digging their — Continue reading
Not able to make it down to the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Vegas? We’re bummed to be missing it, too. While we’re perusing some of our favorite spots to get the latest tech dish (like CNN, Unplgged and PC Mag) let us also remind you that 2Modern, in — Continue reading
Eeek! A mobile motorhome that can also be detatched to be a tiny mini modern home or guest house?! Okay so we’ve seen more modern style before, but there’s something pretty darling in the potential of this sweet product by Dutch company Tonke. Do you see that cool blue kitchen? — Continue reading
McDonald’s in France is getting a new architectural identity with contemporary white counter balancing with fun colors as well as birch wood plywood, sheet metal and concrete. Patrick Norguet, chosen for the project took into account new technical and sociological constraints of Micky D’s agenda, returning to its primary — Continue reading
The fantasy like, simple and elegant structural path by Tetsuo Kondo was unfortunately only a temporary installation in Tallinn, Estonia. It existed as part of the 2011 European Capital of Culture activities and in particular, part of LIFT11, a festival of 11 urban installations. The forest known as Kadriorg is — Continue reading
Nano House By Phyllis Richardson Thames and Hudson 2011 Aw man we’re absolutely loving the book “Nano House: Innovations for Small Dwellings.” It’s exactly the sort of thing we need right now, considering that space is at a premium nearly everywhere and there’s a strong need for keeping our footprint — Continue reading
I was reminded again of these awesome photos of sculptures that were commissioned by the Yugoslavian government in the 1960s and 1970s but then were all abandoned, sort of resembling a future society that fell and left its sad but poetic architecture behind. Or like if you landed on an — Continue reading
From Architizer: “Russell Township, Ohio may not sound like much of an architectural destination. But this semi-rural town 25 miles east of Cleveland is actually home to architect and futurist Buckminster Fuller’s largest geodesic dome. The vast dome, allegedly one of Bucky’s favorites, was built in 1959 to surmount a low, — Continue reading
Received an email from some designers in Belgium under the name of FARZ. Seems they’ve created what they think to be one of the most flexible pieces of furniture out there. What do you think? Here’s what they have to say about their creation: “One steel rail and three steel — Continue reading
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