With everything else in the kitchen going sleek and smart, no need to neglect the humble kitchen scale. Enter Arti, the iPad-flat scale for weighing both liquid and dry ingredients, and, despite its showy looks, capable of holding up to 15 lbs. Glass surface, touch sensitive controls, digital display 50% — Continue reading
For those with neither the space nor the inclination to go big with gardening, there’s Grow, a diminutive (5.5″ tall) greenhouse designed by Stockholm-based Caroline Wetterling. Created for small flowers and for seedlings, this jewel-like orb is crafted from hand-made glass, and is comprised of two parts: the lower section — Continue reading
Hans Wegner’s instantly recognizable Shell chair, designed in 1963, turns 50 this year, and Carl Hansen & Son, the Danish manufacturer with exclusive rights to produce the chair, has found a way to celebrate the chair’s lasting influence in extravagant style. They’ve teamed up with textile maker Maharam to introduce a new — Continue reading
60 years after Jasper Johns made the first of his Flag masterpieces, the American flag continues to be an irresistible subject for contemporary artists. Star Spangled Shadows, a screen print showing the stars and stripes reworked with a geometric Native American Navajo pattern, is a 2009 work by Brooklyn artists Patrick McNeil — Continue reading
Our Memorial Day 5-Day Giveaway culminates today with our Grand Prize: the elegant Annex Storage Cabinet by Gus*! This versatile, perfectly proportioned piece is a generous 60-inch wide, with adjustable shelves and self-closing doors and drawers. Recessed handles, a warm walnut finish, and sleek stainless steel base make this thoughtfully — Continue reading
Okay, we admit that this prototype barbecue is a bit precious, and entirely impractical—we’re puzzled by the flat wooden lid, frankly—but don’t you just wish you had a valid reason for buying it? Designed by Barcelona design studio Mermeladaestudio, Druida’s bowl-shaped profile, derived from the vessels in which Druids supposedly prepared magic — Continue reading
One of the more talked about lighting stories at ICFF 2013 last week was Tom Dixon’s giant laser-cut Punch Ball XL pendant globe, which hung at something like 6 ft in diameter suspended above his booth, keeping watch over the laser cutting equipment that gave birth to it. Technology notwithstanding, the truth — Continue reading
The Winnipeg-based design studio 2213 believes that when it comes to home decor, first impressions count for a lot. Which is why, after introducing an elegant line of house numbers last year, they’ve moved on to mailboxes. The new 2213 mail box is the embodiment of Modernist understatement: a simple vertical — Continue reading
If a bit of rope jumping is part of your exercise routine, you might as well elevate the ritual to something loftier than child’s play with Tybee Jump Rope. Designed by Dylan Fareed of Brooklyn-based General Manufacturing, this jump rope “is cleverly assembled from turned walnut handles, leather cord, and paracord — Continue reading
ICFF 2013 may be over, but that doesn’t mean we’ve moved on. We still have, needless to say, lots more to say about the most important modern design gathering in North America—and plenty more to share with you. Here, a few more snapshots of new and exciting names, along with — Continue reading
We’ve been throughly enjoying the month-long Color of the Day series on Design Sponge, in which the history of color is explored via brief, often surprising, backstories, and a lovely, nuanced collection of related info-graphics. Here, we highlight a few more of our recent favorites—and confess to bemoaning the end — Continue reading
If adding a bit of color to chrome-heavy bar tools this summer is a priority, Alessandro Mendini’s convincing, colorful Proust Parrot Sommelier Corkscrew would be a fanciful option. Released by Alessi in 2008, Proust—so named for Mendini’s signature pixel-like pattern that graces his most famous works—was a revamped version of — Continue reading
5 days, 5 gorgeous giveaways! 2Modern’s Memorial Day 5-Day Giveaway is in full swing, and each day, from today until Monday, Memorial Day, you’ll have a chance to win one of the beautiful designer pieces shown here—5 items with a combined retail price of $3200! Enter our 5-Day Giveaway here for — Continue reading
Dallas-based graphic designer Ryan M. Russell is the latest artist to enter the minimalist poster milieu, a visual trend that has given pared-down, graphic expression to everything from television shows and films to Super Heroes and branches of philosophy. Russell, though, is the first to tackle architecture, and his poster series, — Continue reading
Making its North American debut at ICFF 2013 was Lukki, a reissued furniture series by Artek that was introduced in Milan earlier this spring. The four tubular steel and birch plywood pieces that comprise the Lukki line—3 chairs and a stool—were designed by Ilmari Tapiovaara over a 6-year period, spanning 1951-1956, — Continue reading
Not the most famous of George Nelson’s clock designs, but a great beauty is this sculptural Pretzel Clock designed by George Nelson & Associates for Howard Miller Clock Company. Crafted from birch, enameled steel and aluminum, this is a vintage piece, dating back to the mid-1950′s, in excellent condition, and up for — Continue reading
Here’s an idea that’s sure to resonate with anyone who’s ever been in the company of mobile phone addicts: a simple phone pouch that blocks cell signals. Slip a smart phone into Blokket, an invention of the team at The Way We See The World, and the user is emancipated from calls, — Continue reading
If the 2013 ICFF handed out an award for the most photogenic (and most photographed) piece of furniture, it would surely have gone to Carlo Aiello’s jaw-dropping Parabola Chair. Already the winner of the 2013 ICFF Studio Award prior to arriving in New York for the trade show, this chrome-plated steel stunner — Continue reading
Irish textile designer Orla Kiely has been expanding her range of home products, all of which are distinguished by her signature retro-inspired graphic patterns. Her collection of gardening tools bares the Striped Petal pattern in a garden-friendly green/brown color combination. A wooden handle stamped with her famous Stem logo and leather — Continue reading
It’s safe to say concrete is having a moment, and that we may have arrived at the most impressive of all of our concrete discoveries: a T-shaped concrete lamp made by German designer and blogger Sibylle. Exquisitely imperfect, like something unearthed from an ancient excavation site, this lamp was whipped — Continue reading
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