As sweet as… I really love the Honey Chair by Buchegger, Denoth, Feichtner Design. The angular form displayed by the chair has become something of a trademark for the design team (just look at their cutlery designs, for example!)
See more angular work by Buchegger, Denoth, Feichtner Design.
Make eating bizarre! With experimental chefs such as Heston Blumenthal and Ferran Adrià being all the rage these days, it’s about time someone designed some cutlery that can match their bizarre cuisines. Simone Brewster has created a range of experimental cutlery entitled Seasons Of Love, which are a collection of bizarre and beautifully fluid eating utensils. They probably don’t make the act of getting food into your mouth any easier, but they’ll certainly be more fun.
See more work by Simone Brewster.
Get out your credit cards! For those of you that aren’t obsessive Mac fanboys, you might not be aware that Apple have released the MacBook Air, the world’s thinnest laptop.
I know I shouldn’t fall for Apple’s powers of seduction, but I can’t help myself. It’s a sickness.
Available from Apple.
Chairs…err…bench…umm…chairbench? Unfortunately, I don’t speak German, so I have no idea what this is all about. Whatever Yvonne Fehling und Jennie Peiz have made, it’s cool and I want to sit on it.
See more work byYvonne Fehling und Jennie Peiz.
“My God, It’s floating!” Angela Jansen, in partnership with Crealev, has designed loS!, the first in a planned series of floating lamps. The lamp features two magnets that constantly repel each other causing the slightly surreal levitating lampshade effect to occur. I want one!
Find out more at Crealev.
Wallpaper for cyclists. I’ve mentioned Dan FunderBurgh before, but I’m doing it again because he’s created some amusingly beautiful bicycle themed wallpaper for Flavor Paper (I should be working on commission for these guys today!)
See more work by Dan Funderburgh.
Willy Wonkify your home! Flavor Paper have created The Fruit Cocktail Collection, a range of scratch & sniff wallpaper. When scratched, B-A-N-A-N-A-S! smells like bananas, Cherry Forever like cherries, and Tutti Frutti like…tutti frutti! Visual AND olfactory satisfaction from your walls. Pure genius.
More fantastic walllapers available from Flavor Paper.
If you’re on a diet, look away now! It’s a new year, and like many others, I’m doing the obligitory resolution to eat in a more healthy manner. However, the exact moment that you start denying yourself sugary snacks, you start dreaming about cake. At least I do. Or to be more accurate, I’m dreaming about the edible creations of Carles Mampel at Bubo.
I found Bubo last year whilst mindlessly wandering around the back streets of Barcelona. The Bubo shop is more akin to an art gallery than a shop selling cakes and petit fours, which is fitting as the edible artworks created by Carles Mampel are beautifully designed statues of taste. Seriously, it’s almost a crime to eat these things!
If you ever find yourself in Barcelona, skip the tourist traps and head over to Bubo to stuff yourself with beautifully designed award winning cakes. Even if you’re not hungry, just go and feed your eyes.
Visit Bubo
A whole new world of mutated chairs. I missed the Martino Gamper exhibition of his 100 Chairs in 100 Days project which was shown in London last year, but there is now a book available titled 100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways. It highlights the bastardised chair forms which have been created by Gamper using the odds and ends of other chairs, and other various objects.
See more work by Martino Gamper.
