Slow down your world and relax. Set in motion by the heat of a single tea candle, the Carousel Candle is beautifully designed heat motion sensitive carousel. The warmth of a candle will power the Carousel into a clockwise motion, whilst it’s heat will scatter mesmerizing silhouettes upon your walls.
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Conor Harrington Exhibition Dates: Fri 25th of January - Sat 23rd of February Opening on 25th January 2008 at Lazarides Gallery will be new works by Conor Harrington. The show will feature paintings made from oil and aerosol paint alongside a series of new charcoal drawings. Weekend Warriors explores the world of historical re-enactment, where men dress up at the weekends as warriors, generals and emperors to live out their escapist fantasies as heroes and supermen.
See more work by Conor Harrington.
Creative shelving. If I had a collection of beautiful things to show off, I’d definitely consider the Taapa display system from Hold. This flexible shelving system comes in four sizes with a selection of shelving components. The unique layer configurations are limited only by your imagination.
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Looking for unbalanced balance? Then the Stick Chair design by Emmanuelle Moureaux is the one for you. The inspiration of “stick chair” came from the “Mikado”, a pick-up sticks game originating in Europe. A total of 7 round wooden sticks placed obliquely support the heavy chunk of acrylic seat at the perfect balance. This architecture like structure was developed after many attempts to achieve an “unbalanced balance,” which stabilizes the structure although looks unstable by coming closer to the structural limit. Due to its beautiful refraction effects, those sticks appear as if they are soaked underwater.
My guilty secret: I want to be a gardener. Maybe it’s because it’s a new year and the natural world will soon be bursting back into life, but I’m suddenly taking much more notice of gardens. Whereas normally I’d drool over the latest in cutting edge architecture, I’m now finding myself obsessed with the accompanying gardens instead. I now dream of modernist garden designs, and have decided to spruce up my own garden. Which is how I came across the furniture/plant hybrid products by Japanese company, Mindscape. It’s a great idea that combines interesting plant shapes with a place to sit and contemplate the garden.
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Hope & Apologies. Rafael Morgan, a Brazilian based designer, looks set for a great future. His work has already been featured on several of the big design blogs, and now he’s unfortunate enough to have hit a low by appearing on mine, haha. Anyway, I’ve spoken to Rafael once or twice via email, but I always forget to post anything about him on Things of Random Coolness (Sorry Rafael!)
Anyway, I saw Gijs Baker’s droplet style fruitbowl for Royal VKB, and it reminded me how much I liked Rafael’s Hope Table Design. Apparently, the table is going into production through Six Inch this year, so that good news! Nice work, Rafael!
Find out more about Rafael Morgan.
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.