Seasons by Nao Tamura

An inspiring idea... flexible plates that resemble natural leaves but made of silica sand. There is not much that I can add after looking the pictures. The pictures are self explanatory. You can use it like regular plates or deform them for different culinary presentations, you can even give a roll with the food inside and unroll it to eat the food. It Seems like fun.

Nao Tamura

Max Lamb for Commissioned

I like the fact that this stone alike furniture don't have anything to do with rock but they have a really interesting process of making them. Just watch the video...

Poly Chair from Max Lamb on Vimeo.


"amongst his pieces
is 'scrap poly furniture' whereby a process of destruction is used to create a chair, stool
and bench. here a variety of simple tools are used to make the furniture manually. the piece
are carved and the soft tactile polyurethane rubber finish is applied on top."

Max Lamb

Elastic Wood by Gilli Kuchik

Ok, I completely dislike the chair... but the empiric investigation of flexible joints for wood furniture is really interesting. Think of the possibilities, and when you think about flexible joints it doesn't need to be wood, it could be any material really...

What you can follow in the sequence of pictures is that the chair is really easy to assemble thanks to the flexible material used with the wood. It would have been nice to know what is the flexible material we are talking about as there is no info on this matter.



















Gilli Kuchik of Israel design group Bakery

Chairless by Alejandro Aravena for Vitra

I like the concept but I am sure that after a while it gets really uncomfortable... I don't get why they produce something that is an uncomfortable design, specially when we are talking about Vitra that has a history of great design. It doesn't make much sense, at least to me... Maybe someone can give some other opinion here!! Just feel free to leave a comment.






Alejandro Aravena

1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron

Chance is sarcastic... Lately I have been thinking a lot about car park buildings and then I found this amazing Herzog & de Meuron car park building built in Miami. This guys are one of my favorite architects since the first project I saw from them years and years  ago.

Buildings like this one are very sustainable as you can park many many cars in less space and the cost of making then is cheaper than the ones underground. Also they are cleaner than the ones underground as air flows continuosly. Just hold your breath as you go through this breathtaking images:












Herzog & de Meuron 111 Lincoln Road

Alpha Blast by Marco Dessi

I just discovered sandblast... It's not like I haven't heard it before, but I never realized how easy is the process and how many things you can do with sandblast. Looking through this article about a Mouthblown glass designed in 1952 by Hans Harald Rath and redesigned thanks to a really easy sandblasting technique on its surface, really opened my mind to a whole new set of possibilities. The designer of the reinterpretation is Marco Dessi. You can just check in the pictures the whole process:






Then I am posting some videos (nothing great to speak in the name of truth) with some of the infinite posibilities of sandblasting and different examples of sandblasting machines depending on the material applied. And this are just few examples:

Metal:


Jeans:


Glass:

Winscape or a virtual window in any room

Now a room with no real window has no excuse to be a impressive place, thanks to this application + device. I imagine this could become a big issue in near future if they get to know how to promote and propel the project.





Winscape

Incedible Fish Tank

I am absorbed by the image... I don't even have something to say about it, its like a stage in a theater or a scenography from "2001: A Space Odyssey" but for fish. The picture it's from MILAN 2010:PEEP-SHOW, FISHES AND OTHER OBJECTS OF DESIRE

Archigram Archival Project

It if FUNDAMENTAL to know this web... You can check all Archigram projects online, it's indeed brand new. Something that you just couldn't do before.

Archigram Archival Project

Softroom by Molo Studio

Imagine the possibilities...  you can free the space or make it into something different each time you move a wall. Completely private of public, it's one of the easiest ways of generate space that I can think of...







Molo Studio