Droog hotel

Around the corner from flagship store Droog at Home in Amsterdam will soon be Home at Droog, a 10-room member-only hotel, concept restaurant and exhibition space designed by Tokyo-based Atelier Bow-Wow. 
Leaving the canal-facing front façade intact, Atelier Bow-Wow created an intricate inner courtyard façade inspired by Amsterdam's historic architecture. The hotel restaurant will host new concept dinners by invited designers and chefs, improvising with local market left-overs and practicing the act of eating slowly yet attentively. The street level will house an on-going program of Droog exhibitions and events.

Simon Birch

www.simon-birch.com

eyelashes art

The series of works starts serial inspiration design from the Chinese paper-cutting art.
The engrave visual effect of the works recur a slip of the traditional culture.
Eyelashes not only has been pass down the culture meaning of paper-cutting,
but also enrich the story of totem, to show the new fashion and sexy with the beautiful gesture.

by Ting yu Wang

http://www.paperself.com/index.html

TOYS'R'US - Dinghy scale 1:1, 2006

"A boat and related equipment are joined together in a welded metal frame. Everything is painted in a unifying plastic layer to resemble the surface of a model kit. The real boat is transformed into a model of itself, and its original purpose has given way to something else.

TOYS'R'US was made for the exhibition Besökarna (the Visitors) in a new part of Malmö, the Western Harbour, built for the housing fair Bo01 in 2001. The area was developed as a demonstration project to provide a model for future cities. Today, six years later, it still feels like a model. The artificial atmosphere still awaits to break loose from its surrounding plastic sticks."

from http://www.anotherfaceinthecrowd.com/blog/page/2/

Black and White - Alec Strang

" Alec Strang's work draws on contemporary society and the darker, more fantastical depths of his imagination. His use of fineliners to produce his predominantly black and white images give his characters a feeling of charm and immediacy. He is predominantly an illustrator and designer but keep an eye out for more animated work in the near future."
from http://www.itsalltrue.biz/artists/alecstrang/index.php

Alec Strang's website:
http://www.alstrang.com

Jvallee

Supernova October 2009 Installation qui vise à matérialiser le bref instant que durent les radiations dues à l'explosion d'une étoile. Les formes sont créées et disposées de façon aléatoire et représentent l'arrêt d'un moment précis de grande luminosité colorée. Contrairement au phénomène réel d'une supernova, qui ne s'étend que sur quelque secondes, l'installation permet au public de regarder l'explosion pour un temps indéfini et d'imaginer le mouvement de ses radiations. La pièce a originalement été exposée dans la galerie Samwon Papers Gallery à Séoul en 2009. -- Supernova is an installation piece that aims to materialize the briefly burst of radiation that is a supernova. The shapes were created and put together randomly into a tangible installation that fixes in time the stellar explosion. In opposite of the real phenomen that is a supernova, which lasts only a few seconds and fades over months, the installation let the viewer imagine the burst and the movement of its radiation for an undefined period of time. The installation was originally exhibited in Seoul at the Samwon Paper Gallery in 2009.

Arctic Is Melting

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Milan Design Week 2010

Milan Design Week 2010: Day 2

by sabine7 / April 15, 2010

More highlights from my tour of the exhibitions in Milan; the Ali Baba table at Moroso, Bubble sofa at Versace (above), Cabana shelving by the Campana brothers at Edra and more.



Detail of Bubble sofa at Versace



Ali Baba table at Moroso



Cabana shelving by the Campana brothers at Edra



Chairless at Vitra



Front's wood Bead Work chair at Moroso, inspired taxi-cab cushions



La Fiorita sofa by Gaetano Pesce for Meritalia



Sparkling Chair by Marcel Wanders for Magis




Mangas rugs by Patricia Urquiola for Gandia Blasco