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Leolux, already 75 years of craftsmanship and authenticity
Leolux is a synonym for distinctive design. High in quality, comfortable and durable. Produced with passion by professionals, combining traditional craftsmanship and high technology. Leolux has built up its collection in three sphere segments, each with a character of its own. Sculptures have an international, distinctive design.
The history of Leolux
In 1934, the Zuid-Nederlandse Clubmeubelfabriek (ZNC) is founded, a factory that will be later become famous as Leolux.
In 1948, the brothers Jan and Ton Sanders buy the little factory that builds classic furniture. A few years later, they decide on a more modern line influenced by Danish and Italian design. This modern furniture is given the name of Leolux: the luxury (modern) furniture from the factory with the lion (Leo) in its logo.
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something that lies ready for use or that can be drawn upon for aid or to take care of a need.....
....so, in that sense, please take a look at these resources.....
they certainly lie ready and can take care of a need, albeit it a purely aesthetic one....
This is the work of Ingrid Siliakus, Artist/Paper Architect | Netherlands
Ingrid Siliakus first discovered paper architecture by seeing work of the originator of this art form Prof. Masahiro Chatani (architect and professor in Japan). He developed this art form in the early 1980's. Ingrid was instantly fascinated by the ingenious manner in which these pieces were designed and by the beauty they radiated. Ingrid studied the originator's work for some years and than started to design herself. Ingrid states that working with this art form has given her personal means of expressing. Her designing skills have grown over the years. Her specialties are buildings of master architects and intricate abstract sculptures. Her source of inspiration by these abstract sculptures are works of artists like M.C. Escher. With buildings she feels attracted to work of Berlage and Gaudi.
Paper Architecture is the art of creating an object out of a single piece of paper. Before the final design is finished, something like 20 to 30 (sometimes even more) prototypes are made by Ingrid. Drawing paper architecture designs to Ingrid is as building: first one layer, with a single shape, will be drawn and than layer after layer are added. This process continues till she is satisfied with the result. All separate prototypes are cut and folded, to be examined by her. To design a pattern from scratch, the artist needs the skills of an architect to create a two-dimensional design, which, with the patience and precision of a surgeon, becomes an ingenious three-dimensional wonder of paper. After the design stage, creating a paper architecture art work is done by a combination of detailed cutting and folding. The paperweight Ingrid uses for her creations varies from 160 to 300 gram.
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THE NEW OPULENCE.
As an architect, he is internationally successful. He designed the Federation Tower in Moscow, the highest skyscraper in Europe and also the AquaDom in Berlin, the largest free-standing aquarium in the world. Sergei Tchoban has now designed a bathroom range for Duravit: Esplanade – luxurious, spacious and visually impressive. Tchoban deliberately plays with the splendour of times gone by paired with a touch of irony. So it is no coincidence that the floorstanding toilet resembles an ancient chair, the washbasin a chest of drawers and the bathtub a chaise longue. The Esplanade furniture is available in two completely different styles. Either in exquisite silk or comfortable oak wood panelling, blending the bathroom beautifully with the living area.
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With this special bathtub, you can literally (and literarily, yes!) bathe in books. Built by Vanessa Mancini, the tub “is made entirely out of books which Vanessa cut and fitted together over a metal frame to form a bath of books, which is suspended by four antique bath tub, lion-shaped feet. She intends to later cover it in layers of resin and has already applied proper taps and drain, so that it will be a utilizable, functional bath at all effects.” Questions of mold aside, isn’t this just exactly what you’ve always wanted? Though we’re not sure the status of the piece, we will definitely be keeping an eye out for it and for more of Mancini’s work in the future. [via BoingBoing]
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Walking on the Ceiling (or Walls): Organic by Outsign and Knauf
Produced as a team effort between French architecture and design firm Outsign and German building materials giant Knauf, Organic is a wood-wool tile designed to be eco- and design-friendly. Manufactured with wood fibers and treated with sunflower-oil paints, Organic does not transmit VOC and is environmentally sustainable while offering acoustic and aesthetic benefits. Whether for use on walls or ceilings, Organic tiles “will allow you to firmly express your creativity and difference.”
The Organic range of acoustical tiles takes its cue from nature. Patterns that present elements of the natural world include Wind & Leaves, which features leaves sprinkled on a plain background; Woods, which presents winter branches; and Vegetal Rhythmics, which pictures vertical lines of differing slants (expressionistic tree trunks or pine needles perhaps). The Organic collection comes in three color palettes: Fractal Poetry (blues, slates, grays), Urban World (bright colors such as magenta, coral, and teal), and Natural Life (warm earth tones).
Organic tiles are also interesting due to their interesting texture—something akin to spaghetti squash. From afar, you can simply admire the color or design of the tiles. For ceilings, most onlookers will focus on the spots of yellow or blue. A closer inspection will reveal the sinuous interconnections of the material. On walls, people will note the three-dimensional quality of the shaggy wood-wool composite.
About the Manufacturer: Knauf was founded in 1932 by the brothers Karl and Dr. Alfons N. Knauf. The German-based company continues to be family-owned and operated. Knauf produces building materials and construction systems, offering gypsum products including plasterboard, plaster, and screeds; insulation products including glasswool, rock mineral wool, wood wool cement, and extruded and expanded polystyrene; and other building products including ceiling tiles and rolled metal sections.
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Choose Your Viewpoint and Alter Your Perspective: This multi-discipline Forecast, called REFOCUS, provides Global Color Direction across Fashion, Cosmetics, Lifestyle, Graphics and Industrial Design by showcasing key color palettes for the Fall/Winter 2012/2013.
PANTONE VIEW Color Planner Fall/Winter 2012/2013 pushes individuals to refocus by encouraging a break from the “usual” or mundane into something more abstract and unexpected – often improving original intent. Exploring the different ways we feel and look at things can inform the way we innovate with color. When we see something for the first time, we impose an expectation, almost before we really look at it. The idea of looking outwards and seeing another way of being and doing holds a fascination as well as the chance to take advantage of new possibilities.
“Color is a critical factor in engaging consumers and motivating purchasing decisions. Knowing that, it is important for designers to continue to innovate and experiment with new approaches to color in their product lines,” said Laurie Pressman, vice-president of fashion, home and interiors at Pantone. “The PANTONE VIEW Color Planner forecast provides a fresh point of view with unexpected color combinations that spark the imagination, refocus attention and stimulate new thinking to capture consumers’ attention.”
Thanks to Nidhi Saxena who is a talented textile designer. Her blog,
Nidhi Saxena’s blog about Patterns, Colors and Designs
is at the forefront of color and textile technologies.....
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These are the PANTONE 2012-13 color forecasts
Jeeves Table Lamp by Jake Phipps
The Jeeves Tablelamp, a minimal base supports a classic bowler hat that is adjustable so you can ‘tip’ your hat.
Materials: Steel base with Wool felt hat and Aluminium lining
Colour: Black with gold anodised interior
Bulb: G9 28W (Supplied)
Size: 56cm height x 25cm width x 33cm length
Code: LJ022102
Your NEW kitchen - someday soon....
1 NOW YOU SEE THEM, NOW YOU DON'T.
Smaller appliances will pop up from hiding places, and huge fridges and enormous ranges will recede into the walls. "The sleek, muted lines will make the kitchen the new living room," says Lou Lenzi, director of industrial design operations for General Electric Appliances.
2 YOUR COUNTER WILL HAVE INTELLIGENCE.
Before Siri, there was Lillian, the talking cookbook that Hewlett-Packard dreamed up for the Disney Innoventions Dream Home designed by building company Taylor Morrison. Name a dish, and the ingredients light up on an interactive countertop as Lil talks you through making the recipe. The next possible step? A holographic cookbook or even a holographic professional chef, says Amy Haywood-Rino, Taylor Morrison's vice president of sales and marketing. (Um, Tyler Florence, please.)
3 STAINLESS LIVES UP TO ITS NAME.
Labs are working on developing new types of stainless steel that resist bacteria and fingerprints. (Now if only iPads could stay smudge-free . . .)
4 YOUR GADGETS WILL TALK TO EACH OTHER.
Find a recipe in your fridge's digital database and, while you gather the ingredients, it will wirelessly communicate the cooking temperature to the stove, which will then set itself and preheat.
5 COFFEE WILL BE EVEN MORE AUTOMATIC.
To ease your daily grind, you may soon be able to text a drink order to your java machine so that your coffee is hot and ready when you are. A Seattle-based company called ZipWhip recently rigged a Jura-Capresso Impressa Xs90 to do just that (it can even write the recipient's initials in the foam on top using an edible-ink printer). Though the machine is (currently) one of a kind, David Shull, Jura-Capresso's vice president of sales and marketing, says a retail version is not out of the question in the near future.
6 YOU'LL NEVER RUN OUT OF EGGS.
Your fridge will automatically update a grocery list on a smartphone app if it detects the eggs are running low or the milk is past its expiration date. Then, with your OK, it will place an order from an online delivery company.
7 CLEAN WATER WON'T BE IN SHORT SUPPLY.
Autofill dispensers will filter out 98 percent of the top five pharmaceuticals that testing has revealed to be present in the water supply. (These include certain birth-control drugs, antidepressants, and painkillers.)
8 YOU'LL BE ABLE TO ENJOY THAT NEW CHARDONNAY RIGHT AWAY.
Blast chiller technology--such as the kind LG debuted on its newest high-end fridges--cools beverages to their ideal temps in eight minutes (for a full bottle of wine) or less. And speed freezing can better preserve foods with high water content, like produce, says molecular gastronomist Scott Heimendinger. Why? When food freezes slowly, the water inside it forms large ice crystals, which can damage the food, leaving you with a soggy mess when the food thaws.
9 FOOD WILL STAY FRESHER FOR LONGER.
American households waste nearly $600 a year on food that goes bad. Now deli meat, produce, and wine will have their own compartments in your fridge, each with its own optimal temperature and humidity level. The result: fewer food-borne diseases, an extra week of life for leafy greens and berries--and cash saved for a new pair of shoes (or 10).
10 FOOD WILL BE TRULY HOMEGROWN.
Produce doesn't get any fresher than an in-kitchen aeroponic garden, an efficient (and neat) soil-free method of growing plants by misting their exposed roots with a solution of water and nutrients. Chef Homaro Cantu, who has been experimenting with this method at his Chicago restaurant Moto, says, "By the middle of next year, 50 percent of our produce bill will vanish with this system. That's pretty big."
11 THERE WILL BE A BETTER BURNER.
Induction ranges are fast, safe, and energy-efficient because they use electromagnetism to heat the pan, not the cooktop (where 80 percent of home cooking is done, according to GE research). You can even touch the stove's surface without getting burned.
12 YOU WON'T HAVE TO WATCH ANY POTS.
If you've ever forgotten you had steel-cut oatmeal, pasta, or rice boiling away on the stove and had to clean up the resulting mess, you'll appreciate this news: Sensors that beep to alert you when a saucepan's contents are boiling, and then automatically lower the heat to a preset simmer for a preprogrammed length of time, are currently in development.
13 YOU'LL GO FULL STEAM AHEAD.
Steam ovens--now big in Europe--will allow you to cook your entree, sides, and dessert in the same space without worrying that the souffle will smell like salmon. And since steaming uses moist heat, not butter or oil, to cook food, your meals will be healthier too. In some cases (as with broccoli), steaming has even been found to increase the nutrients in food.
14 DINNER WILL BE READY SOONER.
Microwaves will be replaced by speed ovens that combine microwave, convection, and, in GE's case, intense halogen light to cook meals up to eight times faster, without losing any of the flavor and browning you're used to. "A five-pound bird can be speed-cooked in about 25 minutes," says Lenzi--a task that would take a conventional oven around 90 minutes.
Yet another amazing breakthrough has been announced by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration in Berlin, Germany. Called Smart Fabric, it’s a simple-seeming sheet of fabric that incorporates silver-coated conductive threads webbed together that are connected to a microcontroller. When weakened or broken by an intruder, it acts as an anti-intruder alarm, identifying the exact location of the break-in.
This remarkable fabric will be significantly cheaper than current burgler alarm systems and can be placed in a variety of surface areas – roof rafters, under floor tiles, even integrated in concrete and blockwork walls. And because the electrical current is so weak, it poses no hazard to children or pets.
The fabric can be trimmed to any size before it’s installed, as long as it’s no smaller than one square meter (10.76 sq ft). And lab tests show it stands up to repeated machine washings, high humidity, and temperatures ranging from -40ºC (-40ºF) to 85ºC (185ºF). No word yet when it might make it to the marketplace but it’s definitely worth keeping an eye out for!
The axis light is made of precisely machined and anodized aluminum. The lightsource rotates 180 degrees about the main column, which is supported by the two rods that pierce it. These rods slide freely through the column, by this action the angle of the column is adjusted.
Remember when you were little and your mother used to put you in your comfortable bed. You felt asleep really fast without thinking too much. Well, those days are over. Now you have to find another solution. But don’t ask your dear ones to find it for you because they won’t do it, believe me. Don`t leave this idea because the perfect solution for you was found. The perfect chair for you to take a nap without being disturbed by anyone was invented.
This amazing chair, created by Ali Alavi looks like a piece of furniture from the Future. It really isn’t, it exists in our days and it has some extraordinary references. As the designer itself said: “The Serenad chair’s elegant form is inspired by the unique sleeping position of the swan with its head between its wings as it floats on the water”. He is right, this chair looks amazing and very fancy and you can almost see the swan on the lake when you look at it. Imagine it in your living room, it will look very luxurious and will capture the looks of every visitor.
FUN or what?
All you need now, is a sail.....
and we’re off to the BathTub Races!
Inspired by the designer observing a fisherman floating on a boat one morning, this modern Bathboat captures the essence of relaxation and functionality.
Providing “a new experience with a simple intervention”, this amazing project from Dutch designer Wieki Somers provides a sculptural alternative to bathtub design, integrating the need for seclusion found in a floating boat in a striking contemporary tub design. Adding a water-inspired theme to a bathing tub, the designer re-created the way we look at bathing experiences. Placing the functional elements in the same league as the potential for dreamy escapes, Wieki Somers imagined an oak and red ceder wood boat for modern bathrooms to display with pride. Drifting away on the sea of dreams, an experience including the bathboat could end up being your favorite relaxation secret.
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Clear , pure -
comme glace....
like ice!
If you’re going to have glass treads, these are the ONLY ones to specify. Unlike the laminated treads seen most commonly, these are
clean, elegant and much more beautiful....
A team of industrial design students at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, has developed an ingenious design for a bipartite, or two-compartment, waterless dishwasher that is wall-mounted and doubles as a kitchen cabinet. Called dualWash, the dishwasher uses supercritical carbon dioxide for cleaning rather than water.
The tablet market is moving like a rocket, both in terms of price and specifications. Think back a mere 12 months ago and the only low cost tablets you could get were nasty tacky models with unresponsive resistive touchscreens, anemic processors which could barely cope with web browsing and all the style of a plastic brick (no offence Mr Leg0). But not any more.
The deal has changed, big time. Take this ONDA V701 Dual Core 7 Inch Tablet PC. It comes with an ARM dual core 1.5 GHz processor, Android 4.0.3, 1GB of RAM (an important improvement!) and 8GB of storage on board. It accepts microSD up to 32GB for additional storage, has a 5 point capacitive touchscreen, a front camera and microphone for video calls, and supports 3G cellular dongles for wireless roaming. Oh and did we mention high speed WiFi b/g/n and a run time of up to 7 hours?
I have ordered one for an in-depth evaluation....will report on it in the next issue.
Those in the tech/design/illustration fields are well aware of WACOM.....the Canadian company that has pioneered tablets, stylii and input devices for design and architecture. This revolutionary new stylus works on ANY tablet....
Don’t let your ideas escape! With the Bamboo pocket you can turn your Apple® iPad® and other touch devices into an artist’s canvas one moment and a notepad the next. The Bamboo pocket is smooth, responsive and fluid – everything you’d expect from a real pen. The Bamboo pocket is as flexible as your imagination.
Expand the pocket when you need it. Mark it as yours with interchangeable color rings. Store it by plugging it into your headphone jack, or fold it up and fit it anywhere. Use the pocket with our many creative apps to make your own art, capture your ideas before they escape, fix up your photos or take notes in a class or in a meeting. It’s easy. It’s fun. It’s ready when you are.
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But aren’t you just LOVING this?
Spectacular workmanship ..... a rare Piero Fornasetti cabinet.
Fornasetti's Architettura Cabinet based on a Gio Ponti design.
A fantastic example in its original
state,less than 40 of these cabinet were produced between 1951 and 1975.
The Trumeau ( a cross between a drop-front desk,a bar and a credenza) is one
of the most desirable examples of Fornasetti-Ponti furniture.
It’s for sale through : :
Galere
3717 South Dixie HWY Ste. B
West Palm Beach, FL, 33405
Phone: 561-832-3611
E-Mail: info@galere.net
Ref. : 1208318432619
The thing with extension cords is that they look ugly and the wires are a prime accident zones for tripping. There is nothing Elegant about them! Unless you’re looking at the “Post Line”, this one’s a gorgeous concept that makes full use of the circuit-printing technology and electrostatic paste material. Use it from point A (gadget) to point B (wall socket) by sticking it flat to the floor, and if it becomes less sticky and grimy, simply wipe it clean and its sticky flat extension cord tape again!
Designer: Chen Ju Wei
Read more at http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/12/04/no-more-trippin-wires/#blRsPMOM9Bk8FlBm.99
