January 17th, 2011 — Design
Edited by Galerie BSL , and a special commission from the Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Upside Down by young French designer Adrien De Melo is a landscape of suspended books, resembling a music score. Each piece is made of stainless steel frames covered with translucent polyurethane inflated cushions and hung using straps. Construct your own ideal floating bookcase using the five base modules. Edited by Galerie BSL to eight examples and one prototype, Upside Down is, originally, a commission from Louis Vuitton Malletier to equip the Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton (60 rue Bassano Paris 8th) where it will be definitively installed from February 2011. The bookcase will be presented for the first time at the next edition of Meet My Project at Lieu du Design, 74 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine (Paris 12th) from January 21-25, 2011.
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Upside Down by Adrien De Melo
January 17th, 2011 — Design
Jason E. Kay created these interesting gun-handle fireplace tools (currently a prototype). Another gun-inspired accessory to add to the list ( gun lamp , wall-mounted gun vase , three gun vase ). Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook ! © 2011 Design Milk | Posted by Jaime in Home Furnishings | Permalink | No comments | Tweet This | Share on Facebook
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Heat Fireplace Tools by Jason E. Kay
January 17th, 2011 — Furniture, Furniture products
White Leatherette Modern Sofa Bed Convertible
Features:
- Contemporary Couch bed convertible
- White leatherette upholstery
- Metal legs
- Adjustable armrests
- Available in white, brown and black
Dimensions:
- Sofa: 73″L x 34″D x 35″H
- Bed position: 73″L x 46″D x 16″D
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White Leatherette Modern Sofa Bed Convertible w/Metal Legs
January 15th, 2011 — Design
Laura Day is a country girl that relocated to New York City to carry out her passion of becoming an Interior Designer. She has completed many spectacular residential and commercial design projects for rock stars and Grammy award winners alike.
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Friday Five with Laura Day
January 15th, 2011 — Designer Stuff
No fear – the pieces within the Brick Series are far more comfortable than actual bricks. In fact, the Brick Series is an architectural collection that mimicks the act of bricklaying, as you can see the cozy stacks of cushions. Designed by KiBiSi, their website states that the series “explores the tectonic of bricklaying to stack sandbag-like cushions into architecture for comfort.”
The Brick series, designed for Versus and available through their website, consists of a pouf, chair, armchair, two-seater and three-seater. The plush cushions with polyurethane foam are tied together with buttons made from molded fiber concrete.
KibiSi, the designers behind the Brick series, is a Copenhagen-based firm of industrial design. It was started by three partners each with a different specialty. The Ki in KiBiSi comes from Lars Holme Larsen of Kilo Design, the Bi from Bjarke Ingels of BIG Architecture and Jens Martin Skibsted of Skibsted Ideation. For more information, check out their website: http://www.kibisi.com.
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January 14th, 2011 — Design, Furniture, Uncategorized
Materials: Malm Bed and Dresser Description: After being inspired by so many cool projects on this website, hoping my daughter would sleep in her own room, and deciding I didn’t want to pay $2500 for kids’ bunk beds I came up with a design to use used Malm items to make my kids a new bedroom set. This was a combination of three easy hacks and one harder one requiring actual building. I got two used Malm beds, and a used Malm dresser. I used the two headboards from the beds to make my toddler’s bed- simply replacing the footboard with the second headboard, so she couldn’t scoot off the bottom of the bed and under the bunk by accident. I used the rails and slats from the second bed on the upper bed that I built to match the Malm beds- the headboard, footboard, and stair wall are 2″ thick, and the headboard is the same height above the mattress as the Malm headboard.
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Malm Toddler Bed under Malm-inspired Bunk
January 13th, 2011 — Designer Stuff
Materials: 5 Gorm 1'x3' shelves, hand saw, mallet, workbench vise, electric screw driver, 14 drywall screws, 4 'dowel' screws, 2 wall anchor screws, wood glue
Description: Shelf Your Recyclable Cardboard… with this quick, fun project: Storage and binding station for your pantry, mud room, or garage.
Assembly time was about 2 hours:
1) Set aside (intact) 4 of the 5 Gorm 1'x3' shelves.
2) Using a workbench vise (or a work table and a clamp) with a hand saw, cut off 1 of the 3 slats that make up a 1'x3' Gorm shelf section. Do this as follows.. this the only challenging part of this project!:
a)clamp down the shelf so that a 1' long edge is on horizontal to you and on top, and the 3' sides are vertical. b) Refer to the attached pictures (”Gorm 1ftx3ft shelf.jpg” and “Cardboard recycler_Side view.jpg”)
You will be cutting the L-shaped molded edge piece and not the slat itself: Locate the first 'gap' between the slat you are removing and the middle slat. c) now angle the hand saw blade so that you are cutting the L-shaped molded edge from against the slat you are 'keeping' outward to up against the middle slat. d) Turn over and clamp down the 1'x3' Gorm shelf section and do the same cut to the other L-shaped molded edge on the other side — but make sure to have the angle of the saw blade and the cut itself match the direction of the cut done in able step c. That done.. the 'difficult' part of the project is complete!
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January 12th, 2011 — Design
Sergey Makhno and Butenko Vasiliy designed this office for a client whose company produces design accessories. Therefore, the client wanted the office space to directly reflect his business. The walls are covered in wood and Corian. The space consists of a meeting space, presentation area, terrace, restrooms and storage. I think working in a space such as this would definitely spark my creativity.
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Azure Office by Sergey Makhno and Butenko Vasiliy
January 12th, 2011 — Design
Nendo will show solo exhibitions in a new exhibition Dancing Squares at Art Stage in Singapore, January 13-16, 2011. The exhibition objects include lamps, bookshelves, stools, and table/containers.
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Dancing Squares by Nendo
January 12th, 2011 — Designer Stuff
There’s nothing fake about the Fabricate lamps.
A self-assembly pendant light, the Fabricate is a unique pendant lamp. It arrives in a flat package that includes the outer cloth, a spiral wire frame and the electrical light fitting. The cloth is available in many different colors and can be twisted and straightened in whichever way you desire.
The fabric of the Fabricate can be sewn with several cloth pockets to create a connected light fixture with one, two or three lights attached, as three are seen together in the image above.
Fabricate lights are designed by the Studio Henry van Nistelrooy, a London based product designer.
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