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Square the Circle by Hubert Verstraeten
Hubert Verstraeten has managed to Square the Circle – with rings which are round when worn on one side, and square when worn on the other side. Without any perceptible transition, the inside of the ring…
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Cuckoo Clock by Michael Sans
Michael Sans pushes the boundaries of the pun in his design for a Cuckoo Clock. The Cuckoo (which he claims died of natural causes in 1958, like that matters) is used literally as the armature off which…
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The Gucci Twirl Watch
There is so much great stuff I can say about Gucci. I’ve got handbag stories that will freak you out, but I’ll save that for a future entry. Today I wanted to mention the new Gucci Twirl watch. I’ve…
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The Gucci Dog Backpack
Gucci, along with several other luxury goods providers has realized something that I find enormously valuable to their brand. This is: Rich people have pets. And, those pets will need fashion on a higher…
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Grassland Tape by And Design
The grassland tape is an attempt to capture nature in a roll of adhesive plastic. What I love about the new trend towards wall apliques is how fresh the ideas are when the amount of work to produce those…
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Lolita Chandelier by Ron Arad
In this week’s New York Times Style Magazine, they featured a short blurb about Ron Arad’s Crystal chandelier. The chandelier is a crystal spiral with LED lights embedded within the crystals. The LED…
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Shipping Container Architecture
The Freitag Store
The Freitag Messanger Bag is all about recycling “useless” refuse into a finely built product. Their flagship store is no different in its sensibility. It’s thinness scares me coming from California…
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Repurposed Garments by Maison Martin Margiela
Martin Margiela’s house of designers are packed with a level of virtuosity that is almost unheard of. I’ve included two images of repurposed garments but the most impressive is the glove jacket. It…
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Most Expensive Suitcase Ever
Henk designed by Frog Design
HENK is absolutely one of the most beautiful rich people’s items I have ever seen. It’s incredbily customizable, richly detailed, superbly functional. Everything is perfection of this suitcase. I really…
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Natural Deselection by Tim Simpson
Tim Simpson’s Natural Deselection machine is powerful on many levels. Not only does the piece give commentary on the way technology can be powerfully dark when dominating nature, but also it’s entertaining,…
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Ingenious Use of Recycling
Tide Chandelier by Stuart Haygarth
Stuart Haygarth’s Chandeliers are as powerful to me as any of the environmental artist, Andy Goldsworthy. Goldsworthy makes simple forms from natural material that, often times, have arrived on the shores…
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Luxury Goth
Vintage Ivory by Black Sheep and Prodigal Sons
This is one of my favorite finds so far. Black Sheep and Prodigal Sons is a store with the well-to-do goth in mind. The store and the website are reminiscent of my own San Francisco’s Paxton Gate, however…
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Therese Chandelier by Cultivate
CULTIVATE is a design house that, as many Dutch designers do, explore the extreme edges of puns. They are very toung and cheek with their designs. Their playfulness does not detratct from the visceral…
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Clock or Sculpture?
About Time by Cultivate
CULTIVATE is a design house that, as many Dutch designers do, explores the extreme edges of puns. They are very toung-and-cheek with their designs. The About Time table clock is certainly in this punny…
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Leica M8 Digital Camera
Classic Design Gets 10 Megapixels
I can’t say enough good things about the Leica M8. This camera company has created design perfection. The M series lenses, which are meticulously detailed to perform with the most clarity possible, had…
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ArtQuitect Collection by Jaime Hayon
Jaime Hayon made a huge splash at the 2006 London Design Festival with hi collection of bathroom fixtures for ArtQuitect. The reasons are obvious: the pieces are extremely sculptural, fluid, and baroque…
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Woofer Speakers by Cultivate
CULTIVATE is a design house that, as many Dutch designers do, explores the extreme edges of puns. They are very toung-and-cheek with their designs. The “Woofer” speakers push the puns way over the…
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Mexican Wrestling Mixed With High Fashion
Nendo Brand Destroyer Handbag
This project was for Vogue Nippon. The challenge was to modify a luxury brand handbag into the designer’s own creation. Nendo’s concept was to mask the brand’s essence in such a way to make the owner…
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Fallen Log Centerpiece by Jeff Zimmerman
Ever since I visited the island of Murano outside of Venice, where they make some of the finest (and cheesiest) glass in the world, I’ve had an obsessions with fine glass objects. This log centerpiece…
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The Paul Smith Track Bike
Where Fashion and Sports Collide
The Paul Smith Bike manufactured by Mercian is true design crack. Paul Simth is what I consider to be the Tommy Hilfiger of the UK. That is, he takes an interesting fashion concept, like the bold, multicolored…
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