A recreation of original La Corbusier designs, Cassina has brought the mid-century modernist’s furniture pieces back to life. Originally designed in 1952 in the South of France, the designer Charles-Edouard Le Corbusier was inspired by such things as old whiskey crates found abandoned on dusty roadsides, typical of the Le Corbusier’s famed interest in objet […]

Visual Acoustics is a tribute to a great artist, a world-renowned photographer who managed to define Los Angeles architecture through his lens. Directed by Eric Bricker and narrated by actor Dustin Hoffman, the documentary film follows the career of one of the most famous architectural photographers of all time, Julius Shulman. Working with such upper […]

Monstrously over-rated environmental installation artists Christo and Jeanne Claude have opted to collect their art in a massive Taschen coffee table book, which is fairly de rigueur for artists of their stature. What is not so standard, however, is the $50,000 pricetag they’re throwing on it. Seriously, $50K for a book. Obviously, the mindset that […]

A master of architectural writings has compiled a book on a master of architecture. Author Jodidio Philip brings the architectural world a compilation on the design works of the innovative and highly renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. The aptly titled Shigeru Ban Complete Works: 1985-2010 coffee table book compiles every architectural creation ever completed by […]

Taschen’s golden book of the month is, in their words, “an unprecedented architecture encyclopedia.” The A-Z of Modern Architecture is a 2-volume, hardcover immersive experience into the architectural world of modernism. What makes this series different is its focus on the designers as opposed to the structures themselves. The books features works from the present […]

This one really isn’t an easy concept to mentally digest at first. Initially, the project comes across as a game of “What’s wrong with this picture?” For instance: children, playing in a sandbox, nothing wrong with that…but children playing in a sandbox in the middle of a busy street? Seems very questionable. Each live sculpture […]

Are you moonlighting as a part time ninja assassin? Then check out these World Landmark Rings. These black acrylic mini shanks will blend in nicely with your shinobi gloves while you’re lurking in the shadows. And because they’re laser cut to look like world landmarks, the authorities will only suspect you of being a ninja […]

The cow isn’t where it started. It started with concrete being poured into the soil with hay masses inside. And then the baby calf started eating (designing) the interior of the house until it was empty and ready for furniture (and the calf was indeed no longer a calf, but a cow). After that, the […]