Love the bold lines of this flatpack shelf. It’s a great minimalist / modern look that won’t look out of place next to more contemporary furniture as well as with classic modernist furniture by someone like Eames, etc. The word timeless comes to mind. Jörg Schatzmann is all about DIY / tinkering, low / no budget […]

The 727 Suite at the Hotel Costa Verde is based around the fuselage of a vintage Boeing 727, lending it a singular design aspect right at the edge of one of Costa Rica’s more beautiful parks — the Manuel Antonio National Park on the Pacific coast. “We have refurbished a vintage 1965 Boeing 727 airframe, […]

Holy Crappola, this thing is sweet. Unbelievable, really. I love the complete rethink of the yacht shape itself — this is design carried to its terminal best. Created as a collaboration between french luxury brand Hermès and Monaco-based yacht maker Wally (who make some of the most progressive boats and yachts in the world), the WHY […]

Once in a while I’ll get a few birds sitting on my windowsill in the morning. I do kinda dig the idea of birds just hanging out outside my window. Too bad they bounce every time they see me. Emilie Cazin’s birdhouse might just give them a reason to stick around. I like how the […]

Oobject collected 15 modernist gas stations, including the Jack Colker Union 96 station on Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills below and the Norman Foster Repsol gas station above. A longtime testing ground for architects, petrol stations have challenged some of the best to have ever walked the Earth, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van der […]

Give your toddler a knife, a screwdriver and a blindfold before setting them loose to prod and poke, courtesy of Ironic Sans… Not to be pesimistic, but do you know what something like this could do to the various interests who would lose out should the Outlet Wall become common place? Billy Mays would be […]

I like the way Swiss designer Michel Bussien’s ironic brain works. Guy chooses a very un-environmentally friendly material like plastic to mold his nod to nature in. I think he might be trying to tell us that it’s time for man and nature to reunite. Or not.

This is the 3rd floating cities project by New York printmaker and installation artist Swoon. In ’08, The Miss Rockaway Armada went up the Hudson River and in ‘06/’07 The Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea went down the Mississippi River. In this chapter, the fleet of three handcrafted vessels will sail the Adriatic Sea from […]