Robert Bronwasser for Cascando Designs has made a small furniture collection to transport a little bit of the outdoors into your drab beige cubicle hell. His modern designs, inspired by nature and the organic shapes found in the wild, include a coat rack imitating a tree, with branches covered in pegs to hang your winter […]
22
Dec
Modern design inspired by the great outdoors
16
Nov
Mr.Jones' Last Laugh wristwatch
The new Last Laugh watch from Mr.Jones is far beyond a traditional timepiece. Mr. Jones is a London-based company who creates sophisticated watches with a modern, unique design, which “do more then simply tell time,” and the Last Laugh doesn’t disappoint. Designed with comedian William Andrews, the watch features a skeleton face lacking the hands, […]
20
Jul
The Panton Chair turns 50, gets a makeover
This year one of the more iconic furniture pieces in modern design marked its 50th anniversary. Creator Verner Panton first dreamt up the idea of a cantilevered single-piece plastic chair around 1959, not realizing that it would take almost a decade to come to life. When the Panton Chair finally arrived on the market in […]
8
Jul
Architects and their architecture in an A-Z encyclopedia
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 […]
11
Jun
Kibardindesign takes the digital watch from bulky to modern
Remember when we used to imagine what the years after 2001 would be like? Many ideas, I’m sure, didn’t come to fruition (i.e. flying cars, robot butlers, stun phasers, etc), but I’d imagine that the Sputnik watch is preciscely what people thought their wristwatches would one day look like. Sleek, clean, monochrome — this watch […]
26
Mar
Just don't drop the mashed potatoes between the keys
Do you ever find yourself in the middle of dinner thinking, “Man, I could really go for some ragtime Scott Joplin-style piano playing right now.” No? Ok, well even so, this piano/dinner table is a creative innovation from Georg Bohle. The two things in your house that always take up the most space have now […]
24
Mar
Japanese label Giuliana Fujiwara present their structural shoes
These Giuliano Fujiwara hi-tops from their Spring/Summer 2010 collection are being released for sale later this month and come in two colorways: brown and black/white/gray. Incorporating a velcro-strap on the upper, these Japanese shoes feature an extremely modern, geometric look. The Fujiwara hi-tops may not be for everyone, but they will certainly turn heads — […]
