Steve Lidbury may hail from the U.K., but he has made quite a splash in Tokyo with his stellar interior architectural design work. Twenty-eight years young, he's already amassed quite the project portfolio: among his contributions, he's been hired to…
Continue Reading →I'm not what can be referred to as a "morning person." I no longer own an alarm clock, thanks to my tendency towards hurling them indiscriminately across the room - causing damage to walls, furniture, pets and people alike. The…
Continue Reading →Finding a wine storage solution that combines environmental and pleasing aesthetic values has proven to be somewhat of a challenge for me...so much so that the "storage" situation basically consists of the 8+ bottles of wine we usually have on…
Continue Reading →Sao Paulo's equivalent to Kid Robot is Plastik, which houses a toy heaven for adults. Besides being ground zero for the toys we've come to adore and obsess over (plus a few more not known outside the country yet), the…
Continue Reading →On May 10th, the new and invigorating Quicksilver Innovation Contest will kick off, and I'm excited to see the outcome. The aim of the competition is to encourage outdoor athletes, designers, fans, and every possible intersection of those types of…
Continue Reading →One of the biggest trends we're seeing emerge after the Milan Furniture Fair last week is the mimicry of nature and the environment in all aspects of interior design. It seems with the more we learn about the fragility of…
Continue Reading →This year is the 50th birthday of Helvetica, and this isn't at all lost on the design world. The birthday font is being celebrated everywhere from being immortalized on wallpaper to being featured in a year-long exhibit at MoMA. It…
Continue Reading →New York based designer Brad Ascalon recently showed off his elegant Period Table, a new piece for Italian furniture company Sintesi, at the Salone Internationale de Mobile in Milan. Ascalon's use of powder coated steel and tempered glass make for…
Continue Reading →Information on the mastermind designer behind Pixel Breaker and The Polar Clock is scarce-- it looks like he (or she) is a bit of a pixel-pushing superhuman, having done amazing work with Adidas, Panasonic, and more. The Polar Clock is…
Continue Reading →Grace, my good blogging pal from Design*Sponge spent what looks like a solid week of furniture flirting in Milan at the Furniture and Design fair-- you can view the coverage on her own site, or at her House & Garden…
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