Ethnicraft had a great booth with some of the nicest Teak furniture I've ever seen. The companies main office is in Aartselaar, near Antwerp-Belgium-- but the furniture has built a reputation for quality throughout Europe. The majority of the simple…
Continue Reading →My last night in Paris I ate at a restaurant called 'Kong', on the top two floors of the prestigious Louis Vuitton building address-- 1 Rue du Pont Neuf. The restaurant is an elevators ride up, above the Kenzo flagship…
Continue Reading →Victionary recently announced their latest release, called "It's a matter of packaging", the fourth installment in the Amatterofdesign Series. The book is divided into three sections: Visual, Touch, and Idea, and features the most interesting packaging work from nearly sixty…
Continue Reading →I'm a tea-drinking regular, and winter's coming soon, so I've got my eye out for some new tea gadgets. The Brew In Cup Tea/Coffe Maker places a stainless-steel mesh infuser for loose tea or coffee inside a glass cup, with…
Continue Reading →Right around the corner from Musée Du louvre in the 1st Arrondissement, lies an incredibly simple and standard looking restaurant called Cabaret with a view of the neatly table-cloth covered tables on the ground floor -- but that's only from…
Continue Reading →La Tete Au Cube is a small design shop I found hidden somewhere between the rows of scented candles and baby accessories this past weekend at M&O. The simple witty product line caught my eye, and I found them very…
Continue Reading →The recent disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina has left me speechless. All I can think to do is supply my readers with resources of well-deserving organizations to consider donating to -- organizations that provide immediate action, rescue and aid to…
Continue Reading →Maison et Objet is by far the largest show I've ever been to-- the facility felt about ten times the size of the Javitz center in New York. In two very long days I walked just about every single row,…
Continue Reading →''There's a silent etiquette, I think, where most people in the community look for individual content because there's probably a huge overlap between readership," says Josh Spear, 21, of Boulder, Colo., who runs www.JoshSpear.com. ''I always give credit and it…
Continue Reading →I'm off to today to Maison and Objet, in Paris. "10 Years of Trends, Encounters, Passion and Home-Style". This will be my first M and O, and I've heard nothing but good reports from past years. Of course, I plan…
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