Lighting drops
by admin on October 19th, 2006
Lighting drops by Anaëlle Madec
When it rains, people is sad and everything looks grey. The lighting drops is an umbrella which changes this sadness into happiness, by changing rain into light. This becomes possible thanks to a humidity sensor resistance which controls the light. So, the more it rains, the more you get light.
The CONTROL workshop
By Roger Ibars
ENSAD, Paris, November 2005
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Stacked Stools
by annamatic3000 on April 30th, 2006
annamatic3000 posted a photo:
This piece at APAP was a beautiful room built out of stacked plastic stools. Light filtered through the yellow stools casts a warm glow on everything. I would love to have a room like this somewhere in my home. It would make a nice meditative spot.
Z Island by DuPont Corian
by admin on April 14th, 2006
Filed under: Decor
Is this the kitchen of the future? Innovative
architect Zaha Hadid partnered with Corian and Ernestomeda to create the Z Island by DuPont Corian. The kitchen
island, which was shown off at Milan Design week, has two free-standing island units, one for "fire" and one
for "water," a modular wall cabinet, a wall covering system with special light and sound diffusion
capabilities, and a long work bench. The main island unit can change from a horizontal cooking and eating
surface into a vertical digital surface with an LCD screen for TV or computer use and an iPod. The cooking
area has a special heating plate and the main island has a touch control panel. The wall treatment has acoustic
properties and a customized LEDs that allows the user to change the music and lighting. The kitchen island even has a
scent diffusion system that can be programmed to dispense different scents throughout the day. Pictures of the Z island
in Milan can be found at designws.com.
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Crystal Palace 2006
by admin on April 14th, 2006
Each time i visited the Salone del Mobile, i snubbed the Swarovsky Crystal Palace extravaganza. But when i saw the name of Hussein Chalayan among the designers invited to rethink the concept of the chandelier, i thought it was high time for me to get a chandelier overload.
Over the past few years, Crystal Palace has launched amazing chandeliers like:
- Ron Arad’s Lolita which displays the SMS you send to its number,
- Tokujin Yoshioka’s Stardust, its thousands of individually suspended crystals act as pixels to display an image.
Back to Chalayan who created Repose, a conceptual installation that encompasses the feeling of movement and stillness. An aeroplane wing (that guy he sure loves aeroplanes, remember his aeroplane dress that changes shape by remote control?) balanced against the wall and the large flap of the wing reveals slowly a strip of strass crystals illuminated from behind by LEDs. The movement is linked to a digital clock set on a time loop, indicating speed with the movement of the wing flap.
Ross Lovegrove was showing the concept car for future generations he’s working on. His Aerospace is a solar powered hybrid concept car that will rely on alternative energy source. Lovegrove is collaborating with Sharp Solar Europe, Swarovski Optical laboratories, General Motors Europe, and Coggiola to bring this car to “life.”
Gaetano Pesce’s Mediterraneo was quite impressive (image on the left). It looks okay-ish at first. But watch it for a moment and you can see it changing colour and move like a jellyfish. The press release claims that besides, it exudes scents, but i didn’t notice any smell.
Two last one: Each single glass drop of Science and Fiction, Basso & Brooke’s chandelier, is engraved with a different design; When the light is off, Jurgen Bey’s chandelier is so light and grey that it is almost non-existent. When the light is on, the crystal sparkles and the gauze around it shine in the light. He made a set of them, they are called Cinderella AM and Cinderella PM.
Some pictures. Image of the Chalayan clock by Mike Kuniavski.