welcome to living lab.
what are we doing?breathing…
new life into an old market with color, indigenous materials, super smart and sensitive design, and of course that incredible Spanish chutzpah.
Mercat Santa Caterina, Barcelona
More here.
Design : Enric Miralles – Benedetta Tagliabue | EMBT
Ceramics : Ceramica Cumella
Source : Stylepark
looking…
forward to the January 2010 re-release of
Less and More – The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
“Weniger, aber besser”/”Less but better”
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Dieter Rams’ ten principles to “good design”:
- Good design is innovative
- Good design makes a product useful
- Good design is aesthetic
- Good design helps us to understand a product
- Good design is unobtrusive
- Good design is honest
- Good design is long-lasting
- Good design is consequent to the last detail
- Good design is concerned with the environment
- Good design is as little design as possible
Source : Gestalten
delighting…
in the excellent and weirdly provoking
You’ve probably seen it. Since receiving the link, I find myself going back again and again, looking into the faces of these people who knew nothing about us at the time. Its eerie and wonderful and so of course it got me thinking about the parents that belong to our little family.
Looking at these photos side-by-side does my head in.
Top : Dominck & Santa Pietrapenata Italy 1967
Bottom : Peter & Maryanna Frankfurt, Germany 1975
making…
a list!
(I know the last thing we need is more STUFF, but these are some appealing little objects that I think we could get used to having around)
a bike bell that makes pedestrians smile.
a measuring cup/juicer because making a little cup of orange juice on a freezing Sunday morning is a necessity masquerading as a luxury
fancy dustpan for the nerd herd.
a candle that conjures up wintertime cinders and I never get tired of sniffing.
a design book that is definately ubiquitous, but incredibly beautiful, and yet another example of how the Japanese are actually a more intelligent life form, just pretending to be like us
the best teapot in the world.
a smart collator to encourage the art of anal retentiveness
a beautiful book about food because you can never have too many
a heavy jar of soft almond scented hydration (for obvious reasons)
and a new kitty bed, because they are already spoiled, what’s the harm?
oh yeah, and for delicious one-pot meals year after year…
remembering…
winters in Minnesota,
while renewing my admiration for the work of Scott Peterman.
Photos : Scott Peterman
gathering…
up some of the last bits of New York November as we barrel through this last month of the year.
Photos : RWM
admiring…
the beautiful cozy work of
at BonBon’s lovely open house on Sunday.
I also replenished my winter paper and candle supply with goodies from
and
the lovely Tamika Rivera.
All the while ogling the magical work and fine hospitality of Ms. Bonbon herself.
Sovereign Beck was also a delightful addition this year!
Thank you!
Images : Hortensia Handmade
pulling…
a few images of one of the best little design projects on the isle of Manhattan.
[East Village Penthouse]
Photos : Elizabeth Felicella
