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White house black lava

LB — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:21:43 +0000

Built on faith in lava not striking twice. Via Kateopolis via Michael Wells, photographer, “Scorched Earth.”

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Artists and architects for Sawaya & Moroni

LB — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:52:54 +0000

The Italian design firm Sawaya & Moroni often commissions new furniture pieces by guest designers who are primarily artists or architects. Many design firms follow this strategy, but for some reason most of the really original design commissions come out of Sawaya & Moroni.

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Please help me find one of these.

LB — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:49:54 +0000

Missed on eBay. If you have this Jaleh and Joseph scarf and don’t want it any longer, I will pay. Need it very badly.

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Sial ceramic vase, Quebec 1970s

LB — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:18:07 +0000

From the Canadian Design Resource. Late 70s Quebec vase from the Sial company.

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In the Wish I’d Designed That category

LB — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:42:56 +0000

Birch/Bříza mug by Czech company whitefruits.

It’s from 2006, but seems to have been a prototype only and does not seem to be in production now, which is unfortunate.

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Arabesque fridge magnets by Asao Tokolo

LB — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:01:11 +0000

Japanese designer and computer scientist Asao Tokolo has devised a way to tile a pattern of arabesques in such a way that each square tile can be randomly rotated and still match up with all of its neighbours.

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Dazzle painting

LB — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:59:57 +0000

“Dazzle painting,” devised in Britain during WWI, was based on the theory that complex optical patterns would confuse enemy naval rangefinders by disguising a ship’s speed and direction. It employed a number of visual tricks including the painting of false bow waves on rear portions of the ship rather than the prow.

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Berber rugs, the art of a “people from between somewhere and nowhere.”

LB — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:23:57 +0000

Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Alvar Aalto and Arne Jacobsen used these rugs regularly in their interiors, which is not surprising. Their unusual combination of minimalism and handmade detail, restraint and inventiveness works well with modernism’s aesthetics by both echoing the abstract geometry of the architecture and also counterbalancing that austerity with some softness.