A new surface concept created by Marca Corona is Alchimie. The tile has the look and feel of cement and worn metal in a subtly textured, stylish design of porcelain tile. A highlight to the collection is the Star lamp. It’s a recessed light which is integrated into the wall covering. The Star almost looks [...]

No matter how prepared we are, a calamity- natural or man made- always leaves its victims in extreme distress. To provide those affected by a particular event- floods, fire, and tornado etc- with a proper and effective emergency home that not only acts as a physical shelter but also an emotional haven, designer Jordan Cleland [...]

We were previously appalled at the new Disney Dream Home (read Disney’s New Dream Home: Worse Than We Dreamed or go direct to the appalling video on the hideous website with the nauseating music. We concluded that Walt is spinning in his cryogenic cylinder.
Now David Rakoff of the New York Times visits it, and comes [...]

It seems like those words just don’t belong together. When can anything that holds trash be elegant? Well, when Li Jianye designs one it can. Let me introduce you to my new friend Flexibin. This little Flexibin was designed for someone like me, who has a pile of plastic grocery store bags piled up in [...]

There is nothing I love more than to see a design that is super practical, super stylish and one that I would love to have at my home. A cross between a tree and a lamp-post with glowing orbs, Vaka will be the life or “LIGHT” of the party. No matter what mood you are [...]

Sci-fi screenplay writers will be cracking their knuckles if this latest concept by Armand Leconte becomes reality. He envisions vast fields of crops being harvested by autonomous, cold hearted, damn-dirty robots! Wait, sorry…just watched iRobot. Seriously though, feeding the world is becoming more and more difficult and finding new more efficient ways to grow and [...]

An old hotel was renovated and reopened as CLASKA in Meguro, Tokyo September 2003.
For the project, we were approached to design 3 rooms for long-term guests. Part of the project brief was to include in each room an AIBO, a pet robot produced by Sony, and artwork by Japanese contemporary artists.

The first step in the [...]