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Best of 2010
May 6, 2010Interior Design 2010
January 27, 2010Any Interior Design exhibition as a rule is more than just a show, it is the total design experience. Recent the Interior Design Show that takes place in Canada’s is one of the largest contemporary design event. Since its inception in 1998, over 500,000 design professionals, consumers and media have attended. The newest and most innovative in international and Canadian products are annually presented by 300 exhibitors. Inspirational exhibits feature both emerging and established designers; and highlight international interior design, architecture and industrial design trends. The most influential architects and designers from around the world share their design philosophies and experiences within the international keynote speakers program.
If you have not been there yet it\s worth to.
International Guests of Honour:
Spanish Artist/Designer Jaime Hayon, British designer Nipa Doshi, NY-based Architect Joshua Prince-Ramus, Dutch Designer Tord Boontje, plus Bruce Mau, Fritz Haeg, Barbara Hulanicki and Ingrid Abramovitch.
Preview the Ultimate
Presented by AUDI and The Globe and Mail
4 never before seen unique spaces created by Stylist Arren Williams, Architect Drew Mandel, designer Jason MacIsaac, Interior Designers Munge Leung and lifestyle/entertainment provocateur INK. Launch at 7:30pm
The ultimate kitchen party with Dekla and Scavolini . . .
. . . featuring: DJ jojoflores and the Calrizians
and the ultimate vodka: TAG vodka
Where design and art meet…VEGETAL SOCIAL by Toronto-based Artist BRUNO BILLIO presented by VITRA and plan b…
…and ANDERSSON by Christian Giroux and Daniel Young presented by IKEA
The ultimate garage party at Garagescapes (Booth #1740)…enjoy a cold one in a pimped out garage!
Be the first to see a new ERA: Evolution in Rug Artistry
Make your bid on the 10 winning carpets designed by some of Canada’s most renowned architects, designers and artists. Launch at 7:15pm
. . . among 300 exhibitors showing the newest design . . .
Tickets: $50 in advance at interiordesignshow.com; or $55 at the door at the IKEA Ticket Centre
Join us for the ultimate design party of the year
Thursday Jan 21 7pm to 11pm
MTCC North Building, 255 Front Street West
Future Furniture
June 5, 2009The 21-st annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair exhibit include contemporary furniture, seating, lighting, carpet and flooring, wall coverings, textiles, accessories, kitchen and bath, outdoor furniture, and materials for residential and commercial interiors. This event has been taking plase 16-19 May NY CIty.
Look at this
American Gothic Table by Atelier Takagi – Washington DC, USA, I guess it looks very nice:-) I won’t say no to have such table or chair as a part of my home stylish decoration.
“It’s not particularly anything”, says Jonah Takagi when speaking about his table American Gothic. I intuit that he actually means the table is not one particular style, but a fusion of influences instead. In fact here is a product that is the sum of its many parts, which Takagi has merged noticeably well, without conceptual or aesthetic loop holes.
Takagi holds a BFA in Furniture Design (RISD) and, like Searle and Adelman, he mentions the traits of authenticity, honesty and appropriateness when speaking about design process and final products, “the fact I grew up in New England surrounded by a blue blood Yankee, puritanical sensibility has something to do with it – the way I approach the work”. Further add into the mix his Japanese background (Takagi’s father is Japanese), an appreciation of tinker toys and a “nebulous, surreal design process”, and you might be able to imagine how this particular table could be thought up. These influences show themselves in the radial connector designed to join the legs and the black lacquer finish which unifies all of it.
The most fascinating aspect of this table is the sense of tension felt when you look at it. I had cognition of something being unsettled and not quite right, and then I realised that there are 5 legs. This one element is what gives the table its edginess; picturing it with less (4 or 3 even), I realise that if Takagi had not engineered this quirky mutation, it would be just a table with mismatched elements of style.
It would have been easy for Takagi to lose the design of this table to self indulgence and finish with a piece that was stylistically over-cooked and lacking quality of construction; instead the constraint and discipline used in its development has resulted in work that stands with assurance, in the spaces in-between styles.
Swimming Pool Style
March 12, 2009Who of us has not wished to own a beautiful swimming pool designed and built in a garden at a home backyard, aren’t you? Who has not thought of it? I guess everybody has. It’s no wonder because a swimming pool at your home is not only improves and beautifies a landscape but can turn into real unique place to relax, sport, meet with friends to enjoy swimming without having to leave home.
If you are going to build an outdoor swimming pool in a private property you have to start from an architect’s and real estate developer’s point of view. The cost of building a pool is also has to be considering intently. Then you have to decide what do you intend with – you want to dive on it, you want your kids will be able to use it without fear of drowning or you want to practice in your swim. All these things are very important and dictate the right size of your future swimming pool.
There are a lot of things you have to do to get finally what you have wished about. But after all I’m sure you get the result that is beyond expectation. Like George Clooney who purchased this 25-room Italian villa in 2001. Known as Villa Oleandra, it is said to contain an outdoor theater, a large swimming pool and a garage for motorcycles. Italian journalists and tourists swarmed to the small town of Laglio, where this villa is located, when they heard rumors that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie would wed at pal George Clooney’s lakeside estate. Clooney has some illustrious neighbors as well – designer Donatella Versace owns a home on Lake Como near the burial place of her late brother Gianni. Singer Avril Lavigne and husband Deryck Whimbey honeymooned in Lake Como a few years ago as well. Clooney really admires this home and says, “I go there whenever I can. It’s where I wrote Good Night And Good Luck and where I finished the script for Leatherheads. It’s a really peaceful place to go and write.”
Balloon Sculpture by Jason Hackenwerth
May 19, 2008What is this? How do you you think?
This is balloon sculpture by Jason Hackenwerth. He creates massive surreal balloon sculptures that can take more than a week to complete.
This bizarre organism was blown and twisted for a gala last year at the New Museum New York. But if you want to orange with these fantastically enigmatic and unusual balloon sculptures your wedding party that is realy great idea. In case you have not met your loved one yet, you have a great cjance to try Top Dating Sites, friends finders and wedding supplies online services to be sure you are lucky!
Unique Standard.
March 12, 2008Using new interpretations of today’s standard materials Folkform, winners of FutureDesignDays Award 2006, are really productive. Their latest collection is called Unique Standard and consists of Marble Cabinet, MDF and Granite Display Case, Bench in three types of leather and Masonite Chest with 18 drawers. Author’s description of the collection is “New interpretations of today’s standard materials”.
Folkform gear-shaped pendant lamps.
The collection as a new perception of various materials shows what can finally happen with the combination of the original material and surfaces that try to imitate its appearance.
None of the objects are yet in serial production.
