La Evolución provides an exceptional lighting experience to enhance the ambience of a living or work space. These wall-mounted light panels measuring 50×50 cms can be used as single units or can be clustered together to create a striking strip of light. The panels are available in primary basic colours or bearing works of contemporary artists, designers and photographer to create distinctive panels. The light panels are hand-moulded and the surface is polished crystal-clear composite resin.

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La Evolución

This suspended light fixture designed by Enrico Franzolini and Vincente Garcia of Foscarini is aptly titled Big Bang. The lamp is crafted from intersections of white or coloured metacrylate panels and supported by lacquered metal. Big Bang conveys an air of cultivated nonchalance and would be right up the alley of those in the design camp who revere the order of chaos. The lamp is available in three shades – white, grey and red.

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Big Bang

The renowned Andrew Geller’s The Pearlroth House is due for demolition this Spring and a programme has been launched to relocate and turn the house into a living museums of mid-century modern architecture. Constructed in 1959, the Pearlroth House is listed as one of the top 10 houses of the Hamptons by architectural historian Alastair Gordon for the New York Observer. The Pearlroth house has reached iconic status, inspiring designers and beach-goers for generations.

The Pearlroth house consists of two elongated box shapes rotated in tandem and perched on edge, forming a box kite or “double diamond” shape. The void between the two forms is filled with a glassed-in living area.

Recently it was decided that the final resting location would instead be Triton Beach (also known as Hotdog Beach) has been earmarked as part of a coastal revitalization zone. The Pearlroth House will sit on the ocean side of Dune Road overlooking 40 acres of preserved bay-front property.

For more information on how you can make a contribution and help save this important piece of cultural heritage.

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Stumbling upon Jim Rosenau’s site – “This into That“, I instantly regreted for succumbing to the dreary 1keA bookshelves. Jim’s functional art furniture is racked (excuse the pun) with innovative quirkiness.

Jim first began collecting discarded hardbacks and began experimenting in his workshop with them. Those experiments have to led creations of tongue-in-cheek curio shelves, book cases, bookshelves and much more. You can also commission custom-made shelves.

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This Into That

Vinyl records recently have been making a resurgence against the CD and Roger Daltrey of the Who attributes it’s success to packaging:

“We threw away an art form that was so much more than the record … Sometimes the covers were more important than the music. The more fingerprints you got on it, the more it was a part of you. With a CD, you start with a nice plastic box and end with a scratched plastic box; it has no character whatsoever.”

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Reveries: Vinyl Records

Mixko’s genius Volvox lights are made out of Tracing Paper.

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London’s Design Museum has chosen the artist co-founder of the Gorillaz band, Jamie Hewlett as the Designer for the Year 2006. Jamie beat out Tom Dixon, The Guardian and Cameron Sinclair for the prize. The Chairman of the jury, Christopher Frayling added: “Jamie Hewlett has not only created a personal mythology with the virtual band Gorillaz, he has also created designs for the direction in which technology and culture are going – the shape of things to come.”

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Final Whistle – 1:18 scale of Referee Whistle that can be used as a chair or as a sculpture.

Subversive Object Remixer, Mixko has come up with a special football themed furniture and accessory collection that not only stays true with most of their previous work which included a gigantic keyboard key that could used as seating but coincides with the Fifa World Cup tourney that is due this year.

Goal T-shirt – A plain T-shirt with a hidden surprise for exciting goal celebrations.

Football Accessories made out of set of Football inspired hexagonal shapes.

Footbowl – Ceramic fruit bowl slip cast from deflated football & A Rug that imitates an area of a football pitch in 1:1 scale.

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Mixko Football Themed Collection
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Pessimistic Pencil: A Pencil with the message “This is Pointless” written on it.

The Cheeky kids at Thorsten Van Elten give us a spin using word play for their latest line of off the wall products.

Booty Shakers: Salt and Pepper Shakers

Good China, Bad China: The Blurb reads – “How much do you really like your dinner guests? Which china will you give them?”. Good China, Bad China is a set of plates with 7 Deadly Sins and 7 Contrary Virtues written on it – Abstinence against Gluttony (serving plates) , Humility against Pride, Kindness against Envy, Chastity against Lust, Temperance against Anger, Charity against Greed, Diligence against Sloth.

Light Reading: Designed to bring a little light into what is usually a dark corner of your home, the bookshelf. When switched off it blends in with the other books with it’s matt black spine. Switched on it emits a cool white light and reveals its title.

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Thorsten Van Elten

The Cloud Bed by Courtney Skott is an innovative and impressive take on the conventional four-poster bed – with pixellated clouds! Moreover, it’s mobile which effectively means that it’s a room of its own. Yes, we want one too!

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Courtney’s work in progress at Flikr (via Heather Clamp)

Architect Ryue Nishizawa has completed a house in Tokyo where every room of the house is a seperate building thus creating an alternate pattern of habitation where the spaces between the boxes and street edge take on a public / private role as community garden and places of interaction between the client and their lodgers.

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Garvestmor

Eero Koivisto takes inspiration from the honeycomb cells in a beehive for his latest chair for furniture label, OFFECCT called ‘Sport’.

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For the disinclined averse to cleaning windows, Activ glass is a boon. This glass by Pilkington claims to be self-cleaning and incorporates natural forces to keep the glass clean.

Activ is ordinary glass whose surface is treated with PhotoActiv ™ and exhibits dual-action, continuous-cleansing traits and reacts in two manners. Using a photocatalytic process, the PhotoActiv ™ surface reacts with ultra-violet rays from natural sunlight to break down and disintegrate organic dirt deposits. The second part occurs when rain or water strikes the glass. As Pilkington Activ™ is hydrophilic, instead of forming droplets the water spreads evenly over the surface, and as it slides off, washes away loose grime. Additionally, the water dries off quickly leaving no unsightly drying spots.

It’s a shame that the rainfall in the UAE is, well, a truly insignificant amount.

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Pilkington Self Cleaning Glass
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French maker Zsuzsi’s new ‘wave’ shelves.

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