Posts with category: Design
Virgin Galactic spaceport to be designed by Phillippe Starck
There’s nothing much I hate worse than being late to a story (can you possibly imagine why?), but I didn’t get the chance to write about Phillippe Starck’s deal for the Virgin Galactic spaceport in New Mexico until late last night. Anyhow, unfortunately the buzz on this one is making it difficult to tell what’s [...]
Em Ry fall/winter
My favoritest person in the world, Ms. Emily Ryan, designed a shirt and bag (and forthcoming pillowcase) line. I’m told you can buy now through nonverbal-communication.com, and will be able to find it shortly at your local boutiques in LA, SF, Antwerp, and London, though right now I’m really just working on forgiving her for [...]
Outdoor Wallpaper for your inner exterior designer
It’s summertime, remember? Well, I’m having a bit of a hard time recalling, but I heard it going around that outside is totally the new inside. So flocked wallpaper be damned (ok, not really), how perfect is Susan Bradley’s Outdoor Wallpaper? Ornate with gratuitous laser-cut fleurons (not that there’s any such thing as gratuity in [...]
Mid-century decks
All the Eames classics–the sofa, the RAR rocker, the lounge–now together in one femmed out skateboard series. Get it? The pioneers of plywood in industrial design screened on decks? Fine, I guess it wasn’t that interesting anyway, but it’s damned near enough to make me try and figure out how to skate. Ok, I admit [...]
Tripistol vase
Sure, it’s a clever anti-war statement that you wouldn’t think didn’t come from a designer—especially one featured at, say, The Future Perfect—but it’s so much more. Like, you know, an ironic statement sure to be picked up by the many mullet-wearing electroclash throwbacks. Perhaps they’ll put their cigarettes out in the butts? Ok, maybe just [...]
Dalek shower curtains, eh?
Can’t think of too many better ways to go from being a Deitch-featured Juxtapoz-kind-of-artist to a household name than actually having your art featured in someone’s house—or better yet, a lot of houses. Or further still, a lot of houses’ bathrooms. And sure, when you think about it, fifty clams is a little steep for [...]
Reset the jet set
Between the bankruptcies, budget cuts, and hectic price slashing in the airline industry, it’s difficult to imagine a time when being a jet-setter actually meant something a little more than a utilitarian means of travel. Issues of class and the luxury lifestyle aside, it’s hard to suppress the obsequiousness for the enchantment of an age that brought us Saarinen’s Terminal 5, hand-cut Cardin suits, and models in attendant uniforms so influenced by mod style it was a wonder Marc Jacobs isn’t just knocking off the classics one by one.
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