Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Thank you KansasCity.com


Thank you Jocelyn at KansasCity.com for featuring my home from Fresh Home Magazine. Really appreciate it!

Monday, July 26, 2010

LA Times


Thank you Lisa Boone at the LATimes Home section for mentioning our Designer Tag Sale this weekend!

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Environtment Green House Plan




This armpit appearance an architect-created blooming abode plan that was advised from the arena up to be activity able and environmentally green house plan friendly.

The afflatus for the plan came from a growing acquaintance that new houses were accepting bigger and bigger but with little redeeming architecture merit. The botheration is that abundance has about annihilation to do with how big a amplitude is. It is attained, rather, by dressmaking our houses to fit the way we absolutely live, and to the calibration and accommodation of our animal form.

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Monday, July 19, 2010

Cool Rope handrail idea from designer Thom Filicia

Awhile back, I wrote a blog column about this access by autogenous artist Thom Filicia, application a braiding as a handrail (loved the abstraction then, still adulation the abstraction now). I came beyond a website that articles ropes for handrails (and their band alike includes the capacity such as fittings, knots, and anhydrate bars). The aggregation is alleged Stair Ropes and they are based in the UK, with barter actuality in the States too.Cool Rope handrail idea from designer Thom Filicia



Cool Residential Designs from Architectus

Auckland, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney. A anatomy of assignment from apprenticeship and accessible barrio to residential and acceptable design. Architecture, interiors, burghal architecture and planning. A ample and celebrated firm. But I’m activity to acclimatize the focus down. Bottomward to the intimate. Bottomward to the alone and bottomward to the home. Love these residential designs from Architectus. Cool Residential Designs from Architectus They abode the armpit beautifully, embrace the occupants, accommodate beautiful apartment aural able-bodied advised spaces. Much added afterwards the jump.Cool Residential Designs from Architectus very nice



Touch-screen with icons faucet The Latest Technology by Fima

Known for its fabulously fashionable and anatomic faucet designs, Italian accession Fima Carlo Frattini introduces the latest technology for the kitchen – the Nomos faucet. This next-generation kitchen mixer boasts cyberbanking mechanics that add affluence and accessibility while throwing safety, adeptness and amore into the mix, so to speak. This mixer lets you actually acclimatize admit quantity, accountability and temperature, and it akin alerts you in case of malfunction – a attainable feature, you’ll agree, if you’ve anytime had the blow of a adulterated faucet and the constant blow in your kitchen. You administrate the adjustment via a touch-screen and easy-to-read bright icons, absolution you fine-tune your flow. The technology for this latest kitchen architectonics has acquired from the ancient and accustomed ablution basin and bidet designs. For added info, go to Fima Carlo Frattini.Touch-screen with icons faucet The Latest Technology by Fima

Cool Eco Friendly Faucets by ST – Shark faucet

Blending eco and esthetics, this new eco affable faucet by Italian bath cast ST Rubinetterie absolutely has it all. The Shark faucet advised by Simone Micheli will amuse your appearance and eco-sustainability cravings. Like its namesake, the Shark faucet appearance a smooth, automated attending that will instantly improve your bathrooms. Minimalist in its mold, this faucet is simple, but not simplistic. Easy to accomplish appearance displayed on the faucet’s jumpsuit cascade adds accessibility to comfort. Check out the eco-friendly and beautiful Shark faucet, by ST Rubinetterie.Cool Eco Friendly Faucets by ST – Shark faucet

Elegant Celebrity Pools

Well, it’s clearly summer in LA and this accomplished anniversary has been hot, hot, hot! My 1940’s bungalow in Bel Air has neither AC…nor a pool. Seeing these celebrity pools featured on the Elle Decor website makes me a tad appetent about now. My adolescent Bel Air acquaintance Monique Lhullier has yet to allure me to appear over to lounge by her basin (I abode sit, FYI). Little do they apperceive I’ve been afraid my arch in the freezer to air-conditioned off!

So here’s area these celebs absorb their hot summer days…Elegant  Celebrity Pools Elegant Celebrity Pools
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Beautiful house made with stone by Marcio Kogan

Beautiful house made with stone by Marcio Kogan .Marcio Kogan projected this admirable abode fabricated with bean and copse in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with alien amplitude to be acclimated for accustomed living.

Here is the activity description:

The Brazilian close altitude suggests abounding use of these solutions in colloquial as able-bodied as in avant-garde architecture. Beginning from the colonial, Brazilian architectonics has usually congenital a amplitude that was accepted as the veranda. Verandas are covered beeline spaces in advanced of the active allowance and bedrooms which act as the agent amid the autogenous and exterior.

In the Abode 6 project, the abstraction of the balustrade has been reinvented. The balustrade is not absolutely in advanced of the active room, disposed longitudinally, but, rather, erect to it. The board pillars that accord abutment to the anatomy and the adobe tiles of acceptable verandas accept been commissioned by avant-garde pilotis that abutment a aggregate of collapsed slabs. The balustrade of Abode 6, nonetheless, still charcoal an accessible amplitude and, simultaneously, opens to the garden and the pool. It is a active room, a TV allowance and an addendum of the centralized kitchen.

This space, then, structured the absolute architectonics of the house, organized in two angular volumes and an addendum in the aback that holds a home office. The lower aggregate houses the utilities, the kitchen and the active allowance with door-frames that can be recessed into the walls, and thereby absolutely aperture the centralized amplitude to either side. This sets the cross-ventilation and an able abutting appearance of the garden. The aerial aggregate has the clandestine breadth of the abode with the bedrooms and, on the third attic there is a baby multiple-use active allowance alongside an aerial deck.

Architecturally, the amplitude of the veranda, amid beneath the bedrooms, would accept a low ceiling-height, to actualize a balmy feeling. The sum of the anatomy of the two erect volumes and the active allowance ceiling-height would aftereffect in a actual aerial ceiling. Thus, it was absitively to accomplish the active allowance lower in affiliation to the balustrade and the garden. This aftereffect fabricated it accessible to accept a abode with continued accommodation and the activity of a covered alien affable amplitude to be acclimated on both balmy and air-conditioned canicule in the burghal of Sao Paulo.




Thursday, July 15, 2010

River Pictures

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Opening at L.A.'s Hi-Lite studio space, "River Pictures" represents the culmination of photographer Ruben Cox's summers spent cruising the waters of his Highlands, North Carolina hometown.
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What started as casually documenting people while they enjoyed the river elements, grew over the course of three seasons during the late '90s into an intimate glimpse of the slow Southern summer for an intriguing photo essay.
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Curator Audrey Landreth notes, "Cox's images capture real moments that speak to a greater experience: an American experience of fleeting summer and youth, the thrill of cool water on warm rocks; of goose bumps and distant laughter, of not wanting the sun to go down."
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Landreth continues, "They evoke a certain nostalgia for a simpler time and a lyrical, satisfying affinity towards the observance of ordinary people."
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 This is the first time the extended series of work has been shown, although individual images have been previously published in the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker.
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 "River Views" will be on view by appointment starting 17 July 2010 and running through 14 August 2010.
from Cool Hunting by Wendy Dembo

Fish House in Singapore by Guz Architects

from Design Milk by Jaime
The Fish House, located in Singapore, was designed by Guz Architects to feel at one with nature. The luxurious home features natural ventilation for Singapore’s hot and humid climate, a green roof with thin bendable photovoltaic panels that supply energy to the whole house, and large windows. The undulation of the curved roof mimics the ocean waves.






Architects: Guz Architects
Location: Singapore
MSE Engineers: C&S Engineers
M&E Engineers: Herizal Fitri Consultants
Area: 726 sqm
Gross Floor Area: 540 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photography: Patrick Bingham Hall
[via ArchDaily]