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Sight Unseen has a nice fea­ture up this week about Juli­ette War­men­hovem who makes odd con­trap­tions and vess­esls from plas­tic, paper and fiber­glass to cel­e­brate the growth and nur­tur­ing of plant life in domes­tic space. Pic­tured top are a bon­sai incu­ba­tor, left and ger­mi­na­tion ves­sels on the right, includ­ing a plant cut­tings hold­ing tank and a water sup­ply device that helps seedlings sprout. Below, a music box that twirls a potato around on a pedestal, “high­light­ing the hid­den beauty of a potato.” Here’s an excerpt: Her father is a flower farmer.

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Liya Mair­son, a grad­u­ate of the Shenkar Col­lege of Engneer­ing and Design, has cre­ated a children’s play house that takes cues from pop up books, except this on is life size. As the pages are unfolded, so too do imag­i­nary domes­tic spaces for chil­dren to play in

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Last month I was so caught up with the World Cup games, I never caught wind of the sub­sidiary events hap­pen­ing around South Africa. Like this killer Nike instal­la­tion by Rat­cliffe Fowler Design , erected in a Jo’burg shop­ping mall: The 20-meter high fig­ure is mod­eled after Car­los Tevez, and the 5,500 “pix­els” are actual balls that were sub­se­quently donated to foot­ball pro­grams around South Africa

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Over at Once Wed, we are just smit­ten over Rachel and Michael’s sim­ply mod­ern wed­ding , shot by the fab­u­lous Jose Villa . Rachel, an upcom­ing Asso­ciate Art Direc­tor for Cook­ing light mag­a­zine, exudes top notch cre­ativ­ity, so when she had the idea to put together this tablescape based off her own wed­ding, we knew it would be the per­fect event for today’s column

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When the Stan­ford Insti­tute of Design needed a cou­ple of inte­rior ele­ments for their facil­i­ties, they turned to Because We Can, the awe­some husband-and-wife design team we wrote about ear­lier this year . BWC made this killer built-in lounge made from cedar slats. We love how the frame, which looks to be CNC’d, makes for com­plete idiot-proof instal­la­tion of the slats: We also dig the portable-but-enormous TVs that BWC made

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Superior Servers

On August 13, 2010 By

Don’t you think these col­or­ful serv­ing uten­sils would make the most fun house­warm­ing gift? By the folks at Ladies & Gentlemen .

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What goes well with a black web­site? Today we’ll find out but tak­ing a look at some excel­lent exam­ples of dark web design along with their pri­mary color palettes. Each web­site will have a screen­shot along with a brief descrip­tion, a visual rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the color scheme, and a link to down­load the Pho­to­shop color swatches from Pictaculous

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Grow­ing up, I moved around-a lot.

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What Sofa is this?

On August 13, 2010 By

Sarah, one of your fel­low read­ers, emailed in ask­ing what sofa this might be. At first glance I thought it was the Tufty Time , but it’s a lit­tle bit dif­fer­ent, obviously.

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The idea in this series is to show beau­ti­ful and inspir­ing houses. Houses that are remark­able for its design, ele­gance, ele­ments, con­cept or sim­ply because they are beau­ti­ful. So if you like archi­tec­ture, inte­rior design and beau­ti­fully designed houses, you are at the right spot

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