Designage
the age of design
sex-on-wire
michael anastassiades (say that three times fast!) has been around forever, but we still get chills around his stellar lighting. here are a few favorites:
hot tip
portland-based graphic design firm makelike is branching into the home decorating biz, and their hand-screenprinted wallpaper has got our motor running.
everything in the first collection is based on the cactus and its softer cousin the succulent. cheeky.
bamboozled
goan bamboo chair by design student prajakta bamanikar. reason #1,382 to love the internet is stumbling across student projects from across the globe.
back from the ether
taking a quick jump back into the blogging pool with this oh-so-fabulous indoor stove. yes, friends, it is trimmed in gold and shaped like an egg.
more fun facts: the piet 1 burns ethanol instead of wood and was named after this danish architect and mathematician who made super ellipses popular in the sixties.
*via moco loco.
announcements
we were going to make this 500th post a doozy, chock full of our favorite rooms with no apologies for how swoony and self-indulgent that would be. instead, we find ourselves both bored (with the availability of new editorials on the web) and busy (writing, reading, and painting kitchen cabinets). so, we’ll leave you with this quaint illustration by penelope dullaghan as we take an autumn hiatus. post-berlin and post-getting settled at two new jobs, we’ll be back.
by that time it will feel like winter and you’ll already be hooked on these:
paper tastebuds / the brick house / emma’s designblogg / smosch / destined to design / hollister hovey / marie claire maison / designage (on tumblr)
quilting flea
one of the more exciting things to come out of the already-thrilling brooklyn flea down the street (!) are the map quilts by emily fischer of haptic lab. her tone-on-tone cotton blankets retrace maps of brooklyn neighborhoods, from fort greene to red hook.
don’t worry, manhattan brethren, fischer will be adding downtown neighborhoods to the a la carte menu in november. until then – custom order or snag a pillow.
play house
we love this house for its riff on normal domestic design elements – dormers, bay windows – that are playfully subverted into something transcendentally modern. more images here.
autumn ikat
we’ve heard murmurings that ikat print is “over,” but our philosophy is that if you don’t overdo something in the first place, you won’t get sick of it. that’s practical, right? anyway, onto the floor decor.
wool ikat rug from anthropologie, 5′ x 8′.
