I love this chair.

Dang, I wish I had designed this. The Careem Chair chair by Karim Rashid for Council nears perfection: 

Image: Council Design

Corezone

Anxiously awaiting the next batch of Corezones from these lovely ladies.

images: Corezone

Yes!

n55 is a fantastic artist collective based in Copenhagen doing projects based on everyday life, living systems and mobility.  They've recently completed a walking house.  Awesome.  

Christina Liljenberg Halstrøm (DK)

Loving this.

Modern Vernacular

Two recent articles that touch on similar topics, discuss ideas I've thought about for a long time: the connection between rural vernacular utility and Modern aesthetic and sensibility.  I believe taking clues from objects derived out of pure necessity, can yield the best products: easy to use, nice to touch, and beautiful. 

This great article by Gabriel Hargrove, who is working on a project called "Objects of the Rural Vernacular", cites many relationships between the two and provides many examples.  He notes "this is not a call for more 'agrarian chic'"...but more to "[remind] users of the agency available to them through objects"

Best Made Company Axes

Staffan Holm Milk Stool


American pioneers had to make what they needed, with the materials immediately available to them.  Through the (re)discovery of the book American Primitives by Robert W. Miller, published in 1972, Monica Khemsurov of Sight Unseen addresses similar thoughts as above by asking designer Paul Loebach to chose his favorite items, some of which are included below.

 
























A hand-made wooden keg

a fold-able house key

and a corn grater.

Achingly seductive

Louise Hindsgavl

Handshake, Nod + Kudos

to Jasper Morrison.

Pure Beauty

New ski-jumping hill ‘New Holmenkollen Fyr’ in Oslo designed by the Danish JDS Architects, to be fully completed in 2011.

photos by: New Holmenkollen Fyr by JDS Architects

Mad Love for Muji

Muji Philosophy 


MUJI is not a brand whose value rests in the frills and "extras" it adds to its products.
MUJI is simplicity - but a simplicity achieved through a complexity of thought and design. 
MUJI's streamlining is the result of the careful elimination and subtraction of gratuitous features and design unrelated to function. 
MUJI, the brand, is rational, and free of agenda, doctrine, and "isms."  The MUJI concept derives from us continuously asking, "What is best from and individual's point of view?"
MUJI aspires to modesty and plainness, the better to adapt and shape itself to the styles, preferences, and practices of as wide a group of people as possible.  This is the single most important reason people embrace MUJI. 


MUJI - in its deliberate pursuit of the pure and the ordinary - achieves the extraordinary.