stripe storage

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casa jardin

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huis dijk

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Glass Skin

Van Eijk’s collection features a series of sculptural glass objects created using a variety of techniques, each intended to represent a different activity.
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all about fun on the floor!

We have mentioned the carpet flooring site Fun on the Floor (www.funonthefloor.com) before and thought that we would let you know that visitors to it’s website are being rewarded with a voucher entitling the holder to an extensive range of free services from recommended carpet retailers. This includes planning and installation advice and measurement plus on-site surveys. Free estimates for fitting new carpets are available too.
To take advantage of the voucher offer go to www.funonthefloor.com/voucher, enter your postcode; print off the voucher and then present it in-store at any one of the recommended retailers. Knowledgeable and friendly staff can be found there to assist with any carpet queries or needs.
With the voucher, home decorators and makeover enthusiasts can save on the cost and effort involved in decorating a room or living space. Using the services that the voucher entitles the holder to use free of charge will also be a considerable time-saver so it really is something that is worth looking into.
The addition of carpeting to a room is fine way of adding a touch of style to a home. Of all the flooring possibilities that are out there, the one that can add a true sense of warmth and comfort to a living space is carpet. These days there are a very wide range of patterns and styles that are available with designs suited to all areas of a home. Fun on the Floor is seeking to change people’s attitudes and opinions about carpeting and offer a helping hand to those seeking affordable ways to rejuvenate a home.
Funonthefloor.com is an online resource created by the UK’s leading carpet manufacturers and retailers and a host of tips and inspiration can be found on their site that will be useful to anyone thinking of buying a carpet.


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The backyard house

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casa en la horqueta

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KAWS at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

The highly anticipated KAWS exhibition at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum took place this past weekend. Blending some of KAWS’ retrospective work with some new pieces. Some of KAWS’ largest pieces to date were also complimented by large scale figures. In addition, perhaps the most unforeseen KAWS creation of the exhibition was a preview of an upcoming MEDICOM TOY figure based on Pinocchio and embodying KAWS’ signature companion.
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hepper home and pets

Hepper™ is a pet products company that was born from that universal thought: “there’s got to be a better way”. In our case, we had a house full of cats with the accompanying house full of really ugly cat toys and furniture. A search for truly innovative, functional, cool beds was fruitless and thus spawned the creation of the Pod, Podium, Nest, Wave, Pad and Roost – the first of many new home furnishings from Hepper.
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spun chair

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jaap en ineke house

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iphone 4: a thing of beauty

5 days with the iPhone 4...
This thing is an industrial designer's dream come true. The glass, the stainless steel the filled gaps for the antenna and finished flush with the rest of the material, the logo under the glass back, the old school "leica style" buttons...
No more dropped calls, face time and faster uploads thanks to HSUPA, fast and snappy! the flash on the 5 MP camera.
This is the most advanced phone out there.

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rpa offices

RPA: Rubin Postaer and Associates ~ ad agencies always seem to have so much FUN with their office spaces!

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roxanne by sand & birch

Roxanne is another luxury and lustful creation from Sand & Birch: a flaming red-hot mouth is inviting you to sit and abandon yourself to day-dreams.
Let you lie and rely on Roxanne's curved lips, ready to hold your limbs in a sexy and ironic embrace.

Roxanne is a brilliant example of what Sand & Birch means for sculpture-design: an unusual re-interpretation of functional objects according to a personal vision of shapes and meanings.
Soft version in polyurethan and fabric, hard version in varnished polyurethane.
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Cantilever House

This prototype is to be built near Granite Falls, Washington, in the Cascade Mountains about 50 miles north east of Seattle. A second prototype is in the planning stages for an urban site in San Diego. This house is part of a series of projects that explore the opportunities for using prefabrication techniques and new building construction methods and materials to build low cost, high quality, site-adaptable and program-adaptable manufactured buildings.

Although the building site for this prototype has quite unrestrictive zoning constraints, the challenging topography and geotechnical conditions play a strong role in defining the overall design strategy for this project and as a prototype for difficult hillside sites. The small ground floor building footprint/foundation reduces the cost of this expensive area of the house, and allows the points of attachment to adapt to varying slope and soil conditions with minimal disruption of the natural topography.
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Abiquiu House

Designed for an anthropologist and a concert pianist, retiring from Phoenix, Arizona, to this small New Mexico town on a desert site fronting the Rio Chama—not far from Georgia O’Keefe’s famous home on the bluff above this house uses several relatively standard prefabrication systems. SIPs are used for the wall panels only, while the roof and floors are constructed of prefabricated 2×4 long-span trusses. Although it was originally intended to use panels as the roof and floor structure as well, the house was switched shortly before construction to a truss system to simplify the assembly and to reduce the structural lumber splines required in the long spans of the panels.
The owners have a number of animals, dogs and cats and occasional injured strays that they were concerned with protecting from the prevalent local hawks, eagles, coyotes, and rattlesnakes. Rather than compromise the design with the addition of a retrofitted chain link dog run, we developed a thoroughly integrated animal house. For budget reasons, local contextualism, and appropriately barnyard practicality, we settled on chain link as a major material system for the house, protecting domestic animals and people from other animals or from accidental falls from the upper terraces.

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one month with no computer

This is my one month anniversary of not having a home computer.
Sold my macbook pro and the beautiful apple LED display a month ago in order to get the 27" i7 imac. Now, they are close to refresh the lineup and here I'm waiting for the new ones!
The iPad came in handy to support my digital life, otherwise, this would've been a nightmare!

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Rice Gallery

Andrea Dezsö
Sometimes in My Dreams I Fly
8 April - 8 August 2010
Growing up, Andrea Dezsö was obsessed with space travel. Dezsö explains, “There was always this idea of a possible escape place, and because we did not have passports and could not go anywhere in Communist Romania, travel was only possible in your mind. What captured my imagination was how not being able to go somewhere physically opens the possibility of epic mental Odysseys, and how we can stuff empty space with rich imaginary worlds, then move in.”
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vision at suite new york

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Orchard House

Sited within a mature apple orchard in Sonoma County, the house is built in conformity with the strict rectilinear geometry of the tree grid, and equally exploiting the secondary diagonal surprises particular to human motion through an agricultural field. The site was intensely studied for the individual particularities of each unique tree within the orchard field, and the house design then developed this same character of individual conditions within a predominantly regularized system. True to the character of the orchard, the house is laid out as long sequences of interior and exterior courtyards, defined by the adjacent trees, affording long, metered views along the rectilinear and diagonal axes of the field. The massive concrete walls align with the rows of tree trunks, while the open volumes of the rooms and exterior courts align with the open space between trees, affording a direct spatial continuity between house and landscape, figure and void.


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