The ceiling fan design hasn't been updated since it's origin, aside from a few tangents into the world of the ridiculous. Regrettably these accessories of modern comfort have been watered down into the design-addled lock-step of Home Depot-ritz. A crushing middle of the road that has taken over accessible accessories in general. It may be a subtle difference, but it is all in the craft and elegance.
The originals are out there. Finding them isn't easy and they don't come cheap. We turned to Vintage Fans.com who finds and restores turn of the century ceiling fans.
A restored fan like this beautiful number from 1918 will cost approximately $3600.00
If you've been contemplating an overhaul to those dreary apartment walls, perhaps its paper instead of paint this time. In the T design magazine from the New York Times today, this number caught our eye. Wallpaper designed by artist Kiki Smith.
I'm sure it has plagued us all, those cold days walking down the street trying to make a call or send a text, the great debate. Take off the glove or just keep going.
Riding that fine line between cool and kitsch, these New York Graffiti patterned china place settings would be a welcome jolt of the unexpected on the dinner table. The design is by Lovegrove and Repucci and can be found at designpublic.com
This very charming documentary by French filmmaker Loïc Prigent, follows uber-fashion maven, Marc Jacobs through the creation and presentation of the Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuiton Spring Collections 2007 (with a brief stop in Tokyo where they staged a recreation of the Fall 2006 LV collection - and a mad party).
This one just in from the those sage fellas at Cool Hunting. A fantastic trove of modern furniture from Modhaus, a store in Boston.
We will keep software recommendations to a bare minimum on these pages but, I've been meaning to drop a note on this morsel for quite some time. iGTD is a task-managment application designed by a boy-genius from Wroclaw, Poland. Bartek Bargiel, a mac enthusiast and mensch, created this little application and has unleashed it on the world as donationware. I am not going to get into the minutia of what it does, suffice it to say, it works. And it works very, very well. It is the embodiement of modern design in code. Simple, elegant, form from function.
Well, it is one of our favorite stores! That's why.
