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The Standard Hotel in New york

If you’re looking for a hotel in New York City, try the Standard hotel. The rooms all have floor to ceiling windows with stunning views starting at $195.

The hotel is a product by Andre Balazs, a New York hotelier and residential developer, together with a number of designers such as architect Todd Schliemann of Polshek Partnership and New York-based design firm Roman and Williams (W*97).

The architecture of the hotel is quite special. A total of 337 rooms framed by huge, non-reflective glass windows, in a building with a stark grey exterior perched on towering concrete pylons. The rooms, though compact, come in eight different shapes and sizes, all packed with colour, texture and light.

As for the decoration of the rooms, these are a mixture of retro furniture with contemporary design.

Imagine taking a bath and overseeing New York City.......





For further information:
www.standardhotels.com/new-york-city

Anti-theft lunch-bags

Are you tired of having your food stolen by sticky-fingered coworkers or roommates? Bullies taking your kid's lunch?

Well, worry no more . . . Anti-Theft Lunch Bags are sandwich bags that have green splotches printed on both sides, making your freshly prepared lunch look spoiled.

These funny lunch bags have been designed by ‘the.’

‘the.’ design team is made up of mihoko ouichi and sherwood forlee who design humorous and eclectic wares which span from objects for the home, electronics and small scale furniture pieces.

Their 'anti-theft' lunch bag are typical zip-loc bags used to store food and have been printed with green splotches of mold.



For further information:
For further information: www.thinkofthe.com

Tree-trunk garden house by Piet Hein Eek

The Thomas Mayer archive shows a tree-trunk garden house, a log house study in Hilversum, the Netherlands for Dutch musical performer Hans Liberg, designed by Piet Hein Eek.

The garden house, originally designed as a cupboard that could serve as a small studio, is part of the Stedelijk Museum’s collection (Amsterdam). It also exists in a Birch tree version. Especially the windows and shutters are fascinating.



For further information:
www.thomasmayerarchive.de
http://www.pietheineek.nl/

Stockholm Furniture Fair

Stockholm Furniture Fair, which takes place from the 9th to the 13th of February, is the world’s biggest meeting place for Nordic design. Here you will find the most comprehensive range of furniture, offices, design, textiles and other interior design for both the home and the public environment.
This edition also features the Nordic Light Fair, where, around 100 exhibitors present the very latest designs in domestic lighting, LEDs, halogen lamps, glass-fibre lights, and glittering chandeliers.
Today approximately 650 exhibitors display their products and get the chance to meet roughly 40,000 visitors.

The fair is open for professional visitors, but on the last day of the fair, members of the public with an interest in design are invited to come and view next season’s products/new features.
Guest of honor is British designer , who is best known as a fashion designer, but he has also designed furniture and upholstery textiles (f.i. for Cappellini and The Rug Company).



For further information:
http://www.stockholmfurniturefair.se
http://www.paulsmith.co.uk

Pantone selects turquoise as the colour of 2010

As we approach flipping our calendars to the next decade, the colour experts at pantone have announced their selection for the colour of 2010: turquoise, which they describe as an inviting and luminous hue.

They go on to explain, ‘turquoise evokes thoughts of soothing, tropical waters and a languorous, effective escape from the everyday troubles of the world, while at the same time restoring our sense of wellbeing.’

While there is no real way to check pantone’s predication accuracy, it is always interesting to see where they pick on the colour wheel.

Pantone is the world-renowned authority on color. For more than 45 years, Pantone has been inspiring design professionals with products, services and leading technology for the colorful exploration and expression of creativity.
In 1963, Lawrence Herbert, Pantone's founder, created an innovative system for identifying, matching and communicating colors to solve the problems associated with producing accurate color matches in the graphic arts community.

Pantone has since expanded its color matching system concept to other color-critical industries, including digital technology, fashion, home, plastics, architecture and contract interiors, and paint.



For further information: http://be.pantone.co.uk

Exposition Ingo Maurer ‘Ode to the lightbulb’

IB lichtateljee in St. Andries (near Bruges) organizes an exposition that brings an ode to the lightbulb, of which certain versions (amongst which the frosted version) have been banned from the EU market since the 1st of September. In the light of this new EU legislation, Ingo Maurer has developed the so-called ‘Euro-condom’, which was presented at the Milan design week 2009. The Euro-condom is a heat-resistant silicon cover that turns a clear bulb into a frosted one.

Ingo’s motto is:‘how to protect yourself from stupid rules’.



For further information:
www.iblicht.com
www.ingo-maurer.com

Dutch Design Week

Last October, the Dutch Design Week was organised in Eindhoven. Many events, congresses, lectures, company visits and workshops took place. One of them was the workshop ‘Proudly Plastics’, where DSM products were transformed into art or given a different function.

Besides that, there was an exposition of the work of students at the Design academy and new interior design products were presented.

With more than 1500 designers participating on 60 different locations in Eindhoven, there was enough to see and do!



For further information: http://www.dutchdesignweek.nl

Ploem, sitware for kids!

If you’ve been searching for fashionable sitware for your kids, Ploem might be what you’re looking for. Ploem makes furniture for kids aged 2 to 16, that is comfortable and easy to integrate into your living room.

The focus is on quality, flexibility, langdurig gebruik en een stoere uitstraling. The furniture is available in a large variety of fabrics, which makes them fit into different types of interiors. A positive point is that the covers can be ordered separately. This can be useful for stains that cannot be removed.

Finally, due to the use of ‘feet’, the furniture can grow with the kids.



For further information: http://www.ploem-online.nl

Beautiful Dutch design

At ‘BijzonderMOOI’ you can buy online (Dutch) design that is gorgeous, innovative and affordable. You can search both on brand and designer.

Interesting items are for example the de ‘leaves’, by Richard Hutten. These are the result of a redesign of the offices of the Boijmans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam where the designer was faced with the problem of ugly ceilings.

Hutten thought that it would be a good idea to bring the feeling of trees and leaves into the building and designed a set of leaves that can be attached to the ceiling, due to the magnets that are in it.

Positive side-effect is that those leaves temper the noise and improve acoustics.



Another interesting item is ‘konijn Job’ (rabbit Job) by Studio Ditte. Konijn Job is sitware for both kids and adults and can also be used outside.

For further information: http://www.bijzondermooi.nl

Seen at Woonbeurs Amsterdam!

VT Wonen and Tempur have developed a new collection of beds, which consists of 3 different models:

Simple Rustic – Simple Chic – Simple Pure

For further information: www.tempur.be or www.tempur.nl

‘Second hand, second life’ country shower tested by enthousiastic volunteer