German designer Jennifer Heier has sent us photos of her ReLegs Chair that she recently exhibited at the 2009 IMM Cologne furnishings show in Germany.

From Jennifer Heier:

Normally idioms explain human behaviour or human conditions with the help of objects. My idea for this project was to change the subject object role of them and see what happens. ReLegs is one of the results. A chair that is able to go down to its knees. This causes a very special way of interaction, since the chair is able to act in two different positions. The upright position is meant for a regular sitting attitude, whereas the other position is more relaxed and comfortable for the user, but not for the chair, that has to prostrate for its owner. By twisting the rear legs you can change to the one or the other attitude.

Visit Jennifer Heier’s website – here.

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London based Jump Studios created the Bailissimo Traveling Bar as part of a promotion
for Baileys Irish Cream.

From Jump Studios:

The focus of the design proposition has been to help in opening up the drinking occasionality, and communicating the concept of ‘infectious playfulness’ for Baileys.

Our approach has been to create a series of interlinking experiences of differing scale – each designed to bring to life a particular drink mix.  This is achieved through creating a series of ‘poured’ forms flowing from the ceiling, lit and dynamic, each terminating in a series of different configurations, encouraging the visitor to sample in a context that supports the drinking occasion. For example, one poured form terminates in a lounging configuration, encouraging people to kick back – one form becomes a vertical drinks table encouraging groups to congregate.  Others encourage conviviality by seating people together around a notional ‘hearth’….each poured form is linked through circular seating to encourage the movement of people around the space. The end result is one complete space defined by a series of localised and differing experiences, encouraging the sampling of Baileys in a variety of different mixes.

The space is additionally embedded with coloured heat or chip sensitive pads; once the drink is placed a coloured ‘residue’ is left and as the people and drinks traverse the bar, this residue – or virus – is left behind and over time builds a patina or memory of activity. This multi-experiential space is housed in a purpose built sculptural form, consisting of a triple domed fluid glowing facade, formed over an elegant steel structure.  This amorphic object seemingly floats of the ground, acting as a beacon for the Baileys brand.

Visit the Jump Studios website – here.

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L. McComber Architects provided a design solution for the owners of this 700 square foot loft in Montreal, Canada. They needed to create a room for a newborn baby, so a suspended platform bed made of curved douglas fir plywood and tubular steel was created.

Visit the L. McComber website – here.

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Australia’s Yellow Goat Design have added six new lighting designs to their growing collection.

Visit the Yellow Goat Design website – here.

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Morrison Seifert Murphy have sent us their latest residential project. Vanguard Way is a 2700 square foot house, located in Urban Reserve, Dallas, Texas.

From the architects:

This was the first house completed in a new Dallas neighborhood devoted entirely to Modernism. As our clients were the first, they were able to select a premier albeit irregularly-shaped site that overlooks a public park and waterway.

Visit Morrison Seifert Murphy’s website – here.

Read more about the house after the photos….

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Italian clock manufacturer Diamantini & Domeniconi have sent us photos of seven of their latest clocks from a variety of designers.

Visit the Diamantini & Domeniconi website – here.

RICCIO by Carlo + Benedetta Tamborini

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If you think back to the late ’90s, you might remember the song “Lucky Man” by The Verve, and if you think really hard, you might remember the video for that song was filmed in a very modern minimalist high-tech penthouse apartment. That apartment (in London) is now being offered for rent.

Watch the music video that was filmed in the apartment on YouTube – here.

The Modern House Estate Agents are offering the apartment at £8,450/month or £1,950/week.

A unique chance to rent one of London’s most iconic penthouses. This 3-bedroom apartment was designed by the noted architect John Young while he was a partner at Richard Rogers Partnership, and is a seminal example of the High Tech style. It is located on the fourth and fifth floors of a portered apartment building abutting the River Thames, and enjoys outstanding views through double-height windows. The flat comes with two parking spaces. It is located within a short walk of the River Café.

Visit The Modern House Estate Agents – here.

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Dutch designer Els Woldhek has created the Bastard Chair, which makes use of the leftover scrap leather from a furniture factory.

From Els Woldhek:

The shapes from the leftover pieces decide the shape of the chair. As the technique of stitching the pieces together follows the outlines of the leftovers. The seed planted by the production methods, with the nurture and care from me, becomes the BASTARD.

Visit Els Woldhek’s website – here.

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Italian designer Giuseppe Chigiotti has created the GRAPE I and II lights for Driade.

GRAPE I is a suspension lamp, while GRAPE II is a floor lamp. Both lights feature a chromed steel structure with eight arms providing direct light.

Visit the Driade website – here.  Visit Giuseppe Chigiotti’s website – here.

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Zaha Hadid Architects have produced a design for the Dorobanti Tower in Bucharest, Romania.
The 200 metre building contains a 5-star hotel, convention centre, and luxury apartments.

From Zaha Hadid:

The Dorobanti Tower was designed to establish an iconic presence in the heart of Bucharest. The new tower is a unique mix of a distinctive form, ingenious structure, and spatial qualities of sky-high living. The purity of its form – a chamfered diamond like structure – will be a timeless, elegant landmark in the centre of Bucharest. Zaha Hadid Architect’s design concept is a synthesis of architecture and engineering, which integrates a dis-tinct meandering structural mesh frame and naturally expresses the changing programme of hotel, amenities, and residential apartments.

The site is located in the centre of Bucharest, to the west of Piaza Romana, and approximately 6km south of the international airport. The brief called for a 100,000 square metre mixed-use development at the junction of Calea Dorobanti and St. Mihail Eminescu. The project comprises 34,000 square metres of a 5-star hotel (including restaurants and a convention centre) and 35,000 square metres of luxury apartments. Additionally, the scheme offers lower level retail areas of 4,600 square metres and it delivers a generous allocation of public realm. This public area will be unlike anything else in Bucharest, representing a major attraction within the dense urban character of the City, offering an important new meeting space and urban plaza.

Visit Zaha Hadid’s website – here.

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Confluences is a new collection of upholstered seating that French designer Philippe Nigro has created for the furniture manufacturer Ligne Roset.

From Ligne Roset:

CONFLUENCES is a breath of fresh air which breaks with all the normal conventions of upholstered furniture. This piece will please not only lovers of radical design, but also all those who are seduced by a multiplicity of possible sitting positions, and the as yet unheard-of conviviality offered by its colourful, unbridled compositions with evocative names such as the ‘Toi et moi’ (‘You and me’) love seat, the ‘small conversation settee’ and ‘large conversation settee’, or the 4-seat settee with two integral chaises longue.

At first glance, CONFLUENCES appears to be the fruit of the designer’s creative musings on the theme of uncompromising volumes. And yet, one will be amazed to discover that it is simply the result of a reasoned approach on the part of the designer, with a view to offering the best possible response to customer demand for personalised comfort.

Visit the Ligne Roset website – here.   Visit the Philippe Nigro website – here.

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Belgian designer Xavier Lust has created the Fireworks Suspension Lamp for Driade.

From Driade:

Suspension lamp providing diffused light. Structure in chromed steel and diffusers in opaline blown glass. It works with thirteen halogen lamps.

Visit the Driade website – here.  Visit the website of Xavier Lust – here.

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Toronto, Canada based AGATHOM Architects have sent us their Molly’s Cabin project.

From AGATHOM:

Three and a half hours north of Toronto, is Pointe au Baril, a remote archipelago in Georgian Bay on a cusp of the Canadian shield – a large area of exposed Precambrian rock.

Eight miles from the marina, on a 2.8-acre island is a private seasonal retreat for a multigenerational family. The aim of the project was to balance comfort with the bare necessities so that its inhabitants live lightly on the land and fully engage with their surroundings.

Visit AGATHOM Architects website – here.

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The FurnID design studio has created the Dekka Daybed for manufacturer Fredericia Furniture.

From Fredericia Furniture:

Danish design and Arabic cultural heritage form a beautiful union in Fredericia Furniture’s new Dekka daybed, a work that features both clean lines and intricate ornamentation.

Investing in Fredericia Furniture’s new daybed, Dekka, is almost like buying a work of contemporary art. The seat features a beautiful hexagonal pattern that gives Dekka an artistic style that is entirely its own. Thanks to its unique appearance, Dekka will add character to any room – while also providing soft and comfortable seating.

Dekka, which means “a seat for more than one person”, arose through an encounter of contrasts. Soft and hard, light and dark, ornamentation and minimalism, and of course beauty and function. The piece was created by FurnID, and the three designers choose to blend elements of the Danish design tradition with details stemming from Arabic culture. On account of its unique, elegant pattern, the designers refer to the striking piece as “decorative furniture”.

Visit Fredericia Furniture’s website – here.   Visit the FurnID website – here.

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The Eskilstuna, Sweden based design duo of Cate Högdahl and Nelson Ruiz-Acal from cate&nelson, will be at the 2009 Stockholm Furniture Fair exhibiting their new Verónica Chair.

From cate&nelson:

A spacious lowchair with ottoman. The chairs distinctive features are the loose, reversible cushions which are fixed to the seat just by pressure. The external and assembable frame can be either contrasting or coherent with the seat depending on the colour turned “upwards.”

Visit the cate&nelson website – here.