These are the Spicy Steak Knives Set designed by Carlo Contin for Legnoart. We love how they took an everyday item and made it into something that doesn’t even look like it should belong in the kitchen.
Visit the Legnoart website → here. Visit Carlo Contin’s website → here
Glass artist Jeff Goodman created this installation for the Crystal 5 restaurant at
the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.
Visit Jeff Goodman’s website → here.
Designed by Italian Marco Morosini is the Transparent Dog House which is part
of his Dog is a God Collection.
Visit the Dog is a God website → here. Visit Marco Morosini’s website → here
The Libri shelf, designed by Michael Bihain and produced by Swedese, received the
‘+1 Award’ at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, “Best New Product Design 2008″.
Libri can be used as a solitary shelf or which can be combined with additional Libri shelves alongside against the wall, back to back thus becoming free standing or several shelves in a row out from the wall creating a room divider.
Visit the Swedese website → here.
Alicia Keshishian has been around the rug business all her life, as the granddaughter of Mark Keshishian, she is part of a legacy of rug experts and aficionados that goes back over 100 years. Today, the former art director and illustrator produces her own rug designs, and works with interior designers to create unique custom designs. All her rugs are hand-made in Nepal from Tibetan wool.
Visit Alicia Keshishian’s website → here.
James DeWulf is a Los Angeles based producer of concrete sinks, countertops, tables, fireplaces, and other home decor pieces. He began in 2004 by producing custom orders for architects and interior designers, but now also has a product line available through retailers like Walker Zanger to make his concrete creations available to a wider market.
Visit the DeWulf Concrete website → here.
Mark Leichliter, a Colorado based sculpture artist, sent us his latest work. The “Meme” sculpture made of stainless steel is meant as a symbolic treatment of Richard Dawkins’ “meme” concept.
From Mark Leichliter:
“A meme (pronounced /miːm/) consists of any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. Examples include thoughts, ideas, theories, practices, habits, songs, dances and moods and terms such as race, culture, and ethnicity. Memes propagate themselves and can move through a “culture” in a manner similar to the behavior of a virus. As a unit of cultural evolution, a meme in some ways resembles a gene.” (From the Wikipedia article.)
It’s that “propagate” bit that this piece plays on in the form of a concentric ripple - an idea moving from mind to mind like a wave, spreading out from it’s origin and altering the energy state of other ideas within the culture. It also employs the imagery of a matrix or lattice to illustrate the memeplex being made up of individual, discrete consciousnesses experiencing a collective and individual transformation through the propagation. I think of this process when I analyze the slow but steady progress our species is making from one cultural paradigm to the next, as ideas like liberty, responsibility, and reason spread virally and replace those of dominance, exploitation, and superstition. As more minds begin to cohere, constructive interference amplifies these waves - and everything gets just a little bit better.
Visit Mark Leichliter’s website → here.
Nambé have just released the Yaro Collection and the Ravine Salt and Pepper Shakers. All items are currently available to buy online; however you’ll have to wait a little while to get them as they are in pre-order stage.
You can reserve / buy online at the Nambé website → here
Yaro Salad Bowl with Servers and four individual salad bowls.
The Ravine Salt and Pepper Shakers.
Created by Mark Arick from 26 Gallery are these modern art prints that are more than just nice pictures…they actually resemble letters of the alphabet, for example this first image says “LOVE”…can you guess what the rest say?
You can get any word or colour you like, plus you can buy them online → here
This is the 2008 Collection from Link Studios, a design firm based in San Francisco. Link Studios is a team of people that work together using their various skills that range from art to industrial and product design to engineering and construction to create a variety of furniture that are both visually appealing and functional. Although the group has worked together for many years, 2008 marks the beginning of their formal product offerings.
Visit the Link Studios website → here
Twist Modular Storage by Dylan Gold
Kathryn Wightman creates some really interesting handblown-glass pieces using bold colours and captivating shapes. Here a few examples of her work…
Visit Kathryn Wightman’s website → here
Seeing is Believing
We recently learned about Artevo, a company with headquarters in Calgary, Alberta, Canada that has the rights to more than 4,000 pieces of fine art and is selling reproductions worldwide through their website. They also currently have galleries in three Canadian cities, and have reportedly raised $16 million to fund their expansion of galleries into the United States, starting with a location in Los Angeles.
Visit the Artevo website → here.
A State Of Trance by Jeff Beier:
1J2 X by Allen Thomas Hayes:
We love this simple coat hanger design by Swedish designer Jonas Lindvall for the
(also Swedish) furniture company de Nord.
You can buy it online from ScandinavianDesignCenter → here.
