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Misfits Modular Sofa
Misfits is a modular sofa series with a corner and central elements and two footstools that can be used separately or in different configurations.
Introduced at milan’s salone del mobile 2007, misfits elements look as natural as if shaped by wind and sea. comfortable, relaxed lounging is easily found within misfit’s eccentric and softly rounded seats. their unique shapes allow misfits elements to be used individually or any imaginable combination.
Orange22 BOT
Orange’s Pink Flora bench is a limited edition of the benches to raise awareness on breast cancer. Orange22 will donate $25 of the proceeds from each product sold to breast cancer awareness, research, and treatment.These are cute weather proof benches that form a style statement kept in any part of the indoor or outdoor premises. These durable benches can hold up to 550 lbs. Its welded structural brace reinforces frame on to a light 1/4″³ thick aluminum work.
The Botanist Pink limited edition is available as a bench, cocktail table, or end table in Flora or Flow design. The deliveries shall start June 2008.
Philippe Starck’s RobinWood Collection
The collection, launched in collaboration with Dallas showroom owner David Sutherland, is called RobinWood, and the designs are evocative of 13th-century England. Humble, recognizable shapes that could’ve once been made of oak are given the Starck touch with sustainable teak and touches of polished aluminum. Lil’ John Chair from the RobinWood Deluxe collection from Sutherland by Starck.
A $300,000 Polished steel sofa
The first auction devoted solely to contemporary design will take place at Christie’s in New York this autumn.
The Christie’s sale will feature items such as a polyurethane table by the London-based Iranian architect Zaha Hadid, who designed the aquatics centre for the London Olympics, estimated to raise $200,000.
Another lot will be a highly polished steel sofa by the British-born Israeli designer Ron Arad for $300,000. Arad’s work will be exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York next year.
Pong Dinner Table
This Pong Dinner Table is holding a great reverence to all gadget lovers and is paying a tribute to the video game that revolutionized the gaming industry long back. Designed by Moritz Waldemeyer, this Corian table has been embedded with 2,400 LED lights along with a couple of trackpads, giving this 1972 Atari game a modern update. The prince hasn’t been unveiled yet but it definitely won’t be cheap.
Rare Sunball Lounge Chair
Originally created by designers Ris and Selldorf during 1969-1971 as an outdoor model for sunbathing and relaxation, the rare Sunball lounge chair is vintage classic that brings the essence of the flower generation back into your living room.
With two movable spherical shells, which can be opened and closed, the lounge chair made in lacquered fiberglass, reinforced polyester, ABS plastic, aluminum and fabric, is an ideal indulgence for people who like their grass and have it too! I mean just look at the color and the size of the thing.
a Ron Arad sofa
A Ron Arad sofa may fetch up to 80,000 pounds ($159,000) at a London sale this week that aims to tap demand for “design art.”
The steel work looks amazing “” just don’t sit in it. “If you’re sitting on a polished metal sofa with rivets on your jeans you have to be careful,” said Ben Williams, a design specialist at Phillips de Pury .
Other objects at the April 24 sale of 246 lots also blur the line between design and art. A carbon-fiber table by Australian- born Marc Newson may fetch up to 200,000 pounds.
Schimmel’s K 208 Pegasus Oval Art Grand Piano
Designed by eccentric German designer and aerodynamics expert, Professor Luigi Colani, the K 208 Pegasus manages to “free the grand piano of its traditional form” and still produce superior quality sound when played. Professor Colani, who commutes between Tokyo, Los Angeles, Berlin and Paris, is at war with all corners and edges. So he paired up with renowned German piano maker, Schimmel Pianos, to create the futuristic K 208 Pegasus in his favorite shape, the oval.
On the piano well-thought-out details maximize comfort, like an extendable, integrated piano stool and an electrically-driven lift mechanism that silently raises or lowers the top. We were unable to obtain exact pricing, we do know that Miami’s Delano Hotel recently dropped $200k on a Lucite piano from the same Schimmel Art Collection for its Lenny Kravitz-designed lounge, the Florida Room.
As little design as possible
As little design as possible is a comprehensive monograph on highly influential product designer Dieter Rams (b.1932). As head of design at Braun from 1961 to 1995, Rams created some of the most iconic objects of the twentieth century. Even if you don’t immediately recognize his name, you have almost certainly used one of the radios, clocks, lighters, juicers, shelves or hundreds of other products he designed. He is famous not only for this vast array of well-formed products, but for his remarkably prescient ideas about the correct function of design in the messy, out-of-control world we inhabit today. These ideas are summed up in his “ten principles’ of good design: good design is innovative, useful, and aesthetic. Good design should be make a product easily understood. Good design is unobtrusive, honest, durable, thorough, and concerned with the environment. Most of all, good design is as little design as possible. The book offers a detailed text covering Rams’ life, the intellectual context in which he worked, his designs for Braun and Vitsoe, and the ideas and lectures he developed as an advocate for good design.
Homage fabric patterns from Pia
Swedish designer Pia Walln has just launched three chain patterns, Coco, Karl and Paco, a homage to the three designers who created the style history. The patterns were recently awarded textile of the year 2011 by Elle magazine. The jury justification: “Three elegant and humorous designs by a textile designer in the master class.”
The chain has played a role in strenghten their collections to enhance women’s empowerment and eccentric forms. The chain also symbolizes people’s strong ties to each other. This total has been an inspiration in my creative work, says Pia Walln.
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