John Cho Moore: Beauty Through Bamboo

WOOWORKER, GRAIN & GRAM: BLAIR SLIGAR

Grain & Gram: Blair Sligar, Woodworker from Grain & Gram on Vimeo.

POD, BENJAMIN HUBERT

Pod by Benjamin Hubert for De vorm from benjamin hubert on Vimeo.

LETTER PRESS

Letterpress from Naomie Ross on Vimeo.

NECHE COLLECTION

This curious blog shows the belongings that a cuban exiled collected through his life.Her granddaughter is the one who runs the blog, posting  differents objects, such IDs, label markers, old pictures, cassete players...

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DESIGN

by paulaQ 

KIKEKELLER

Kikekeller is a furniture and unique objects scenario where absolutely everything is possible. situated in Corredera Baja de San Pablo 17 in Madrid, came up as the proyect of the owners, Quique and Celia. After being for a while in Narvaez St., in 2008 they moved to an old sewing workshop, wich they remodeled.
After working at cinema stage design, and hotel events, they decided to find a space where they could investigate new working tecnics, with new materials, or just new ways o understanding the old ones. Descontextualizing them, they create interestings prototypes looking for surprise.
The space keeps elements from the old workshop, as the wallpaper, some o the tiles floors, the old wood windows...
Besides their own pieces, they give the opportunite of sell their prototypes to new junior designers. Concrete lamps, leather and steel chairs, Daniel Johnston´s tshirt hanging from some old pipes…
The final store is a changing space where you can loose yourself for a while if you are an industrial design lover.
Kikekeller, Corredera Baja de San Pablo nº17, Madrid.

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W

A VIDA É UM SOPRO

NIEMEYER

Home Can Be Tiny Plastic Bunk

When Capsule Hotel Shinjuku 510 opened nearly two decades ago, Japan was just beginning to pull back from its bubble economy, and the hotel’s tiny plastic cubicles offered a night’s refuge to salarymen who had missed the last train home.

Now, Hotel Shinjuku 510’s capsules, no larger than 6 1/2 feet long by 5 feet wide, and not tall enough to stand up in, have become an affordable option for some people with nowhere else to go as Japan endures its worst recession since World War II. At about $620 a month, rent’s not that cheap, though that does afford you a small in-capsule TV and freshlinens, as well as access to communal areas. The capsules have screens instead of doors, and their thin wallsprovide little privacy. There is, of course, little space for personal possessions, so most residents keep their things stowed in even smaller lockers on the premises.

 

The hotel’s proprietor estimates about a third of the establishment’s 300 capsules are rented long term, on a month by month basis. It is heartening, though, to read that the capsule-dwelling individuals interviewed in this article remain optimistic about what the future holds. You can read their stories and find more photographs at the link.

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Small Box House by Akasaka Shinichiro Atelier

The information that follows is from Akasaka Shinichiro Atelier:
Small Box House
The residence is built on the western hillside of Mt. Moiwa, overlooking the city of Sapporo.
From the casual lifestyle of the client and his wife, and also the request to have a part of the house turn into a cafe in the future, we aimed to create a space to be flexible to support events, such as the new birth of a child and opening a new cafe, where various life-scenes existing with reasonable distances to each other inside a simple void, like a barn.

The floor, handrails, walls, and also curtains, passing the light through, exist lightly inside each life scenes, so the indication of the residents flow continuously without any distraction. Where is the relaxing space as a living room for the family? Could it be next to the kitchen? Or on the second floor? Various heights in the ceiling and the openings are designed to lead the residents to find a such space in this void.

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SUSTAINABLE HOUSING

“Pallethouse”, house and temporary pavilion,2008

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Photoshop

Sometimes I agree.......but most of the time, i would change "photoshop" for "PC"! 

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FAST COOL

Fast Cool is an art galery, a design shop and an workshop studio all in one space. With a clear objective of collecting in the same place the last design and art tendencies and emerging brands with the designers, artists and random people in the street, this convergent point full of inspiration is created for all us.

Fast Cool, Costanilla de los Desamparados, 6, Madrid. <M> Lavapiés / Embajadores

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Madrid Street Advertising Takeover

MaSAT (Madrid Street Advertising Takeover) is the second international SAT project, and the third in a continuing series of civil disobedience projects aimed at reclaiming space for public dialogue in a commercially saturated environment

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