hip books: taste pace style values love by gerd bulthaup

amazing....noncommercial......easy to understand......a book classic........could be a good gift.........




from the book: did you knew about rem koolhaas european union new flag proposal, barcode?

hip vibrator by tom dixon, marc newson and marie oda

I confess that I watched every single episode of famous sex and the city series and I enjoyed it till sarah Jessica parker started to act as a moron in the last season...it's wired that they never mentioned about these designer's vibrating toys. I discovered them 4 years ago but never attempted to buy one.
exclusively sold on www.myla.com these vibrators are cool. you don't even have to hide them from your cleaning ladies.

"bone" designed by tom dixon has a very interesting shape, like a sculpture unfortunately it is too expensive... "pebble" is an interesting design by marie oda.

"mojo" designed by marc newson is the cheapest one. but if any of you every tried one of these toys please please send me a comment........

joachim jirou- najou: profile and works

galerie "gilles peyroulet cie" in marais region, paris invested at the beginning of this year on a very young (and he is very cute also) designer:
joachim jirou-najou born in 1980, graduated from ENSAD (ecole nationale superieure desarts decoratifs)has been very lucky to be able to work with "pierre charpin" as his assistant fallowing days.
(Pierre Charpin creates beautifully bold Memphis-style sculptures. His collection for Design Gallery Milano, is called Oggetti Lenti, or Slow Objects )

joachim's school thesis, was exhibited in GPC coinciding with the furniture fair. the name of his collection is "portee"and its elements: including a bench(blue), a consol(red), shelves(yellow and grey) and four storage units, and a chair(black).

maded from folded steel the 10 monumental objects come in string olors and are wall mounted.

"the floor space is then freed up and the wall becomes part of the work opening up endless possibilities" explains young designer in his context accompanying his thesis for the ensad in 2004.

galeriepeyroulet@aol.com

www.intramuros.fr

www.wallpaper.com

why to cover your i pod?

I saw last year i pod cases exclusively designed by comme des garcons at colette......
then today as you see above there are much more options to cover up your uber designed gadget!!
city magazine has chosen a bunch of idiot i pod case designs: i pod is a very well designed product and some people are buying i pod just to satisfy their design hunger. if you'll cover it with a case then why i pod? there are cheaper versions!! this is like using condoms with your beloved partner!!!
geek louis vuitton case is the worst!!! if you really want to buy something related with louis vuitton then get beosound, at least you wouldn' worry to hide your gadget!!!

you can complain about scratches and other possible damages but my resolution is:

-either you are a heavy i pod user, so whenever apple release a new product you will change yours with the newest version...
-or i pod is a just an accessory for u, so you don't use it that often to damage

hip toys by visionaire, issue 45

With the success of Issue #44: Toys, Visionaire releases Issue #45:More Toys, featuring a whole new roster of international fashion designers. Never bound to any traditional format, the issue is a collaboration with toy masters Kidrobot and features illustrations by fashion designers silk-screened onto Toys.
10 original Visionaire toys customized into 10 characters by 10 fashion designers.

The issue is released as two sets of five toys; each set contains photos of all ten characters in an accordian-fold catalog along with a set of accessories including a toy cell phone, martini, flower, and camera that the characters can hold.

set includes toys by gucci, vivienne westwood, rei kawakubo for comme des garcons, christian lacroix for pucci, and maison martin margiela. the blue set includes toys by john galliano, helmut lang, jean paul gaultier, stefano pilati for yves saint laurent and giorgio armani.

www.visionaireworld.com

hip food: brasserie national antwerp

it's time for winter shopping, if you go to antwerp I suggest you to stop by at "brasserie national" designed and furnished by "vincent van duysen" architects. if you want to buy the chairs call b&b italia...
delicious foie gras frais with apricot sauce can kill you, one of the best around the world.

yedidia blonder and his lines....

wallpaper* discovered him last year, others thanks to the cologne 2005 design exhibition. I think that recenty he started the production of his bookshelf units. they are minimal, black, monumental, but of course you have to display in your best looking design books, or u will ruin the whole idea!!! yedidia.blonder@fitfrance.com

a new office system by vitra: level 34

maybe you are thinking that I'm promoting vitra a lot in my blog but this is not the case: the owner of vitra, rolf fehlbaum is our century's design guru. ask everyone, if you are a good designer you have to work with him. I will tell you in another post why....

level 34 was designed by werner aisslinger and it is in production now. system has a minimal number of parts, so you wouldn't freaked out while designing one. the base stands 34cm high therefore the name is level 34. to read more check www.vitra.com

barcelona chair

I will never forget, when I started to work as a sales person many years ago in a well known design furniture showroom I had a very rich customer who was hanging out (please no offense) with a beautiful russian model. she wanted to buy a barcelona chair. and as usual I started to tell about the story: mies van der rohe designed it especially for the king and queen of spain, bla bla bla.... my customer was very excited, he said to his girlfriend:

-you are my queen and I'm the king, we are definitely buying this chair!!!!

anyway, among its reputation barcelona is a very beautiful chair but not comfortable!!!
if you are planning to sit on it don't buy. best use areas are receptions, if you insist you can put it somewhere in your apartment as a sculpture.

knoll is the official manufacturer for barcelona chair. please, please do not buy the knock offs. knoll has a leather company division, spinnyback, there you'll find the suitable material regarding your budget: for example knoll has some in stock spinneyback leather grades, black, white, burgundy etc. then you can buy your chair 10% less...

I suggest to use special suede colors on it, looks gorgeous and no knock offs...

green fields................

I'm not a really color person....but I'm obsessed with various green shades...this summer's burberry sunglasses have major color shades, plastic, big and funky...I tried it but I guess I'm not the type for colorful stuff...if you like it buy it...................

applause for aquascutum

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top ten cosmetics

I'm a little obsessed with my appearence. I prefer a natural look and not really into makeover. below listed products are my favorites, all approved, if u ask why send a comment I will reply..

cleansing: shu uemura essential cleansing oil

skin refiner: idealist by estee lauder

make up base: clinique pore minimizer

eye: la prairie eye serum with caviar extract

cheek blush: origins pinch your cheeks
moisturizer: shu uemura dep sea enriched gel cream
body scrub: clarins relax body exfoliant
lips: helena rubinstein lip sculptor
hands: l'occitane shea butter mini hand cream

hair: kerastase products all of them!!!!

cool outdoors 3 special products

coro italia is also an eye-catching outdoor furniture company. they have sophisticated designs with light weighted materials.
loop chair designed by british designer gala wright is a stunning lounge chair, stainless steel frame with plasticized fabric mesh in white or black.

director's cut!!! their recent design, fellini chair has also various finishings among mesh: leather, pony skin etc. with steel frame. www.coroitalia.com

tim derhaag's outdoor 45 lamp collection from www.flos.com with wood finish option is quite original with its industrial warm effect.

striped collection by www.magisdesign.com a "bouroullec brothers" interpration for cool outdoors.

chair rocking

jean marie massaud is a well known french designer active not only in luxurious market but also in mass production. I knew him through his designs for italian company cappellini, www.cappellini.it.

for massaud 2005 has been a good year in terms of productivity, he made several designs for B&B Italia, porro, cassina and poltrona frau.

poltrona frau has been bought recently by one of the biggest italian group, ferrari, who also included in its collection thonet, cappellini and cassina, similar to fashion business mergers.
www.cassina.it www.poltronafrau.it www.bebitalia.it www.thonet.com

"don'do" rocking chair by massaud for poltrona frau is candidate to be our century's new classic design. aged walnut finish with special leather upholstery, adjustable headrest cushion....

comments on philip starck's latest "chez d'oeuvre" for flos

I wanted to mention about this article because I love designers gossiping for their colleagues. you should know that the biggest event for the industry is salone del mobile in milan. so even if you don't buy regularly below listed magazines I suggest you to grab april editions and all related ads.
interni, italian elle decor, domus, casa da abitare.

everybody knows about him, he is a star as I told in my first post, design freak. personally I don't like his designs, but I admit without him design world would be a little boring.

his latest lamp series, guns for www.flos.it have shaken design news one more time. but at the cover page of domus magazine, there is especially one comment which made me really leaf.

Vito Acconci newyork based artist gave him some list of advises, and asked him to repeat...here is a short list, to read more check the link...

I can play with design but I will never take a vacation from design (Repeat: I will never…);
I will never resort to doing art about design (Repeat: I will never…);
I will never fall back on a stock response (Repeat: I will never…);
I will never grow up but I will never remain a spoiled child (Repeat: I will never…);
I can try to do everything but I will never think that I can just do anything (Repeat: I will never…);
I will never treat my users as my audience (Repeat: I will never…).....................

prada is black helmut lang please come back!!!!!

prada 2000 top left last minimalist season

prada 2004, no comment!!

prada 2005 top right what happened?

black is back uttered vogue!!!!

ooops, there is a little mistake, black was never gone away so how it can be back again? if you want to be respected in this world you have to stick to your principles.

now above there are 3 images, please pay carefully attention for 2 minutes....

can u imagine john galliano designing for christian dior a collection similar to comme des garcons's? without j'adore dior marks or any marks? that would be the apocalypse for dior fans.

when miuccia declared that minimalism is dead, we didn't switch our wardrobe style from minimal to clowny. thanks to our generation designers like margiela, ghesquiere, victor&rolf, preen, costume national, demeulemeester, kawakubo and many others who did not agree with madame prada's opinion we continued to shop for the same style.

modernism in fashion doesn't mean image: function and innovation matters. we shouldn't dress ourselves without personal identity just to have a fashionable look decided for that season by the biggest fashion authorities like vogue or similar commercial stuff. red is the season's color so let's all look like tomatoes. or go to mango and zara to become copycats.

An entire culture of prestige denim was born from Lang's low-rise jeans with intricate washes, for which he dared to charge close to $200 in the 1990's http:www.centredaily.com/mld/charlotte/living/11875829.htm?source=rss&channel=charlotte_living

low rise, slim fit helmut lang jeans are unfortunately unique, also his classic white shirts. he use to launch every season the same classic pieces among the avantguard ones to make our life easier. if something looks good on you, you look forward to find the same product again. I know people who could spend more then 200$ today just to find the right shaped pair of jeans. every piece he created has a meaning, they are all piece of arts.

I don't want to give a long disclosure here about fashion cartels like eric wilson did on his article because this is not the same case. yes, the idea to unite with prada was a mistake. he shouldn't sell his soul to the devil. I wonder what will happen to raf simmons with jil sander!!!!

if you read the article written from last summer's "self service" www.selfservicemagazine.com you can understand helmut lang. since then I knew that he was dying to get rid of prada and people with prada minded.

....but not to what some retailers now acknowledge, that Lang's dedication to minimalism was absolute even as consumer tastes evolved.(eric wilson's article)

no no no!!!! contemporary not minimalist!!!!!

minimalist prada as seen on the right, contemporary, helmut lang below

Look at Dolce & Gabbana, Cavalli, Dior and Chloe," said Carla Sozzani, the owner of 10 Corso Como, an influential store in Milan, where Prada is based. "That has nothing to do with Helmut Lang. The whole concept of minimalism was very good in the early '90s, but then for the past several years, people were not interested in that look." (eric wilson's article)

what do you expect? helmut lang designing leopard patterns ornamented with swarowski crystals? corso como is a multibrand store and has to address everybody including cavalli and gabbana lovers like colette in paris. on the other hand "louise" in antwerp has a design philosophy and would never ever add in its collection "les grandes marques".

there are lots of thoughts on this subject but you know "less is more". I hope helmut lang has future plans, he is a designer, an artist, he has to create in order to live.