French design book publisher Bernard Chauveau Editeur sent us an email for this “important book about the contemporary ceramics creations in Craft Limoges”. Published in french but with english texts, The Ceramic Experience, L’Expérience de la Céramique, has an evocative subtitle, the arts of fire and earth (les arts du feu et de la terre) that piqued my curiousity. The book is a visual reference presenting the fruit of fifteen years of ceramic creation at the Center of research for ceramics and enamel applications in art and design in Limoges, France. Since 1993, the center has brought together over sixty international artists, designers, visual artists and architects “to adopt ceramic as their means of creation and expression and to experiment with the material and its limits to the full.”. Artists such as Ron Arad, Matali Crasset, Ross Lovegrove, David Lynch, Ingo Maurer, and Martin Szekely. It won’t be easy to get outside of France, but it is listed at Amazon.fr. Hardcover, 224 pages, 220 photos, 57 euros at Amazon.fr.
Here are some standout vintage console tables that would look stunning in an entranceway. From Mark Frisman’s 20th Century Design collection, a great Karl Springer inspired console table that pairs a heavy glass top with a stone U shaped base. Price: $2,500. Talisman, based in London, offers an amazing selection of console [...]
When The Essential Ghoul’s Record Shelf went on an apparently permanent hiatus back in 2005, I wondered where I was going to get my regular fix of Incredibly Strange Music. So now, after 2 years of searching through the blogospheric wilderness, I’m happy to report that I’ve finally found something even better: Music From the Monster Movies, a weblog devoted to unearthing unearthly tunage from the golden age of psychotronic film.
There’s a whole lot of great music here, including a few gems I’ve been trying to find for a long, long time, like the Del-Aires Zombie Stomp, from the drive-in classic, Horror of Party Beach, so if you’re a fan of cool and strange music, you owe it to yourself to click on over for an extended browse.
+ More of Neil Denari’s Alan Family House at noticias arquitectura, “The family have asked that 1,000 sf (93.00 m2) be added to the site in addition to the existing 1,000 sf house.”.
+ More of architect Peter C. Jakob’s prefab WeberHaus ‘Option House’, “Driven by a modern aesthetic and energy-efficient elements, Option is a fully functional, light-filled dwelling that delivers low-impact living in just 70 square meters of elegant and understated space.”. Via Inhabitat.
+ John Pawson’s B60 Sloop, “The project’s functional goal is to create the ultimate day racing yacht, built for recreational rather than competitive purposes, but with the highest levels of manoeuvrability.”. Via Dezain.
+ Being Object’s Reborn, “a set of bathtub and water faucet designs. The shape of bathtub was inspired from beans.”. Via Dezeen.
+ joe & josephine design collective show at Made at blogTO, featuring Caroline Arsenault’s Stick Collection brooches. Via designboom.
The 1960 film, La Nave de los Monstruos (AKA: Ship of Monsters), has pretty much everything a Mexican scifi/horror/kiddie film should have: the ultra-hot Lorena Velazquez playing a bloodsucking babe from Venus, a Martian with a giant, pulsating rubber brain, a Cyclops named Ook, a really lame talking skeleton puppet, and their fabulously cheesy robot, Tor, who in this touching scene at the movie’s finale, flies back into outer space in his rocket ship while crooning a romantic duet with his newfound love, a cantina jukebox!
The holidays started this week at Art MoCo with an Art Basel Wrap Up, a peek of our favorite moments and memories, one of which was the Die Collector Scum painting by Merlin Carpenter.
We made a quick virtual jaunt to Santa’s Ghetto in Bethlehem to share the peace.
Then back to Miami for more wallowing in this year’s Basel. Yoshitomo Nara’s Puff Marshie was a high impact piece at the Convention Center. Imagine this baby in a gleaming white kitchen or spare loft space.
This embroidered cash register receipt from Schipol by Gabriel Kuri struck us as a unique way to keep organized.
And we end the week with a beautiful piece by Cerith Wyn-Evans.
When we were first looking into making an ofuro, one of the things we considered was pouring one out of concrete. The good thing about concrete is that the material is cheap, and with a little hard work it lends itself well to the DIY approach. We quickly bagged the idea because there [...]
We asked 15 designers and design teams the following question: What two modern day conveniences can you not live without?
We really shouldn’t have been surprised by most of their answers, and the top-ranked mod cons were laptops/Macs, the internet and mobile phones. The Blackberry, iPod and 3D modelling (great design-appropriate answer!) also made sense. Coffee played a role in the must-haves, and we were glad to see that the shower was close to at least one designer’s heart. More after the jump. And you? Leave your answer in comments below.
(Out of these, I’d have to go with my Mac and the Internet, plus travel and sunglasses. Harry needs everything ‘cept the 3D modelling.)
Woo hoo, Shag has got new tiki mugs n’ stuff coming in from far yonder… Japan. They will be available for purchase at Shagmart in January 2008.
Plus…
It’s Shagmart’s “Three Days After Christmas” Coupon. Enter the Coupon Code: DAXS07 in your shopping cart and 25% will be taken off your total. PLEASE NOTE: Offer is only good on new orders placed from now until December 28th and is only good on in-stock items. Coupon expires at 12/28/07 at 11:59 PM PST
