Versace Home Collection

Italian couturier Versace has made a foray into home fashion with the release of its Home Collection. The big things here are bright colors, wild prints, and colorful, unique designs. Available in Versace stores starting in the fourth quarter of 2010.

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Emmanuelle Moureaux: Acrylic Furniture

'Kodachi' ('grove' in English) is a stand for fragrance sticks. Each of the 14 colored acrylic vessels are embedded into a larger transparent acrylic box.



French-born and Tokyo-based designer Emmanuelle Moureaux has created the 'Shibafu table'.
56 slender colored acrylic sticks are randomly arranged into a piece of transparent acrylic, creating an aesthetic, reminiscent of a colorful shibafu or lawn. The sticks support the transparent acrylic panel, while refracting and reflecting light as if they were soaking under water.

The colored sticks appear and disappear, and even seem to bend at times depending on the angle
at which you view them.

The starting point for the 'stick chair' comes for the pick-up sticks game 'mikado', which originated in europe. 7 round wooden sticks are placed obliquely in order to properly support the heavy piece of acrylic which forms the seat. Although the chair does not look stable, the arrangement of the sticks provides a structural balance.

Visually, an 'unbalanced balance'.

An accessories box which draws on the form of sageju or japanese tiered lunch boxes.The parts can be arranged freely like a three-dimensional puzzle, making it possible to enjoy the piece in many different combinations of colors. It is designed to act as storage for cosmetics and accessories, and can also be used in the office for small stationary items.

The acrylic x komono series of products is a design collaboration between Emmanuelle, acrylic brand Waazwiz and Japanese cosmetic brand Pola, with SCV (Shizuoka Contents Valley Consortium) and Sachio Hihara's initiative.

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Balmain Studded Military Blazer

The Balmain design house creates unapologetically bold clothing. Especially when it comes to their jackets. They are overly structured with exaggerated shoulders and adorned with pieces that look as though they can be found on window treatments - but it all works. And with famous stars like Rihanna and Beyonce having been photographed wearing Balmain jackets, Christophe Decarnin's designs have only increased in popularity. His designs look amazingly beautiful on the runway and on celebrities but may not always translate so easily into the real world.

Made from cotton canvas, it's slightly tapered for a well tailored fit and beautifully decorated with silver studs and military patches along the along the front, sleeves, and lapel.

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Vitra Haus by Herzog & de Meuron

Vitra Haus, the new home of Vitra's Home Collection, has been covered widely by design media, and not in vain. It is a beautiful example of Jacques Herzog's and Pierre de Meuron's ability to take the ubiquitous stacked-houses concept and still make it look new, interesting and inviting.

Reaching five storeys in height and containing 12 separate houses, Vitra House is geared toward the general public, design-aware consumers who will appreciate the building as well as the Vitra products inside. The entire contraption appears both grandiose and intimate at the same time, with the gray exterior disguising the disheveled heap within the site, while the open glass-walled ends and stark, white interiors facilitate the presentation of residential-scale displays.




Vitra House is the latest addition to the ever-expanding Vitra Campus that started as an industrial park with the manufacturing facilities. Now the Vitra Design Museum--Frank Gehry's first European building opened in 1989 -- the Conference Pavilion by Tadao Ando (1993) and the Fire Station by Zaha Hadid (1993) already provide magnificent visual attraction. Vitra Haus and a new circular manufacturing facility by Kazuyo Sejima/SANAA are this year's entrants to the site.

Weil am Rhein is a German town and a community that is a suburb of the Swiss city of Basel in Switzerland. Weil am Rhein is located by the River Rhine, close to the meeting point of the Swiss, German and French borders. The Vitra Design Museum is the town's biggest draw.



The Basel-based architecture firm Herzog and Meuron was established in 1978 by Jacques Herzog (born 19 April 1950), and Pierre de Meuron (born 8 May 1950). It is known for many prominent international commissions, including the Beijing Olympics' "Bird's Nest."

Photography by Iwan Baan

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NL Architects: Blok K

Blok k is one of three almost square blocks that measure 31 by 28 meters and should
contain 2.5 stories. it was obligatory to build the first two stories in alignment; the third
should be 50% building and 50% roof terrace/garden. in our block the volume is distributed
evenly over the ten houses; each is allocated 630m2.



The houses are organized according to the back to back principle, to be be accessed
from an aisle in the middle of the block. this 'mini canyon' rids the facades of the obligatory
storage spaces and technical facilities that formally have to be accessible from the public
domain.



The front doors are positioned in the back; the houses are turned inside out. By placing
the 'intestines' like water and gas meters, hallways and stairs in the darker zones of
the apartments, the facades can open up to the light and to the view, to where the park is.


To create space within the masterplan this volume is deformed and redistributed, pushed
away as much as possible from the adjacent volumes. Within the orthogonal grid a diagonal
vista opens up. the design tool deployed for this operation is the slight rotation of the aisle,
orienting it onto two open spaces between the blocks, instead of 'two' blind walls and as
such providing a public shortcut.


Point of reference is the given 630m3 per dwelling. while all houses are at the same time
stretched and compressed, either in height or in length, they still maintain this original
volume. Although some features of the typology remain, all houses are individual and unique
reaching from one and a half to four stories, from 132 to 185m2. The amplitude of
the building now varies from 5 to 15 meters, but overall the average is still the required
7.5 meters. in the process the standard building bay as an organizational tool of construction
became 'elastic'.
















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The piano table

The piano table by Georg Bohle is apt for urban settings where scarcity of physical space often hinders the pursuit of finer interests. Linear in design, the piano table is a world apart from its typical cumbersome arrangement.

Created from oak wood, it is functionally designed to serve both as dining table and as an electric piano. Raising the wooden tablet reveals the piano keys, whereas laying down the same conceals the melodious aspect to offer a plain wooden surface. The piano table’s captivating neat clear lines, certain buoancy and plain polished appearance is destined to lend elegance and grace to its surroundings.

Its estimated price is $6000.

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Martin Pitonak ‘Origami’ Table

Furniture designer Martin Pinotak’s ‘Origami’ table represents a wonderful combination of intricate design and functionality; combining the clean, dynamic lines of the tables base with a solid glass top make this piece a usable work of art.

Working out of Toronto, Canada, Pinotak’s work often exemplifies high design with an emphasis on maintaining the usefulness of a given piece. ‘Origami’ achieves this level of practicality without sacrificing the creative statements it makes; a piece of furniture that combines minimalist design with maximum function.

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Chiara Goose ‘Cardboard Luggage’

Although it might not survive the abuse of your local airport luggage handler, Chiara Goose’s ‘Cardboard Luggage’ remains a stylish and playful piece that any weekend warrior can appreciate. Using surprisingly sturdy double-corrugated cardboard, metal rivets, and cotton cording, this piece has a level of craftsmanship and attention to detail that speak to both its usefulness and functional design.

The luggage itself ‘unpacks,’ forming a standing shelving unit to organize your various possessions, making the days of digging into the depths of your bag a thing of the past. Chiara Goose’s ‘Cardboard Luggage’ shows that just because your working in recyclable materials, doesn’t mean you have to recycle creative design.

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