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Are you looking for an outrageous bed design? Well then you have found it right here, the Col-Letto bed will surely spice up your sleep. It does look like an indoor pool with that foam collar rolled up, only it isn't anything else but a simple bed surrounded by an extra foam frame. The frame of the Col-Letto can roll upwards, giving it the pool form I was referring too or downwards, but then your bed will be turned into just another regular bedroom bed. The Col-Letto is available to order and the collar comes in a bunch of colors that will definitely suit your needs and, most importantly, match with the rest of your furniture. Via Lago

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Unfortunately or fortunately, depending upon how you feel about arachnids, the Spiderpodium tech gear stand is not available domestically. Read Full Post

We've talked about the tech items that accompany us when we travel in the past, but like everything else in our life, Martha's packing rituals put us to shame. She's headed to Stockholm this weekend to speak and she's shared some of her packing tips with us. Although we take precautions with our equipment to ensure nothing is broken or damaged, she goes to all lengths to protect her gear while heading out the door for vacation — and yes her camera is labeled! Labeled!Read Full Post

What an unusual task: to design a pool house! A pool house made of glass, steel and fabric is light and transparent and a far cry from a tool shed.

The solution need not always be a new building. And in the French Pavilion Dominique Perrault therefore asks how empty spaces in a city are handled and how we can rejuvenate our metropolitan peripheries. The Dutch Pavilion also focuses on how the existing can best be used. Here, Rietveld Landscape addresses the use of government-owned vacant buildings.

Building on Bespoke STRIPES – the 2003 textile collaboration with British fashion designer Paul Smith, Kvadrat’s international partner, Maharam, introduces a new series in collaboration with Paul Smith...a vibrant family of his signature STRIPES.Product overviewComposed as a series of textiles, STRIPES by Paul Smith are a study in variegation. Staccato repetitions, tonal modulations and punctuated sequences demonstrate Smith’s playful use of colour and proportion. Engineered to appear arbitrary, each variation in frequency, color, saturation, and density yields an entirely unique sensibility.Constructed in a dense wool warp-satin weave, STRIPES by Paul Smith were designed in an upholstery weight, and meet the European contract performance requirements.

A lot of promises have been made with inductive charging, or the so-called wireless charging options, that are supposed to be available. While not needing any wires to charge up your devices is definitely desirable, it won't actually transform the way that you use your tech, will it?Read Full Post

Click here to view the embedded video.Imagine napping in a big hammock on the Greenway during your lunch hour. Designed and led by Hansy Better Barraza AIA, a team has woven The Big Hammock, the world’s largest portable relaxation/napping/hangout device, at the Fort Point Channel Parks. Take a turn in the hammock and enjoy activities from noon to 8:00 pm daily through September 4.To find out more about The Big Hammock, click here. See more images after the break. The Big Hammock originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 03 Sep 2010.send to Twitter | Share on Facebook | What do you think about this?

Our friend Cliff Kuang, editor of Co.Design, sat down with Bjarke Ingels after his (second) arrival to NY. During the interview, Bjarke talks about his new teaching position at Harvard GSD, focused on the potential of the 2016 Olympics and the 2014 World Cup for Rio de Janeiro. They also talk about BIG’s National Library in Kazakhstan, and hint us on a new project currently in the boards for Manhattan, a “cross breed [between] the perimeter block and the high rise, to allow a communal garden in the heart of a building”, a building that we really want to see more about.CK: It seems like things might be a lot different here, than in your home country. What can New York teach a young architect like yourself?BI: As an architect, you’re always trying to accommodate different interests in a single building, from the residents to the developers to the city planning officials. In Manhattan, the density makes that even more extreme, and there’s something in the American culture about bringing together competing interest groups. I mean, this is the country that invented surf & turf! I mean, steak and lobster! What other country would thing to combine those two extremes? I sense some interesting possibilities here.CK: A lot of your buildings — such as the 8 House apartments and the Mountain Dwellings project, or the Astana National Library and the Danish pavilion look like evolutions of a theme. Is that part of BIG trying to develop an aesthetic, or a signature?BI: No, we don’t have a commitment to certain forms or styles. But as we develop stuff we learn how things relate and connect, and we learn how those forms can be reinterpreted to create new possibilities. So for example, the basic form of the 8 House, which allowed both a courtyard and views and a sloping green roof, has become in TED [pictured below] which attempts to bring street life up to the level of the penthouse.It’s a bit like in nature how some fish developed bigger flippers that could be used as legs. It’s not like the fins had a purpose for walking, but through an act of relocation and misinterpretations, they became legs. A major part of design evolution is that things developed for one purpose can be used in other ways. And that’s why you see diversity and continuity in design.Read the whole interview at Co.Design »Bjarke Ingels: Kazakhstan, Rio de Janeiro, NY and more originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 03 Sep 2010.send to Twitter | Share on Facebook | What do you think about this?

This Amsterdam apartment by Dutch interior architects i29 has two pine wood wall cabinets hiding most of the functional appliances and fitings, allowing for a completely open space. (more…)

Here's a good question for all your ergonomic experts out there who happen to spend much of their workday sitting for extended periods of time: What are some good ways to avoid injury when you have a big deadline and are unable to leave your seat for hours on end? Is it better to work in an office chair or household sofa away from your desk? And what's the most important factor to consider to protect our lower backs?Read Full Post