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Italian furniture designers and manufactures Edra are known for innovation, combined with excellence of product function and form.
The art direction of Massimo Morozzi, a well-known figure on the radical avant-garde scene helped the company to consolidate its design-oriented approach. Every collection bears the distinctive Edra hallmark setting it apart from its competitors. While young first time designers keep it on the cutting edge.
The designs are radical but glamorous. Cipra, for example, a settee with nine cushions fixed to an invisible metal tube frame. The stuffing is Gellyfoam and Dacron wadding while the ‘fur’ covering comes in different hair lengths. Someone was having fun designing that one.
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Cherry red is always a color that catches my attention and when I came across one of the many, extraordinarily stylish posts by Katrine Martensen-Larsen which was all about a simple life in combination with this most vibrant of colours, I had to snatch it up and draw our reader’s attention.
We all need time away from our increasingly demanding and hectic schedules that seem to have become far more cluttered since we were given the management and efficiency tools that were intended to make our lives simpler. And in these times, taking time off and the cost associated with a weekend getaway that doesn’t insult our sense of style have become a challenge all their own. Enter the camper. Continue Reading…
Sudley Castle was once home to Queen Katherine Parr, she’s the one who survived King Henry VIII. Henry himself, Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, Queen Elizabeth I and Richard III have all been associated with the castle. King Charles I found refuge here during the Civil War, and Modenus dropped by on our way to the Cotswolds.
When we called by Sotheby’s were kind enough to be exhibiting, and selling, some rather surprising works by contemporary artists.
As ever, here’s a few for your enjoyment.
Wellness Skull by Rotterdam-based design collective Atelier Van Lieshout (be warned, if you are not familiar with their work – their site contains some challenging images and ideas) manages to be even stranger than it first appears. The upper cranium houses a fully working sauna and the lower section offers a bath/shower facility. The pierced eye sockets provide ventilation. What you see if you happen to be walking by is a haze of steam coming from the skull’s eyes. Its one of an edition of three, conceived in 2007 and made from fiberglass, polyurethane, polystyrene and plywood.
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It seems talented designers have found a platform in Skitsch, that will allow them to do what they do best, go out on a limb and design their hearts out. And now, with a second flagship showroom open in London, the Milan based company is bound to get a lot more buzz from the Design community. The mantra is to make cutting edge design accessible, so let’s curl up on the red sack sofa above and see what they’ll come up with. We’re told there are no rules for inspiration and with that anyway, we wholeheartedly agree. Continue Reading…
They’re glamorous of course, feminine and always a bit decadent, but we think a far more appropriate solution in a bedroom than a tv armoire or heaven forbid that dreaded treadmill. If you think about it, almost every Master Bedroom has a small space that would benefit from a dressing table vignette to soften a corner or break the line created by large pieces like beds and night stands. The Barcelona mirrored dressing table above (via Graham&Greene) is almost weightless. Continue Reading…
In a very sleepy town in Oxfordshire, so sleepy in fact we had trouble locating Coleshill on Google, lives a small furniture workshop and it’s run by Jonathan Baring. His design and craftsmanship however is everything but sleepy. The cabinets above are vellum marquetry and now there’s two terms that don’t often happily coexist in the same sentence. Continue Reading…
Artists are allowed to be edgy and unruly, in fact, we want them to be. There has to be a story here, we want there to be crisis or anger or distress. In Mark Evan’s case we hope he isn’t too angry and that his tendency to play with knives – and only knives, as he has no interest in other paint brush or pen – is limited to his canvas of choice. Leather. Continue Reading…
Shaw Stephens is a furniture design and craftsmanship business set in the heart of English West CountryDevon, best know for green pastures and clotted cream. And their furniture is extraordinary. I have just spent half an hour which should have been filled with phone calls and writing, gazing at his web site. All the while cheerfully distracting colleagues, calling them over to my screen with shouts of ‘Just look – its gorgeous’.
Indulge me, let me do the same for you.
The bench shown above, known as Bench 130, lives in Kingsbridge, South Devon. Two adults can sit on the long cantilevered seat, counterbalanced by the base blocks and mid level section which forms a table at the opposite end. Discreet stainless steel fittings secure each component to the next, and adjustable feet ensure the bench always sits level.
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‘If you don’t have a tub where do you keep your duck?’ We asked recently. First seen in the 1800′s they have gone in and out of fashion but there is something very friendly, very comforting about a yellow rubber duck. Well, usually…
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Opinion is split on tubs. Some people imagine that they are unhygienic ways of sitting in your own grime. Others know that they are the epitome of luxury as they relax in a warm soapy tub sipping a cup of tea and munching on toast. Maybe that’s just the Brits. Pictured above is one of our Transatlantic friends doing something glamorous with a bottle of champagne. Good girl!
The bath is the Amalfi from Victoria and Albert. They describe it as ‘A slipper bath for the twenty first century’. We think it would also look good inside a bathroom.
We were going to publish a picture of Tim in his tub reading his paper, drinking his tea and admiring his ever expanding physique, but there is such a thing as good taste!
But actually, that’s the glory of a tub. It can be glamorous or cosy. Comforting or exciting. Even if you insist on a shower for getting clean, surely you need a tub for wallowing? And if you don’t have a tub, where do you keep your rubber duck? Continue Reading…
