Confronted with an increasing problem of plastic waste in the Colombian Amazon, product designer Alvaro Catalán de Ocón was invited to work with a team of artisans to create a reuse concept for plastic bottles. The result, a series of hand crafted pendant lights, combines …
BlogTourBlogTour LondonFurnitureGreen DesignLightingProduct Spotlghts
September 10, 2012
Graypants at Decorex London – creating things, having fun
Based in Seattle and Amsterdam, Graypants are people we are looking forward to meeting at Decorex in London as part of Blogtour. We are, truth be told, as curious to see what they make of Decorex as we are to see what Decorex make of …
Green DesignLifestyle - Food, drinks, fashion and more
September 7, 2012
Eco Stream by Sodastream -saving the planet one bottle at a time
Modenus UK has always been struck by the pragmatism of the French practice on buying wine ‘en vrac’ – filling bottles from vast containers – it is just a shame that the wine is so often undrinkable. On a saunter …
BlogTourBlogTour New YorkGreen DesignInterior Design
March 6, 2012
“It’s Perfectly Natural” by BlogTour NYC blogger Cecy J
By Florence von Pelet
I’m really enjoying getting to know all of the BlogTourNYC sponsors and Rotsen Furniture is no exception. Rotsen has been creating custom furniture since 2005. They appreciate the environment and their pieces integrate wood’s organic characteristics. Rotsen’s designers seem to embrace, utilize and respect …
BlogTour New YorkGreen DesignKitchen & Bath DesignKitchen design
March 4, 2012
Du Verre Hardware kitchen inspiration by Cecy J
By Florence von Pelet
{Kitchen sourced from Cultivate | Kitchen designed by Julie Evans at JEIDesign, Inc.} {Kitchen sourced from Cultivate. Kitchen designed by Melanie Pounds Interior Design.} {Kitchen sourced from Cultivate. Kitchen designed by Richard Bubnowski Design LLC.} Hardware, hardware, hardware. It’s like that piece of jewelry that …
Bath DesignGreen Design
September 19, 2011
Caroma at Greenbuild: One Flush a Day – Gives an iPad 2 Away
It is not lost on us here at Modenus that sustainability might be seen as the ‘design-term-du-jour.’ We are happy to report that for many of the companies we love, sustainability is not just lip-service. Caroma planted their water-conservation flag …
FurnitureGreen DesignInterior DesignModenus At Large - Event CoverageProduct Spotlghts
June 13, 2011
Dwell on Design – another three to see
Modwalls Booth Number: 1030 www.modwalls.com On Modenus ‘Making tile modern’, they say. Well they certainly make modern tiles. When you see their range, including their gorgeous glass tiles, a personal favourite, you can see why this is the name that …
A guest blog by Françoise Murat of Françoise Murat & Associates In 2010 we worked on an eco project that lasted six months. This was a complete refurbishment of a late Victorian house with ground and two floors above. …
Green Design
April 26, 2011
On lighting, tables and plastic spoons.
Modenus loves interesting lighting. Our interior design blogs are full of them and this is undoubtedly an interesting light from Portuguese Studio Verissimo. But indulge me for a second while I have a quick rant about plastic spoons. I loathe …
FurnitureGreen DesignInterior DesignLightingProduct Spotlghts
February 15, 2011
On quality, style, fashion and being green – a short Modenus manifesto.
People talk a lot of rubbish about Green Design. We’re going to talk about Green Design and rubbish. What something is made of matters. What energy is used to produce it, how far the raw materials and, indeed, the finished …
Green Design
January 31, 2011
A different sort of brick in the wall by Chooi-leng Tan
We rather like this. British based designer Chooi-leng Tan makes a variety of brick modules to create habitats for plants, animal and even water features on the sides of buildings. We’re not going to rebuild our house just so that …
How much fun can you have in 24 square meters? Or, if you don’t want to take up that much space there is a smaller version which takes up just 13 square meters? UK Manchester based architects Dwelle produce these …
Designer Spotlight SeriesGreen DesignInterior Design
July 12, 2010
Wilderness, mountains and David Trubridge
David Trubridge says that he does not design to fulfill a practical function. He says that he designs to communicate, to tell a story, to relate what he finds in the mountains and wilderness and what it is to be …
Designer Spotlight SeriesGreen DesignInterior Design
June 10, 2010
Scott White – Honest furniture from a straightforward man.
Scott White, of White Design is disarmingly honest and straightforward. He makes no bones about how he came to be a furniture designer and, on his website, is totally open about some of the hard times he has been through. …
FurnitureGreen DesignInterior Design
June 6, 2010
Product spotlight – so sexy, so curvy, so….concrete by 910 Castings
I simply have to update the post I wrote below since our Master of Concrete just sent me another piece he’s just created: I give you the “Chinese lacquer drum table in concrete”, and if all that weren’t enough….it’s cast …
Green DesignInterior Design
April 28, 2010
Design files – Brent Comber, Artist and furniture maker, making the most of wood
We spent some time thinking about the title of this piece. Is Brent Comber an artist or a furniture maker? He is, of course, both. His furniture is art and at least some of his art is furniture. His materials …
Furniture manufacturer Environment says it is. And their clients, which include Julia Roberts and Leonardo DiCaprio seem to agree. That said, they can also boast the services of Jean-Marie Massaud as their Creative Director along with fellow Italian’s Aldo Cibic …
In a world where particle board, glue and allen keys rule, this furniture is made with care, respect and love. When you buy a chair from Pickett Furniture you are buying a chair for life, something to pass on to …