Design & furniture
Quebec City's 400th anniversary occurs in 2008, and part of the celebration involves six Contemporary Ephemeral Gardens. Each garden will be designed by a living artist, to be established in the heart of the festivities, and to live only so long as the celebration does, from June 10 to September 28, 2008. Each garden should address the three major themes of the festival:
Where the river narrows;
Your history, my history, our history ;
and Sowing the seeds of culture.
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A Call For Creation Of Contemporary Ephemeral Gardens [via Land+Living]
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Design & furniture
The Sven table lamp by Lucesco is stylish as well as energy saving. I love the retro feel and the attention-to-detail; like the rotary switch in the base with its red LED that glows to help you to find it in the dark.
Powered by 40 energy-efficient white LEDs, the Sven lamp uses only 22 watts of power and delivers the light of a 60 to 75 watt bulb in traditional lamps. The design keeps the LEDs cool and prolongs their life to around 50,000 hours.
[Via Apartment Therapy]
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Design & furniture
When cocoa beans are skinned to be turned into chocolate, the husks left behind can be made into extremely high-quality boot mats. Instead of using plastic bristles, Musson Vinyl Back Cocoa Mats (not so green as we'd like because they do have vinyl backs) have husk fibers set in rubber which provide excellent brushing action to skive off and trap all your outdoor gunge. Available in custom sizes. Would love to see this concept combined with backing made from the same material as the PVC-free PrAna Eco Mat. [GT]
Musson Vinyl Back Cocoa Mats
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Design & furniture
While the insides of The Jungle Book 2 are readable in the conventional sense, the cover is embedded with seeds, and after it's activated it starts sprouting grass. The longer it goes on, the more care it requires (but the more beautiful it gets) and the more difficult the book itself is to read (but if they can't get through it in a few weeks they're probably reading The Information and could use a cool green brain-rest anyhow). [GT]
The Jungle Book 2
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Design & furniture
I love this Treehouse fridge concept; although it is a little space-hungry relative to the usual monolithic fridge, it does offer some interesting opportunities to make use of unusually shaped spaces, plus, properly designed, it would allow one to simply insert extra cold storage as necessary. The engineering would be tricky - making things cold is a job and a half - but it's a wonderful take on new ways of looking at an appliance that's become stratified. [GT]
Treehouse fridge [via BornRich]
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Design & furniture
At $400 USD each it's hard to say how many times you'll need to stack the Foster + Partners Recycled Aluminum 20-06 chair ten high, but you can if you like. 15% lighter than the original 10-06 Navy chair, it also makes new minimalist-chic function out of a resource-intensive material. Aluminum, like gold, is too valuable to leave in one shape too long! [GT]
Foster + Partners Recycled Aluminum 20-06 chair [via Inhabitat
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Design & furniture
Loaded with hundreds of needle jets and twenty gleaming LEDs, the Charade oversized LED shower head by Fornara & Maulini uses high pressure and low-energy light to create a completely decadent bathing experience. Mirror-shiny, the finish and nozzles are also designed for easy care. Who says you can't have flash and substance? [GT]
Charade oversized LED shower head by Fornara & Maulini [via Trendir]
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