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Marimekko Spring
Thursday, 28 February 2008
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Samu-Jussi Koski’s Spring/Summer 2008 collection for Marimekko is a combination of Art Deco angularity and summer-breezy ruffles and girly pleats. The styling and colorways remind us of the early 80s, but the two main fabric designs he has used for the collection are much older. The collection includes pieces made of the Sireeni pattern but the star is the geometric Atti ca, designed in 1959 by Marimekkos’ most prolific and famous designer, Maija Isola (1927-2001). Isola created more than 500 fabric patterns at Marimekko from 1949 to 1987, including the iconic Unikko, Kaivo and Lokki.
Koski’s spring collection is a soft take on stylish simplicity with salmon, pink and black as the main colors. Feather-weigh t silk dresses and tops, 100% cotton dresses and tops, and the long cotton Akemi anorak are all perfect for urban life, which is something that inspires Koski. He’s designed for Marimekko since spring 2005, and sites people, old photographs, jazz, cigarette smoke and city life as the sources of his ideas.
The large Marimekko Spring 2008 bag collection includes two gems by a 14-year Marimekko veteran, Mika Piirainen. The Horisontti carry-all (size 54 X 47 X 18 cm) and the Ankkuri shoulder bag (35 X 30 X 11 cm) are both made of 100% cotton canvas in another Maija Isola pattern, Dyyni, form the 1980s. Piirainen has also produced a fashion collection for Marimekko this spring. By Tuija Seipell
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Cut Copy - 'Lights And Music'
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
With their new album 'In Ghost Colours' to be released next month, Cut Copy are going to be everywhere very soon. Radio, TV, car stereos and who knows - maybe they’ll go down the Pnau path and put their tracks on slick commercials.
'In Ghost Colours' is certainly one of the most hyped Australian electronic albums ever. With the release of the first single 'Hearts On Fire' followed soon after by 'So Haunted', musical appetites were whetted worldwide. Then came a freely downloadable mixtape which dropped Cut Copy gems in between indie classics like Panda Bear's 'Bros'.
Backed up by a world tour and a support slot at Daft Punk’s Neverland shows, Cut Copy have well and truly done the
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groundwork to build the excitment. Now when we can't take any more, the clip for 'Lights And Music' emerges. The tension is palpable. People are dying to hear the record in its entirety. Bring on March! By Nick Christie
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A Museum Opening - L.A
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
The opening of a museum is just about as much fun as ... what? The closing of a museum? We can quit this sort of kidding now that we’ve seen the star-studded opening gala of Lacma — the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Tom Cruise, Christina Aguilera, Katie Homes and Tony Bennett were just a few of the luminaries enjoying the lavish Wolfgang Puck-catered, Lionel Ritchie-entertained dinner as a prelude to the opening of the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum building of Lacma.
Urban Light, a fantastic forest of vintage lampposts by Chris Burden, lit up the entry to the cocktail reception where life- size ice-sculpture waiters served champagne. Event virtuoso Ben Bourgeois of J. Ben Bourgeois Productions called the party itself a contemporary art installation and he knows what that means. Just to create the “wrapper” for the dinner party, he brought in a 22,000-square-foot steel frame and covered the interior walls, tables, chairs and 12 massive light cubes with white Ultrasue de. All of the surfaces served as screens for the evening’s entertainment.
The 72,000-square-foot Broad Contemporary Art Museum building was designed by Renzo Piano whose work includes Paris’s Pompidou Centre and the New York Times headquarters. The initial 160-piece exhibition includes works by Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons. By Tuija Seipell
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Emotibles & Budclicks
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
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A year ago, we featured a prototype for Emotibles in our 'hot pick' section and boy, were they ever a hot pick! Following the buzz, husband and wife team Jonathan and Kate Hall - the brains behind the product - decided to roll with the project. They have not looked back since. Even the New York Times featured them based on the impact we created.
So what is the hype all about? Huge with the teenage market, Emotibles are essentially accessories for accessories. We all love to customize so think of these as the Spokey Dokes for the screenager generation.
Emotibles are marketed as "expressive charms to snazz up those boring, white, everywhere-ad-nauseam iPod earbuds." The Halls based their emotive characters fittingly on emoticons and have expanded the line by featuring them on baby tees and post-its.
As with all popular ideas, other players quickly pop up. So, now we introduce to you Budclicks. It is essentially the same concept, this time aimed at a slightly broader demographic. The team at Budclicks has thought of everything from cutesy flowers, to indie-kid skulls, to representing your candidate with 'polito-clicks', because campaign buttons are soo last yea r, baby. By Brendan McKnight
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Framebar - Athens
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
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Framebar is a refreshing and stylish gathering place in history-rich Athens. It is located in the St. George Lycabettus Boutique Hotel, in the chic Kolonaki quarter. The most striking of the bar’s many redeeming qualities is the furniture. It does not really look like furniture. It is not an end result of a rule-restricted manufacturing process, but more like a time-warp, a fluid process temporarily halted. It gives you permission to sit, although it also appears like it could morph into something else any tim e. Architect Dimitris Tsigos calls this a rearticulation of typical furniture using continuous geometries and heat-formed starr on (corrian equivalent) and the Spanish marble emperador. The cuisine is fresh and healthy, and the DJs and fabulous lighting make this a cool night spot. By Tuija Seipell.
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Onigiri House - Oita, Japan
Monday, 25 February 2008
Architecture and adaptation go hand in hand - many of the types and styles of buildings created in the past will not transla te into our current design discourse. Only when architects acknowledges the world around us is changing, becoming more complex, can they successfully create functional space.
Japan's NKS architects design buildings that re-frame space - adapt to changes in their surroundings. The small wooden Onigiri House in the countryside of southern Japan was built for an older couple in attempt to keep costs down while maximizing space.
The house's main structure forms a triangular tube-shape and is made from thick cedar boards, traditionally used for ship scaffolding. Windows are spaced along the top where the boards lean together as well as in intervals along the base of the house. Additional glass doors within a glass frame fill the end of the tube. An obvious connection to nature is essential to most Japanese architects - and here the placement of windows and doors allows light and wind to penetrate the entire space. By Andrew J Wiener
More of NKS work below
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Thursday, 21 February 2008
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Alfa Romeo 8C Spider
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Here are the first pictures that Alfa Romeo have released of its sexy 8C Spider, to be introduced to the world at next month s Geneva Motor Show.
Based on the hard-topped 8C Competizione, the two-seat Spider featuring a twin-layer fabric roof which can be raised at the press of a button, is expected to hit 60mph in 4.2 seconds with a top speed of around 180mph. The mechanics will be similar to that of the Competizione as it uses the same 4.7-litre V8 engine and six-speed semi-automatic gearbox.
As the limited run is just 500 vehicles, we expect to see all of these selling like hotcakes and commanding more than their £130,000 price tag. So roll up your sleeves and have your cheque books ready; the fight to get one of these beauties is not going to be pretty. By Brendan McKnight
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Home Theater
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
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If you are lucky enough to have a home theater, most of us would be happy with a projector, surround sound and perhaps a comfy sofa or two. Not so for these homeowners.
Pentagram Architects partner James Biber has designed this home theater in Montauk New York, taking inspiration from Radio City Music Hall and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The theater has a series of round arches, which house 600 five-watt dimmer-controlled light bulbs that provide a soft ambient light for when you need to find that elusive remote control. And a s in the Music Hall, the lights are positioned to glow away from the viewers – because we all hate to have lights in our eyes when watching the big screen.
Biber has designed the theater to function like a TV room, in that it is comfortable and intimate enough for a romantic nigh t in with a bottle of red and a Hugh Grant movie, but can also easily accommodate up to ten people to watch the big game, or perhaps a slumber party with the girls.
All of the surfaces in the room are covered in orange felt to help with the acoustics, and seating on the floor has been tak en care of by Edelman Leather who custom made the beanbags.
This house, which also boasts a large private outdoor space looking onto the Atlantic Ocean, recently won an American Architecture Award for distinguished buildings and a Citation for Design in the AIA New York State Design Awards. By Brendan McKnight
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Gold Python Blackberry/iPhone Purse
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
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If you carry a Blackberry, iPod or iPhone, do you have to look like you have no style at all? Cute accessory bags are fine for weekend hiking trips, just like boring “businesslike” cases are fine for, well, boring people, but for the power lunch with the merger guys or cocktails in high places, you’ll want this bag made of gold python-print Italian leather.
Grab you platinum credit cards, a few large bills, your well-traveled passport, and your ever-present favorite device/s — there’s a slot for each in this baby — and you are set. The bags are hand-made in Spain, the internal lining is satin and the color options are gold and black. Oh, and you need to decide if you’d prefer python or rattler. Of course, you could choose the chic creamy-soft lamb but isn’t that a bit too tame? The gold python Blackberry Purse is available exclusivey through the cool hunter. How much you ask? US$390. Order through [email protected]. By Tuija Seipell
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World's Coolest Houses - Architects/Photographers, submit your designs
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
The World’s Coolest Houses
Our first book, the World’s Coolest Hotel Rooms, will come out June 1. Published by Harper Collins Publishers (US) and designed by the Sydney based War Design, the inaugural Cool Hunter book will soon be followed by the next volume, the World’s Coolest Houses.
To make that happen, we are on a furious hunt for supremely cool projects from beach homes, country homes and city pads to holiday houses and ski retreats, we want to know where the coolest houses are. We are looking for the most unique houses from Sao Paulo to Sydney. Slightly cool, standard-issue luxury won’t do it. The houses we want must think like Zaha Hadid who said “I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.” So, if you are an architect of such a house, please subm it your project for consideration or if you're a photographer who has photographed such a house, please get in contact - [email protected] [email protected]
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Thermal Bad Aibling
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Cool Spas are popping up everywhere as if they had just been invented, but in the Bavaria region of Germany — as in many parts of the world with healing, thermal or mineral springs — baths are part of ancient history.
Bad Aibling, located some 35 miles southeast of Munich, has held the official title of a Bad (German for bath, spa, springs) since 1895 but the thermal spas have bubbled up there much, much longer. It is particularly refreshing to see one of the old er facilities, Thermal Bad Aibling, receive a complete overhaul and emerge as a viable competitor in the world of spoiled and pampered spa goers.
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The most striking new feature at Bad Aibling are the large white domes, placed seemingly randomly in the hilly landscape, letting the alpine scenery dictate their placement. Each dome is dedicated to its own treatment, temperature, ambiance and experience.
In addition to the fairly standard fare, such as a wide selection of massages, beauty treatments, saunas and different-temperature baths and pools, Thermal Bad Aibling offers a beautifully lit Turkish haman plus something no other sp a has — so far. It is an immersive film experience by LivingGlobe where the guests can enjoy a special 360-degree film project ion and light show produced specifically for Thermal Bad Aibling. The main outdoor swimming pool areas will open in May 2008, but hot pools are functional, creating the atmosphere of time-tested pleasure of soaking in hot water in cold air and enjoyi ng the view. By Tuija Seipell
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