FORBESWOOD HEIGHTS CONDO UNIT: LIVING ETC UK EDITION WINNER

With the recent flood that plagued the north of the Philippines recently, the only way to go is jump into the vertical living bandwagon. Here are photos of a condo unit which won a UK Based Living ETC Magazine & TV Show contest for a featured condo unit.

For our Filipino readers, this 516 square foot (48 square meter) unit also got featured in Urban Zone, Homestyle Magazine, and Metro Home Magazine.

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photo credit: Dyan Giron
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MINIMALIST FURNITURE BY JOHN GREEN AND LODOVICO

Embrace by John Green

We love minimalist design so seeing these furniture is such a treat!

Click "Read More" to view the transformation of Embrace and a table by Lodovico that would leave you "flat-lined" in awe.





The original brief was set to design a modern take on the Isokon Penguin Donkey, that was within 10% of the originals dimensions. The outcome was “embrace” an award winning piece of furniture, designed to store modern media such as DVD's, CD’s and Magazines.

LODOVICO BERNARDI FLAT TABLE

Created from a single panel of marine plywood with a single cutting and drilling holes, its special design allows a net reduction of waste and energy production. The table indoors is only 4 cm thick. (2006)
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MOUSTACHE MUGS

Peter Bruegger presented his moustache mugs at designersblock London Design Week 2009. The fine bone china mugs are available in six different iconic tache styles.

Click "Read More" for the endless possibilities you can do with each fine moustaches, err mugs.



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HEARST CASTLE CALIFORNIA

Via Wikipedia:

Hearst Castle is a palatial estate on the central California coast and a National Historic Landmark. It was designed by architect Julia Morgan for newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst from 1919 until 1947. In 1957 the Hearst Corporation donated the property to the state of California. Since that time it has been maintained as state historic park where the estate and its considerable collection of art and antiques are open for public tours. Despite its location far from any urban center, the site attracts roughly one million visitors per year.

A friend shared to us his photos during his recent trip in California and we were instantly mesmerized by this place.

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NEST FURNITURE AND DESIGN STORE IN MAKATI

A mish mash of contemporary and oriental design is the theme of Nest, a newly-opened interior decor shop at 40B Jupiter St. corner Paseo de Roxas Ave., Makati, with the objective of providing export-quality Filipino-made furniture and accessories with friendly prices.

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Five people are behind this brainchild namely Malu Gamboa, Kitty Jacinto, Grace Poe-Llamanzares, Marissa Lopa and Anton Barretto. The latter two, according to a Business World article, "are charged with the design elements of the store, including client requests for on-site decorating."




Nest is located at 40 Jupiter Street Bel Air 3. Their phone numbers are 03-8188811 and 02-4033062.

photo credit: Rajo's blog
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RENOVATION: FROM GREEN TO EARTH TONE BEDROOM

Alex is an 18 year old girl from Manitoba, Canada and in her first year of university this year. She lives 45 minutes away from her campus. Now in college, Alex is trading her green room with something more college-like - earth tones.


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FILIPINO ARCHITECT FINALIST IN GUGGENHEIM ART SHELTER COMPETITION

From Philippine Embassy News Release:

Filipino architect Gonzalo “Jun” Raymundo, Jr. who is based in Quezon City, Philippines was selected as one of the top ten finalists in the prestigious Guggenheim Art Shelter Competition.

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The Guggenheim Art Shelter Competition is an exhibition contest sponsored by the Guggenheim Museum and Google SketchUp. It is open to both amateur and professional designers who are challenged to come up with various 3D designs inspired from different shelters in any part of the world using Google SketchUp and Google Earth. Submissions were received from nearly 600 contestants in 68 countries around the world. Ten finalists were then drawn from this pool of contestants for the People's Prize Award, which will be chosen through an online public voting. Currently, Mr. Raymundo is leading the voting polls.

The voting period will run until 10 October 2009. A link to the voting page can be accessed at here. Read more...

PHILIPPE STARCK'S DESIGN FOR LIFE

Design For Life is a new reality TV program, which started last September 14 in the UK. It aims to create an 'english style' among the Brits which they lack according to Philippe Starck himself. Adds Philippe, 'I am a sort of new bottle-opener. You don't make good design if you think about design', he continues, 'you make good design if you speak about life, sex, flesh, sweat.'

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Design for Life from design on Vimeo.

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ANNA WINTOUR OFFICE DESK

Recently, a documentary detailing the frivolous job of Anna Wintour releasing the thickest issue on Vogue's calendar has been released. Nonetheless, entitled as The September Issue. US Vogue editor Anna Wintour's desk has not slipped every design lover's scrutinizing eye.

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From Apartment Therapy:

We were most surprised by the fact the workspace decor seems warm and almost welcoming; not the feeling one would expect of the notoriously demanding editor's office.

From One Grand Home:

I’ll just come out and say it–I am taken aback by the state of Anna Wintour’s office. Yes, I expected it to be artfully messy and all that. And I expected the Queen of All Sylphs to have a seat that sacrificed comfort for aesthetics.

What we might not know is that Anna Wintour's office looked a lot more interesting until "The Devil Wears Prada" came to the box office in 2006.

An old article from WWD reads:

Now Wintour has redecorated to erase any similarity, a Vogue spokesman confirmed Wednesday.

“Anna has decided to freshen up her office,” said the spokesman. “After this summer’s film, it ceased to feel personal.”

Just look at the striking similarities:

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HAIR CHAIR BY DEJANA KABILJO

We love hair attached to human heads or canines (and felines). But when it's in the shower drain or elsewhere, we find it a little disarming - like these hair chairs for example designed by Dejano Kabiljo for the PrettyPretty seating collection.

Are you ready for more hair-raising chairs? Click "Read More".



Made from horsetail hair, PrettyPretty chairs come in two styles - a pouf or bar stool with the hair either free-flowing or tied down. We read that even Philippe Starck chose the stool version for the main bar of the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills. Now, that's a sight to see!

*Speaking of SLS Hotel in L.A., a little local gossip wouldn't hurt would it?

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