Concerned your chair might get cold feet or doesn’t look classy enough?

Trick it out with these ‘Personality socks”!

http://www.designspray.de/produkt.php?kat=57&id=368&sprache=en&WebsiteId=qde8km05gli28eq2qdmaq7r2n1

Tony sent us a link to what he has just picked up!

Personally I think this is pretty damn cool – especially seeing how it is made.

find the last few on http://etsy.com

http://www.cutoutpaper.com/cutoutpaper.com/Cut_Out_Paper_-_Gallery_1.html

Thanks Tony!

Check out Alex’s Zenith Shell chair!

There is a small crack, so if anyone has any tips on repairing – Im sure Alex would be interested to hear!

http://vintage.creezvotrealbum.com/

Good work Alex!

The pictures simply do not do justice to the view from this incredible set cantilevered constructions, jutting out from the core structure of the house and seeming to hover in space. JCB architects took their inspiration for this twisting, turning and thrusting form from a fallen log with its associated branches.

Source: http://dornob.com/best-deck-ever-contemporary-cantilever-house-design/

The Klip house caught my eye today while surfing. Im not 100% sure what to make of it. What do you guys think?

I think the project is a few years old now and was used as a small-scale test program base for low-income families in Texas. This as well as being visioned for military and commercial uses too.

Nice to see that they were thinking a little bit differently!

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/klip-house.html

http://www.interlooparchitecture.com/item.php?id=14&topic=0&type=0&order=random

It always amuses me when people do something so clever, it’s not one of those ‘ oh, i could have done that’ moments but more of a ‘good for them; they really had some fun” this couple really put some thought into what they built, watch the time lapse video and the pictures of the unit in place. great job Chris and Delores!

Posted by Zachary Mattews
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http://humbleablog.blogspot.com/2010/03/lego-project.html

A lot of mid century modern homes have the corner fireplace. One of my favorite features of my house. Problem is how do you go about updating the corner fireplace. When I moved in, it was covered in some hideous brass cover. It took me a while to come up with a solution that I was into, and on the cheap. Here’s the before picture, you may have seen this pic before on our restoration guide.

Here’s what I came up with finally. I built a mantle out of MDF that wrapped around the fireplace. I also dropped it down about six inches to make the fireplace a little more low and slender in appearance.  Decided to go with a vented gas insert, and keep the whole thing open.  Here’s a few pics of how it turned out.

Let me know if you have any other suggestions for good ways to go about updating a corner fireplace.

So after seeing this “treehouse”, I guess I’m left feeling kinda short changed. There was not much better than scaling up a tree as a kid and nailing some planks of wood on to make a sturdy platform for adventures and hijinks…

and the very talented guys at Rockefeller Partners Architects have to go and crush my boyhood memories by designing and building this gorgeous little hideaway, fetchingly named the Banyan Treehouse!

This week my travels take me to Manchester in the north of England, staying at the Hilton hotel.

Upon my arrival to this 23 storey monster of a hotel I was faced with this 30 foot tall Eames dot pattern net curtain a series of very nice black Barcelona chairs and a cafe bar full of shiny chrome bertoia wire chairs.

It is very fancy indeed!

Spotted march 15, 2010
A Central Texas storage room of bright, colorful Arne Jacobsen Series 7 chairs.

what a great stack of AJ color!
perfect timing for spring.

zachary

As a scooterist and scooter fan, this chair appeals to me on a few levels.
Combining an original legsheild of a Vespa with the luxury of good upholstery, we are brought the Vespa stool. What do you think?

bel and bel

The second edition of the Neutra Boomerang Chair is now apparently available. It is available in maple or walnut with black or natural webbing.

How’s your Deutsch?

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If you’re in search of a home that can withstand even the most powerful natural disasters, the solution might reside in the nearest tree. A team of researchers from five universities are currently working on ways to make wood earthquake-proof. If they succeed, the world may soon see cheap, sustainable wooden homes that can hold up even when earthquakes shake them to their cores.
Source: inhabitant.com

Another inspirational dose of architecture from Australia’s capital of cool, Melbourne… albeit it that McBride Charles Ryan’s mathematically designed Klein Bottle House is a one and half hour drive from Australia’s second city, nestled between the tee-tree and the sand dunes of the Mornington Peninsula. Based upon the rather over-whelming model of the ‘Klein Bottle’, developed by topological mathematicians – yeah that’s enough education for today – this rather lavish holiday home is the kind of outrageously designed property that people in the ’60s thought the future would look like and, well, we sure wish it did. Laden with international awards, the Klein Bottle House is a refreshing reminder of how thinking outside of the box, literally, can deliver truly inspired results….

Klein Bottle House

Interesting take on a (day) bed design, integrating a rocker on the base. I think it looks really cool, but i don’t know about the odd hats (lampshades??) are compulsory sleepwear…

The Private Cloud bed

Designed for routes to summer gigs like Music in the Park in Auckland NZ, these flat-pack style chairs made from ply wood, that festival goers can pull off and assemble.

I dont know about where you are in the world, but here in the UK, they wouldn’t last 2 minutes at a music festival!
Such a fun idea though!

Read more here

I found this and thought I’d share it with you. I think its all kinds of cool.
Suspended between two points and built up I think it is a very unique idea for a house.
I’m guessing noise might travel pretty far in there judging by the central stairwell, but it’s still a good looking place!

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Andrew Miller of Columbus, Ohio sent us this cool pic of his recently refreshed upholstered Eames Armshell and Cat’s Cradle base!

Read more on his blog!