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reshaped tradition

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unblossom

Kathi Stertzig and Albio Nascimento @ The Home Project

I am going to ask few questions first.

Why few young designers just do not design beautiful luxurious products, follow market trends and be happy with fame and fortune!

Why research for endless hours?

Why rummage through the tradition and think new designs?

Why insist on sustainable life style?

Why develop new material culture?

And why ask disturbing questions through designs?

Hats off to those young designers who do all these and much more and bring beautiful things to make our life easy!

Kathi Stertzig and Albio Nascimento @ The Home Project are two such designers whose designs, I am unable to ignore.

I already did a post on their postcard-which evokes a succinct remark on our life and times!

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Here is their stunningly beautiful and eco -sensitive ‘unblossom’-salt crystal bowl .

Traditional hand-crafted crochet -work doilies are given new shape and function by crystallizing salt which raises them into bowls.

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egg-holder

Egg-holder is a natural useful object to expose, serve and eat boiled eggs.

An old Portuguese tradition sells boiled eggs out of a plate which is filled with salt. The salt conserves the egg for a longer period and avoids strong smell. The crochet technique builds a structure for salt to crystallize. The outcome is a standard egg holder made of pure white salt crystals. A natural useful object to expose, serve and eat boiled eggs.

Few more of The Home Projects’ designs…..

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pinocchio chair

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Designer Julian Appelius              Pinocchio chair

A chair of your own size and your own imagination. Is it a game, yes but it is chair first!

Pinocchio is a child’s chair that grows with the child, who can have fun building it again and again.

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It is an interplay of colour, form, and stability. The child decides how high should the seat be? Where should the supports be? German designer Julian Appelius certainly have a very playful and innovative child still in him!

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The starting age is three for Pinocchio chair and a kid can build table , shelves etc. from the several chairs.

Pinocchio chair has won first prize in Promosedia International Design Competition, 2007.

if you were a bird

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Bahai, Lotus Temple, New Delhi,  India

If you were a bird or a kite or a camera perched on a kite in the sky, how the world would look according to you? Kite aerial – French photographer Nicolas Chorier‘s earth from up above!

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Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri, India

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Practising Kalaripayattu on the Beach of Kozhikode, India

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black and white staircase poetry

Staircases fascinate me to no end. As I have a small home I want to incorporate only its elements. Simple solution is to have a staircase-look cabinet but that box-furniture does not appeal to me!

At the moment I have no clue as to how I am going to bring elements of staircase in overall design without curbing space!

I am searching…..

Meanwhile I am (seating cross legged, my face resting on left hand) looking at the poetry in these two staircases-wide eyed!

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Photograph by Andy Ryan, image via dezeen

This is a recently completed renovation interior project for NYU Department of Philosophy (1890 building) New York by NY based Steven Holl Architects.

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And this is a Marcel Wanders creation for Mondrian south beach hotel, Miami (planned opening in early 2008).

roads less travelled

When architecture travels into a piece of furniture, when road maps to unknown places are drawn on rugs and when decor piece becomes a cityscape; boundaries merge so beautifully that each piece takes up the identity of art!

And to top it all every piece here shown has eco connections.

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This visually mobile piece is a bench ‘Reverb’ by Acronym Designs. Made from oak planks recovered from the waste of a company that manufactures tractor trailer beds.

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These 3 rugs named New York, Orlando and Verona (named by me-road maps to unknown places) are from Viesso. This company makes all its product as green as possible.

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Argonouts is artist Jefferey Alan’s creation in natural wood from Palette contemporary art and craft which I have named cityscape.