time towers and gRaduate tables

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I absolutely love this cool timepieces from designer Mahesh Marath. These sleek towers are designed for a local manufacturer in Bengalore. Mahesh is a student at Ramaiah Institute, Bengalore.

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                                              gRaduate

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Most of us, most of the time now are worshipping our computer only. This gRaduate computer table fulfills an everyday need beautifully. Mahesh certainly has an eye for curves and balances.

20 thousand leagues under the sea

Concept

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The Unstill Life

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Vicissitudes

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The lost correspondent

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Is it a visual seascape?

Weird?

Experimental?

Art touching environmental boundaries?

Or drawing attention to ecological processes?

It is a world’s first underwater sculpture park, created by Jason de Caires Taylor.

This sculpture park is located on the beautiful island of Grenada in the Caribbean.

Here, sculptures become artificial reefs which attract marine life as well as human visitors. The sculptures are sited in clear shallow waters to afford easy access.

It is unique, a kaleidoscope of art interacting with environment and vice-versa, shifting of sands every moment and the viewing undercurrents tell me

it is certainly out of this world!

In artist’s views it is hope and recovery and underlines our need to understand and protect the natural world.

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white, green and modern

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After a 3-day harrowing monsoon metro-city malady I want to indulge myself today.

I really like white interiors though I am Indian. Here are some great white and+ modern minimalist interiors with a deft touch of flora and green.

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These four photographs are via jenniferpostdesign.com. I am so much in love with this NewYork based interior designer Jennifer Post’s white minimalist captivating capabilities.

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architect and interior designer Deborrah Berke

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architect, designer John Pawson

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Akira Sakamoto

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Japanese architect Akira Sakamoto

beat the heat

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Beat the heat and quench the thirst natural way. How do you drink water? Bottled? From the refrigerator. When I say I still drink water from terracotta pitcher or ‘matka'(in Hindi), I know you are going to think I am crazy. Or perhaps you would think I live in an era 200 years back. In India too earthen pot, to cool and store water is fast going out of fashion. It is not so with me and a few who swear by the water from terracotta pot. Water becomes cool and more tastier and it actually satisfies my thirst. The terracotta cools the water by up to 14 degrees through a natural evaporation process (More in surahi- another word for earthen pot- different in shape-narrow neck).

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earthen pot I use- with tap

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traditional matka surahi

‘Surahi’ or better still surahi made with black clay cools water faster and becomes much cooler.

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With filter and stylish tap matlo-Doshi-Levien

This is Doshi-Levien terracotta water vessel with diatomite filters, brass tap and enameled tripod stand. ‘Matlo’ or ‘matlu’ is gujarati word for terracotta pot. I wonder why Doshi-Levien is not mass producing their ‘matlo’ in India.

I love my eco terracotta water cooler!

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