It’s a sunny weekend-about-town and I know just the place to go to for the freshest, tastiest ingredients and treats which, on the rare occasions when I’m not travelling and am ‘in residence’, I like to gather together for my favourite meal of the week: the lazy Sunday brunch. One of life’s simple pleasures and … Continue reading
When an original idea loses all meaning, then it becomes fashion. – Steve Oklyn Not Vogue, for Fashion Art Daily Continue reading
The densely populated city of Singapore is home to the first commercial-scale vertical farm, which opened last year, with the aim of decreasing dependence on food imports. Just 274 square miles, most of which is city, leaving little space to grow crops and vegetables for the inhabitants of Singapore. As a result, the city … Continue reading
LELO, the Swedish designer brand and the world’s leading provider of intimate lifestyle products is challenging next-generation innovators, designers and artists all around the world to come up with products and experiences that offer alternative kinds of sensory experiences to the usual sight and touch; LELO believes it’s time to extend the possibilities of design … Continue reading
Presented at Salone Satellite during Milan Design Week 2013, Japanese design studio YOY have developed ‘Canvas’, a series of two-dimensional hanging furniture pieces. Constructed out of wood and and aluminum, the volume is covered by an elastic fabric – screen-printed with drawings of different types of furniture. The piece works when the frame is leaned … Continue reading
Anyone else spot these, scattered all over the city promoting the new Marks & Spencer store which opened in Kalverstraat last week? Cheeky little bit of contextualized promo-ing going on… indeed! Continue reading
The Dutch city of Nijmegen has launched affordable, architect-designed, state of the art, sustainable housing for mid-income buyers available to order through a catalogue. Flicking through the catalogue there are 29 designs to choose from, created together with several architectural firms, offering catchy names such as ‘Hooi een Huis’, ‘Our House in the Middle of … Continue reading
Great designers can stretch us towards the limits of our comfort & then create a new comfortable place where we didn’t expect to find one. – John Maeda, ‘Design is both the insanely radical and the passionately incremental‘ for GigaOM – 6/10/12 Continue reading
‘The Word On The Street_’ is a new feature where we get out and about in our local neighbourhood(s) and explore the spaces and places, be it here and now or in the making, that we want to hang out in, whether for work or play, eating and drinking, shopping, resting and thinking… This week … Continue reading
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