Bottomless Anti-Chair: Crafty Bentwood Form Frames Other Seats
As it stands, you can do just about anything with this Arm Chair except actually sit in it, at least until you add your own chair, stool or other form of seating to the mix. Part ...
Month: June 2016
Brain Food: Vending Machines Offer Books Instead of Snacks
You can buy all kinds of weird things from vending machines these days - from live crabs to blue jeans to gold bars - but this new iteration is more entertaining than most, and it’ll certainly ...
Looking Beyond Land: 12 Floating Galleries, Schools & Cemeteries
Even without the threat of rising sea levels, we've got land scarcity issues in nearly every major city, prompting engineers and architects to look towards the rivers and seas as settings for ...
Neglected Riverside Steps Revived with Form-Fitting Sunbed Seats
Designed to help citizens of Wroclaw, Poland, reclaim neglected parts of their city this site-specific "microinstallation" provides comfortable urban furniture for an otherwise hard-to-occupy ...
Build-A-Bug: Mini VW Beetle Model Made of LEGO Blocks
Assemble a miniature model of the iconic Volkswagen Beetle with a new kit from LEGO, reproducing the car in minuscule detail from a surfboard-holding roof rack to a four-cylinder air-cooled ...
Slated for Greatness: 15 Innovative Modern Tile Designs
With a history of use in human structures dating back to the 13th century BCE, decorative tilework has adapted along with our tastes and manufacturing abilities to become even more beautiful and ...
Walk on Water: Christo Unfurls 1 Million Square Feet of Golden Cloth
Known for his work on large-scale art projects, including the world's biggest interior art installation, artist's latest piece features over 1,000,000 square feet (100,000 square meters) of ...
Scrubbed: 12 Washed Up & Washed Out Abandoned Bathhouses
Public baths may have a checkered history and a not-so-squeaky-clean image but these dozen abandoned bathhouses prove things aren't always cut & dried (lead image above by Jim Denham). ...
Space Age 3D Furniture: Skyscrapers & Rockets Support Stellar Tables
Furniture designer and sculptor Stelios Mousarris has added a new twist to his latest 3D-printed creation, taking a leap from sweeping cityscapes to impromptu launch platforms with a ...
Urban Fairytales: Hyperrealistic Paintings of Kids Exploring the City
Modern-day children move through a decidedly un-fairytale-like world with unlikely gangs of friendly wild animals to protect them in this series of paintings so realistic, it takes a moment to ...
