The last time we saw tile used to decorate the living area of a space was…well, Deckard’s apartment in Blade Runner, a/k/a Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis Brown house. Might that be changing? It will be if Italy’s Rex Ceramiche has anything to say about it: check out their ‘08 Neoedonisme line, made for the bedroom and living room. If this catches on…buy stock in Tilex.
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Hanyoung Lee’s clever “virtual wall” traffic light concept provides a visually strong barrier that would hopefully prevent motorists from blocking the box. And if the visual barrier isn’t incentive enough, perhaps they could up the wattage of the lasers….
La Tour Awful: The Truth Is Rendered, by Alissa Walker
6 May 2008 Author: zenon In: Design & Products
David Serero wants you to know, first of all, that it was not a hoax. It was not, as many claim, a publicity stunt. And it was certainly not an April Fool’s joke. “We do have this tradition also,” the Paris-based architect told me in an email. “But our project was released three weeks before. Isn’t that a little early?”
For those three weeks, whatever it was unfurled through the design world like gigantic Kevlar petals rippling open atop one of the most iconic structures on the planet. By late March it was common knowledge that Serero Architects’ winning idea had claimed victory in an open competition to temporarily remodel the public reception and access areas for the 120th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower.
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