It's all about the DETAILS

I love the wood bench built around the flat files that also becomes a perfect corner desk - brilliant use of space and great cover up of metal cabinetry! Notice the amazing fluorescent lighting fixture in the pic below.



(image: dwell, architect: Nathan Lee Colkitt)

construction grade plywood - a perfect design material

(images: dwell, photos by Cameron Wittig)

perfect diy sofa

Sofa and armchair design by James Perse Furniture, the Los Angeles Collection. (image: James Perse)


 (images: dwell).

fireplace warm...

(image: randi andreassen)

nothing is original

Paola Antonelli treats design as art

Paola Antonelli, design curator at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, talks about her appreciation of design -- in all shapes and forms -- around the world.

Filmed in 2007.

monumental art in the post communist era

Monuments may not be in fashion any more... they used to be commissioned by a king, an emperor, or the Communist Party, but since the breaking of the Eastern European block all that left as a reminder of the bygone era are the futuristic sculptures of artists like, Dušan Džamonja, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, and architects Bogdan Bogdanović and Gradimir Medaković.

In the 1960's and 70's the Yogoslavian president Josip Broz Tito ordered these as commemoration of WWII battles that took place where the monuments stand alone today... here's a selection from Jan Kempenaers' photo tour from Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina during 2006-2009.