Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Do We really Need an iPod Tube Amp?

The Roth Cocoon iPod Tube Amp

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Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | Consumer Technology

This is not an artifact from a 1950’s Sci-Fi Movie. It’s a device known as a tube amp. This one is called the Roth Cocoon. I have no idea what it costs, but I’m assuming a lot judging by what my audiophile friends pay for their equipment. So what makes this tube amp different than […]


The Orgasmatron 3000 by Dominic Wilcox

The Orgasmatron 3000 by David Wilcox

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Posted in Black | Lust Factor: Hot | Consumer Technology | Leather

I have heard this urban legend all of my high school and college life that goes like this: having sex on a washing machine can cause women to go wild with passion because of the slow vibrating motion of the washer. The spin cycle is supposedly particularly hot. Finally, someone, this being master of everyday […]


Smittens by Wendy Feller

Smittens by Wendy Feller: Mittens for Couples

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Posted in Red | Lust Factor: Warm | Fashion | Soft | Synthetic Fabrics | weird designs

I’ve been combing through the latest ID Magazine and I’ve found a number of pieces that were extremely compelling. One of my favorites is Smittens by Wendy Feller. They couldn’t be more aptly named. These are mittens for couples who are smitten (sorry for the obvious observation). This seems like such unique novelty design at […]


Blindspot: Products for Couples by Jim Rokos

My Other Half designed by Jim Rokos

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Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Consumer Technology | Glass | weird designs

Jim Rokos, a recent graduate from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, has come up with a number of products designed to expose personal relationships between couples, and their ability to cooperate. I’ve included images from a couple of the products above. The top product is called My Other Half. It’s a […]


Wedding Pills by Ted Noten

Wedding Pills by Ted Noten

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Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Fashion | $2,500-5,000 | Metal | weird designs

Ted Noten has been featured a couple of other times on this blog for his humorous conceptual products, so when I saw his latest creation on NOTCOT, wedding pills, I knew I had to include these objects. The objects are simple. They are two solid gold pills that are ingested during the wedding ritual in […]


The Matt Gagnon Recycled Paper Side Table

Green Week: The Gagnon Recycled Paper Side Table

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Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | $2,500-5,000 | Paper | Furniture

Matt Gagnon, a Brooklyn based designer and manufacturer, has created his side table out of Homasote. This material is made of 100% post-consumer recycled paper. The board is only about as thick as plywood, so the pieces are cut out, shaped, then bolted together. The piece is finished off with linseed oil and accented with […]


PET Light by Walking-Chair Design Studio

PET Light by Walking-Chair Design Studio

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Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | $50-100 | Plastic | Lighting

First, I should say that the PET Light by Walking Chair Design Studio is called the PET light because in Europe, I gather, people refer to the plastic bottles as PET bottles, and this is a light made for recycled plastic bottles. The PET bottles are nearly identical to the water bottles that we all […]


Off Pitcher and Cup by Justin Parker and Andi Kovel

Off Pitcher and Cup by Justin Parker and Andi Kovel available at Branch  www.branchhome.com

Green Week: Off Pitcher and Cup by Justin Parker and Andi Kovel

Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | Houswares | $100-250 | Glass

This is one of those products that pushes sculptural beauty and green design to what I would consider to be a noble conclusion. The product is called the Off Pitcher. It’s made from recycled bottles that are re-purposed into a carafe and cups. To go a bit further the designer’s electric furnace for manipulating the […]


A Fantastic New Contemporary Furniture Collection Debuts Soon at the ICFF

Aura Credenza by One & Co,-  part of the Council Design Collection of contemporary furniture

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Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Furniture

Last Week, I was at the Metropolis Magazine Next Generation Design Competition held here in San Francisco at Herman Miller’s showroom, and I ran into my friend Derek Chen. He has spent the last several years building the most beautiful wood vases among other design objects. We talked for a bit, and it turns out […]


Laaka Chair by lapalma

Laaka Chair by lapalma- Italian Contemporary Furniture Design

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Posted in Brown | Lust Factor: Warm | $1,000-2,500 | Metal | Furniture

I’ve always been a big fan of bent plywood furniture. Like everyone who has my disease, I own an Eames Lounge Chair (knock off). Actually, I got the Eames chair on Craigslist for a hundred bucks. I hope that’s made all of you sufficiently jealous, so on to the Laaka Chair by La Palma! Now, […]


Jackets by Moncler

Moncler Bisenti Jacket

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Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Fashion | $250-500 | Synthetic Fabrics

I think that I had originally meant to write about this jacket about six months ago. I saw it in a magazine, so I just bookmarked it to follow up later. OK, now that it’s Spring, I’ve decided to do some spring cleaning and clear the boards of all these posts that I’ve started. This […]


Recycled Bags By Maldita Adelita

Recycled Bags By Maldita Adelita

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Posted in Randomness | Art

You know, originally when I started this post way back in November of 2006, I wanted to show the world these wild handbags. The purses in the picture above are made by Maldita Adelita (which sounds made up to me) and are made of recycled plastic bags cut into strips and woven into the striking […]


Showtime by Jaime Hayon

Showtime by Jaime Hayon

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Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Houswares | Shiny

I wish I could talk about these objects with some level of of competence, but I’m afraid this won’t be the case. Instead, I think I’ll say a few words about the designer. For all of you product or furniture designers out there, you need to take a good, hard look at Jaime Hayon and […]

My Book Hard Drive by Western Digital

My Book Hard Drive by Western Digital

My Book Hard Drive by Western Digital

Posted in Black | Lust Factor: Warm | Consumer Technology | $100-250 | Plastic | Shiny

I was recently at Circuit City (which I normally hate going to, by the way. They have no selection.) and I was looking for a backup hard drive for my system. The one I found compelled to buy was the My Book Hard Drive by Western Digital. I honestly know nothing about the company, nor […]

Walden by Nils Holger Moorman

Walden by Nils Holger Moorman

Walden by Nils Holger Moorman

Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Architecture | Wood

There is no doubt that if Henry David Thoreau had lived in the early 21st century that he would have wanted to have one of these incredibly efficient cabins in his wilderness home. The small structure designed and built by Nils Holger Moorman contains everything you could want to enjoy the outdoors but still retains […]

Big Bend Table by Jeff Miller

Big Bend Table by Jeff Miller available at Archi Tonic http://www.architonic.com

Big Bend Table by Jeff Miller

Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | Wood | Furniture

Most of Y’all know that I’m from Texas originally. And like most other Texans, I love anything that reminds me of Texas. We have big egos to go with our big state. So when I saw the name of this piece of furniture I was sold. It’s called Big Bend, named after the most beautiful […]

Hotdoll by Clement Eloy

Hotdoll by Clement Eloy

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Posted in Black | Lust Factor: Hot | Sports and Recreation | Synthetic Fabrics | weird designs

Clement Eloy is a French product designer with an idea to help out dogs when they get the urge. Mr. Eloy has produced a number of provocative product designs in the past couple years, but this one is the most visceral. The Hotdoll. There’s not much to say about the concept that isn’t already obvious. […]

Boom Bag by GRO Design

Boom Bag: iPod Speaker in a Bag by GRO Design

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Posted in White | Lust Factor: Hot | Consumer Technology | Fashion | Soft | Synthetic Fabrics

Boom Bag is a prototype by Gro Design that combines two great accessories into an awesome final concept. It’s one part purse and one part portable iPod stereo. This is one of those, “Why didn’t I think of that?!…Hey, pass me that bong, dude” moments in product design. If you look at most portable iPod […]

Gyanze Amp and Speakers

Gyanze Amp and Speakers

Gyanze Amp and Speakers

Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Consumer Technology | $1,000-2,500 | Metal | Shiny | Hard

I now issue the challenge for today: if you know any possible way to buy these mythical iPod speakers, then let me know. I honestly doubt that these speakers exist. I’ve even read about them in magazines (our print friend who supposedly checks facts) and still I can’t find these speakers anywhere. So what’s the […]

The RPM 10 Record Player by Pro-Ject Audio Systems

The RPM 10 Record Player by Pro-Ject Audio Systems

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Posted in Black | Lust Factor: Tepid | Consumer Technology | $5,000-10,000 | Glass | Plastic

I’m not really going to talk about the RPM 10 Record Player by Pro-Ject Audio Systems. I’m going to talk about what these record players stand for. The funny thing about the modern audiophile record player is the record player inevitably likes to display every piece and part of the machine as if it were […]

Cesare Paciotti 2007 Camo Platform Shoe

Cesare Paciotti 2007 Camo Platform Shoe

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Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Fashion | Shiny | Leather

Just when you thought camouflage was dead and buried here comes a shoe by Cesare Paciotti that will raise the bar on all future camo usage. This patent leather pump ain’t seeing any combat… that is unless it’s consensual. I dare you to check out their site. I love women’s shoes, but I love weird […]

Valextra White Leather Backpack

Valextra White Leather Backpack

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Posted in White | Lust Factor: Warm | Fashion | Soft | Leather

Something moving happened to me when I saw this bag by Valextra for the first time a few weeks ago. I was flipping through the pages of Wallpaper (I think) when I saw the advertisement showing this bag. Of course, the bag was perched on a rock overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. It brought me back […]

Alder by Brent Comber

Alder by Brent Comber

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Posted in Black | Lust Factor: Warm | Wood | Bold | Furniture

I post all the pictures to Flickr that I put on the site . (let’s not get into the legalities, but I only post things I love and then promote the hell out of them, so I’ve had no complaints) I posted this one just yesterday, and it already got a comment suggesting that the […]

The Aerolblade Bicycle by Spyker for Koga Miyata

The Aerolblade Bicycle by Spyker for Koga Miyata

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Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Sports and Recreation | $10,000-25,000 | Metal

I decided to put a lot of picture of this bike on the site because bicycles are an interesting beast. Often times, I look at bikes from far away and think they’re ugly, and when I get close up they become beautiful. The Aeroblade for Koga Miyata is definitely one of the bikes that benefits […]

Ninho Collection by Ciscar and Garcia

Ninho Collection by Ciscar and Garcia

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Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | Wood | Furniture

I’ve seen a number of furniture companies come and go with collections utilizing pressed fiberboard. This is the first time that I’ve seen this material used in an elegant manner. This is the Ninho Collection by Ciscar and Garcia, a design duo based in Valencia Spain. The collection consists of cabinets, tables, and dressers all […]

Dinner Set by Finding Cheska

Dinner Set by Finding Cheska

Dinner Set by Finding Cheska

Posted in White | Lust Factor: Warm | Houswares | Hard | Ceramics

Finding Cheska’s work really went over well last time I presented it. They produce a lung shaped ashtray that is artistic, refined, beautiful, and probably most importantly, ironic. However, the majority of Finding Cheska’s work does not hold such great irony. It’s just straight ahead beautiful. Like this dinner set. It consists of dinner plate, […]

The Piaggio MP3

The Piaggio MP3 3 wheel scooter

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Posted in Magenta | Lust Factor: Warm | Automotive | Sports and Recreation | $2,500-5,000 | Shiny

I’m not sure why I’m attracted to the MP3 by Piaggio. I just am. I think it has something to do with the fact that it’s a scooter with three wheels, but three wheels instead of two means that it can stand upright without assistance. I have two quick points about this machine, and then […]

Electro Luminescent Vases by Voon Wong and Benson Saw

Electro Luminescent Vases by Voon Wong and Benson Saw

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Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | Houswares | Tchotchke | Synthetic Fabrics | Lighting

How bad ass are these items? Okay, it’s maybe a bit hard to tell what these are at first glance, so I’ll add a bit of description: These are vases where the designers have woven an electro luminescent (EL) wire around a ceramic vessel. EL wire is a low light emitting wire used in the […]

The Graffiti Report Card: Ugly Graffiti Haters Unite

Graffiti Report Card- A way to combat bad graffiti by shaming the writer

The Graffiti Report Card: Ugly Graffiti Haters Unite

Posted in Randomness | Art | JFF

What is the Graffiti Report Card?
The Graffiti Report Card is a mechanism that you can use to judge graffiti. It’s a sticker with an arrow on it that points to the graffiti. The sticker has a number of categories you can […]

Harmony Salt and Pepper Shakers by Corina Garona

Harmony Salt and Pepper Shakers by Corina Garona

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Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | Houswares | Shiny | Ceramics

Corina is a recently graduated Industrial Designer from Pratt, originally from Buenos Aires, who has shown some promising work. Although Ms. Garona has several promising designs, I fell for her small scaled Harmony salt and pepper shaker which consists of two blobs of shiny silver painted ceramic. The inner blob is the salt shaker. The […]

Tengu: a USB Electronic Friend by Crispin Jones

Tengu: a USB Electronic Friend by Crispin Jones

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Posted in White | Lust Factor: Hot | Consumer Technology | Plastic | Shiny

Tengu is our happy USB friend! This little critter really doesn’t do much of anything except lip sync to the music coming out of your computer. This object, admittedly, is more crack than design. It doesn’t really do anything all that useful. It doesn’t even loo all that pretty. But, damnit, it’s cool. I dare […]

Jellyfish Sonic by kota nezu of CO/EX

Jellyfish Sonic by kota nezu of CO/EX

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Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Consumer Technology | Plastic | Shiny | Smooth

To the best of my knowledge, the Jellyfish Sonic is never going to make it to mass production, which is a real shame. This is a table straight out of War of the Worlds. The table top is a bulbous, alien shape that is made of a clear plastic. Encased in the plastic hovers two […]

Oragami Table by Anthony Dickens and Tony Wilson

Oragami Range: Table by Anthony Dickens

Oragami Table by Anthony Dickens and Tony Wilson

Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | $1,000-2,500 | Glass | Metal | Bold | Furniture

The Oragami Table is a pretty amazing piece of design and quite possibly the only table I’ve written about that I really, really want to own. Each table consists of three legs that interlock together to form the structure. The glass table top is put into place, and there you are. Assembly of this table […]

Fish Out of Water: A Lamp by Ana Thompson

Fish Out of Water: A Lamp by Ana Thompson

Fish Out of Water: A Lamp by Ana Thompson

Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | Glass | Shiny | Lighting

Ana Thompson is a bit of a mystery to me. I really don’t know how I came about getting her URL, but her work is pretty remarkable. I’m assuming she’s pretty young, because there are only a handful of designs on her site and most of the designs are still in the 3D rendering phase. […]

UM Carry by Josh Jakus

UM Carry by Josh Jakus available at www.branchhome.com

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Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | Fashion | $50-100 | Soft | Natural Fabrics

This weekend in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, there was this thing called the Capsule street sale. Capsule hosted probably 200 vendors of what I might call “crafty” design. The majority of the work was pretty competent, but honestly, I was hoping for some more innovative products out of the deal. Imagine, if you dare, several […]

Wheeler Stool by Charlie Davidson

Wheeler Stool by Charlie Davidson

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Posted in White | Lust Factor: Warm | Plastic | Shiny | Furniture

The Wheeler Stool is a cute little product designed by Charlie Davidson. It’s one of those small jazzy pieces that caught my eye as I search through volumes of stuff that have been produced by mankind. Sometimes I wonder to myself how a piece such as this ever makes it to the site seeing that […]

W’Duck: A Restaurant Whose Mind Is In The Toilet

W'Duck: A Restaurant in Portugal That Will Send You to the Bathroom

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Posted in White | Lust Factor: Hot | Architecture | Shiny | Smooth | Ceramics

W’Duck is more than just a noise you make when you slip into a bath tub. It’s also a restaurant in Portugal that has boldly chosen their theme to be a huge bathroom. The restaurant owners did not chince out when they went for this theme, either. You want to eat dinner […]

The Maria USB Drive by Luis Eslava for ABR Produccion

The Maria USB Drive by Luis Eslava for ABR Produccion

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Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Consumer Technology | Plastic | Bold

Probably every blog and their mother has posted this Maria USB Drive by Luis Eslava from 2004. Unfortunately, most of the blogs (that I’ve seen, at least) have not given credit where credit is due, so definitely check out Luis’ site because Mr. Eslava is a great product designer with a strong sense of joy […]

The Sleeping Light by Andi Kovel

The Sleeping Light by Andi Kovel available at Branch www.branchhome.com

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Posted in White | Lust Factor: Warm | $500-1,000 | Glass | Lighting

If I feature two bird lamps on the site, does that make it a trend? Probably not, but I like bird lights, so there you are. The first one I featured was several months ago. It was called the Pigeon Light, and it was made by Qubus. It’s made in plastic, and I’ve seen it […]

The Symphony Bench by OFS

The Symphony Bench by OFS: a beautiful piece of furniture design

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Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | $1,000-2,500 | Wood | Metal | Smooth | Furniture

OFS is a stodgy, boring, but also very capable furniture manufacturer based in the heart of the U.S., Huntingburg Indiana. It’s like one of those companies that is probably a Bershire Hathaway company. It’s deeply seeded in it’s all bread and butter, go to church on Sundays, have a night out at the movies with […]

Bicicleta Rug by Nani Marquina

Bicicleta Rug by Nani Marquina

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Posted in Black | Lust Factor: Warm | Houswares | Soft | Rubber

Nani Marquina, an awesome rug making company, has just developed the Bicicleta Rug. This rug is special because it brings two of my life’s interests together: bicycling and design. If you didn’t know already, I attempt to ride my bicycle to work each day, and I’ve been doing that for nearly ten years. In that […]

WMF 1 Coffee Maker by WMF

WMF 1 Coffee Maker by WMF

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Posted in White | Lust Factor: Warm | Houswares | Consumer Technology | Plastic | Bold

I have found the perfect coffee maker for the coffee lover who is single and in need of everything in his or her life to look like an iPod. (I hate to judge, but that describes half of Silicon Valley!) Its called the WMF 1, which sounds a bit more like bowling machinery or a […]

Forrest Myers Aviary Chair

Forrest Myers Aviary Chair

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Posted in Lust Factor: Warm | Wood | Bold | Art | Furniture

Barry Friedman Ltd. has a knack for finding some of the most fascinating, well crafted, and highly experimental furniture around today. And as you might expect, if you really want something that Barry Friedman sells, you will pay the price. Unfortunately for me, I wouldn’t make in a year what a piece like Forrest Myers’ […]

Tubetop Lamp by Pablo

Tubetop Lamp by Pablo from 2modern

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Posted in Black | Lust Factor: Hot | $250-500 | Plastic | Shiny | Lighting

In the mission district of San Francisco, there’s a guy (or girl possibly) that tags everything he sees with a pi symbol. You know, it kind of looks a bit like a “TT” mashed together. Sometimes, the pi is on a sticker. Sometimes, the pi is in paint, Sometimes even, the pi is coupled with […]

Orchid by Christian Flindt

Orchid by Christian Flindt- Contemporary Danish Furniture Design

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Posted in Black | Yellow | Lust Factor: Hot | Plastic | Shiny | Smooth | Furniture

About five years ago I bought my first orchid. It was a type of Cattleya with purple and pink striped leaves. It looked very exotic because there were tendrils from the flowers petals that twisted down an inch or two creating a sort of plant peyos. This was not a simple store-bought orchid but one […]

Monday, December 24, 2007

Suck My Bic: A Lolipop Pen Cap by Clement Eloy

Suck My Bic lolipop pen cap by Clement Eloy

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Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Consumer Technology

Clement Eloy, a young French designer with a great sense of play in his designs, has come up with a hilarious product prototype. The design concept is to create a flavored candy pen cap which Eloy calls “Suck My Bic”. The idea is very perceptive because it recognizes people’s tendency to suck on their pen […]

The Seitz 6×17 Digital Large Format Camera

The Seitz 6x17 Digital Large Format Camera

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Posted in Black | Lust Factor: Hot | Consumer Technology | $50,000-100,000 | Metal | Hard

The Seitz 6×17 digital large format camera is something that needs to be seen to be believed. It is, quite honestly, the most amazing digital camera ever made. Where do I start? Well first, the construction of this camera is unparalleled. The body is made from aluminum billets that are hand tooled into the final […]

The New Museum, New York by Sejima + Nishizawa / SANAA

The New Museum by Sejima + Nishizawa / SANAA New York City

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Posted in Architecture | New York Building Guide 2007

The New Museum, founded in 1977 by former Whitney Curator, Marcia Tucker, may be one of the most provocative and interesting buildings going up in Manhattan currently. The building is a 7 story, 60,000 square foot homage to the newest of new art designed by Sejima + Nishizawa. On Sunday last week, I happened upon […]

The IAC Building by Frank Gehry

IAC Building by Frank Gehry- 2007 Guide to Recent New York Architecture

The IAC Building by Frank Gehry

Posted in Architecture | New York Building Guide 2007

Recently, I made my way through Manhattan’s (or at least mid-Manhattan’s) latest buildings. I lived in L.A. years ago and even had the opportunity to draw working drawings, along with dozens of other people, on Frank Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall. The concert hall was phenomenal in my mind. I’ve been pretty high on Gehry’s work […]

100 11th Street Condominiums, Chelsea, New York by Jean Nouvel

100 11th Street Condominiums, Chelsea by Jean Nouvel- 2007 Guide to Recent New York Architecture

100 11th Street Condominiums, Chelsea, New York by Jean Nouvel

Posted in Architecture | New York Building Guide 2007

Yesterday, I wrote about the IAC building in Chelsea, New York. Today, I wanted to point out a building that is just underway right across the street from the IAC called 100 11th Ave. It’s a condominium project designed by another world famous architect, Jean Nouvel. My feelings about this building (at least how it’s […]