Posted in White | Blue | Lust Factor: Hot | Houswares | $50-100 | Ceramics
Are you a hardcore graf artist who has made it big in New York and now want to enjoy the finer things in life? Now, Areaware has created a series of plateware for you! The finest of Delft china combine with the heavy old skool stylez of the streets of New York to make the […]
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 […]
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, […]
Posted in Green | Lust Factor: Warm | Houswares | $50-100 | Metal
The Wine Tray designed by Munimula is a piece I saw recently that I thought I would include as an example of simplicity at its finest. This piece actually solves a major problem which is how do I easily carry a bottle of wine and four wine glasses into the other room to serve my […]
Posted in White | Lust Factor: Hot | Houswares | Smooth | Ceramics
This past weekend was probably the most eventful weekend for design in the history of California. In Monterey, there was a fantastic conference on architecture. In San Francisco, we had the World Design Congress which brings together the top industrial designers in the world to talk shop. What did I do? I went to Napa. […]
Posted in Lust Factor: Hot | Houswares | Glass
Hey! hey! What the f##k is going on here? Which one of these glasses is the original and which is a ripoff? About a year ago I reported on a woman who had created a design for a glass so similar that it feels like an impossible coincidence. The pint glass by Emiko Oki is […]
