Archive for the 'Design & Decor' Category

Wrist-mounted jet engines come with sky high price tag

By Sorinu on July 22, 2010

When wearing an expensive Rolex simply doesn’t transmit the machismo message adequately, we give you the Horological Machine No4 Thunderbolt, aka the wrist rocket!
Designed by Maximilian Büsser, housed in brushed titanium and sapphire, the design of the Swiss made aeronautical watch was actually inspired by the aesthetics of jet engines. According to the maker, [...]

NES sculpture to bring back the good old days

By Sorinu on July 20, 2010

This replica of the Nintendo Entertainment System or NES brings back my childhood memory of the original Super Mario Bros and Donkey Kong. Back then, there were no fancy 3D graphics or surround sound, but only repetitive animations and music scores for just plain simple fun. Though you won’t be able to game on [...]

Steampunk iRetrofone iPhone Base

By Sorinu on July 20, 2010

Finding the proper iPhone dock to really represent your iPhone can be tricky business. Especially if you’re a very particular person who prefers to keep their gadgets as unique as humanly possible. Thankfully there are enough hard working men and women out there that strive to make interesting accessories for all sorts [...]

Creative Labs Wireless Outdoor Rock Speaker

By Sorinu on July 20, 2010

Ordinary speakers sitting out in the yard won’t exactly blend in with the scenery. If you don’t like technology standing out in your garden, you might pick up this Creative speaker. It won’t exactly fool people into thinking it’s a real rock, especially if they bump into it. However, it will [...]

Bugatti retro-styled toaster and espresso coffee maker

By Aida on August 4, 2009

The name Bugatti is more associated with the open road than the kitchen, but judging by this retro-styled toaster and espresso coffee maker, the move into the home looks to be a good one.
The espresso machine has the looks of a modernist piece and a rather cool retro dial, as well as a powerful 15-bar [...]

Eco friendly ventless ethanol fireplace

By Aida on July 15, 2009

Stylish and striking, the EcoSmart Zeta fireplace is nothing if not original. Designed by John Dimopoulos, director of Geoform, Design & Architects Firm in Sydney and the first architect ever to specify EcoSmart Fires in Australia, the EcoSmart Zeta fireplace is so-named because of its elliptical shape and pays homage to its Greek ‘origins’.

A clever [...]

Sensual Luxury Bathroom Furniture by Pom d’Or

By Aida on July 13, 2009

Sensual Luxury is collection of bathroom from Pom d’Or which was designed to create luxury bathroom spaces adaptable to everyone’s home. The idea was to use traditional materials like Ebony woods and Gold pans, combined with lacquered finishes, to create sensual experiences in contemporary intimate spaces. Yellow always looks nice combined with black so do [...]

ABSOLUTE CLASSIC A top-range “classy classic” – universal idea of beauty

By Aida on June 4, 2006

Given its absolute preview in Milan, in the prestigous setting of “Eurocucina” 2006, “Absolute Classic” is Scavolini’s latest kitchen in the top-range classical sector; a highly sophisticated product, intended to meet the most demanding requirements. A “classy classic” designed for the occasion by the architect Gianni Pareschi, a model that oversteps the old dictates [...]

Zaha Hadid – The multi-sensory kitchen in collaboration with DuPont

By Aida on April 30, 2006

“Z. Island” wasn’t created just to astonish and create talk. The kitchen environment conceived by Zaha Hadid in collaboration with Ernestomeda and DuPont presents innovations involving the processing of materials that will be useful for future kitchen manufacture, structural organization and the integration of advanced technologies.
The raw material of the Z. Island, Corian is extremely [...]

The new Salviati wave

By Aida on April 1, 2006

2006 is starting off under the sign of innovation for Salviati. Today, Salviati combines research on glass and changing designs with explicit efforts to make this formidable material more accessible to a young, dynamic and resolutely urban target.
The bowl is the emblem for this new focus: an object for daily use, humble and essential, requiring [...]

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