Monthly Archives: September 2011

Remember those days of Friday night skate parties, dancing and gliding across the rink with your friends? I really wish I had these funky and stylish skates to show off in back then! Located in the heart of Long Beach, California’s shopping district, the full service Moxi Shop features these fashionable roller skates and other skating gear.

Moxi Roller Skates is a women’s brand dedicated to the art of rolling and looking good while doing it!

So whether you’re taking it back to the days of old or joining your local roller derby team, there’s no need to rock the boring tan or black Rent-A-Skates. You might not even want to take these bad babies off your feet!

Skates sold at here and here.

Light and compactible, the Flux combines the practical advantages of a folding chair with stylishly classic furniture design. Designed by Douwe Jacobs and Tom Schouten, the chair (as well as the name of the firm) got its name from combining the words flexibility and luxury. Staying true to it’s name, the Flux chair embodies this description.  It’s available in a variety of colors, and if you like, you can also have seat cushions installed. When not in use, the piece was cleverly designed so that it could be easily stored. When folded, you can mount up to six chairs flat against the wall.

Who didn’t enjoy a good game of PacMan growing up? And who doesn’t like a good fashion showcase? Combine the two elements and it must make for a winning piece right? Well we definitely think so! The Pac Attack shot in 2008 by photographer Solve Sundsbo was inspired by the old game and given a modern twist. Only he could make a Pac helmet look so fashion forward.

With the popularity of ice hotels on the rise, a simple vacation to the beach seems so blasé. This Igloo Village in Kakslauttanen, Finland provides the perfect getaway to cozy up with your honey during the upcoming winter months. Each igloo is equipped with a glass dome ceiling built from special thermal glass that stays clear even when the temperature drops below -22ºF. Stargazing at the amazing northern lights is made easy from the comfort of your own igloo room. Before laying down in the luxury, albeit zebra print beds, continue the evening’s romance in the steamy sauna or refreshing ice hole.

Additional entertainment at the Igloo Village includes snow igloos, a snow restaurant, an ice gallery with ice sculptures, and a snow chapel for those who might elope. Although privacy might pose an issue, the Igloo Village is definitely somewhere I’d love to visit!

Entitled the Rolling Bridge and designed by Heatherwick Studios, (you might remember their work as the designers of the Seed Cathedral, the gawking beautiful sculptures, or the Konstam at the Prince Albert), this innovative piece spans the surface of the Grand Union Canal at Paddington Basin, London. Serving as a multifunctional piece, the bridge not only needed to act as an access route for workers and residents, but it also needed to adjust in a manner that would allow entrance for the boats in the inlet. The process of creatively incorporating these elements into the design became the steam behind this innovative idea.  The more common approach would have been to design a bridge with a rigid element that fractures and lifts, instead, this rolling bridge opens and unfolds transforming from a circular sculpture to a straight bridge. The recipient of the Structural Steel award and the Emerging Architecture award, the Rolling Bridge opens every Friday at noon. If you’re every in London, it would definitely be worth a visit.

A few years ago I ran across American born artist Alexa Meade‘s real life paintings that left me staring. Luckily, I rediscovered the artist who creates her representational paintings not on the traditional flat canvas, but by painting directly on human models and their surroundings before photographing them. When photographed, the painting and the subject appear to be one and the same as the 3D space of her painted scenes becomes optically compressed into a 2D plane. Meade’s work is mind blowing!

See more of Alexa’s work here.

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Spending his childhood years in Exmoor, Tom Raffield grew up surrounded by the wilderness and nature. Inspired by the world around him, he eventually took up a passion for wood steam bending, a skill which he perfected during his study at Falmouth College of Arts. Most known for his innovative techniques and methods, he has created a masterful collection of beautiful furnishings and fixtures. Which one of these wood workings would I proclaim my favorite? I can’t decide between the Chaise Lounge and the Giant Chair!

Love his work? You can purchase his pieces and see more of his collection here.

Spice up your desk with these uber cool post-its by Appree and grow your own colorful pile of leaves just in time for fall! I’m glad I didn’t find out about these until post graduation, my desk may have been buried in the post-it madness.

Brooklyn based artist Tara Donovan explores sculpture through an array of everyday medium- including Styrofoam cups, plastic straws rolls of tape, pencils and even napkins. This particular Untitled cloud formation made only with Styrofoam cups and tape was recently on display at ACE gallery in New York and LA. Tara’s work highlights her ability to imagine, see, and create forms from ordinary objects. She first chooses her material before expecting an end result, and masters one-of-a-kind art installations.

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When I stumbled across this piece, I just had to share. I think I’ve fallen in love with this simplistically styled chic home interior by designer Marie Olsson Nylander. Taken from her 1970’s villa, Marie has a unique way of styling her furnishings to make them appear like art on a white canvas backdrop.  Having quit her job, deciding to become a designer, Marie now lives in the South of Sweden with her husband and three children. Maybe it’s the designer in me, but I simply love how this eclectically style interior masterfully incorporates an array of furnishings with a mix of vibrant colors and design styles.