Category: Design
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Prada Made-To-Order Pumps
Prada is challenging its fans to design their own Prada shoes. A new service is enabling customers to create a customised model based on the Made To Order Décolleté collection. Nine shoe styles and five different heel heights are available in a diverse palette of shades, textures, and materials (suede, satin, kid, patent or saffiano-leather printed…
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Airbag for cyclists
In a serious bicycle accident head injuries can occur even with approved cycle helmets that have passed the legal requirements. Take a look at an airbag cycle helmet that is an exception to this. It has achieved astonishing results in tests, which have shown that it provides an extremely high level of protection. Hövding…
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Sustainable design: Eco-friendly “Petite Floret” Faux Leather
Hybrid, Digital Printing – Vibrant & Eco-Friendly. EnviroLeather by LDI announces “Petite Floret” – a nature-inspired design pattern by interior product designers Tara Rae Hill and Martiele Sineath – using EnviroLeather’s breakthrough, eco- friendly, hybrid digital printing technology. The EnviroLeather sustainable upholstery printing process allows for a vibrancy and variety in color that have been…
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The world’s most detailed globe. The $13,000 Diplomat Globe.
A handcrafted masterpiece, this extraordinary globe features lavish attention to both form and function. The floor- standing globe becomes a focal point of any library or captain’s quarters, grandly cradled in a handcrafted mahogany frame that has been rubbed to a lustrous walnut finish and rolls smoothly on four casters. Distinctive details include touch-on…
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The Tranquility Pod with biofeedback system induces sleep by reading your heartbeat
A $30,000 giant fiberglass waterbed vibrating with music. This giant fiberglass waterbed invites you to float atop a six-foot-wide octagonal furniture piece called “The Tranquility Pod”. This $30,000 waterbed that gently vibrates with music uses pleasant sound, vibration, and soothing light to transport the body, mind, and spirit to a tranquil state of relaxation and…
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Italian designer furniture creations by glass artisans
Dating back hundreds of years, Italy has a well-deserved reputation for nurturing glass artisans producing beautiful Italian glass furniture creations. Included in this elite group is the century old family glass factory that has been working with Glas Italia since its inception in the early 1970’s. Over the years the design and production process has…