Category: Design
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L’Ame de Christofle is a steak knive
L’Ame de Christofle Maison & Objet 2012 design fair was the perfect occasion for Christofle to present its dramatic steak knives, designed by Philippe Starck protégé Eugeni Quitllet. L’Ame (blade (when written lame) or soul) de Christofle is available in brushed or polished steel and represents one-piece forged simplicity.
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Baccarat Chateau challenging Riedel for supremacy in the wine glass business
France’s luxury crystal company Baccarat is challenging Riedel for supremacy in the wine glass business. Baccarat presented at Parisian design fair Maison&Objet 2012 the Chateau Glasses Collection. With a rounded concave bottom and wide base, closed-angle side and vertical chimney, the Baccarat Chateau Collection has won praise from serious oenophiles and top French chefs. …
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Bosco Verticale – World’s First Vertical Forest
Bosco Verticale, by Boeri Studio (now recognized as Barreca & La Varra and Stefano Boeri Architetti), is a high-density tower block that experiments with the integration of a lush landscape within the facade of the architecture. The Vertical Forest, currently in construction in Milan, Italy, deal with the concept of regenerating the lost forests on the ground within the inhabitable…
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Futuristic motorbike FB200S
Designer Miroslav Hundak imagined a pretty amazing futuristic motorbike concept with three wheels without spokes. Attached to the chassis by an independent suspension system, they allow the vehicle to gain fluency in handling and cornering. The effect of these innovations lies in greater maneuverability in turns. See the elegance of the FB200S Concept motorcycle in…
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The world’s highest-earning model’s $20million sustainable home is complete
Gisele Bundchen $20million super home is complete Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, the world’s highest-earning model, and American football quarterback Tom Brady have a newly built home that costs an astonishing $20million and resembles to a luxury spa retreat. According to the Daily Mail the the eight bedrooms mansions costs $20 million and sits upon Californian…
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Green art: the Inhotim Institute -Latin America’s largest outdoor art center
The Inhotim Institute, Latin America’s largest outdoor art center, is nestled in a small city about 60 kilometers (37 miles) southwest of Belo Horizonte, the capital of the state of Minas Gerais. In the 1980s, entrepreneur Bernardo Paz, from Minas Gerais, built galleries to showcase his collection of contemporary art on one of his farms…