Category: SHELTER
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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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Warhol-style 200 bitcoin print bought by anonymous buyer
The face value of 200 bitcoins may be higher than $200, but the artist isn’t quite Warhol famous – yet
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A major victory for whale protection efforts
World court ruling reaffirms protection of Southern Ocean whales. Commercial whaling was banned worldwide in 1986. The Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica was declared a whale sanctuary eight years later, but Japan’s whaling activities under scientific programme JARPA II continued the annual slaughter of whales. In addition to whaling, Southern Ocean whales are under threat by…
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Objet d’art: Caran d’Ache x Lalique Limited Edition Crystal
Baselworld 2014 saw the launch of CARAN D’ACHE Limited Edition Crystal, an encounter between CARAN D’ACHE’s creativity and French luxury brand Lalique. The famed Coutard design which René Lalique imagined in 1935 was the starting point of the luxury pen crafted from white gold, black ceramic or white ceramic.Caran d’Ache has reproduced this iconic…
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The world’s leading underwater photo contest announces its winners
The winners of the annual UnderwaterPhotography.com photo contest 2013/2014 have been announced. 49 spectacular shots out of 7,850 entries were awarded medals or runners up. The UnderwaterPhotography photo contest is the longest running and most prestigious online, or off. “Winning a medal is the reward for all the hard work underwater photographers…
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From bomb sites to Bulgari: V&A falls under the spell of Italian glamour
A new exhibition charts how postwar Italy transformed the world’s perceptions of it, using its greatest export: style