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This psychedelic habitat looks like a great place to *ahem* sit around with friends and laugh at stuff. Part of the Nautilus House in Mexico City, a conceptual abode that’s shaped like a giant shell, it looks perfect for entertaining and terrible for getting any kind of serious work done.
Take a mini tour of this tripped out pad, including the original concept art that inspired the architecture, at the link below.
This idea by Flickr user psychojunglerat has so much potential! Earlier incarnations could be an audio cassette rack made from 8-track tapes or a disc record rack made out of wax cylinders.
Link -via Offbeat Home
No, not there, there! Some bibliophiles are really specific about how they arrange their treasures. Jane Dandy, a furniture maker in San Francisco, can make them one-of-a-kind bookcases to fit individual collections, and no others.
The picNYC Table, designed by the Dutch firm Haiko Cornelissen Architecten, lets people in densely-packed urban areas experience nature without leaving home. That’s real grass, so owners have to tend to it like a garden. Ants are not included.
Link -via That’s Nerdalicious! | Photo: Haiko Cornelissen Architecten
Stefan Kanetis’s mother loved her life as a dancer, but paid a price for it when she was in her later years. The wear and tear on her body made it difficult for her to get around. Her doctor suggested swimming, but getting in and out of a pool would be very difficult. So Mr. Kanetis invented a pool with a floor that raised and lowered. The end result was this amazing pool that is perfect for your inner James Bond villain.
Link -via Super Punch
These charming paintings by Christopher Stott are full of nostalgia and the love of vintage design.
With muted hues and a soft light, they’re easily mistaken for photographs at a glance, and Christopher shows remarkable skill for imitating real-world reflections, from chrome to painted metal to the edge of a plastic book sleeve.
You can admire the rest of these masterfully crafted paintings at the link below.
Link –via Flavorwire
Dropping a cement filled mannequin on a perforated metal trapezoid is a really strange way of creating a chair, and it looks as you would expect it would-crumpled and uncomfortable. But hey, you can’t blame designer Ezri Tarazi for trying to come up with something new in the world of furniture design. If only he could find a more practical use for a cement-filled mannequin, say as a wrecking ball or to weigh down a snitch when he drops them in the ocean.
Link –via DesignTAXI
The thirteenth - and most difficult - labor of Hercules may just be supportin' your bottom ... Behold Soft Hercules, a stool featuring the bust of Hercules cast from foam rubber by Fashion Architecture Taste: Link - via Notcot
This beautiful luxury home in New York’s Adirondack State Park has an awesome secret-it’s built on top of a former launch control center, and has an additional 2300 square feet of space which lies safely underground.
And now this cabin/bunker can be yours for a mere $1.75 million! Maybe Bruce Wayne is looking for a vacation home, complete with pre-constructed BatCave? You can see more pics of this survivalist dream house at the link below.
Russian industrial designer Tembolat Gugkeav has some quirky furniture designs, such as this piece entitled Tectonic Bookcase. It’s perfect for people who keep messy desks.
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Model builder msmuse101 and her father threw their skills together and produced this awesome TARDIS dvd shelving unit, which looks so good they should mass produce them and sell them in stores.
The only problem with this TARDIS? It’s way smaller inside than it looks on the outside, like it was made in an alternate reality.
Link –via GeeksAreSexy
This awesomely geeky AT-ST treehouse is simple, no-frills fun for a child that’s more content using their imagination all day rather than being plugged in to a tv or video game console all day. Combine this with some sweet kiddy cosplay sessions and you’ve got a little piece of Endor in your backyard.
Link –via Geekosystem
The Pin Pres is a storage system that lets a child change the positions of sliding pins to create custom shelving arrangements. My kids could have hours of fun with this. And when no one is looking, I could, too!
Link -via My Modern Met | Design Studio’s Website
The Philips company introduces lights that run without electricity or solar power. Instead, they harness the bioluminescence of bacteria. You have to feed them fuel, namely methane and compost. The lights developed so far aren’t bright enough to read by, but they may have other uses, like illuminating dark roads and exit signs. Link -via Buzzfeed
In a delightfully stylish blend of old tech and new, Devin Ward has discovered the charm and simplicity of repurposing vintage radios for use as IPod docks. So if you wanna swank up your pad, without sacrificing the convenience of having many gigabytes of music at your fingertips, then these retro styled beauties might be just the thing.
Link –via DesignTAXI
This Octopus Table by artist Isaac Krauss is made out of bronze and pure awesomeness. Isaac and his collaborator Alex Friend put 1,500 hours and about $5,000 to build the 8-armed table.
Laughing Squid has more pics: Link | Alex Friend's web page about the build process
For a discreet and understated way of expressing class, put Charly Molinelli’s coffee table in your parlor. It looks better than a crushed ’86 Buick Regal in a cardboard box, but only slightly.
Want to take your pillow fights to the next level? These pillow weapons were designed with you in mind! Guaranteed to cause less bodily harm than a real scimitar, or lightsaber for that matter, they will make you fee like you’re armed with a real weapon when the pillows start flying. Now go forth and plush the heck out of each other!
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Got an extra bicycle? Turn it into a sink stand! That’s what artist Benjamin Bullins did. His whole house is filled with old gear recycled for new uses.
This kooky yet innovative clock features a masked figure that contorts into the shape of numbers throughout the day, so your clock face becomes a miniature stage for interpretive dancers.
Called the Hone Hone clock, it is mesmerizing to watch, and will bring a sense of life to your boring old clock. Now, you’ll want to watch the seconds tick by all day!
Link –via Geekosystem
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Kitchen Aid’s Brazilian division offers this Wonder Woman-themed stand mixer. My wife likes Wonder Woman. Maybe I should get her one of these — provided that I can find a matching vacuum cleaner and toilet brush. They will no doubt be well-received.
Link -via Comics Alliance
Be sure to check out our Wonder Woman products in the NeatoShop!
It would be the ultimate LARPing setting, but I don’t know if it’s been used for that. Harlech House in Dublin, Ireland is a fanciful mansion that includes an underground passage, a secret garden, a ship’s prow, and artwork everywhere inspired by fairy tales. It’s topped off with this ominous warning to unwelcome visitors.
Link -via reddit | Photo: myhome.ie
Just
in time for the boomerang kids and aging parents, homebuilder Lennar is
unveiling a new concept for Baby Boomers looking to buy a new house: a
house-within-a-house.
Alejandro Lazo of the Los Angeles Times explains:
Like a Russian nesting doll with a smaller doll inside, the new residential design incorporates a smaller home with a separate front entrance, kitchenette, bathroom and bedroom.
Lennar designers and researchers and an independent architect developed the floor plans this year to respond to the doubling-up trend that has affected more than 1 in 5 U.S. households. Executives with the Miami-based home building titan hope the atypical designs will appeal to families moving in together and pooling financial resources; the idea is to draw them back into the beleaguered market for newly constructed homes, which is on course for its worst annual performance on record.
It's like a duplex as a new house! Would you buy a new house designed specifically so the kids will come back to live with you?
Link (Photo: Robert Gauthier/LA Times)
File this device under unique and useless, perfect fodder for blog posts! The device is the one and only analog Twitter client, Tweephone, and you must use the rotary dial to enter the letters, one turn at a time just like the old days.
If you have money to burn and love to Tweet then your house needs this decorative device. The rest of us will be more than happy just reading about it, i’m quite sure of that.
Evelyn Evelyn “Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn” Music Video from Amanda Palmer on Vimeo.
This cute animation has an old-time cartoon look which works really well with the song “Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?”, by Evelyn and Evelyn, for which it was created. If you’re curious about how they managed to animate on fogged glass, then hit the link and read on!
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This house better stock up on Halloween candy, because they’re guaranteed to have a flood of trick or treaters this year! The brilliant light show changes with the music, and animated pumpkin faces sing along. I wonder what these people are going to do to their house for Christmas?
–via Ology
Los Angeles architect David Hertz built a house so stylish that it almost looks like it could fly. Almost, but not for the lack of wings.
You see, he built the house using parts from an old 747 airplane:
The 4,000-square-foot Wing House, as it has become known, is made from an old plane that was 230 feet long, 195 feet wide and 63 feet tall, but cost David barely nothing. The plane had enough raw materials — 4.5 million of them — to help build most of the entire home. And it seems as though Hertz knew exactly which parts of the plane to keep intact as architectural features. The main residence uses the wings and tail section as roofing elements. There’s also an art studio, guest house, and animal barn all made from the fuselage. A meditation pavilion was also created from the cockpit.
Check out more at Design Milk: Link
When Lee Soonyoung’s imagination runs wild, bizarre living spaces are built that look like the backdrop for a Tim Burton movie.
If Lee doesn’t make it in the art world, she should definitely get into movie set construction, because these would make great settings for freaky films. Hit the DesignTAXI link below to check them all out, I hope none of them remind you of your own house!
Link –via DesignTAXI
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Your TPS reports are overdue, and you’ve got eight different bosses giving you contradictory instructions and telling you how much you’ve screwed up. It’s time to get out, fast! This office chair, made from a real ejection seat from a Royal Navy strike aircraft, is just what you need.
Link -via Nerdcore | Photo: When It’s Gone, It’s Gone
If
NeatoShop's zany selection of refrigerator
magnets is too low-tech of a way to leave notes for your loved ones,
there's an app for that!
Behold the Samsung's Appified Refrigerators that not only keep your groceries cold, but let you browse Twitter, too: Link
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