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Utilitarian function is the key word when it comes to home appliances so it is worth noting when they elicit exhilaration among design aficionados. Refrigerators, in particular, are often seen only as tools to support our epicurean adventures. However with its punctilious clean lines, retro styling and splashes of vibrant color, Read more…
Air travel can be a necessary evil and though it is often essential for traversing large distances and fulfilling one’s wanderlust, even a short airport layover can make a leg of a traveler’s journey feel like purgatory. Unpalatable food, seemingly infinite lines, Read more…
Its that time of the month again. The time where the world is divided into two; the “Haves” and the “Have-nots”. The “Haves” parade their partners with nauseating affection in public - the “Have-nots” on the other hand, Read more…
One of my favorite design commandments has to be by the celebrated Dieter Rams, who famously stated “Good design is as little design as possible.” For me, his words ring the absolute truth for not every design has to be out of grasp or unfathomable. Read more…
Picture this: Neon hues, sleek translucence and a re-invented deco decadence. I’m not alluding to the swinging seventies or the obligatory retro night at your local nightclub. Read more…
For industrial designer Anna Buechin, charting unknown territory seems like second nature. After having concentrated her design energies on consumer electronics and household appliances for some time, Buechin has now moved on to home furnishings and furniture. Read more…
There are times in life when we just want to curl up in chair and forget our sorrows. Who doesn’t like a little wallowing after an excruciating break up, a rant about soul-sucking corporate life or an occasional existential crisis? Many of us will never abandon our quest for societal ascension, so in the mean time we have the little things to keep us sane. Read more…
In a design scenario that has become increasingly contemporary, Jason Hollis’s Relic Designs centers on references to the traditional. Not necessarily period reproduction pieces, Hollis creations traverse the past for inspiration and come ablaze in the present with an antiquated glory. Read more…
Montreal based artist Frédéric Guibrunet has been chalking his own path to success by showing an absolute deference to paper. Designing under the label of Ani+LUMIGrane, Guibrunet creations play on flexible geometry that gives a contemporary rhythm to the quintessential and emphasizes the designers desire to ignore symmetry. Read more…
Something must be in the air, because we’re like one brain here this week at 3rings. First Joe writes Colorado 13 Marble Vanity, then Alicita writes a follow up Hellos’ Kwart by Karim Rashid. Then Joe writes Some Illumination from Down Under, and Alicita follows with Bollo by Brion Experimental. Read more…
