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Alfa Romeo 8C Spider
Here are the first pictures that Alfa Romeo have released of its sexy 8C Spider, due to be introduced to the world at next months Geneva Motor Show. Based on the hard-topped 8C Competizione, the two-seat Spider features a twin-layer fabric roof which can be raised at the press of a button and is expected [...]
fashion
Gianfranco Ferrè 2008 fall/winter
MILAN, February 18, 2008 – Lars Nilsson has come and gone at the house of Gianfranco Ferré since the Spring show in September. The Swedish designer, it seems, didn’t see eye-to-eye with the design team put in place and trained by Ferré himself before he passed away last summer. It was that team who stepped [...]
fashion
Salvatore Ferragamo 2008 fall/winter
MILAN, February 19, 2008 – Cristina Ortiz is doubtless under a great deal of pressure as the new creative director of Salvatore Ferragamo, where she replaces Graeme Black, who left the brand to focus on his signature label. The strain showed today. Ortiz was way off the mark with a brash collection of chain-mail minidresses, [...]
fashion
Rocco Barocco 2008 fall/winter
The inspiration of the collection was Audrey Hepburn of the 50s and 60s. Designer underlined this inspiration by the collar cutting and the lenght of the glows which ends above/under the elbow. The dominant colours of the collection were black and white but also the colours fuchsia, red and purple drawed attention. The accessories of [...]
industrial
Social Adaption Seating
So you spent a near fortune on a perfect sofa and coffee table for that great party you are going to throw, but true to human nature, most of your guest will invariably end up in or around the kitchen. They are, after all, only human and adapting to the fact that all the booze [...]
industrial
Amanda Levete exhibition
The poor old corner is an often neglected domestic space, rejected the world over for its awkward angles and despised even in Feng Shui culture as bringing bad luck to anyone unfortunate enough to be stuck in one. But one man’s trash is another man’s treasure and the first lady of Future Systems, Amanda Levete, [...]
architecture
DeCon Post Modernism meets Gaudi in Singapore
Institutions of higher learning are not generally associated with any form of modern architecture. Aside from a few notables like Art Center School of Design in Pasadena and a hand full of others scattered around the globe, most people generally associate finer colleges and universities with stoic, stone carved vestiges of a time when men [...]
architecture
Studio Gang Architects design Aqua Tower in Chicago
In an increasingly dense city like Chicago, views from a new tower must be negotiated between existing buildings. Aqua Tower considers criteria such as views, solar shading and function to derive a vertical system of contours that gives the structure its sculptural form. Its vertical topography is defined by its outdoor terraces that gradually change [...]
industrial
A Home With The Coolest Outdoor Home Theatre
Glass walls, clean lines, uninterrupted space, uncluttered rooms, expensive detailing — the hallmarks of a modern, upscale classic are all present in this stylish residence. Why anyone in possession of such an amazing home with such breathtaking views, would want to watch movies at home, is beyond us, but let’s just say that we wouldn’t [...]
industrial
Magnetic Curtain
A curtain which you can shape to any form. Through the incorporated structure and magnets, it stays in the shape you push and pull it to.
