The awesome Fusillo bookshelves from And Vice Versa are comprised of modular elements that you can twist and turn to your own literary or storage-based needs. Each module rotates from a central axis point to provide support, and you can combine them however you like.
Studio Swine traveled to São Paulo, a city with an excellent recycling program, to create something beautiful and useful from the city's excess materials. These glass bottles have been reblown to form new shapes that serve as a nod to Brazil's tropical Modernism trend of the 1950s, rendering this cool series of cactus lamps.
David LaFerriere is an illustrator and graphic designer, and probably one of the coolest dads ever. Since 2008, the artist has use his children's plastic sandwich bags as an everyday canvas, sending them off to school with adorably stylish culinary treats.
If one of your major gripes about adulthood is that it's become harder and less socially acceptable to enjoy a good set of swings, join the club. As a kid, I liked nothing more than to lose myself in a good swing session. As an adult, I often wonder if I could pretend to be nine years old and bully my way to my chosen swingset. For all you likeminded swingers, there's the Cacoon swing chair. Part teepee, part swing, this beautiful creation can be installed within the privacy of your own property, whether in the garden or living room, where you're welcome to swing away. You can purchase the Cacoon in a single or double, depending on whether you feel like sharing.
If you've never dabbled in the extensive world of DIY, the time is now. Thanks to DIY.org, the internet is now your very own educational database, on everything from baking, painting, electrical engineering, camping, beekeeping (really) to the hard sciences. If you've ever wanted to try building your very own Rube Goldberg machine, there are no more excuses! Other things you can learn to do include woodworking, foraging for food in the wild, building your own instruments, playing new instruments, and building an awesome fort. There's an app version so you can keep track of your progress on your iPhone, if you want to, and you can earn badges for each completed project, which might satisfy the inner nature scout in you. There are no sashes involved, but you'll get tons of imaginary internet points. The whole DIY database is truly exhaustive and worth looking at. Here is just a tiny sample of some of the things you can learn.
Technically speaking, you might not need an awesome underground trapdoor wine cellar, but will it make you happy? Yeah, probably. Not only will you have a much cooler wine storage system than your friends, but you'll have a trap door in your house. Think of all the secrets you can keep in there! I won't say any more because what you do with your trapdoor wine cellar is up to you. Though the universal firs step of bragging is probably to throw a glamorous dinner party. See? It's already doing wonders for your social life. All these cellars are from Spiral Cellars, whom you should contact if you want one of your own.
Kumi Yamashita is a Japanese artist who uses unusual mediums to bring you her vision. The little boy above is created using a single, unbroken strand of thread, carefully arranged over nails on a white board. This particular series is called "Costellation", after the tradition of finding mythological creatures and star formations in the night sky. Yamashita's work also includes a series of shadows, each created by a single light source.
Design studio ixdesign has completely remodeled this formerly run of the mill 1,050 square foot loft in New York City, into a beautiful and spacious oasis from the mean streets of New York.
If you're a stationary buff who loves nothing more than the search for the perfect pen, the smoothest card stock, and the most pristine journals, here's the hobby to end all hobbies. Paper marbling has historic roots in East and Central Asia, where calligraphy is a deeply respected art. In many Asian countries, especially Turkey, where the process is called Ebru, the laborious, but beautiful art lives on. Below, some hypnotic samples of this elaborate art form.
These reinvented traveling caravans from Swiss design firm Bureau A are the answer to your un-stifled childhood whims of being a wandering gypsy and making your home on the road, perhaps decked out in gauzy skirts and gold bangles, à la Esmeralda.
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