Courtesy of www.illy.com

illy collaborated with artist/architect Adam Kalkin to create this amazing work of living art – the illy Push Button House, a five-room home with a kitchen, dining room, bedroom, living room and library constructed within a standard industrial shipping container.

The home, which transforms at the push of a button, is created from recycled and recyclable materials. So what about the relationship to illy? It is supposed to be a physical representation of illy’s dedication to sustainability, art and innovation.

Check out this gorgeous 7.5 square meter office pod built in the backyard of a family home in Bogota, Columbia. It was designed by architect Manuel Villa with the help of Alberto González. The interior is built of pine wood and the front deck is made of teak.

Newly transformed by Nuno Sottomayor and  Sam Baron, we can see why this Portugalian escape has been re-named Hotel FAVORITA.

photos (c) Pedro Lobo

Hotel FAVORITA

Rustical x industrial’ is a series of furnishings which derive from
an aesthetical and theoretical survey on rural and suburban bricolage. The objects enunciate the poetic language of such vernacular furniture by arranging a crude patchwork of archetypes and materials -Michels

photos from Frank Michels

For those of us who have still not gotten over the trauma of learning to read a numbered face-clock in first grade, this sleek, type-based clock by Beirgert & Funk seems like a comforting resolution (although it may not have become useful until 2nd grade advanced reading class). The front panel of this stunning piece is made of polished acrylic glass and the frame, from lacquered wood.

QLOCKTWO makes you pause and allows a different view of time. The typographic front combines the moment with the written word and makes it a statement. „It is half past eight.“

This clock forms a perfect square and seems to hover freely at the wall. A matrix with symmetrically arranged characters constitutes another square in the interior. Some of these characters shine in pure white to form words that describe time. - QLOCKTWO

The front surface is made of polished acrylic glass. The lacquered wooden body supports it by means of eight magnets. That way the front surface can be replaced without visible attachments. There are satin stainless steel or five colours of polished synthetic glass to choose from, each generating contrasts or consistencies in interplay with their surroundings.

When it is activated, the timer sets itself exact to the second and adjusts the brightness of the characters to ambient light. QLOCKTWO is available in several languages, you only need the appropriate front panel.

All colours are each available in german, english, french, italian, dutch, russian, danish, norwegian, swedish, arabic, swiss german, portuguese, catalan and spanish.

Itay Ohay ‘s looks at the process of packing, shipping and unpacking in his concept piece Unpacking.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckHt9nuu36w]

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Selected as one of the winners of the Jerwood  Contemporary Makers Prize 2010, David Clarke‘s unusable kitchenware adds poiniently to the dialogue about consumption and mass-production.

Although a couple weeks ago, the sentiment proclaimed across the design desk  by my colleague Fattie was precisely this:  “I’m so over multifaceted everything!”, I think these last eco geoms by Pour les Alpes might warm her heart again to the trend. The Chapütschin and Gion planters are from Pour les Alpes 2010 Crystal collection and come in a limited edition of 5.

What could be better than a giant luminecent body pillow? Designed and developed by Cleanroom, the Super Nova light ads calming ambient lighting to a space while adding actual comforting tactility.