From the monthly archives:
Do you use StumbleUpon? It’s a great way to find interesting things that you otherwise may miss. Like I did with Thomas Baekdal’s post about Livingstones.
Livingstones are a creation by French designer Stephanie Marin. Made from virgin wool, they resemble actual stones, but are actually soft, comfortable cushions. Well, cushions may [...]
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Following up on my earlier post about Walt Lockley’s view of Boston City Hall, I found a trio of videos that offer ideas of ways to change City Hall Plaza.
In 2007, a group of students, both graduate and undergraduate, were sponsored to create a pilot project called Hub2. They used the game Second Life [...]
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Paul Hatziiliades, the owner of Moda Cucina (who I wrote about back in August), wrote me to say that the Boston-based manufacturer of high-end green modern kitchens and cabinetry is hiring a senior salesperson and kitchen designer.
This position will be based out of the Boston Design Center showroom, and will entail working with high-end clients, [...]
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Local architect Christine Vargas has started Our Soil Project, a new non-profit organization that helps “empower underprivileged children around the world by helping them develop technical, vocational, and photography skills. We serve disenfranchised children in marginalized areas of the world through high impact workshops aimed at inspiring self-reliance and sustainability.” Upcoming workshops will be [...]
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After reading about me needing hooks for my son’s room, my friend Brad emailed me this post from dezeen.
Paula, a collective of three young Roman designers, has introduced the Wardrom, a modular hook system “born to enhance DISORDER making it graphically catchy.”
“WARDROM is an object that invites throwing clothes as if it were a natural [...]
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According to today’s Globe, the owner of the Hancock Tower, currently the tallest building in Boston (until the Menino Tower is built), has hired Elkus | Manfredi architects to design a “glass-enclosed public square on the windswept and forbidding half-acre plaza at its front doors on Clarendon Street, turning the trophy property’s biggest drawback [...]
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A friend of mine on Twitter tipped me off to this interesting article: By Earth Day, 2008, Whole Foods Market will get rid of plastic bags in all 270 of its locations in the US, Canada, and the UK.
The Portland Business Journal reports that the Austin, TX-based grocer “is the first U.S. supermarket to [...]
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Fellow blogger and local interior design consultant Linda Merrill was recently interviewed on the Living Today program on Martha Stewart Living Radio.
There aren’t any podcasts available on the MSLR site, but Linda reveals points she discussed in the interview: planning, budgeting, and working with a professional. It’s all very straight forward, no-nonsense stuff that [...]
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I rarely buy stamps; most of my bills are paid online. When I do buy the occasional stamp, I give no thought to the design of it. Well, if there was ever a reason to start collecting stamps, this is it: 2Modern is reporting that next summer, the U.S. Postal Service is [...]
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Recently I had a chance to sit down with the Vice President of Sales for Kartell to discuss some of the new designs available this year.
The Dr. Yes chair by Philippe Starck and Eugeni Quitllet immediately stood out.The story is quite simple. Chair with four legs. But it has a matte finish [...]
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