Furniture, furnishings, and interior design

[lowrey]

i bought the most perfect bed pillow at abc. i was told it's the staff favourite and believe it because it feels fucking amazing..

http://www.abchome.com/shop/omi-standard-contour-latex-pillow-1131275

i've always used down, but these things won't collapse. tried it at the store three times before buying them. worth every penny...

I've used a contour latex pillow (can't remember the brand...) for a couple of years now and have realized how terrible 99% of pillows are especially if you have any back or neck problems. its the only thing I will ever use any more and it travels with me everywhere

[Faust]

I want to unveil a new interior design expo I am involved in, Disruptive Design, which will occur during the NYCxDesign week in May. If you work in the interior design field and would like to exhibit, let me know.

This is a very cool project that will upend the way design is viewed and exhibited.

Spread the word! http://disruptivedesign.com/

[endersgame]

electric outlets flush-mounted without the ugly wall-plates

http://www.ylighting.com/bocci-22-series-collection.html#read-more

[ahn]

I am more and more fascinated by marble. Seems like a very SZ material - primal, textured, beautiful in itself, needing only elemental forms.

When I was in primary school (elementary school for you USA residents) there was a factory on the other side of the fence by our sports oval that always had all sorts of slabs and off-cuts and hunks of marble that were piled up by the fence where we would play. I remember even at that young age being struck by how beautiful and elegant those slabs looked. I used to imagine dancing on them .

[lowrey]

I hated marble until a few years ago. I think it was due to the fact that we had this really cheap looking marble top in our kitchen when I was a kid

I'm still pretty selective about it but it can look amazing

[Faust]

When I was in primary school (elementary school for you USA residents) there was a factory on the other side of the fence by our sports oval that always had all sorts of slabs and off-cuts and hunks of marble that were piled up by the fence where we would play. I remember even at that young age being struck by how beautiful and elegant those slabs looked. I used to imagine dancing on them .

[Faust]

I hated marble until a few years ago. I think it was due to the fact that we had this really cheap looking marble top in our kitchen when I was a kid

I'm still pretty selective about it but it can look amazing

This quote by Pirsig from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (which you should read, lowrey! Well, everyone should) had made me think a lot about materials.

"Technology is the making of things and can’t by its own nature be ugly or there would be no possibility for beauty in the arts, which also include the making of things. Actually, a root word of technology, techne, originally meant ‘art’. Neither is the ugliness inherent in the materials of modern technology.

Mass-produced plastics and synthetics aren’t in themselves bad. A person who’s lived inside stone walls of a prison most of his life is likely to see stone as an inherently ugly material, even though it’s also the prime material of sculpture, and a person who’s lived in a prison of ugly plastic technology that started with his childhood toys is likely to see this material as inherently ugly. But the real ugliness of modern technology is not found in any material or shape or act of product."

One of the reasons I love Rick is that he proved to the world that he can put you in cotton jersey and denim and make you the best-dressed person in the room.

[Shucks]

One of the reasons I love Rick is that he proved to the world that he can put you in cotton jersey and denim and make you the best-dressed person in the room.

that used to be true. now it is likely filled with tons of people in rick. well-dressed room though.

[Faust]

I don't know where you hang out, buddy :-) By and large, this is still the case (except for fashion weeks and StyleZeitgeist events)

[Shucks]

i was using 'room' metaphorically. and in any case: "you know we aren't meant to exist in the outside world..."

[swami]

This quote by Pirsig from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (which you should read, lowrey! Well, everyone should) had made me think a lot about materials.

"[I]Technology is the making of things and can’t by its own nature be ugly or there would be no possibility for beauty in the arts, which also include the making of things. Actually, a root word of technology, techne, originally meant ‘art’. Neither is the ugliness inherent in the materials of modern technology. .

That is lovely , tks for sharing!

@Faust & Lowrey you guys probably already have seen his work but Joseph Dirand does some amazing things with Marble.

Corian can definitely hold its own against marble ( albeit not as noble to the touch) but can look gorgeous in kitchen & furniture applications

[endersgame]

my office is made out of corian. i like the seam sealing properties of this material, but it scuffs and gets dirty easily. you need to magic eraser everything to keep it looking good. corian sunken sinks that looks one piece with the counter look really good.

[Faust]

That is lovely , tks for sharing!

@Faust & Lowrey you guys probably already have seen his work but Joseph Dirand does some amazing things with Marble.

Corian can definitely hold its own against marble ( albeit not as noble to the touch) but can look gorgeous in kitchen & furniture applications

Of course :-) Vincent Van Duysen introduced us some months ago.

[trentk]

I am more and more fascinated by marble. Seems like a very SZ material - primal, textured, beautiful in itself, needing only elemental forms.

Dark Green marble is my obsession right now ... both b/c:
1. it kindof looks like a tangled rainforest (and thus is of interesting symbology ... the purity & eternity that is traditionally associated with marble + the overabundant vivacity of a rainforest) and
2. I really liked the use of dark green in the second look from the most recent Haider Ackermann collection.

[rider]

very cool, such a timely direction of posting. I'm in the process of renovating 3 bathrooms with sonoma forge fixtures and concrete vanities. The challenge was to find a floor tile that was cool underfoot and had the texture of river rocks...you know where I'm going here... I chose black tumbled, clefted marble. when I went into the tile store I was looking for slate but as soon as I touched the unexplainable natural, silky coolness of the marble, even with deep clefting it was the immediate realization that nothing else would be acceptable. its really, truly special.