How Cool Is Your House Quiz

A little amusement for my visitors: I just found this quiz on channel4 and got assured how good designer I am:)
I am using quotation marks to enclose the original text from the quiz results.

"We bow to your home...

Unbelievable level of hip. You're not just on top of all the latest trends - you're out there creating your own and you're copied relentlessly by everyone you know. Tom Dixon's got you on speed dial and Posh Spice wants to you design her Milan pad (which you'd never deign to do, obviously)."

Here is the link:

http://www.channel4.com/4homes/play-win/quizzes/how-cool-is-your-house.html

Although I like the illustration they used to show how cool my home is, I would have chosen something much better - like one of my favourit cupboards that are going to be part of this year's Milan Design Week

You can take the quiz here yourself and are all welcome to comment. I am curious to see what you think.

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Designer Soap

Even soaps can impress you with an imaginative design:


Just in time to celebrate spring I came accross these
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Soap Stones
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Dining in the Company of a Frog

or working in the company of a frog? This table is part of a project that continues the limited edition trend that emerged in the last couple of years.

Hella Jongerius celebrates the sculptural quality of design in her latest products, artificial flowers and animal tables, which will be shown in Gallery Kreo in Paris, April 2009.

Jongerius has become known for the way she explores the possibilities and boundaries of both handicraft and industrial techniques and subsequently stretches them beyond the already known.

In this project she has taken yet another experimental step within her career: the celebration of the sculptural quality of furniture - a table has become frog.


left: frog table by hella jongerius, 2009 (limited edition of 8 numbered and signed pieces)
walnut wood and blue transparent enamel

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Масата се казва frog и е създадена в ограничена бройка - 8 номерирани и подписани маси - от орех и прозрачно емайлово покритие в синьо. Тя е част от изложбата на Hella Jongerius в парижката галерия Крео този месец. И продължава тенденцията за създаване на ограничени серии от предмети на дизайна, която започна в последните години.

Milan Design Week 2009 Preview

Milan's Salone Internazionale del Mobile event is considered by many to be the most important international design event of the year. Why? - the answer is in my article published in the latest issue of PLiNTH & CHiNTZ.
I have many posts here about what is coming in the 2009 Milan Furniture Fair this month. The article has collected most of these previews. But we still are going to see more exciting news from Milan this month. Visit regularly for updates.
And comments are welcome, too.

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