Great design for the sustainability-minded

Aren't they elegant? These reclaimed-wood Iconic Panels are ideal for retail settings, hotel interiors, and temporary installations such as trade-show exhibitions, but also make a great accent wall for residential furnishing, too. They not only utilize lumber salvaged from olive-barrel staves, razed gym bleachers, and blighted buildings, but also their producers B+N use low-VOC varnishes and water-based glues that don’t contain formaldehyde. The panels can be sawn, nailed, glued, and outfitted with shelving hardware.


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News for Milan Design Week 2009

In addition to the already posted new products that are going to be launched at this year's i Saloni I have received news also about several more interesting designs:

Prometeo lamp from carbon fibers for I Tre will be presented at Euroluce 2009









'sof' chairs by akihisa hirata






















Memory lamp from recycled paper by Yu Jordy Fu














‘dodo’ and ‘paradise tree’ by oiva toikka for Maggies

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Bathroom Dressed in Valentino

How about a bathroom dressed in Valentino?

I have always been interested in the connection between fashion and interior design. And I like the mutual influence that they have. But even though I like elegant clothes, for me it is definitely more interesting to see the talent of fashion designers applied to interior design. And they are more often doing it!

One of my favourate Valentino's bathroom collections is "Defile".
Extremely elegant colour shades, ton-sur-ton and damask nuances, stand out on the
tenuous supporting design, recalling the fabrics on the world’s most prestigious catwalks.
The Haute Couture that generated “Défilé” enters our daily interiors and envelopes us with
that exclusive VALENTINO flair which has always been a universal example of class and
exquisite stylistic refinement…

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Chestita Baba Marta!

"Chestita Baba Marta!" - this is one of the most loved Bulgarian ancient traditions: on March 1, people in Bulgaria celebrate Baba Marta's day through the symbolic exchange of martenitsi. Red and white symbolise health and happiness. Baba Marta brings the end of cold winter and the beginning of spring.

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