One Less Office

We’ve been so bogged down with paperwork lately we haven’t had a minute to sit down and just write a blog post or two. And our desk is such a mess we barely have room for the laptop. Given our cramped work quarters, a new office area seemed out out of the question. That’s before Dean Heckler from OneLessDesk sent us his latest design the One Less Office suite. You may remember Dean’s One Less Desk which consists of to nesting tables just the right height to accommodate a monitor and keyboard, well now Dean has taken it to the next level.

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Live Long and Prosper Candle

We’ve always wanted to hold the “live long and prosper” pose but never had the dexterity to make it happen. Now we can give up those hours of practice and just purchase one of L’atelier WM’s Hand Candles from A+R. Strange candles indeed, but you have to admit the make a strong statement.

Cast from real hands, the wax candles burn for about 3 hours and come in either the celebratory “Rock On!” or our personal favorite -the infamous one finger salute. To purchase your own hand gestures go to A+R’s site.

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Dining Agenda

We were fortunate to meet Sara Ferrari of Sara Ferrari Designs last week at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair.  She  introduced us to her Dining Agenda; a design she collaborated on with Marcella Fiori. The Design Agenda is for all those “foodies” who like to treat every meal as a project. The agenda’s cover features a wooden knife and fork you can use to eat your meal. Inside the Agenda, are 14  individual place-mats, each has a special note-taking section at the bottom. When the meal is done, you can tear the bottom of the place-mat off and take your notes on the meal with you. We know our friend Gastradomus would love this!

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Scrap Cardboard Lighting

Having spent the better part of our angst ridden 20’s living in Seattle, we have an affinity for those dark, brooding souls inhabiting the Northwest. We were happy to meet  Seattleite Jon Gentry of graypants, inc. at ICFF this year. Jon introduced us to their latest design, the Scrap Light.  Intricate circles are painstakingly cut from recycled cardboard boxes and then stacked and glued together to create a sturdy light. Thanks to the cardboard’s rough pattern the light casts an intricately laced shadow on the wall.  Each light retains markings from the original box giving them a distinct character.

Most booths spent a  fortune shipping their wares to the fair but not the graypants guys. Jon told us, they simply packed all their lamps in suitcases and took them on the plane.

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Rat Chandelier

We really enjoyed some of the anomalous products displayed at the Non Fiction Design Collectives exhibit at ICFF this year. We love the perverse. And that’s just what Non Fiction Design Collective does. They manipulate ordinary pieces: lamps, chandeliers and porcelain bits; into a disturbing household that you could just imagine Edgar Allen Poe inhabiting. The Rattus Norvegicus Rex chandelier features four large rats with tails entwined to allow them to dangle like plump, furry crystals. Each gingerly grasping a bunch of red glass berries in their mouths, as if presenting a gift to the Brown Rat King himself!

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Cassette Skeleton

Now that cassette tapes have been relegated to our past, it’s been a major chore figuring out how to dispose of them. Designer Brian Dettmer, well known for his transmogrification of common media items into works of art, decided to donate his to science.  Dettemer’s Cassette Skeleton is currently on exhibit at the International Museum of Surgical Science. Made with old classics such as Motley Crue’s “Shout at the Devil” and Judas Priest’s ” Screaming for Vengeance”, the molded plastic mutation sings speaks volumes without saying a word.

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