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Colored Pencil Sculptures

Inspired by animals, plants, Ernst Haeckel, Odilon Redon, and mythology, designer Jennifer Maestre’s sea urchin sculptures look like intricate wood sculptures and in a way, they are. These unique pieces are created using  100’s colored pencils.

To make each pencil sculptures, she takes hundreds of pencils, cuts them to size , drills a hole in each [...]

The Hair Chairs

We get it. Hair as a design resource, groovy. We dated a Heavy Metal dude once with really long hair. Kinda skeeved us out. We broke up with him because of it. Shallow we know, but there’s just something creepy about constantly picking your boyfriend’s hair off you. The designer of these coiffed creations  Dejano [...]

All I Want For Christmas-A Wish List!

We know Santa has been tightening his belt this year but we decided were gonna send him our Christmas letter anyway. It never hurts to ask! Here is our Christmas List!
Nikon D5000 12.3 MP DX Digital SLR Camera

We went to a Nikon event about a month ago with no interest in buying a camera. We [...]

Avant Garde, Mid-Century Stackable Tableware

This set of early 1970s tableware, stacks into a neat and tidy ball. Avant Garde by Helen von Boch, serves four and includes plates, side dishes and bowls in different sizes. When the tableware is not needed you simply stack the dishes together to form a curious conversation piece.

While I wouldn’t take this particular one [...]

Skull Chair

It’s Halloween week! And while we still don’t have a costume, we can’t resist posting all the spooky items we’ve come across during our recent Internet travels.

The Skull Chair is part of The Vanitas Collection by Vladi Rapaport. It may not be obvious when you view the chair from the user end but this chair [...]

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Egg Chair

Arne Jacobsen’s 1958 Egg chair has reached another dimension thanks to manufacturer, Fritz Hansen. In collaboration with the Irish design company Lost Weekend and Penguin, the publisher of the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series’ sixth book “And Another Thing…” by author Eoin Colfer.

Cocktail Glass Ring

The Cocktail Glass Ring from Frida Jeppsson allows you to keep your drink right where you can reach it; wrapped around your little finger! Gives a new meaning to cocktail jewelry, doesn’t it? Now we know what to get a couple of our alcoholic friends for Christmas. Cheers!

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