This is a beautiful example of Neoclassic design, the Whaletone is a bespoke musical instrument, designed by Robert Majkut. Being a unique combination of an original design and advanced technology, it caters for the taste of both design lovers, and professional musicians. The concept for the design was (...) Read More about Music with Style with The Whaletone piano (361 words)

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These beautiful Totems by photographer Carolina Amoretti and Matteo Abbo are a vegans paradise.
“Totems are entities that remind surreal characters and masks of men and animals. There is clearly the reference to Arcimboldo and psychological studies on simple symmetrical images,” said Amoretti about the projects’ derivatives.(...) Read More about Vegetation Totems Project by Carolina Amoretti (0 words)

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“One of the strongest, most beautiful, most poetic, most surreal, and most powerful place in nature.” Philippe Stark – La Co(o)rniche Hotel is an extraordinary location. Key landmark in the Pilat-Plage district in Pyla-Sur-Mer near Bordeaux, the vantage point over the Arcachon basin, backing onto the highest dune in Europe, it is suspended between sea and sky, nestling between sand and pines. This former 1930s hunting lodge in the heart of a preserved site, evokes the Golden Age and (...) Read More about La Co(o)rniche Hotel Designed by Philippe Starck [France] (131 words)

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An interactive installation by Yayoi Kusama that is sure to bring a smile to your face is currently on exhibit at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art. Titled “The Obliteration Room”, the project started out a whitewashed home interior as a blank canvas for children visiting(...) Read More about Yayoi Kusama’s “The Obliteration Room” (102 words)

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It’s not the first time we review the work of London based Illustrator, animator, film maker Quentin Jones. Here is a full review of some of her latest work.(...) Read More about Quentin Jones Mixed Media Collages (5 words)

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Storm Thorgerson has been designing album cover art for over 35 years. Thorgerson was a key member of the British graphic art group Hipgnosis, and designed many of their most famous single and album covers. Perhaps Storm Thorgerson’s most famous designs are those for Pink Floyd as his design for The Dark Side of the Moon has been called one of the greatest album covers of all time.
(...) Read More about Taken by Storm: The Album Cover Art of Storm Thorgerson (341 words)

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On the 11th of December 2011, the Groninger Museum, in the Netherlands, opened an exhibition entitled Alaïa. Azzedine Ala?a in the 21st century. This exhibition displays the most fantastic Alaïa fashion creations of the last ten years. Each room in the exhibition will focus on a different material that Azzedine Alaïa has consistently (...) Read More about Azzedine Alaïa in the 2st Century Exhibition (151 words)

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Awhile back we featured Josep Schulz’s “Sign Out” series, here is a selection of works from his “sachliches” and “formen” groups of work. In these works he photographs actual industrial architecture and edits/manipulates in order to place these buildings in a green field, to remove entrances, windows, or lettering on the factory workshops, and also traces of use and decline. The buildings are thus deprived of their defining features. They are reduced to pure form. Here the computer becomes an artistic device (...) Read More about Josef Schulz’s Architecture Photography (113 words)

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Jantine van Peski studied at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute before attending the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, where she graduated in 2011 from a master (MA) degree with ‘WIRES 10.0’ collection. Jantine gained design experience at the fashion houses of Haider Ackermann and A.F. Vandevorst. Her work focuses on silhouette and craftsmanship, with great attention to materials and(...) Read More about Jantine Van Peski’s Wires 10.0 Collection (162 words)

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