“I don’t feel like I look like the other perfect little pop singers. I think I’m changing what people think is sexy.” Immortal words from Lady Gaga, 2009′s poster child for avant-garde pop and the Ambassador of No Pants Land. Surrounded by a latex-clad coterie nicknamed Haus of Gaga (loosely modeled after Warhol’s Factory), Gaga’s remarkable wardrobe is like architecture from outer space. So what cutting-edge designers and architects might the Lady be referencing? Our speculations after the jump. Read More »
“Behind the bravado, some manufacturers cut costs by introducing fewer products than usual, and designers swapped sob stories of canceled projects and dwindling royalties…There was also an uncomfortable awareness that the investment decisions to green-light this season’s new products and ventures, like Skitsch [a new Italian furniture company], had been made over a year ago, when the industry’s prospects looked very different.”
While the market might be tougher, it wasn’t any harder for us to find an overload of virtual design candy to drool over. After the jump, join us in a game of What We’d Buy for Our Apartment If We Had a Citibank Bonus. Enjoy! Read More »
Remember the paper chains and snowflakes you snipped out diligently during kindergarten with safety scissors? Now imagine those infinitely more intricate and hand crafted by an army of Dutch woodland nymphs and fairies.
His beautifully-etched works make the even the most advanced pop-up books look like they were cut out by left-handed monkeys with right-handed scissors. Take the drool-inducing Garland Light — delicate flowery strands surrounding a light bulb that are included in the permanent collection of MoMA and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, thanks to their ability to transport you straight to some patch of heavenly forest untouched by human hands.
He’s like the design equivalent of that wardrobe in the Narnia books.
