A Thread for Fine Design

simon le bon

Dear Dale.
I go back to your post about Christo.
I was living in Paris at this time when Christo had come to wrap the Pont Neuf. This happened from September 22 to October 7, 1985.

One afternoon that I was passing in this place, I suddenly discovered this amazing thing. On the Pont Neuf, both sides was a number of cubicles equipped with semi-circular bench. They was packed and the old street lights staying along the parapet was packed as well. This place I had always known as a place of movement was suddenly becoming a place to stay and rest. The strange comfort of these pleasant outdoor lounges was appealing you. I had then taken a sit in one of the stalls, but many people had had the same idea. Thus the stalls were crowded, and this people accustomed to cross around without seeing them together astonishingly began to speak. I remember a wonderful evening passed to rebuild the world with perfect strangers in an atmosphere superbly cosi.
Following this, the tissue that had been used to wrap the Pont Neuf had been completely cut into small three centimeters squares and freely distributed to millions of Parisians and tourists who had visited the bridge .... the idea was simple and superb.

Cheers, simon.

dale

Well described Simon.
The interaction, the celebration, the sensual confrontation, even some of the negative reaction to this kind of work is stimulating and challenging.
I think it is so cool that you were actually there.
However, you seem to end up in a lot of interesting and stimulating places
Thanks for sharing.
Dale

Roger

@dale said:

a portable wood fired hotub, proving you can take it with you.

Did you mean "ho tub" or "hot tub"?

dale

Roger, I just moved back to Northern BC. There is no way to discretely describe that genre here. Let us suffice to say you don't want to share bathwater unless it's boiling.

solo

Just a moment...

(jackmon.typepad.com)

david_h

Cool idea in concept--however I see a few drawbacks to that design . . .

a small itty-bitty hiccup to that idea is that if you spent more than 1/2 hour in there during the day you would die.
Not to mention everyone else can see you and your drawbacks . . .ahem . ..as it were.

Roger

Cristo's art killed one woman. I don't remember the year, but Cristo planted a field of giant umbrellas in California and Ibaraki, Japan. They were to be opened simultaneously. The California location was very windy and one of Cristo's volunteers was killed when a 450lb umbrella fell on her. Ironically, she was dieing of cancer and had two weeks to live.

I was reminded of this when when a wind lifted one of my garden umbrellas into a neighbor's yard. No one was home, so I sent my ninja son over the wall to retrieve said umbrella.

On another occasion I saw a whole gazebo took flight and came down in a street right behind an unsuspecting driver in a pickup truck. And we have had at least 3 bounce houses take flight with kids in them in the last month. Some of the kids were seriously injured when they fell on the roof of a house.

"Toto I don't think we are in Kansas any longer.

" Trying to kill my neighbor with an umbrella.

d12dozr

Lectori Salutem Desk by Jeroen Verhoeven

@unknownuser said:

Artist and designer Jeroen Verhoeven has created a polished steel desk using the profiles of two of his studio colleagues and computer aided design/ manufacturing.

The workmanship is astounding More pictures here.

dale

@d12dozr said:

Lectori Salutem Desk by Jeroen Verhoeven

That is really a brilliant piece of conception and workmanship.
Also the website above and on d12dozr's link is well worth the peruse.

As for Pete's tent. I'd love to spend one of those star filled nights in that tent, but being able to see into a tent I occupy wouldn't be that pretty

TIG

Following on from the 'living bridge' here's a 'living chair' http://pooktre.com/

dale

Speaking of bendable, the bendable rug by Cho hyung suk Designhttp://www.chohyungsuk.com/

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dale

Electrolux wall mount steam washer. Lichen Guo Designer http://www.electroluxdesignlab.com/2010/08/electrolux-design-lab-2010-finalist-lichen-guo/

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d12dozr

Beautiful architecture, corresponding photos...

Casey Key Guest House / TOTeMS Architecture

Moana / Fuse Architecture

The photos are good for render references too

dale

Beautiful works.
Those curved gluelams are sweet.

Roger

Marcus, the couch in the big picture with the curved glulams has tiny subtle puckers at bottom just where you would expect them in the real world. However somebody would have to be a little nuts to model with that much detail in SU. Can you explain what is really going on?

d12dozr

Oh those are real photos, I thought the home fell in the "Fine Design" category (at the risk of stating the obvious, that's the topic of this thread). Links to the articles on Arch Daily are under the photos...