A Thread for Fine Design

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...