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Vertigo for Two: Tiny Tea Table Sits Atop Angled Roof Ridge

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 10:00 AM PDT

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Who said a precarious pitched roof precludes occupation? Certainly no one this designer has ever heard of, perched as their work is at the apex of a red-tiled rooftop.

Ainė Bunikytė is a Lithuanian art student (photography by Kernius Pauliukonis) who saw an opportunity where most see only danger, and accordingly created a ladder, two chairs, a table and a tea set in a place most see as inaccessible by default.

“The art design project with a series of future proposals and a realized one was presented for her graduation from master studies in Vilnius Academy of Art. This para-functional invitation – is a result of three years of research based on function paradoxes within design objects and designed spaces.”

“One of the most important element in the project is human's inherent wish to find one's own space, to have a secret, to differ, to find such place from which one could watch others but could stay unseen at the same time. The other aspect is a will to be higher, to be raised over the ground – this is the instinct of safety”

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Light Rail: LED Hand Railings to Safely Light Up Staircases

Posted: 06 Aug 2012 04:00 PM PDT

[ Filed under Stairs & Cases & in the Interiors category ]

Ever notice how brightly-lit stairways are? This is obviously for safety reasons, but less obviously: each and every last corner needs to be illuminated to make sure you don’t step into (and trip within) a stray shadow.

Since railings are also essential elements for safe staircases, it makes sense to let them light each tread and riser while also providing visual guidance for landings and other changes in direction or shape as one descends.

Zoran Sunjic envisions this as an extruded, heavy-duty tube or LED light rope strung between supports and able to change color, potentially (for example) to illuminate what level you are on within a building (another helpful way-finding aspect). Still, as anything other than emergency lights, there may be one problem: too much illumination at eye level.