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- Pilot’s Home Uses Height + Glass to Create a Feeling of Flight
- Waste Stone Fragments Repurposed as Sophisticated Tableware
- Peek a Boo! Working Table With Room for Your Cat to Play
| Pilot’s Home Uses Height + Glass to Create a Feeling of Flight Posted: 07 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT Architecture and aviation may not seem to have much in common, but this home designed for a pilot proves that they have plenty of shared characteristics. Careful design, attention to detail, and a dreamy airy design make the Aviator’s Villa – designed by Urban Office Architecture – look like it exists in the clouds. The one-bedroom house in New York state was fashioned after a disassembled airplane fuselage. The home has three main areas: a 30 foot tall area housing the living area and kitchen/dining area; a large library, and a large cantilevered bedroom at the very top. The home is open to the surrounding vista on three sides, allowing a sense of freedom and airiness. The three areas of the home are connected via a grand circular staircase which houses various hidden spaces. Sitting at the top of a hill, the home is further elevated by a series of columns. The home’s swimming pool and nearby lake reflect the sky above, giving the feeling of living in the sky no matter which way you look. Many of the windows are covered with perforated metal screens which give the effect of floating clouds when the sun shines through. The home’s interior maximizes the connection to the sky with its expansive tall volumes, huge windows, and its overall fantastic height. It is a monument not only to aviation but to the feeling of freedom that one experiences while racing through the clouds. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
| Waste Stone Fragments Repurposed as Sophisticated Tableware Posted: 06 May 2014 06:00 PM PDT Designer Rachel Griffin noticed that there is a huge problem with the stone milling industry: it leaves behind massive amounts of beautiful stone that usually just goes to waste. When she was working on a line of kitchenware that pairs stone and wood, she saw piles of leftover stone chunks that seemed too beautiful to discard, so she figured out a way to give them a new life. Figuring that there had to be some purpose hiding in the castoff material, Griffin collected the stone and considered how to make them into useful objects. These stone pieces,with their smooth surfaces and rough edges, have a strange but lovely combination of textures and visual characteristics. Griffin decided to turn them into bowls and lids for a series that she calls Fragment. The stone, the same material used in Griffin’s original kitchenware project, is typically smooth and thin enough to be used as a plate or a bowl. Griffin and her design company Earnest Studio carve out small cavities in the stone to make bowls and even smaller pieces to make lids. The lids and bowls are often made of different types of stone to create an interesting visual contrast. Their beauty and functionality serve as a reminder that even discarded materials can find new life with a bit of creativity. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
| Peek a Boo! Working Table With Room for Your Cat to Play Posted: 06 May 2014 02:00 PM PDT Cats, as lovely as they are, have a bad habit of planting themselves atop exactly the thing you need to use at that moment. They seem particularly drawn to everything on your desk – especially a warm laptop or an important stack of papers. The CATable from Lycs Architecture and designer Ruan Hao might be a fix for this perennial problem. The desk provides a flat surface for humans to work on along with a series of holes and tunnels for cats to explore and play in. Whiskers can enjoy the inner workings of the wooden table while you get your work done without having to constantly pick her up and put her back on the floor. The only problem that you might face with the CATable is that watching cats pop in and out of hiding places is really, really distracting. Cat lovers know that a feline is never as happy as when it is exploring small spaces, and watching that pure joy of a little pointy-eared head popping up in different places along the table’s interior channels might mean that you get a lot less work done. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
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