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The Grand Budapest Bee Hotel: Miniature Modeled on Wes Anderson’s Film

Posted: 20 Jul 2016 01:00 PM PDT

"Without bees, there would be no teas," says Taylors of Harrogate, a British beverage brand, as they present an adorable illustration of their appreciation for these crucial pollinators. Modeled after Wes Anderson's impossibly twee film 'The Grand Budapest Hotel,' the Yorkshire-based company's 'Grand Beedapest Hotel' opens like a dollhouse to reveal four levels of interactive spaces where actual living bees can have a drink, sit down to a meal, bathe, nap, work out and even dance beneath a miniature disco ball. Read more…

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The ‘Pleat Box’ Pendant Light – A Creative Designer Collaboration

Posted: 19 Jul 2016 05:38 PM PDT

Xavier Manosa is a Barcelona-based master ceramicist. Together, in a first-time collaboration with the Mashallah design studio in Berlin, he created the Pleat Box hanging light. The diffuser , or shade is constructed from ceramic, and is built to resemble a fold of cloth. The inside is coated in stark white or gold enamel - which creates a very bright light, or conversely, it casts a warm, ambient glow. Read more…