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Ralph Lauren Home collection bedding in the Homevoyeurs webshop

Posted on April 2, 2010 | 1 comment

Cape Lodge Plantation Chair and Noble Estate Chaise from Ralph Lauren Home Collection

 

OK, I know, it’s like saying you vote Republican.. but I LOVE the Ralph Lauren Home collection! It makes me want to be rich. Very very rich as the products come with a hefty price tag, but boy oh boy, would my life be complete!

Taking inspiration from a very white lifestyle, with even a hint to times when slavery was still ‘de rigeur’, Mr Lauren sure knows how to set a mood. Items with names like Plantation Chair, Noble Estate Chaise and La Boheme Desk one immediately knows what he means. One feels like a writer just looking at the black leather club chair aptly named  Writer’s Chair.

Homevoyeurs is lucky enough to be able to offer a few items of the Ralph Lauren Home Collection bedding line in the Homevoyeurs webshop! Wonderful bedding for a much friendlier price! For instance this 450 thread count cotton Palm Harbor duvet cover for $495.00. But also shams, pillow covers, beds in a bag and spreads from Ralph Lauren or other quintessential American brands. Starting as low as $50!

Homevoyeurs webshop: Palm Harbor Octagonal Duvet Cover by Ralph Lauren

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AGA celebrates 300th anniversary with limited-edition cookers

Posted on April 1, 2010 | Leave a comment

To celebrate AGA’s 300th anniversary, the company commissioned four celebrities to pimp a cooker. This resulted in four limited-edition cookers from AGA Rangemasters four brands; AGA, Rangemaster, Falcon and Rayburn.

Emma Bridgewater's Polka Dot design

Pottery designer Emma Bridgewater designed a polka-dot AGA. Atomic Kitchen singer Natasha Hamilton covered her Rangemaster in prints of cup cakes that make your mouth water. Designer and TV presenter Oliver Heath has created a patchwork wood-burning Rayburn to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Coalbrookdale foundry where all AGA cookers are made. Scottish Michelin-star chef Nick Nairn shows his pride in his heritage by adorning the Falcon cooker with the Nairn tartan.  

Oliver Heath's Patchwork design

AGA might not have found celebrities overly enthusiastic, or maybe they were a bit short on cash, as the line up is hardly A-list, but still; a great campaign from the company that brought warmth to many a kitchen.

“Almost all casting takes place at Coalbrookdale, the Shropshire cradle of the Industrial Revolution, where, in 1709, Abraham Darby first melted iron using coke. The latest AGA is made in exactly the same way; by pouring molten iron into a mould to create cast iron.” (source AGA website)

Nick Nairn's tartan design

Natasha Hamilton's cupcake design

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Origami table by Tian Zhen

Posted on March 27, 2010 | Leave a comment

 “It all begins with folding of a paper crane at elementary school in China”. 

Thus quotes her website the Chinese born/Netherlands educated Tian Zhen. She applies the art of origami to many of her designs. In 2006 she graduated from Academie Minerva, my own Alma Mater, and started working with various studio’s and on the side pursued a career as a solo designer. 

Paper can carry the weight of much more than we think when folded with origami. In an earlier post Homevoyeurs highlighted the paper Flexible Love Chair by Korean designer Chishen Chiu. This sofa/seat design also makes use of paper folded and formed to give it enough strength to seat up to 16 people. Inspired by this magnificent quality of paper Tian designed the LOTUS side table. The glass top is made of plexiglas, and the ‘paper’ is actually Tyvek, a synthetic woven material also used in the building- and the automotive industries. 

Lotus side table by Tian Zhen

 

The table can be changed from one shape to another in only a few seconds. In total there are six unique shapes. 

Inspired? The Homvoyeurs web shop sells many books about Origami and paper art and design. One of them is  Unfolded; Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry
By Petra Schmidt, Nicola Stattmann.  

Unfolded: Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry

 

In “Unfolded Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry” paper conquers the third dimension and demonstrates the undreamed-of possibilities it holds today for lightweight construction, product design, fashion and art. From “Paper”, the collection of bags by Stefan Diez, to Konstantin Grcic s paper models and the scented paper garments of Issey Miyake, this book presents paper as a high-quality contemporary and ecological material. An enormous selection of projects, the lavish design and numerous illustrations provide designers with invaluable inspiration for their work. The content core of the book is a comprehensive list of state-of-the-art paper products and innovative paper technologies, supporting designers in their everyday work with detailed information on the “high-tech” material paper. From Japanese washi paper and paper foam, to ceramic paper and carbon fiber paper, “Unfolded” presents the latest in research and development, as well as the most important methods and technologies in handcrafts and industry.

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Pleat lamps by DUM/Dumoffice

Posted on March 10, 2010 | Leave a comment

All the magazines write about them, at least the Dutch ones. The new lamp collection Pleat by DUM. They must have a great PR person, or the lamps just stroke many people’s fancy, cause one could not open a magazine or the product pages would feature these lamps. DUM is a new label by Dutch designers collective Dumoffice. The collection Pleat consists of lamps, or Luminaires as the designers call them, made of pleated fabric. This very traditional technique results in subtle yet elegant lamp shades reminiscent of the ones your parents had.   

 All shades feature a crooked or tipped line across which resulted in intriguing volumes and shapes.
They come in both floor lamp and suspension models, and in different colours.   

Pleat suspension lamps by DUM

   

 Inspired? There are a lot of books about Dutch Design for sale in the Homevoyeurs webshop.   

For instance False Flat, why Dutch Design is so Good by Aaron Betsky. Order your copy now for only $27.37   

False Flat; why Dutch Design is so Good

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