Visionaire n°42 Scent issue

Visionaire magazine is a trend book with four issues a year. Each issue has a particular topic and the whole book is redesigned: sometimes it's huge, sometimes it comes in a bag or in boxes... everything is possible in order to best communicate the topic of the issue. The Scent issue was a white box which contained a small booklet and 21 parfumes. Each parfume was designed by a 'nose' in collaboration with different vips such as Karl Lagerfeld, Vanessa Beecroft, Hedi Slimane, Mario Testino, David Bowie, Nick Knight, Andreas Gursky, Kate Moss, Gus Van Sant, Zaha Hadid, Terry Richardson. I don't know if I would ever use them, but it would be really nice to smell how they have interpreted Space, Violence, Broken Glass, Hungry or Electricity.

www.visionaireworld.com

Michael Haney

Michael Hainey is the Deputy Editor of GQ and has been with the magazine for ten years. He is considered one of the more chic men in New York. Editor and artist, he lives with his wife in this artsy apartment full of books, mixed styles furnitures, pictures and pieces of art. Every piece has a story and even if they mix different styles, the result is comfortable and elegant with a touch of softness, irony and love. 

www.theselby.com

In 2002, when Tom Givone bought a toppling 200-year-old farmhouse peeling with outdated neon blue paint, his new neighbors in upstate New York advised chucking it straight into a pit in the house’s equally rundown backyard. Instead, the experience helped define the homeowner-turned-contractor's love of the picturesque and channel it into a newfound talent for renovation. 

Jihyun Ryou

An egg has millions of holes in its shell. It absorbs the odour and substance around itself very easily. This creates a bad taste if it’s kept in the fridge with other food ingredients. This shelf provides a place for eggs outside of the fridge. Also the freshness of eggs can be tested in the water. The fresher they are, the further they sink.

Keeping roots in a vertical position allows the organism to save energy and remain fresh for a longer time. This shelf gives a place for them to stand easily, using sand. At the same time, sand helps to keep the proper humidity.

Wow! This is cool! I would totally buy some of these for my house. These are just two of five shelves she has designed. Very simple, still usefull and appealing. Next, how she describes her work:

"Observing the food and therefore changing the notion of food preservation, we could find the answer to current situations such as the overuse of energy and food wastage. My design is a tool to implement that knowledge in a tangible way and slowly it changes the bigger picture of society. I believe that once people are given a tool that triggers their minds and requires a mental effort to use it, new traditions and new rituals can be introduced into our culture."

www.savefoodfromthefridge.com 

Payam Askari

'Five glass objects are a bundle of flowers, for which five scents have been especially designed and developed. The scents are unique, distinctive and from different olfactory families to which the objects correspond in their shape and design. Rocking on their rounded base they let the air through, causing the fragrance to lift off.
 Smelling has always been one of the most fascinating and unfiltered ways of understanding the world. Yet our interaction with it is often erratic and unresponsive and in a vision-biased world we are smell-blinded in experiencing most things that surrond us.  Redressing this sensory bias, these objects diffuse the aroma of an entire bouquet, making it visible just by its smell.' 

(payamaskari.com)

Andreas Ahlqvist

Andreas's work aims to highlight the waste in production and it questions the notion of perfect wood in furniture making. I'm inspired by this project. Wastes are a big issue nowadays and we are constantly surrounded by wooden products that seem to be ecofriendly, but what is important to think about is where does wood come from, how do they act in order to respect the environment? I'm totally seduced by wood, but I appreciate these products because they don't only use virtuous materials, but they also show off their essence. Moreover, I like the idea of creating joints with this kind of molded waste. Joints are a big problem in furniture, because they often need to be strengthen with metal joints and small components. 

www.andreasahlqvist.com

magnetic bike light

Don't you hate those clever inventions like this bike light that you wish you came up with!  So simple and I have no idea why someone did come up with this earlier!  It's as easy as putting on a helmet.  Place the magnetic light on your steal frame bike... and it lights on, remove it and it turns off.   Ta Da Brilliant!  copenhagen parts

 

your rainbow panorama by Olafur Eliasson

Like a rainbow!  Olafur Eliasson is a brilliant Danish-Icelandic artist who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1967.  He has established himself in the art world and has become known for his sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such a s light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience.  Olafur Eliasson has done a tremendous amount of work and this one in particular intrigues me. 

In 2007 Eliasson's idea to an art work which could complete ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Aarhus got chosen among five other proposals in a bidding process by a panel of judges. Eliasson's artwork called “Your rainbow panorama” consists of circular, 150 feet long and three feet wide circular corridor made of glass in every color imaginable. The colorful masterpiece has a diameter of 52 meters and is mounted on slender pillars 3.5 meters above the museum's roof. The artwork is at night lighted up from inside by spotlights in the floor. The artwork cost 60 million Danish kroner to build. Construction of the artwork began in May 2009 and was completed in May 2011. 

check him out HERE

est magazine

I have died and gone to a brilliantly designed heaven!  The australian online magazine EST is celebrating it's 1st birthday with an amazing issue!  check it out here

Atelier Tekuto Mineral house

Andrea I saw this house and was so eager to put it on the blog cause I think this is your house!  I could totally visualize you being very content in this Mineral house designed by Architect Yasuhiro Yamashita. This Japanese minimalist house located in downtown Tokyps Nakano ward.  I love how the boxy space is balanced with interier details like the curved lines of the bath tube and the trashcans curves.  I like this details because it makes it more comforting and approachable where some minimal interiors with such severe sharp lines can be to harsh.  I could be totally off but I think this would be a house you would love to live in... am I correct? 

nook

When i was in high school my mother build a house which had a nook and it was my favourite part of the house.  In the afternoon the sun would beam in to the window and it was the perfect place to study, nap, read a book or just watch the neighbourhood.  I love the nook!  I love the look of this one and the statement of the floral branches.  

Boskke

I was in love with this interior: summery and fresh, unconventional, but with great taste. A cool space with a nice green painted wall, a Vitra chair, some books and plants. Hey! Those plants! I found the website and I really like them. They look really good in a contemporary house, but also in a more classic one. They even say that you can have vegetable plants and that you can harvest your own veggies, little production, but it would be cool for spices! 

www.boskke.com

Loyal Loot Collective

Canadian Designer Doha Chebib from Loyal Loot Collective, creates these glorious log bowls from fallen trees. Each bowl combines the incomparable beauty of trees in their natural state with a high-gloss vibrant finish with acrylic colors and is completely unique. 

Hanna Krüger

How cool is this lamp? Just some simple components and the final result is absolutely charming. I had a quick look at her website and I really appreciate how she works by using raw materials in order to give new forms to glass and ceramic.  

“IN THE DESIGN OF OBJECTS I AM INTERESTED IN THE SIMULTANEOUS COEXISTENCE OF THE RAW MATERIAL AND THE RESULTING NEW WHICH COMES OUT OF IT. ONE IMPORTANT THEME IN MY WORK IS THE MOMENT OF PRODUCTION, IN WHICH THE MATERIAL, HUMAN, PRODUCTION METHODS AND CULTURAL CONTEXT ARE CONVERGING. THIS MOMENT HAS TO BE CHOREOGRAPHED IN EVERY PROJECT. THE NEXT IMPORTANT MOMENT BEGINS, WHEN THE DEVELOPED OBJECT STARTS GLEAMING AND TELLING OUT OF ITSELF.”

www.hannakrueger.de

Slow Wood

''Our philosophy is to create timeless pieces of quality furniture with a raw natural elegance and a low impact on our planet. Honest tactile products that are made to last and fit in your home easily. Each piece is handmade with love and attention by local craftsmen in Fryslan, using solid wood, 100% natural finishes and mineral paint.'' 

slowwood.nl

Vacant/No Vacant

190 Bowery is a fascinating piece of New York real-estate.  A building which looks abandoned with graffitt covered walls and a front door that looks like it hasn't been opened in years is inhabited by Jay Maisel.  Maisel, his wife Linda Adam Maisen and their daughter Amanda live in this 35,000 squarefoot single family home.  It's incredible to think that Maisel a photographer bought this piece of real-estate 42 years ago for $102,000, I can only imagine what it would be worth today (estimated $50 mill).   There have been no major changes to the interior. It’s essentially unchanged from the Germania Bank that architect Robert Maynicke designed for the then-bourgeois neighbourhood (it cost $200,000 to build). The original safe-deposit vault, still in the basement, is the size of a generous studio apartment; the marks on the main floor where the teller booths once stood are still clearly visible.   This building was once a canvas for Keith Harrings chalk baby's and Roy Liechtenstein rented the first floor for a period.  With 15 flights of stairs and only one elevator, the original copper cage from 1898 fingers crossed it doesn't get stuck or its a hike to the top, great daily workout option if you ask me.    Isn't this incredible!?   read about it here!

Strathcona Stockings

You should probably know about my passion for socks and I just fell in love with these! Every pattern and photo is specifically designed by Strathcona Stockings. They seem to be sold out pretty much everywhere on the net...too bad! They would look absolutely perfect with rolled up pants or long skirts! 

www.strathconastockings.com

Dennis Parren

CMYK lamp by Dennis Parren had been designed to show how light is the only owner of color. Light enables see colors, but in this case the lamp is not light up things, but it is showing it's inner character. A different way to think light and the shape of the emitting machine.

dennisparren.nl