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Trendy designer piece for your bathroom - Mrs. Hudson the giant smoking pipe!

10 October, 2008 (02:20) | design, home & garden | By: editor

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Another remarkable design for your loo. Maybe you are one of those people who like to entertain and will certainly need one of this loo for your visitors. They’ll be impress when they meet with Mrs. Hudson in your water closet, Yes indeed its name is Mrs. Hudson, it was designed by 2-B-2 Architecture and said to be inspired by a modified water drop. This design recently grab attention at the Russian bathroom design contest. Being a winner of a contest sponsored by Roca it sure must be good to use not just esthetically but functinally too.

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Well it does somewhat look more like giant smoking pipe than an modified water drop so I guess yankodesign.com was right on the spot when mentioning about this.

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New approach in designing - Sound Chair

9 October, 2008 (21:08) | design, home & garden | By: editor

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Product design for a chair emerge solely from the idea of making a sound wave into a reality 3D pattern furniture, how very thoughtful!

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Sound/Chair begins as a sound that is precisely crafted to form the shape of a chair when
visualized as a 3-dimensional object using a volume, time, frequency plot.
The chair is an exact replica of the soundwave graph. The result is a product
with dual existence as both a sound and chair, and a new approach to designing products.

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Design and Lifestyle - Space saving house

17 September, 2008 (14:15) | design, home & garden | By: editor

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Another invetion of compact house, designed by the famous German Industrial Designer named Luigi Colani.
With young professionals in mind, Luigi Colani came up to create a

space-saving house with a six square meter cylinder inside that contains a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. The cylinder rotates left or right bringing the room you want into view of the main living room. There’s a separate toilet and a small hallway, and everything is controlled with a remote.

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EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE HOUSE

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BEDROOM/LIVING ROOM VIEW OF THE HOUSE

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BATHROOM VIEW

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The many styles of daybeds for outdoor livings.

8 September, 2008 (22:37) | design, home & garden | By: editor

I am looking for a particular size daybed to fill up my family room space and look what the world has to offer… way too many kinds, just not making it any easier to find what I really looking for in particular. But hey lots of fun looking into new shapes that are available out there.

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GONDOLA DAYBED

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A south-east asian influence daybed.

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Lounge Daybed by DEDON

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IRAYA DAYBED made from a plastic resin weave.

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SUSHI DAYBED a modern green daybed.

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MICAMA DAYBED/LOUNGE from Antidiva, Italy

unusual items - product of human’s invention

25 August, 2008 (22:30) | design, home & garden, others | By: editor

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This dog peek-a-boo thing is kinda cute, right?

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Above is a very interesting glass holder tray

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A spider resemblance for a crawling reading wall-lamp, won’t you agree that this is quite a cool design for wall-sconce lamp?

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Titanic lamp? sinking lamp?

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I would want this ladder too for its cool decorative look, but it doesn’t look too assuring though if one can survive standing long enough in that paper-thick ladder.

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Finally interesting kitchen gadgets: a cookie mug, a transparent toaster and a banana protector.
I am loving the transparent toaster, would like to get one of those.

source: slighthlywarped.com (many more silly inventions featured here, do visit this site)

The Compact Circular Kitchen - an award winning design!

10 August, 2008 (15:51) | design, home & garden | By: editor

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A must have for space limited dwellers. Also quite a breakthrough in design. So, design-lovers might want to get one for the fun of experience it on a first-hand basis.

Main features of this circular kitchen from clever circular kitchen:
1. Relocate-able kitchen, complete with all its facilities.
2. For conviniecen: bottom unit can rotate 180 degrees and top units can rotate 360 degrees.
3. It’s lockable and close-able so you don’t have to show cluttler to your guests.
4. It encorporates its own lighting, electrical sockets and water disposal system.
5. Generous space that “contains the equivalent of twelve cupboards from a conventional kitchen”
6. Can fit for built-in refrigerator, dishwasher, microwafe, coffe machine, cook-top, range-hood.
7. Designed by Alfred Averbeck.
8. Priced between $6,500 - $15,000.

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Digital waterproof Mirror TV - another high tech invention to furnish your home.

10 August, 2008 (15:15) | design, home & garden, shopping | By: editor

When I look at MirrorMedia.com and Séura, Inc. producing this cool gadget, I think it’s such a sweet invention to share with, especially if you are an interior design fan, or just a design fan like myself!

It’s basically an LCD TV hidden in the mirror, it’s camouflaging really well so that when it’s not on it’s plainly look just like a mirror, but if you press the on button, then it will start displaying that hidden LCD, it can be for a TV or for a media (as in for computer’s screen)

I find it quite useful if you like a clutter free environment. Because to be honest, TV isn’t an easy item to be incorporated in a good clean-type interor design/staging, especially in a living room that encorporate a fire place to be feature as its focal point.

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There’s even another cool TV it’s called a holographic TV look at the picture bellow and for more info read here.

Summer 2008 Olympic Gardens in Beijing, China

7 August, 2008 (23:00) | design, event planning & entertaining, garden, home & garden, travel & leisure | By: editor

Enjoy this view of manicured gardens that are prepare solely to celebrate the 2008 summer Olympic event in Beijing, China. What an amazing landscape greetings, aren’t they really promote the Olympic spirit?

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This is the one that depicts athletes and spirit of competition.

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What an idea? Amazing cut-out with lots of people, a globe and a map image.

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Look at the incorporation of waterfall into the landscape, how pretty.

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Ofcourse you have to have the symbol where Olympic originates after all!

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Is this Zeus as in the famous Greek mythology? WOW they’re really into the origin.

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Such a peaceful and serene view =)

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This is amazing, don’t you think? Those vegetation really floats up there.

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Oh my my, how long will it take to crave that whole mountain?

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I would want to have this romantic bridge for myself too, would be a cool photography spot!

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This is so cute, reminds me of the art of KUNG-FU

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So, Welcome to the Summer 2008 Olympic in Beijing, China. Let’s get it started!

Thanks to this site who provide all above pictures. Please visit the site for more pictures.

Amazing natural art from Pooktre the Tree Shapers

2 August, 2008 (12:49) | crafts & hobbies, design, garden, home & garden | By: editor

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This is such an amazing sight found while browsing around the web, so thought it will be a good thing to share it with all of femtalks readers.

With an idea of growing a chair, Peter (pook) Cook make a living art into a reality that other could enjoy. Later, partnering with Becky who has a very strong design and art background, he bring this tree-shaping concept idea into a next level.

For more info go to pooktre.com.

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all images are taken from pooktre.com

How is living in a garbage truck sounds to you?

29 July, 2008 (11:30) | home & garden | By: editor

Interior can do absolutely anything, including converting a garbage truck into a suitable living space. It will sound really bad to have to live in a garbage truck, won’t you agree? But wait till you see these pictures, then you’d say it isn’t so bad after all.

I found all of these pictures from itsjustabitoffun.com’s blog, it really is a fun discovery so I decided to share it here in femtalks.

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