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Sleep

One of the most precious components of the creative process is sleep. We love the idea of this cool “Sleepbox” by the Arch Group from Moscow. Designed for large public places, like airports and train stations. We like this kind of futuristic pod like design, reminds us of our “Majortom”  our uber-cool canvas.

Watch this video about the “sleepbox” below

Local House

Our design studio and production facility is located out in the Hamptons , Bridgehampton to be exact. This is a unique area , less than 2 hrs from midtown Manhattan, yet blessed with beautiful beaches and water views. We also have some very fantastic modern homes. See one below located about 20 minutes from us done by Stelle Architects, whose offices are just across the street from us . While many of these oceanfront properties ask unbelievable prices we can still dream.

cool japanese home

In America and Canada we have generous amounts of space for our living quarters. Yet that abundance does not always translate into great design concepts. We are always compelled by the way Japanese designers and architects use small spaces to great ingenuity and function. Here is a recent one we love , by the architect Keiichi Hayashi for a home in Kyoto called the light well house. Follow the link to learn more.

we love our iphone but ….

We live and work out on the east end of Long Island and cell phone coverage can be patchy. For a while we had a simple robust flip phone from Verizon as our ATT iphone failed to get any calls. We kind of liked the simple featureless utilitarian nature of it, but we just wish is had real design integrity. This beautiful phone from aesir , Copenhagen is what we had in mind. We love the Verizon iphone we have now , but we dream about one of these. Click on the image to learn more.

our kind of house

we love minimalist Japanese home design. located in the suburb area of chiba, japan, ‘house in yotsukaido’ by tokyo based practice studio noa,
is a residence that looks to merge the boundaries between private interior space and the outlying environmental context.

a solid black form cantilevers over a semi-opaque volume, inverting the traditional structural orientation.
enclosing the ground floor, the cloudy surface provides an area to transition the homeowner between the
contrasting atmospheres. housing an internal garden and stoney pathway, the corridor acts as a greenhouse,
introducing natural light and vegetation into the private home. at night, interior lights radiate through the
translucent skin, illuminating the solid black structure, which appears to float in the sky.

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