The Barry Friedman Gallery displays Wendell Castle’s Rockin’ exhibition. Wendell Castle Rockin ‘is a group of stack-laminated wood chair with a unique and beautiful designs. All were created since the critical success of Castle’s 2008 exhibition at Barry Friedman, Ltd. With decades of experience as his backdrop, Castle’s new work is imbued with an animated optimism. While the organic, curvilinear forms of this new collection link it to many of his past masterworks, there is a confidence and quickness of gesture that suggest a new dimensionality. (more…)

Vandeventer Carlander Architects has completed an huts Project Vashon Island in Washington State. This project consists of the remodel an existing one story cabin with a daylight basement. Given the tight restrictions on construction sites resulting from the existing drain field, it is impossible to increase the scope of many existing cabin. This constraint, plus the client’s desire for a complete reorganization and improvement of main floor space, resulting in the decision to demolish the existing structure to the main floor. With a broad program that calls for additional floors, the design concept evolved into a small addition, replacing the previous exterior deck. Moreover, it is a wooden box “insertion” that extends to the main structure, but the slide in the top floor of the existing structures and cantilevers over the basement walls, so they do not affect the field of existing channels.

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The Hiyam Light is a unique and beautiful lamps designed by Italian designers Rienzo Cedri and Andrea Martini. The Hiyam Light exhibited at the Anfiteatro Arte Gallery, during Milan Design Week 2010.

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The Spring Stool designed by Dutch designer Erik Jansen, and the exhibited by the Belgian manufacturer Wildspirit, at ICFF 2010 in New York. Spring has the shape of a beautiful flower and is made out of bamboo stripes that have been cut and bowed in a special way. This nice experiment results in an extremely flexible and functional sitting pouff decorating your kitchen, lounge bar, living room.

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Outdoor Living Ideas, is the idea that terinpirasi by Belgard Hardscapes works on real projects. Outdoor living is a dream for many apartment owners and a reality for house owners. (more…)