March 2006
VN-CX1 is Sony's all new 2006 extraordinary Skype mouse phone. Features a multi-function mouse that can be opened up like a cell phone. It acts like a normal PC mouse when it's closed. Smooth motion and comfortable. Bright LED light that corresponds with the sensor for better and fluently movement. When Sony VN-CX1 opens up, it can be used like a telephone with a loud speaker. Adopts echo cancellation function to reduce the echo at a peculiar telephone call. The LED light flashes plus a ringtone when someone is calling. The volume can be adjusted by rolling the mouse wheel. Has a futuristic outfit. Available in 5 stylish colors.
At the moment is only for sale in Japan
Erin Parish Float is a new exhibit which is unfortunately coming to close next thursday. If you were lucky enough to catch it at Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art you would have seen Parish continuing her exploration of medium, texture, color, and surface to create abstract paintings that have a universal resonance. Her new work, still very much inspired by the natural world, transcends simple representation to capture the evocative mood of a misty autumn dawn or a heavy tropical evening.
This exhibit will be continuing until May 28th
Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art c/o Hotel Nikko San Francisco 222 Mason St. San Francisco, CA 94102
According to Deserio.com the top skyline in the world is Hong Kong, China. Accoring to deserio.com “ Hong Kong has a whopping 43 buildings over 200 metres tall, 30 of which were built in the year 2000 or later!!! It also boasts four of the 15 tallest buildings in the world… that's all in one city! Hong Kong’s skyline shows a large selection of distinct sky-reaching towers, with beautiful night lighting and reflection.”
My personal favorite is Tokyo (picture below) Not that I have been to Tokyo but the I like the picture the best.
This concept of furniture for transit spaces designed by Ross Lovegrove comprises a bench, seat/light, seat/planter and a waste bin. They are equally at home on the street, in the garden, in an airport, in a hotle foyer, or in a bar. Seating two or three it can be filled with either water or sand if required for extra stability.
Can be used outside or inside.
Dimensions: 55.5" x 47.25" x 118.2"h
The 2004 Hartford Winery Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir is composed of exceptional, small block Pinot Noir vineyards located in the Sonoma Coast AVA. Estate vineyards are the primary sources for this cepage, which is comprised of selected blocks from our Ross Road Vineyard (Green Valley), our Seascape and Annapolis Vineyards (Sonoma Coast) and a handful of growers within the Russian River Valley. Rose petal, boysenberry, candied cherry and roasted allspice aromas capture the essence of this perennial contender for Pinot Noir Best Buy from the Sonoma Coast. Aromas of blackberries, boysenberry, nutmeg and smoke are followed by flavors of Bing cherries, roasted plum, cinnamon and allspice. The complex aromas and dense, sweet and juicy mouthfeel are supported by centered acidity, fine grain tannins and an intensely, complex finish.
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Twenty-three-year-old Mitra Khayyam launched the creepily named Blood is the New Black to feature up-and-coming and mainly female artists work on tees. Blood is the New Black graphics range from cutesy to gothic to scary but they are are dazzling. Keren Richter, Milano Chow, Andrea Shear and the legendary Fuct all creating designs for the line – ranging from Richter’s blood drawing candy striper and drum majorette to Fuct’s wild wolf. All Blood is the New Black artists are encouraged to control all aspects of their design from advertising to packaging.
Blood is the New Black was born during Mitra Khayyam's final year in college. While writing her 50 page thesis on the role t-shirts play in the democratization of art, Khayyam decided she should put her money where her mouth was by starting her own t-shirt line. Armed with her experience from many years spent working in both the fashion and art industries, Khayyam launched the line in 2004 with the help of college friend and artist Keren Richter, who was brought onboard as Creative Director.
Until now getting a PC in your car meant building your own computer and hacking up your trim panels to install it. But this year several companies have come out with full blown PC’s designed as in-dash stereos. While the Jensen Intellicar NAVT3PC has typical head unit features – AM/FM tuner, high powered amp and foldout 7–inch LCD touchscreen– it also runs windows XP on an onboard 1 Ghz processor with 512 MB of RAM and a 40 GB hard drive and packs 4 USB ports, ethernet, and a DVD-ROM drive. Yeah, that means you can edit documents on the road, but you can also load thousands of MP3’s, play video games, run a GPS navagation system, or check your email. The pirce is $3499
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Instead of debuting in a trendy men’s boutique, Sovereign Beck ties launched in an art gallery – Wallspace in Chelsea, New York. Designers WIll Beck and Ryan Sovereign are both Rhode Island School of Design Alums, who collaborated in music and the visual arts before launching their collection of neckwear “ we both realized that, while there is no longer as many situations that require formal dress, there is still a true pleasure in dressing well and looking sharp”, says the duo. “ These ties are for those of us who want to wear a tie, not have to wear one.” The ties are made of silk and evoke classic neckwear from the 1950’s through 1980’s, but look modern not vintage or retro.
The Electrolux Jeppe Utzon barbeque was created by Jeppe Utzon, the grandson of the legendary Jorn Utzon. The Utzon Barbecue complements current architectural trends in a clean & minimalist design. Whispering high-quality sophistication in its aesthetic excution, combined with a deep understanding of cooking, reinvents the modern barbecue.The Utzon Barbecue, goes beyond basic functionality creating a sculptural element for any contemporary home.The stainless steel cover extends when in use to provide additional bench space for the user, and lock open whilst burners are on. Ergonomically designed knobs are hidden away when not in use. Sturdy 4 high powered burners, stainless steel cooking plates, grill has diamond shape cross section for perfectly barbecued steaks. Eco-friendly packaging is taken away upon delivery and reused to package another Jeppe Utzon BBQ. This re-use system is an active initiative taken by Electrolux to reduce the amount of natural resources used and futile packaging sent to landfill.
In 1997 Merry Edwards and her partners launched Merry Edwards wines, allowing her to focus her winemaking on Russian River Valley Pinot Noir while planting her own vineyard with this seductive grape. Since the beginning of her career in 1973, Merry has longed to plant her own vineyard. She has a passion for growing things, for working the soil. “The finest wines are crafted from the ground up,” Merry says. “Meticulous and timely viticultural practices are critical when making Pinot Noir.” In 1996 she purchased twenty-four acres of sloping hillside on the southern border of Russian River Valley, intent on growing luscious Pinot Noir on this promising site. Early in 1997, Merry met entrepreneur Bill Bourke, a founding investor in Chalone and Ravenswood wineries; they formed a partnership to develop Meredith Estate vineyard and Merry Edwards wines. Bill and Merry presented their plans to a small group of founding shareholders; the business was incorporated in August of 1997, shortly before Merry began harvesting the inaugural vintage.
Merry Edwards wines can be bought from the vineyard website
Featuring work by such noted designers as Isamu Noguchi, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, and Philippe Starck, among many others, Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling brings together over 150 objects, as well as films and more than 500 illustrations, from the realm of architecture and design to address flexibility and mobility in contemporary domestic life. Organized by the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, Living in Motion will have its only U.S. showing at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Furniture, houses, and objects that incorporate flexibility and multi-functionalism have long been associated with the modern and the contemporary. Living in Motion explores these phenomena in design and architecture while also locating them ethnographically and anthropologically. The exhibition traces flexible modes of living back through centuries of design and across a variety of cultures, with objects ranging from early European stair-ladders to northern African tents to South American hammocks.
ICA 955 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02115 Tel: 617-266-5152 February 1 – May 7 , 2007
AmanResorts meets Africa at Marrakech’s Amanjena Hotel. It’s another departure from tropical island-chic for the chain that started a decade and a half ago in Phuket with Amanpuri. Designed by the American architect Ed Tuttle to conform harmoniously to its surroundings, Amanjena bears a distinct Moorish influence, miles from the Balinese style of its Far East sisters.
Aman addicts rest easy, though: all the elements are in place to make Amanjena a regular stop on the never-ending world tour of those jet-setters who are so loyal to this particular brand of luxury that they’ll hardly think of staying anywhere else.
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Casey Berman founded Gytha Mander (meaning “a gift fom me”) in 2004 as a ready-towear collection for men and women with contemporary accents and elegant details. The line is inspired by London’s Savile Row bespoke tailoring; a Gytha Mander look reflects a “keen appreciation for the sartorial traditions of yesteryear, but remains steadfastly forward” according to Berman. “We respect the tried and true but constantly try to reinvent the classics. Gytha Mander’s 2006 collection is entitled “The Urim and the Thummim” a reference to Exodus 28:1– a meditation on Jewish Diaspora throughout history. Berman describes the llok as “punctuated by wooden ties, high collar trench coats, Yemenite t-shirt patterns, prisoner stripes, dark denim dress shirts and crocodile holsters. The collection also includes scarves for men and women, silk neckwear and blazers.
Now that the South by Southwest Festival is in full swing, the have begun to post podcasts of their interactive panels. At the moment there are only four available but keeping checking back as they will be posting more. You can also just add the RSS feed to your reader
The DLO nanoTune is the only iPod nano accessory you will ever need. Its got a powerful FM Transmitter that plays your nano's music over any radio. It adds a built-in FM radio to the iPod nano. It boosts nano's volume by over 25%. But that's not all it can do for you and your nano.
It's also a protective case with access to the iPod nano's controls. nanoTune has a 30-pin connection so you can use it with your existing car charger or with your HomeDock (or Apple Universal Dock) to sync and charge your nano at home - and you never have to remove your iPod nano from the safety of the nanoTune case.
When Avec opened in late 2003 as the quiet sister of Blackbird, the holiest establishment on Randolph Row, Avec was expected to be its downgraded bistro cum wine bar. Conceived as a casual, rustic, looser turn for Blackbird’s impeccably trained chefs, it turns out that the food at Avec is (arguably) better.
A dazzling wine list presents 120 bottles of traditional, often unknown varietals from France, Italy, Spain and Portugal; some 30 selections are ingeniously presented in 250 ml. bottles or carafinas, essentially making them glass-and-a-half or one- third-bottle pours. A clean, modern and organic space of naked cedar slats, hickory floors, blond oak benches and a back display of emerald-green wine bottles, Avec’s diners sit at long communal tables or at the stainless steel bar.
Gau Designs is a Montreal design studio offering everything from furnishings to architectural interiors to photography and graphic design. My favorite piece is the Glowing Wireless table. Made of reclaimed and refinished wood, polyacrylic, and reclaimed steel, this indoor/outdoor bench/table has a built-in rechargeable lighting system (those acrylic tubes are wireless LEDs) which provide up to eight hours of light.
The goal Flowers Vineyard & Winery is to bring forth in bottle the uniqueness of vines planted to ancient marine and volcanic soils bathed in coastal mountain sun and tempered with cool ocean breezes. Our task as winemakers is to listen to the grapes and give them what they need: gentle handling, the use of age-old Burgundian techniques and attention to detail. Their hope as fellow wine lovers is that you will enjoy tasting their wines as much as they enjoy creating them.
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Canon announces the EOS 30D, replacing the award winning EOS 20D. Retaining the 5fps, 8.2 Megapixel performance of its predecessor, the upgraded camera enjoys a larger, wider viewing angle 2.5” LCD, extended 100,000 shutter cycle durability, spot metering, and a variety of refinements designed to enhance the photographic experience. Targeted at an increasingly discerning population of serious creative photographers, the EOS 30D replaces a camera that already claims a significant share of the Western Europe D-SLR market, which grew by 120% in the last 12 months.
You can pre-order in at Amazon.com
Conceived, developed and patented by Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, the unique Clicquot Tw’ice Bucket rotates through 180 degrees using a clever ‘click’ system, activated by a simple push button mechanism. Within seconds the Clicquot Tw’ice Bucket transforms its round base through a playful somersault into a steel platform.
As a result of its double orientation, the Clicquot Tw’ice Bucket is equally at home on a flat surface or clipped to the edge of a table, with amazing balance and stability. Buy it online @ Malmaison.com
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How many times have you shelled out ten bucks for a bottle of wine only to have your hopes dashed when you poured the first glass? The staff at www.CheapFunWines.com is here to help. They're goal is to find the most
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Gentle Fawn clothing made it's debut in Los Angeles California in November 2002. The idea for the brand was sparked by a simple thrift store ceramic fawn figurine.The brand has emerged as a stylish mix of elements from nature and the city. This balance is the cornerstone of the brand, and reflects the lives of the owners Daniel and Carla Hogg. The couple divide thier time between business interests in Vancouver, where the nature inspiration evolved, and Los Angeles, where the metropolitan flavor comes from. These contrasts provide a unique international look. Gentle Fawn is now sold in more then 150 stores across the USA, and is also avaiable in Japan and Australia. The Collection is a evolving mix of concepts and ideas, always with a modern edge and streetwear sophistication.
Finally!! A hip alternative to the traditional pet crate, the ultimate luxury living for your pets! The Bow Haus comes in two sizes: Studio Haus: for pets up to 20lbs, 21” diameter x 15.5”h Loft Haus: for pets up to 50lbs,31" x 23"h The Haus is constructed from high quality materials ensuring the safety and comfort for your pet as well as the coolest look for your décor. Sliding pocket door , easy to assemble and clean, well ventilated, Foam pad for support and comfort!Silver metallic powder coated steel, Aluminum top, Base and lid in PVC. Includes reversible pad in either orange-charcoal or green-mocha
The new design hotel Yasmin is situated just around the corner from the Wenceslas Square in the heart of Prague. The hotel is surrounded by the most significant historical and business monuments of the city.
A team of Czech creatives, including artists from Studio Najbrt and designers from local firm Mimolit, have turned a neoclassical building into a super-modern, Asian-inspired hotel. The restaurant is divided by abstract red steel sculptures, the bedrooms are lit by Moooi tube lights and, in the bathrooms, multiple mirrors reflect black tiles in a space punctuated by Starck fittings.
Yasmin four stars hotel offers first class facilities. 198 luxury designed rooms, including 11 suites fully air-conditioned, equipped with minibar, safety deposit box, luxurious bathrooms, satellite LCD screen TV, pay-TV and high-speed internet access.
Rooms: from €220 which you can book online
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