Balance, Design, Products
January 27, 2012
By Cerentha Harris
1. Bloomberg Businessweek for their piece on the SAYL chair.
2. Saltsurf.com‘s blog is beautiful. Even if you don’t surf or have never been to the beach this blog takes you away from your desk for a few minutes and lets you indulge in gorgeous shots of beach and ocean. Plus their new canvas totes would hold your laptop rather nicely. Enjoy!
3. Design Observer for Adam Harrison Levy’s review of A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor. Sounds like a fascinating book.
4. Milo Paper for their cool notebooks. They’ve dubbed them “Men’s Collection” which is a shame because they really would be perfect for women too. So don’t be put off. Check them out – you can even personalize them.
5. SF Girl By Bay has revamped her site and now there’s even more great interiors for home office inspiration.
6. An Organized Nest for their 6 tips on dealing with mail – real snail mail not email.
7. Oki Ni for this awesome messenger bag/lap top carrier.
8. House Beautiful gives us a nice slideshow of 16 different home office styles.
9. Architizer for this amazing house by Blank Studio. It’s in a town called Superior at the base of the Superstition Mountain range in Arizona.
10. Brain Pickings for Maria Popova’s thoughtful post on Charles Eames (including a great link to an Eliot Noyes essay on Charles).
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
January 13, 2012
By Cerentha Harris
Where we were this week…
1. Eric Fischer’s amazing Flickr site. Fischer captures people’s photo-taking habits (locals and tourists) on maps and publishes them to Flickr. The images are really beautiful. Below is a snapshot of Chicago – the blue denotes locals taking photographs, the red is tourists.
2. Core 77′s store for their Hand-Eye Supply spiral bound notebooks that are wrapped shut with a strip of elastic that doubles as a pen holder. Clever.
3. PSFK for their piece on Mercedes mobile workplaces…more on this next week!
4. SFMoma’s artist’s series lets you buy prints from young contemporary artists. The latest contributor is Jason Munn and his clean-lined graphic work would make a great addition to your home office.
5. Danish architects MLRP for their amazing mirror house. Part fun house, part sleek contemporary design.
6. Designer Seung Yong Song’s wonderful Object-O. A paper lantern perches on top of a chair – it’s the ultimate tiny home office.
7. Wallpaper for their W* House. Check out the study for some incredible home office accessories (yes, they have included our Airia desk)
8. W magazine wonderfully over the top House Tours series. Love this dark-walled library. I imagine you’d cosy up and get a lot of work done here!
9. Apartment Therapy – which has undergone a major redesign – for their coverage of digital decals for the home office.
10. Designboom for their online store selling original designs. Have a look at the 24k pencil. Nice accompaniment to the gold typewriter I covered yesterday.
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
January 7, 2012
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Architizer for their amazing roundup of inspirational architecture from around the globe.
2. Dwell for their home stories – check out this one on a small house that doubles its size but still kept the yard.
3. From the Desk Of...great roundup of creative’s desks.
4. Habitus is an Australian interiors magazine that is also available online here.
5. Design Observer for their lovely piece on architect Andrew Geller who died last month.
6. Architectural Digest talks to designers about setting up a home office.
7. DWR’s blog, Design Notes, for their piece on the late Eva Zeisel.
8. Smashing Magazine for their roundup of stylish free desktop wallpapers.
9. Real Simple for home office organization tips.
10. Cool Hunter for the architecture section – great eye candy here!
Balance, Design, Products
December 23, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Core 77′s Year in Review post.
2. Architectural Digest for their interview with architect Steven Holl.
3. Interiors magazine nicely designed digital version has a cool all-white office here.
4. Design*Sponge for a great sneak peek into Steve Soria’s home and home office.
5. A Touch of Happiness for their home posts – including this one showcasing a Tasmanian house by Bicker Design Co – yes, that is an Eames Lounge Chair in the living room.
6. Inside Out magazine’s home office storage and decorating tips.
7. Bolig – a Danish magazine – has a nice web presence and a great white Christmas story (complete with Eames chairs around the dining table).
8. MoCo Loco for their collection of amazing houses – check out the Hansha Reflection House.
9. Habitus magazine for some great homes and interiors.
10. HGTV’s round up of modern home offices.
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
December 16, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. PBS for their American Masters website that includes a great teaser for the Eames documentary.
2. PSFK for their piece on airline trolleys finding another use (hint: it has something to do with home offices).
3. Kottke for posting the hilarious caveman phone. DIY for the perfect holiday gift…nice for the person who has everything. And could double as a paper weight!
4. Home Designing for their post of Facebook’s offices – there’s a good dose of Herman Miller.
5. Strolling About for finding all those cool pics of Eames chairs.
6. Buckboard Hill Interiors for their home office gallery. Lots of good interiors here.
7. Debbie Millman‘s interview with Andrew Gibbs, blogger behind the Dieline.
8. Dwell for their wonderful slideshow of the Miller house. Shots are by Leslie Williamson.
9. From The Desk Of…for the designer Jennifer Mahanay’s interview.
10. The Selby for his wonderful shoot of illustrator Christoph Niemann and writer Lisa Zeitz home in Berlin.
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
December 9, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Core 77 for their post on Ice Cube and his take on the Eameses. (Plus if you are stuck for gift ideas this holiday season check out Core 77′s gift guide)
2. DesignSponge shopping guides are always jam packed with great stuff. Check out their green gift guide for some holiday ideas.
3. Good Reads for their awesome book lists. They’ve got an excellent architecture section.
4. The Design Miami blog for a good wrap up of that wonderful event.
5. Huffington Post’s design coverage including this piece on a glass home in Japan.
6. Meghan Wilker of the Geek Girls Guide, gives a GTD-focused tour of her home office.
7. Microsoft’s Steve Clayton takes us on a tour of his workspace. Can you spot the white Eames Lounge Chair?
8. Designer Daily for their home office roundup. Lots of good inspiration here.
9. The Fox is Black for the beautiful desktop wallpaper series.
10, Museum of Modern Art’s wonderful online store has a great home office section.
Balance, Design, Products
December 2, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Treehugger for their interview with treehouse designer Pete Nelson. Fewer tree houses are used as home work spaces than was originally thought.
2. Core77 for their ultimate gift guide because suddenly it’s that time of year again!
3. Architizer for the MIMA House – a contemporary home that responds to the changing use of space with moveable walls.
4. Design Milk’s Designer Desktop series closes with the wonderful Dieter Rams.
5. Grain Edit for the post on Dutch illustrator Raymond Lemstra. Great work and a helpful link to Lemstra’s store (good holiday gifts perhaps?)
6. Design Observer’s Alexandra Lange on the interiors of Kevin Roche. You’ll spot some beautiful Eames pieces in the shots.
7. Unbeige for alerting us to the fact that Philip Johnson’s Glasshouse now has an online shop. Help raise funds to save the house and find great gifts. Perfect.
8. The Selby for a wonderful peek into publisher Angelika Taschen’s home.
9. PSFK for their post on architect David Adjaye’s pavillion outside the Design Miami tent.
10. Metropolis magazine’s piece on what a toy can do for architecture.
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
November 23, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Here are 10 great design stops to sustain you over the Thanksgiving break…enjoy!
1. New Yorker for Daniel Zalewski’s detailed portrait of architect Rem Koolhaus.
2. The Atlantic‘s regional modern series where they examine contemporary architecture and how it responds to place.
3. Listen to our very own Steve Frykholm on Debbie Millman’s Design Matters.
4. An excellent piece by Malcolm Gladwell on Steve Jobs and his real genius.
5. Peter Robb’s interview with Pritzker Prize winning Australian architect Glenn Murcutt
6. Christopher Hawthorne’s thoughtful essay on the ground-breaking Case Study program
7. Take a break from reading and wander through photographer Todd Selby’s wonderfully rich visuals.
8. Beautiful Finnish home featured in the New York Times Homes and Garden section.
9. An interview with Bill Jersey, co-director of Eames: The Architect and the Painter
10. With the airing of the Eames documentary it feels like the right time to go back to the source and watch the Powers of 10 again.
Balance, Design, Products, Technology
November 18, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. Seachinstagram liberates all those amazing images from the popular iPhone app. You can access them from your computer and they are searchable. Genius. I found lots of great shots of Herman Miller furniture including this shot of an Eames wire based side table and giant lego head. Via swissmiss.
2. Architectural Record for their review of 5 exhibitions that are part of Pacific Standard Time in Los Angeles – a celebration of art and design that includes the Eames house living room recreated at LACMA.
3. Contemporist for their post on Pupa – a fascinating office within an office.
4. Daily Tonic covered the wonderful Sapphire Gallery (above) by XTEn Architecture.
5. Homebodies for letting us into Philip Lopate’s world of books (above).
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Balance, Design, Products, Technology
November 11, 2011
By Cerentha Harris
Where we’ve been this week…
1. New York Times for Pilar Viladas’ piece on these vintage Eames Lounge Chairs covered in Maharam fabric. They are on show at Moss in Soho and are the first in a planned series of one-off furniture pieces on which Moss and Maharam will collaborate.
2. Core 77‘s coverage of Toyko’s Design Tide. Spotted this cool concrete pencil by designers Sean Yu and Yiting Cheng.
3. Design Milk‘s post on designer workspaces (above).
4. Baubauhaus for some great workspace inspiration.
5. Home Designing may have an awkward title but there are some good home office images coupled with helpful links.
6. Urbis Magazine for their coverage of the New Zealand architecture scene. There’s some beautiful work coming out of that country. Including this house by architect Thom Craig (above).
7. Write your next To-Do List in crayon … just for a change. These are stick crayons from Shipley & Halmos will do the trick.
8. Inspiring talk from former New York Times design director, Khoi Vinh. Interesting to hear this well-respected creative talk about his process. Via MediaBistro
Khoi Vinh – on the grid from The Color Machine on Vimeo.
9. Rejuvenate your home office with these new “Wallrounds” from Not A Gallery. They are oversized dots of heavy gauge wallpaper.
10. The Decoist covers some great houses including this A-Frame gem from architects dmvA.
