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Balance, Design May 17, 2013

Top Ten: Best of the Web This Week

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Take a look at our favorite posts from the past seven days.

1. Architect Loïc Picquet’s simple, streamlined renovation of this rural guesthouse in the Alsace region of France (via Dezeen).

2. Design*Sponge’s tour through photographer and blogger Jessie Webster’s home in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles.

3. “Architecture on Repeat: Hypnotic Photos of Seaside Façades” at Architizer.

4. California Museum’s Pinterest page dedicated to its “Ray Eames: A Century of Modern Design” exhibition.

5. Design Milk’s look at the first residential design project — a joining of two neighboring properties into one family home — by London-based design studio Bureau de Change.

6. The impressive collection of Eames Aluminum Group Executive Chairs in the new Infor headquarters in NYC designed by VOA (via Contemporist).

7. The compact and cool Sydney apartment by designer Nicholas Gurney featured at Desire to Inspire.

8. “Elevator B,” an urban habitat for a colony of honeybees designed by architecture students from the University at Buffalo, at eVolo. (Learn why bees are near and dear to Herman Miller in this video.)

9. The 25th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair begins tomorrow and runs through Tuesday the 21st in New York City. Get details here.

10. Did you commute today via bicycle for Bike to Work Day? If you’re still dreaming of riding two wheels to the office, here’s the top 10 places to do so, according to Co.Exist.

Featured in photo: Nelson Pedestal Table by George Nelson

Balance, Design, Products December 7, 2012

Top Ten: Best of the Web This Week

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Here’s what we’ve been reading on the Web all week long.

1. Design Milk’s sneak peak at an upcoming addition to the Herman Miller Collection: Picnic Sofa by Industrial Facility.

2. Architect William O’Brien Jr.’s design of the Hendee-Borg House (check out the the saw-tooth roof line outside, and the various Eames pieces inside) (via Plastolux).

3. A look at the new Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art at Co.Design.

4. The cover of Print magazine’s Regional Design Annual for its depictions of the various places and ways we work today.

5. This article on the influence of “Powers of Ten,” the experimental film by Charles and Ray Eames, at Slate.

6. The spirited workspace of the UK-based juice and fruit smoothie company Innocent, designed by Stiff + Trevillion and featured at designboom.

7. “Remembering Evelyn Ackerman, a midcentury master of craft” at the LA Times.

8. Another loss, this time in the field of architecture: Brazil’s Oscar Niemeyer (via Architizer).

9. These interiors by St Louis-based CURE Design Group at Desire to Inspire.

10. Per ArchDaily, AIA has just ranked Columbus, Indiana as the U.S.’s 6th “Most Architecturally Important City,” thanks in part to designs like this.

Featured in the photo above: Nelson Coconut Lounge Chair, Nelson Pedestal Table, and Nelson Pedestal Stool

Balance, Design, Products October 19, 2012

Top Ten: Best of the Web This Week

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Here’s a glimpse at what’s been on our reading lists this week.

1. This before-and-after look at a full home renovation (check out those kitchen chairs) at Design Sponge.

2. This article about design and innovation by Continuum’s Gianfranco Zaccai — subject of one of our recent “Why Design” videos — at Co.Design.

3. Dwell and City Modern’s recent tour of Brooklyn homes.

4. This smile-inducing photo at the Be Inspired Tumblr.

5. The home of Italian architects Marcello and Maria Pia Zappador spotted at emmas designblogg.

6. Inc’s advice on how to stay inspired at work.

7. 10 emerging architecture firms to watch, per Flavorwire.

8. Artist Junya Ishigami’s helium-filled Cuboid Balloon in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (via The Fox Is Black).

9. Contemporary Taiwanese style showcased at Freshome.

10. The amazingly playful concept of an “urban moon bounce” across the Seine in Paris via Architzer.

In above photo: Eames Aluminum Group Executive Chair, Nelson Pedestal Table, Eames Sofa, and Eames Elliptical Table.

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