Category Archives: Design

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The Midnight Planetarium Timepiece (don’t call it a watch) by Van Cleef & Arpels and Christiaan Van Der Klaauw features six ‘planets’ made of semi-precious stones.

The ‘planets’ rotate according to their actual solar years: Mercury goes round every 88 days, Venus: every 224 days, Earth: every 365 days, Mars: every 687 days, Jupiter: every 12 years and Saturn: every 29 years.

Uranus and Neptune are excluded because they take so long (84 and 164 years respectively) to orbit the sun, they would appear stationary on the dial.

Choose your lucky day and the Earth will align with the painted star to signify it.

Unveiled at the annual Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva after three years of development, the timepiece is available to buy for a mere €180,000 and charge.

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Seoul based Archiworks’ glamorous eco-camping units come in two different nature-friendly, flexible, transportable flavours with names like sea, desert, creek, mountain, cave, forest, river and city: the ‘stacking doughnut’ (inspired by circular pebbles) and the extendable ‘modular flow’ unit – both featuring bespoke folding sofas and ‘art walls’ rendered by young Korean artists.

designboom

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Designed by Marc Atlan and Oller and Pejic architects, this low profile house in the spectacular terrain of Joshua Tree National Park, California, finished in midnight quartz, high-gloss anthracite, darkened steel with a black tiled swimming pool and vast glass panels looks like some class of experimental stealth technology crouched alongside a rock formation.

The house is available for fashion shoots, advertising and film location rental.

Toasty enough in Summer, one might imagine.

designboom

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The Window House in Honshu, central Japan by Yasutaka Yoshimura architects is a three storey ‘weekend retreat’ on Sagami Bay with views of Mount Fuji.

Perched on piloti (to guard against flooding) right on the shoreline, the building (whose footprint is just 24 square meters) is designed to create minimum obstruction for the residents nearby, which it does by way of a narrow profile and two huge windows front and back.

It’s not for the shy.

designboom

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Behold: the On The Edge Jacket, designed by Marie Elsa Batteux Flahault.

Should Armageddon dawn, the jacket features a full face mask, flotation devices at the neck and base, water and food hoarding pockets in the lining, bright orange pocket flaps for attracting attention, bandages at the rear and gold foil in the hem to protect the lags from cold.

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18055, SW Seiffert Road is a huge four bed detached house currently for sale in Sherwood, Oregon for around $3,500,000.

The house itself is largely irrelevant, given that it’s surrounded by a masterfully enginered, elaborate miniature railway system featuring a trestle bridge, tunnel and train warehouse.

A separate barn contains a railway museum.

Current owner Tom Miller, who buiilt all the miniature trains, sez:

…it is time to let someone else take stewardship of what I have created. I intend to keep my locomotives and run them at club railroads around the country unless the new owner insists they go with the property. After all they are just stuff and I could build other and different locomotives.

boingboing/looneylisting