Category Archives: Design

Behold: the 1973 Porsche 911 Targa 2.4S – from the last production year of this long nosed, narrow bumpered classic before safety regulations (in the US) forced a design change.

This particular model (which comes up for auction next month) has a custom Venezia leather and Bouclé wool interior including travel bag and driving shoes (you know you want them) by French ultra-luxury menswear designer Berluti.

Yours for around €225,000.

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Extremely impressive single-purpose robots designed by Japanese high school students for RoboCon 2018.

Their function? To toss water-filled bottles onto platforms at various heights, landing them right-way up with preternatural accuracy. 

A thankless, pointless task which will eventually lead them to kill all humans,.

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Behold: the 1953 Jaguar XK120 roadster – the fastest car of its day, with sweeping aerodynamic styling unlike anything else on the road, powered by a 3.4l inline six engine that would remain in production until 1992. Fully restored and presented with its original black paint and red leather interior, it sold at auction this month for €103,500.

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Behold: the Nikola NZT – an all-electric off-roader with heavy duty shocks, Kevlar reinforced tyres and 30cm of ground clearance.

Developing 590bhp from a 125kWh battery, the NZT accelerates to 100km/h in under 4 seconds and will go 240km on a full charge. The climate controlled cabin (complete with ‘infotainment display’ and high end sound system) can be sealed with a removable hardtop.

Yours – sometime in 2021 – for about €71,000.

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All manner of domestic items and appliances tightly wrapped in cross-stitched designs by Swiss-based artist Ulla Stina-Wikander: bringing symbolic functionality to a pastime traditionally regarded as (her words) kitsch and worthless.

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The work of Brazilian tattoo artist Duda ‘Tattoo You’ Lozano: inked-on tatts like sewn-on embroidered patches.

Or you could just sew on actual embroidered patches.

Or just leave it and don’t be at yourself.

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A 1/6th scale posable collectable of Jeremy Renner’s upgraded Hawkeye character from Avengers: Endgame, complete with masked head, removable hooded vest and arm guards, 12 pairs of hands, bow, katana, dagger, 10 arrows, 12 arrowheads, and four shuriken.

Yours for €202 (+P&P).

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