urushi cutlery set for kids

A beautiful urushi cutlery set for kids from CO ZEN.

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Paul Smith for STELTON

Fashion designer Paul Smith has reworked a coffee pot by late Danish designer Arne Jacobsen to mark the 50th anniversary of Danish brand Stelton.

PAUL SMITH FOR STELTON 50th ANNIVERSARY TABLEWARE COLLECTION

This April, Paul Smith is delighted to launch a new collection of tableware to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Stelton. Paul Smith has re-worked designs from the Stelton Archives and the Arne Jacobsen’s Cylinda collection giving them a refreshing and contemporary update.

Danish designer Arne Jacobsen, best known for designing ‘The Egg’ and ‘Number 7’ chairs, is an exemplar of the ‘Danish Modern’ style. Paul Smith, the pre-eminent British designer, has long admired Jacobsen’s work and so was delighted to be asked to re-invent the now iconic Cylinda collection. The collection respects the integrity of the original design with tea and coffee pots in hand polished stainless-steel while incorporating highlights of colour on the handles indicative of Paul Smith’s innate sense of colour.

 

Stelton changed hands in 2004. Since then many new designers have been invited to create innovative products that meet contemporary consumer needs. While the cylindrical form can be seen in many of the new products, the current collection also includes a number of other, softer shapes.

iiamo go by Karim Rashid 神奇保溫奶瓶

Designer Karim Rashid has created a baby’s bottle that heats milk to body temperature without using electricity.

iiamo go is a self-warming feeding bottle made in Denmark. It is the only feeding bottle in the world which will warm up 180 ml milk to the recommended 37°C (body temperature) in only about 4 minutes – without the use of electricity. No power, no cord, no limitations. The secret is a heater – iiamo warm – containing only salt (CaCl2) and water.

Karim says of the design “Feeding a baby is a warm, intimate moment between parent and child. The bottle enables that human connection. Though a very functional product, a baby bottle doesn’t need to be a strictly functional. Emotional and aesthetic appeal must be considered too. Children love reflective shiny colorful surfaces and materials – I do too – maybe I am still a child. So it was time to make a baby bottle a wild interesting sculptural colorful animated object so the baby actually gets excited about being fed.

http://shop.iiamo.com/buy_iiamo_go/

Emotions can be dangerous necklaces

They make you chew your nails to the quick, unleash wild waterworks, and put your heart in the hands of scoundrels..........  Yes, emotions can be dangerous.

This particular pendant is laser cut and laser drawn from natural bamboo. Every bamboo pendant has a different look because the natural wood grain really comes through in the pendant. The bamboo is also lightweight but makes a heavy statement. 

Let’s face it, some times love is great and other times it cuts like a knife!

Available online at mastersofnone.org.

欣賞嬰兒車也是一種美學的態度

在歐洲的嬰兒車是父母親品味的象徵~

當做了父母親的時候,就開始關注這小車的點點滴滴,就是一個小車而已,做爸爸的會比媽媽來的關心它!可能是男性對車的關愛也加注在這嬰兒小車上吧!甚至我們到了歐洲,看到很多台灣都沒有進口的小車,眼睛的目光就一直圍繞著它們.

時尚的嬰兒車Kenzo & Fandi

在歐洲這有文化的都市裡,嬰兒車是除了重視功能外, 設計的美學也必需是重要的氛圍,而那台小車更可顯示父母親的外在品味與親子生活的價值！或許是他們地大人也高大,所以選擇的小車都是大輪子,避震效果優,我們亞洲比較偏好輕便型的,是各有優缺點.ㄧ台好看的小車是真的很賞心悅目,希望未來在台灣的角落看到更多有設計感的嬰兒車!

國外多種嬰兒車的販售網 http://www.strollers.com/

新雜誌2535的文章~中川淳介紹

一本新雜誌 "2535"


「2535」是一個全新的名詞，顧名思義代表了25歲到35歲的接班新世代，同時也是奠定未來美麗人生與事業基礎的黃金十年。不侷限於年齡，2535更是一種（創新＋學習＋品味）×幽默的人生態度方程式！
　　「2535」最主要的意思是：黃金10年的精神！我們認為，人生最精華的階段就在這2535的時期， 2535的精神=創新學習、挑戰自我、品味生活又帶點幽默樂觀，只要你認同這些人生態度，你就是2535的一份子！




值得看看的報導~
日本中川政七商店第13代經營者 中川淳

對於商業經營是完全的素人,不被既成的概念與業界的常規所左右,重新定位"遊中川"品牌.


再創新的禮品創意店,表參道粹更Kisara

粹更的商品完全採用純天然的麻質布料，以最純粹簡單的設計，來製作服裝、配件及居家雜貨。除了自家的創作職人外，粹更也經常邀請藝術家為其發展新作，每一件產品都為數不多，而且全日本只有在表參道Hills才買得到。
中川淳認為設計的定義不應該只是造型上或意象上的設計,
他認為理論+創意=產生某種力量就是設計.
他認為公司的經營也就是公司的設計....流通的設計,生產結構的設計,組織的設計.....都是代表經過一個設計的過程.現在的觀念是經營者不懂設計是無法成為一個成功的經營者,設計師不了解公司的經營理論就不能成為一個好設計師!
目前的趨勢是雙方的觀念與立場已漸漸在融合.

他認為商品不是賣出去就結束了,由生產開始到交到客人手中,一定要細心體貼,注意到每個細節.現在的時代不是一個一個去看你做出來的東西有沒有中獎,必需全盤去思考與判斷,不是只看單一商品的業績,要看是對你品牌的價值是加分還是減分,以優先順位來提升品牌的價值比提高業績來得重要.