At the ICFF last weekend, I spotted some pretty whimsical stuff I thought you might like too.
Oshibe, by interactive designer Tomomi Sayuda “plays sounds, has lights and entertains you” when you move the little egg-shaped objects around. The eggs light up, and sweet sounds fill the air. It’s charming, really it is.
London-based design company Paperself [...]
Over the weekend I made two visits to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), leaving me footsore, inspired, and not quite sure where to start my post. Looking through my snaps afterwards, I managed to group some of what I saw into a few broad trends. It’s a good a way to approach this mammoth [...]
ELLE DECORATION and Weylandts are pleased to announce that the winning entry in the eighth annual SOLVE New Talent Search is… the Vuvu Lamp!
This lighting design was submitted by John Edwards, a 24-year-old University of Cape Town School of Architecture student, who says about the Vuvu Lamp:
“Next year being the World Cup, I wanted to [...]
Ever since we announced the 2009 SOLVE New Talent Search – brought to you by ELLE DECORATION and Weylandts – there have been eager emails wanting to know when the winners will be announced. Well we’re not quite there yet, but we can (in no particular order) announce the five finalists, selected from 120 [...]
Last week I stopped off at brand new coffee shop and deli, Superette, which is situated in the somewhat unlikely badlands of Salt River, Cape Town. Albert Road is a fast-paced, furiously-volumed street of sweatshops, boatyards, backyard mechanics and grimy-windowed half-empty general stores, but all this rough stuff fell away the minute I stepped [...]
