A nude shade to Arpin

Filature Arpin collection cimes

Arpin is the name of an Alpine specializes in spinning wool fabrics, with the heart of business perfect control and eco-responsible for processing and weaving the fleeces, from local productions.

Building on its expertise and sensitivity to materials and natural environments, Arpin in 2012 offers some very pleasing collections, all in delicacy, in which the sweetness without ever turning to the rustic.

I especially liked the fringed lampshade collection Peaks, both contemporary and very natural. I like their look "nude" and fluffy structure, it is almost like in (or on?) A cloud.

Abat-jour cimes Arpin

More information (and soon the e-shop) on Arpin here

This is not an egg

poubelle tri ovetto I was the first to think that said sorting, bulky trash said ... It was good to show some imagination ... While it is obviously impossible to ignore the different compartment that are the essence of said sorting bins, but - it was enough to think about it! - There is no reason to optimize space and ingenuity in design! A ingenuity that undoubtedly awaits its peak with the model Ovetto , created by Italian designer Gianluca Soldi .

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Toilet design Presse Citron with Scots

There are certain things which one can only think they are doomed to remain strangers to the design. The roll-toilet paper dispenser is clearly part, in spite of undeniable utility quotidienne.Difficile also suggests that the same object can ever be in a different day than a wave metal rod or Plastic ...

Presse Citron , who had already built a solid reputation for innovative brand in the field of photo frames, has managed to invent yet - at this stage of innovation, I dare say even imagine! - A toilet paper dispenser in the shape ... tree.

porte papier toilette pqtier blanc par presse citron
Instead of hiding almost shamefully on the back left of our toilet, the PQtier proudly assumes its function.

This silhouette Scots stainless steel - available in gray or white - attaches to the wall, and offers us its branches as a roll holder. A twig strategically located assumes the function of unwinding, thus making other office storage design, certainly daring and unstructured, but in a decidedly original and rustic look!

porte papier toilette pqtier gris par presse citron

My only reservation would ... shame on the name to baptize a qualifier almost trivial, built on the diminutive we give fondly to toilet paper in a pretty setting, oak throne had yet been found any!

Joys of screen printing Dezzig

affiche-serigraphiee-dezzig-la-tete-en-mer-par-zig When art meets graphic screen printing, we can only rejoice ... and if you leave Dezzig play matchmaker, is nirvana visual looks. For Dezzig not only to edit the posters designed by grim stack of brilliant designers in tune with the times: this publishing company 100% Breton does with the requirement of rigor and passionate professionals in honoring this printing technique is noble if what screen printing on paper, sublimating beyond compare color rendition and accuracy of the line.

Affiche d'Eric Collet Sex n' Drugs n' Rock n' Roll, par Dezzig

affiche sérigraphiée easy blablabla par Zig et Dezzig

Graphic designers Dezzig edited by - and available on its artshop - are cheering and talent to follow. Between the poetic imagery of Zig - also founder of Dezzig -, typography rock'n'roll Pascal Blua and provocative and seductive joke of Eric Collet , the choice can be agonizing, but whatever it is, it can only be accompanied by the double satisfaction of owning a beautiful object, and an original work printed in limited edition and signed by the author (included as a bonus, with a badge Dezzig furiously friendly).

49 affiche sérigraphiée de Pascal Blua par Dezzig

Who said display displays said ... to enable us to expose our little joys worthy screen printing, Zig has even imagined the Post Pant, a door appears as discreet as original poster designed to hold without damaging the paper. poster pants, le porte affiche design pour sérigraphie par Dezzig

poster pants par Dezzig

Dezzig promises new collaborations, and publishing a poster for next November ... mark your calendars, I check mine now!

This is not a plateau

You who have experienced the discomfort of evenings in the apartments are poorly insulated, and that would have sold your soul for central heating (and a double layer of glass wool), this message may interest you ...

You may eventually succumbed to frostbite on your fingers and ran to buy, to the delight of your electricity bill, a booster heater, you know, object to the appearance also unlikely that t 'has become essential to make you feel a little bit at ease once November comes.

Rejoice, chilly drive, design grabs him as auxiliary heaters ... Admit he had to think, the model off-white base alone sufficient to pollute the prettiness of the most cozy interiors ...

The model in question is developed by the Italian brand I radium . Its cost is obviously astronomical compared to that of its congeners relative to the more aesthetic.

Nevertheless, it may be interesting to dwell on technology implementation, because it may well be that it provides, ultimately, a real financial saving or environmental.

I Radium designs indeed infrared heaters, which, besides their smaller energy consumption, have a policy not to expel hot air, but heat the objects and bodies, thus initiating a continuous exchange of heat between occupants, inert or not, part.

Eventually, the use of such heating would prove more profitable ... so I'm not necessarily entirely convinced by the demonstration, but the process was intended at least to be mentioned!

ps: there is also - among others - version " this is not a stool "