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Ellen
Macomber is my neighbor. When her kitchen cabinets were being
replaced she hated to see them trashed, so she came up with a very creative
solution: using them as containers to grow a vegetable garden. Only one more challenge… We
live in the French Quarter in New Orleans, as do rats and mice. Ellen’s plan wasn’t to
help these vermin get their roughage, no. Instead, Ellen made a hanging garden.
Genius! |
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Low-tech alternative to air conditioning. No hinges, no permanent installation, no Historic Preservation (or landlord) approvals. |
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“Doug and Gene Meyer: The Longue Vue Installation,” was a decorative arts, fashion and design exhibition curated by Jeff McKay earlier this year in New Orleans. (Note from author: I’m terribly envious of what these bright brothers, a style monger and the spirit of a social activist socialite pulled off in my hometown. This group took a mere retrospective of the Meyers’ work and created a blockbuster event.) |
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For Booken, Raw Edges takes the bookcase concept and turns it on its side, so that the spines of the hanging volumes function as both a table top and a library. The work was recently presented at the Salone del Mobile 2013. |
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Stockholm-based design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has collaborated with Italian furniture company Tacchini to develop “Kelly,” a family of chairs. Influenced by the work of American painter Ellsworth Kelly, the seating series references bright colors and irregular shapes seen in the artist’s abstract sculptures. The “crazy, weird, childish, beautiful, wonderful Play-Doh graphic universe” type collection includes an easy chair, lounger and high lounge chair. |
