California’s First Molten Salt Solar Energy Project Gets Green Light

California’s approval process for renewable energy projects ... http://inhabitat.com/californias-first-molten-salt-solar-energy-project-gets-green-light/

Ruth Gurvich for Nymphenburg

The Paris-based Argentine sculptor Ruth Gurvich works in a most fragile medium: paper. Her angular yet organic, light-as-air objects are usually for visual consumption alone. Now, discovered by Nymphenburg, her vessels have been handcrafted in gossamer-thin porcelain... http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/a-very-foodie-christmas-ts-picks-part-one/

Nature-ization Takes Command

Nature, the state of the environment, the crisis of the natural landscape: are there more profound sources for meaningfulness — for questions as well as answers — in architecture today? http://places.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=21149
Essay By: David Heymann

Mulberry New Bond Street Store

London firm Universal Design Studio have completed the interior of a shop on London’s New Bond Street for fashion brand Mulberry. http://www.dezeen.com/2010/12/09/mulberry-new-bond-street-store-by-universal-design-studio/

Russian billionaire spends $400 million on island-based art museum project

A Russian oligarch has paid almost $400 million as part of an ambitious plan to create an art museum and commercial center on an island in the heart of St. Petersburg. http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20101208/ts_yblog_thelookout/russian-billionaire-spends-400-million-on-island-based-art-museum-project

Studio Ve's Manifold Clock

Check out the Manifold Clock, by designers Shay Carmon and Ben Klinger (collectively known as Studio Ve). http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/studio_ves_manifold_clock_renders_time_3d_18080.asp

CONFETTISYSTEM Decks the Halls

By Ken Miller 
In just a short couple of years, design duo CONFETTISYSTEM has grown from creating DIY runway displays and window decorations for New York stores and designers to manufacturing displays for all of J. Crew's stores nationwide. http://www.interviewmagazine.com/blogs/fashion/2010-11-29/confettisystem-j-crew/

PGA Prairie Hopper

While it may look like an abstract art installation, this white steel structure is actually a portable, prefab education pavilion... http://inhabitat.com/pga-prairie-hopper-is-a-transforming-prefab-sports-pavilion/

See the Light

A $50 light bulb? GE is betting that its new Energy Smart LED bulb is a bright idea: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/seeing-the-light/?ref=design

Wallis Simpson's Jewels Sell Big

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101201/ap_on_en_ot/eu_britain_wallis__jewels_2

Canstruction Comes to New York’s World Financial Center

http://dailyfix.interiordesign.net/products/2815/canstruction-comes-to-new-york%E2%80%99s-world-financial-center

From House of Tiffany, a Line of Pottery

Between 1903 and 1917, Tiffany’s factory in Corona, Queens, produced about 7,000 clay works with monochrome or spattered matte glazes. They did not catch on. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/arts/design/12antiques.html?_r=1&ref=design

Window Dressing Warriors

David Hoey and Linda Fargo, who design Bergdorf Goodman’s windows. “We take our frivolity very seriously,” Mr. Hoey said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/fashion/04bergdorf.html?pagewanted=1&ref=fashion

Bird in the Hand

The lamp, designed by J.P. Meulendijks Design Studio for plankton, is a tribute to the universal art of hand shadows; making shadows on the wall using your hands to create birds, rabbits and other figures.
http://coolboom.net/products/bird-in-hand/

Gigantic Wooden Parasols Are Popping Up in Seville

Expected to be the biggest wooden structures in the world.

http://inhabitat.com/2010/11/17/gigantic-parasols-rise-to-shield-seville-from-sun/metropol-parasol-1/?extend=1

Curator’s Choice | Tim Gunn for Ahalife

Ahalife, the two-month-old Web site that offers its readers one guest-curated item every 24 hours, includes departments like Dress Me, Optimize Me and Design Me. http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/curators-choice-tim-gunn-for-ahalife/

Grass Blanketed Huts Make Up Sweden’s Most Primitive Hotel

This may not be your dream vacation but it's definitly a GREEN vacation.

http://inhabitat.com/2010/11/12/grass-blanketed-huts-make-up-swedens-most-primitive-hotel/

Suburban Family's Old Vase Fetches $84 million

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101112/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_valuable_vase

Renzo Piano’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Set to Open in 2012

Much of the public and critics alike attest to the excellence of Renzo Piano’s modern addition to the Art Institute of Chicago’s classical Beaux-Arts building. So can the Pritzker Prize-winning architect do the same for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston? We’ll find out in early 2012 when the museum is scheduled to open. http://dailyfix.interiordesign.net/projects/governmentinstitution/2689/renzo-pianos-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum-set-to-open-in-2012

Warhol Painting of Coca-Cola Bottle to be Auctioned Tuesday

Expected to go for between $20-$25 million!

http://www.ajc.com/business/warhol-painting-of-coca-732999.html?cxntlid=thbz_hm

HUGO’s US Challenge

Artists and designers from America are invited to create an image that features not only the bottle, but also an American city that inspires them.

http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20101102/hugo%e2%80%99s-us-challenge

Cantilevered Office Anchors Green Campus in Mexico

http://inhabitat.com/2010/11/04/cantilevered-office-anchors-green-campus-in-mexico/

Modern Masters Lead to Records at Christie’s

Modigliani Sells For $68.9 Million

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/nyregion/04auction.html?ref=design

Places that Work: A Room at the Met

Sally Augustin's perspective of the Met's Sackler Wing, home of the Temple of Dendur. http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20101027/a-room-at-the-met 

Hölick Sea Resort by Mats Edlund,

Stockholm architects Mats Edlund, Henrietta Palmer and Matts Ingman have designed this timber cabin as part of a camping site in Hudiksvall, Sweden. http://www.dezeen.com/2010/10/28/holick-sea-resort-by-mats-edlund-and-henrietta-palmer/

The Morgan Restored

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/10/28/arts/design/20101029-morgan-ss.html

Halloween ~ Dogs and Scarecrows All Dressed Up

http://leberpr.com/blog/?p=717

SCAD Student Wins Project UDesign Competition

http://dailyfix.interiordesign.net/industry/designers-architects/2554/scad-student-wins-project-udesign-competition

A Tiny Penthouse Studio Dressed in Comic Book Colors

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/garden/21studio.html?_r=1&ref=style

Beehive Tower is a Honeycomb Inspired Vertical Farm for London

This greenery filled Beehive Tower for Heron Quay, London is a vertical farm inspired by the hexagonal forms of the honeycomb. Read Yuka Yoneda's story here:  http://inhabitat.com/2010/10/25/beehive-tower-is-a-honeycomb-inspired-vertical-farm-for-london/beehive-tower-8/?extend=1

Setouchi International Art Festival 2010

Now through October 31st
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/11797/setouchi-international-art-festival-2010.html

IIDA Georgia Invites you to the Great Pumpkin DEBUT!

http://www.iidageorgia.org/2010/10/09-23-great-pumpkin-debut/

Dutch Incinerator “Cathedral” to Transform Waste Into Energy

http://inhabitat.com/2010/10/19/dutch-incinerator-cathedral-to-transform-waste-into-energy/

India’s richest man has moved into world’s biggest private residence

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101014/bs_yblog_upshot/indias-richest-man-has-moved-into-worlds-biggest-private-residence

Back in the Limelight

If these walls could talk, they'd tell tales of Cornelius Vanderbilt, once a parishioner of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, as well as the drug-fueled '80's club kids at the famous and noto­rious Limelight. http://www.interiordesign.net/article/532329-Back_in_the_Limelight.php?nid=2068

Missing (and Valuable) Painting Found in Paris..After 70 years!

by Mike Krumboltz
A Paris home untouched for 70 years is finally entered, revealing a million-dollar art treasure.  http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/94058?fp=1

A 'Mike' found in Buffalo?

This unfinished painting of Jesus and Mary could be a lost Michelangelo, potentially the art find of the century.


But to the upstate family on whose living-room wall it hung for years, it was just "The Mike." http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/mike_found_in_buffalo_Or3Ok3NfUR21qEqBxK3u2H

Bart Webb Studios/Rail Arts District

A vibrant new arts district has formed in the Atlanta metro area over the past few years. The area boasts some of the city's largest community art studios, relocated Buckhead galleries, and dozens of individual studios for visual and performing artists. http://bartwebbstudios.com/art/

The Global Africa Project

Museum of Arts & Design

November 17, 2010 - May 15, 2011
http://collections.madmuseum.org/code/emuseum.asp?emu_action=advsearch&rawsearch=exhibitionid/,/is/,/508/,/true/,/false&profile=exhibitions

World’s First Zero Carbon Conference Center Opens in Dublin

http://inhabitat.com/2010/10/07/worlds-first-zero-carbon-conference-center-opens-in-dublin/

SuperDesign at Victoria House, London

Dezeen promotion: Dezeen is media partner for SuperDesign, an exhibition hosting international designers and galleries in London during the Frieze Art Fair next week from 14-17 October. http://www.dezeen.com/2010/10/06/superdesign-at-victoria-house-london/

A Warhol Soup Can Comes to Market

By CAROL VOGEL

Christie’s expects a 1962 painting of the artist’s signature image to sell for $30 million to $50 million. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/arts/design/01vogel.html?_r=1&ref=design

World's Strangest Vending Machines

By Katrina Brown Hunt

From Florida to Dubai, some of the oddest things come out of machines. http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-35991769

 

With a Jury of Their Peers

By ROBERTA SMITH
‘Abstract Expressionist New York’

A look at a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/arts/design/01abex.html?_r=1&ref=design

Hölick Sea Resort by Mats Edlund,

Stockholm architects Mats Edlund, Henrietta Palmer and Matts Ingman have designed this timber cabin as part of a camping site in Hudiksvall, Sweden. http://www.dezeen.com/2010/10/28/holick-sea-resort-by-mats-edlund-and-henrietta-palmer/

A functional 182-square-foot apartment

http://projects.ajchomefinder.com/gallery/view/homes/tiny-apartment/

Swanky new Vegas hotel’s ‘death ray’ proves inconvenient for some guests

By Brett Michael Dykes
The building's concave design creates a sort of magnifying-glass effect. The hotel's designers reportedly anticipated that ill-situated humans might experience some discomfort courtesy of the building's blinding glare... http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100929/bs_yblog_upshot/swanky-new-vegas-hotels-death-ray-a-mild-inconvenience-for-some-guests

Circus: The Photographs of Frederick W. Glasier/ Luc Sante

The elaborately produced new book Circus: The Photographs of Frederick W. Glasier, showcases the rediscovered work of the great American photographer Frederick W. Glasier.