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