New leather faced sideboard with spindle feet against Harroll rug
In terms of sheer, brute creativity, the prize goes again to BDDW for blowing out their booth and crossing their stylish furniture with an almost art school experimental feeling. While ridiculously expensive, these pieces are probably worth every penny. Our fave was the scuffed leather sideboard with the spindle feet. More pics below...
Desu Design hails from Los Angeles and does lovely small metalwork pieces that kill the niche. Their 1 Line Spice Rack and Symbol Coat rack proved to be even nicer in person than we'd seen in pictures. Both designs are available from their website. More pics below...
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i'm in such love w/ the 1-line spice rack. sexy and clever design, mmm.
We have the Symbol coat rack in white/colors here at work - it's lovely, but it WAS very $$$... What's nice about it is that holds a great many coats! And it looks so pretty when its not in use too.
I'm seriously breathless with the brilliance of the spice rack. Stunning.
Indeed, that rack has serious, um, spice. But with its open ends I forsee a spice-bottle 'waterfall' of sorts in certain busy/clumsy kitchens. And doesn't Umbra make a similar flipdown-peg coat rack?
I've seen other flip down coat racks, but IMO, nothing comes close to the scale of the Symbol. Other coat racks, when not in use, look like empty coat racks. The Symbol looks like a piece of wall art. It's also much larger than most other coat racks I've seen.
With the bottle-holding part of the spice rack being sized exactly to that particular bottle, I suspect there would be indefinite refilling...
$200 for a spice rack made of steel??? What has this world come to???
Spice rack's suck. Sorry to break it to you, but storing your spices in clear glass jars out in the open, probably near the heat of a stove is completely useless. Between the radiation (UV and otherwise) from the direct light and the heat from the stove, all you accomplish is spoling your spices and dried herbs as quickly as possible. Ditto for that olive oil.
Keep your oils, herbs and spices where they belong - in a cool, dark place. That is what God invented the cupboard/pantry for.
How I hate storage that is sized for one particular item! - why on earth do they think that you're going to buy exactly the same sized bottle each time?? - gah!
I am in love with that spice rack, but like someone above mentioned...the heat and light exposure would render your spices useless depleting them of their flavor and taste.
It still doesn't change the fact that I want one, but I don't know if I would really use my spices to fill the jars up. I would perhaps put different colors of dried flower petals and things that resemble spices in them. But then again, that would defeat the purpose of the functionality for what it was created for.
I don't know....it's only $199......
Brute creativity. Hah.
where can i buy the flip down coat rack (desu design)? thanks.
posted by frances
03/22/07
desudesign.com
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