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street design week in istanbul: Fresh Turkish design photos from swiss miss and Ozgur
MarthaWatch™
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Martha Stewart aims for another medium - Web: Martha's moving into cyberspace next year! As everyone now knows, the web isn't a magazine and it's a far more democratic medium. The journalists are already ribbing her: it won't be MySpace, it will be MarthasSpace.
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Multifunctional furniture set by Javier Bone-Carbone of Parsons: "...inspired by the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) work in Aceh, Indonesia."
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Giovannoni TimeSphere from ICFF: "...a wireless projection clock with an induction charged projection unit (the wireless ball) that can be moved and positioned any way you want to give you the best possible view of the time."
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Kwarx Unbreakable Wine Glass: Jealously garded secrets in Hong Kong... this is handblown crystal, retains lustre and transparency and is unbreakable.
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The Bonjour Millennium Towel: Made from 100% beech wood, "these towels are a great alternative to those made of conventionally grown cotton, a crop whose production takes an enormous toll on the air, water, and soil, not to mention the health of people living and working in cotton country."
Writer's Almanac:
•It's the birthday of novelist Thomas Mann.
•POEM: "Games with God," by Virginia Hamilton Adair
The Kwarx glass will be launched in the U.S. by Mikasa. I've seen them and they are pretty amazing. They are as clear as lead crystal and truly break resistant. The bigger news is that the shape of the wine glass dramatically enhances the flavor of young wines. Fill the glass to the top of the convex shape and the glass concentrates the aromas. I was very impressed with them. The best news is that they are very reasonable in price (I think around $20 for 4).
I absolutely love my beechwood sheets (from BB&B), mostly because cat hair doesn't stick to them like it does to cotton, but they breathe well. I'm not sure how that applies to towels, but I'll still try em out.