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Passing Through....
By roadverminHello Curbly!
Just wanted to say Roadvermin and I are still alive. It's great to see the community here thriving, so much great content.
We still have much to share and talk about, but we've been busy setting up our new business. It still involves DIY...anyone interested in music? ;-)
- RV's Girl
A Self Explanatory Picture - The 'Wire Frame Kitchen'
By roadvermin
Via BoingBoing: ' Industrial designer Jan Dijkstra made this wire kitchen as his graduation project from the Design Academy Eindhoven.'
Now if Roadvermin & I could find a way to 'need' another kitchen! - RV's Girl
Gore Design Co. - Recycled Concrete
By roadverminVia Treehugger :
"Gore Design Co. specializes in designing and creating eco-friendly concrete products using a proprietary blend of reclaimed materials and industrial byproducts they call "Recycrete."
I love how this company creates well designed products while conscious of the environment. The designs are sleek, simple and sexy and it's recycled. Their products include sinks, countertops and miscellaneous furniture.
-RV's Girl
Can You Fit a Lamp in Your Living Room? Can You Fit a Horse?
By roadvermin
We were in Paris last weekend to check out a gig and as usually happens when when you find yourself in a foreign city with no place to call a home spent many many hours wandering the streets window shopping. I've noticed Paris has a huge number of stylish furniture and design stores with a difference but when we peered into the window of this shop we were greeted by the sight of a full size, matt black horse (Not a real horse ok » READ MORE
DIY USB Powered Christmas Tree...
By roadverminWell its that time of year again the streets of Lyon are awash with bodies running here and there doing as many errands as they can before the whole country closes up for the Holiday. The local Franprix is packed with people buying booze and food so they can celebrate the weekend with a fuzzy head and a full belly.
This is our first Christmas together and it shaping up to be a great one earlier this week we decided that our home need a » READ MORE
What will be under RoadVermins Tree?
By roadverminIt was so so hard to decide what to choose from the myriad of DIY delights available at Amazon. This was made even harder by the fact that alot of the really cool stuff doesnt ship overseas which concerns us as we live in France. So I had to say bye bye to the beautiful Dremel multi tool, farewell to the twelve month subscription to Make magazine and au revoir to the nifty compression clamps I spotted.
So after much surfing and » READ MORE
Environmentally Friendly Replacement for Halogen Bulbs...
By roadvermin
I was looking around the Farnell website the other day, as we are renovating our apartment and want to install energy efficient lighting throughout the flat, and I came across these LED replacements for Halogen bulbs. Halogens are notoriously energy hungry, the most common size people have in their homes is typically 50 Watts. I also find they generate a large quantity of heat during operation compared to normal bulbs. They do » READ MORE
Sort of a Long Term Project I'd Say...
By roadvermin
Saw this on Boing Boing a few minutes ago, basically these are examples of furniture created by training the trunks of living fruit trees. The history section of this site suggests that this is a practice that goes back a long way and would probably be a cool project for anybody with a combined interest in gardening and furniture design.
10 Speed Racer or is it a Chair...
By roadvermin
If you have read our other blog you would know we are passionate about cycling and recycling and so I was thrilled when I came across this company some months ago while surfing for something totally unrelated. Bike furniture design specialize in the manufacture of tables, chairs and other everyday lounge objects from old bike parts. Working with steel and aluminum requires specialized tools and skills but maybe you wont throw away » READ MORE
The Day of Design...
By roadvermin
Hi again! This week we visited the International Design Biennale in St. Etienne in the south of France. We spent about ten hours walking around the three main exhibition titled - Cohabitation, Eden ADN, GOOOOD Food, Juste Avant La Transformation, Demain C'est Aujourd'hui and Between Art and Design - which were housed in three reclaimed old factories in the Cite du
Design.
Many of the exhibits demonstrated pieces which incorporated t » READ MORE
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