We love the messy, casual, but monumental style of Atelier van Lieshout's Liquor Master bar cabinet, made from foam, fiberglass, and metal. Liquor Master is part of a 2009 collection that uses the human form as a jumping off point for process-based, sculptural furniture. The collection includes his similarly constructed Fossil Chaise, an object reminiscent of a piece of chewed gum, but with the added luxury of a sheepskin.
These two pieces will debut at Vivid Gallery's booth at Design Miami/Basel this June, alongside new Pyrex glassware from Jamie Hayon and the giant Silver Ware sculptures Studio Job constructed for Bisazza in 2007.
Hit the jump for more images!Jamie Hayon's Science glassware
Next month Asus will launch their Eee Keyboard, which looks like an ultraslim keyboard with an iPhone slapped onto it. Touted as a "nettop," the device actually contains an entire PC, with the idea being that you can carry it around and plug it into any available display.We were curious...
You can skip the first 40 filler seconds of this "Future Vision of Manufacturing" video by Microsoft, but check out the neat part from roughly 0:40 to 1:45, when they show a design team kicking ideas around using some nifty interface tools; it's Minority Report meets Objectified. Of course, the...
What does US $3.7 million worth of industrial design look like? That's the lowest pre-sale estimate for the 101 pieces going on the block at Sotheby's "Important 20th Century Design" auction in June. (The highest estimate is $5.4 million.)Up for grabs will be pieces by Frank Gehry, Shiro Kuramata, Jean...
Over the years there have been quite a few maps and illustrations attempting to put New York City in perspective, starting with Daniel K. Wallingford's "A New Yorker's Idea of the United States of America" in 1935 and perhaps most famously, Saul Steinberg's 1976 take on the same subject. But...
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