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I just visited the Batibouw fair 2010 in Brussels. Probably one of the biggest building and renovation fairs in Europe. It’s a great place for the interior designer to have a stroll. Although 11 pavilions large the place felt absolutely packed.
Below a few items I picked out.
The RainBrain from hansgrohe. A slick digital display controlling all showerheads, temperature and water volumes. User profiles can be stored and recalled at the touch of a button. There are shower programmes allowing for showerhead and temperature alternations and if you connect up some speakers you can even control via Bluetooth your mp3 player though this command panel. Pure luxury.
BREAKOUT! Your Pathway to Success
Brit Hammer
BREAKOUT! Your Pathway to Success takes up where Brit Hammer’s best-selling book, Mosaic: Finding Your Own Voice, leaves off—the business aspect of visual art. This book demystifies business terminology, sheds light on legal and money matters, and guides you how to: build a personal brand, harness the power of the Internet and social networking, and build streams of revenue.
The book’s aim is to help you build up your self-confidence and to take back your personal power while creating the art business of your dreams. Full of images of beautiful art, BREAKOUT! Your Pathway to Success is a business book worthy of display on your coffee table!
ID-Sphere users can get the electronic version of this book at a reduced price. Use the promotional code idsphere.
More Info about this book can be found HERE.
Reitschule cafe: a project sent to us by the Thonet Press.
Seen from outside, the listed classical complex of the Reitschule cafe and the adjacent University Riding School remains unchanged in spite of the thorough refurbishment. However, the cafe’s interior has undergone a total redesign: floors, walls, room layout and a new staircase have been designed by the architects at Palais Mai, turning the cafe into a ‘modern classic‘.
Metropolitan Works Centre Manager
£49,812 – £55,317 per annum inclusive
Full-time Contract Indefinite
Ref : 9A1110
Application Closing Date 01.02.2010
Metropolitan Works is a leader in Digital Design and Manufacturing technologies, providing knowledge, expertise and facilities to the UK’s designers, architects and artists from our purpose built centre in East London. We offer professional services to our commercial and academic clients via our ‘Bureau’ desk.
We are looking to appoint a Centre Manager to head up the overall operational and financial management of Metropolitan Works and lead our small team of staff through an exciting period of development and growth. Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Projects, you will oversee research and business development funding programmes while ensuring that commercial contracts and training programmes are delivered to the satisfaction of our external clients. You will be a team leader, have an eye for detail and track record in a customer focused environment.
Read the full job discription.
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Installing domestic drain and soil pipes seem to be an easy job, no water pressures to account for or non-return and other valves to think about and regulation seems to be comprehensible to any construction worker. Just connect your pipes from point A, always go downwards and make sure you end up in the sewage and that’s it. Will it work? …It might. Will it work well? That’s a totally different ballgame. Although sticking some pipes together to drain the water seems fairly simple, a lot can go wrong when drain pipes are not installed the way they should be. Common problems with drain and soil pipes are clogs and smells and in order to avoid those providing sufficient air and keeping your waste flow under control is key.
Pinpoint: Key Facts + Figures for Sustainable Building
Bruno Keller Stephan Rutz (Birkhäuser January 2010)
-PINPOINT brings building physics clearly into focus and enables practitioners to make rational use of their expertise while keeping their focus on the essentials.
-May be used “on site” as a manual by architects, civil engineers, and construction planners.
-High-quality edition, handsomely designed
Today, sustainable building means planning and producing structures that offer their users a high degree of comfort while only requiring a small amount of energy to operate. This entails: a high degree of thermal comfort, a good supply of daylight, good sound insulation with respect to both external and internal sources of noise, good room acoustics, the avoidance of any problems whatsoever with condensation or mold, and such a low energy requirement that especially gentle and efficient methods can be used to meet the remaining demand.
At first glance, it might seem quite difficult to fulfill all these requirements. Taken together, the various textbooks on building physics and building automation and the large number of EN and SIA standards now in existence are more confusing than they are useful.
By contrast, this manual presents the most important information on all the key aspects of sustainable building in concise and clearly organized form; makes it easy to put it into practice with the help of graphics, tables, and step-by-step instructions; illustrates it with examples; and supplements it with practical tips.
That is not to say that PINPOINT is intended to replace a textbook or standards collection. On the contrary, it is meant to help practitioners who already have a grasp of the basics make rational use of their expertise while keeping their focus on the essentials.
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If retro is your thing you may be interested in this suspending chair which follows the natural shape of the reclining body.
Made by west Sussex based Adrian Thornber in high grade stainless steel and available in a mirror or sateen polished finish, with or without sheepskin.
For more info visit www.nirvanachairs.com
MOSAIC: Finding your own voice
Brit Hammer
This publication is by one of ID-Sphere’s contributors Brit Hammer. This illustrated work is overflowing with inspiration and information. The book delves into design and composition to help you find your own style and includes technical information just for artists interested in mosaic. The inspiration section features chapters on the works of fine art mosaicists Elaine M. Goodwin, Sonia King, Dugald MacInnes, Mo Ringey, and Brit Hammer-Dijcks. 200 pages (full-color eBook 198 pages).
ID-Sphere users can get the electronic version of this book at a reduced price. Use the promotional code idsphere.
More Info about this book can be found HERE.
This article has been updated since its first publication November 20th 2008. Article adapted from Mosaic: Finding Your Own Voice (2008).
Another interesting company at 100% design was Grayconcrete.
The company produces custom made light weight concrete projects. Their fibre reinforced concrete can be used and moulded in a variety of ways, forms and colours, with built in patterns and graphics.
If you can think of it they can probably built it.
Have a look at some of their projects.
For more info visit: Grayconcrete
Finally someone thought of producing this. I personally have been looking for a contemporary shower wiper for quite some time now. Nothing more annoying than delivering a slick looking minimalist bathroom in which the client puts a fluorescent yellow window wiper.
But the alternative will be here soon. This stylish stainless steel and rubber shower wiper produced by Danish manufacturer VIPP will hit the market this November 2009.
Interlam showed an interesting range of decorative panels at 100% design. Profiles can be carved in different substrates and it is also possible to embed your own design.
Below you can find some profile images more can be found at their website at: http://www.interlam-design.com/
Compact Interiors: Architectural Design
Carles Broto (Links International September 2009)
This fully illustrated work features dozens of apartment and loft interiors from around the world-all created by internationally renown architects and designers. The book focuses on the technical aspects of each project and on the ingenious solutions employed in adapting fixtures and furniture to a range of uses for more efficient uses of space. Each of the projects is beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs, floor plans, and sketches. Including every step of the design process-from conception to execution-this guide is indispensable for anyone working in the fields of architecture, interior design, interior decorating and furniture design.
More Info about this book can be found at Riba Bookshops.
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Color Spaces
FrIederike Tebbe Christiane Fath (Jovis Verlag September 2009)
How consciously do we experience colour, light and space? How do colours influence our perception, change the effect of something built and thereby shift the relations of space and our judgement? Friederike Tebbe examines the manifestations of colour, its perception, and interpretation in relation to her own architecture and in other practical and theoretical contexts.
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