Pasta Verde : Pantone 340 C
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Pasta Verde
Preparation Time: 30 min
Cook Time: 10 min
1 box of fresh basil fettucini
1 cup fresh peas
1 cup of sugar snaps
green asparagus (small)
olive oil
basil
garlic
salt, pepper
Preparation
Bring water to boil in a pot.
Cook the asparagus in boiling water with salt. Cooking time varies depending on the size of the asparagus but they must be “al dente”.
Once cooked, cool in an ice water bath to stop the cooking.
Repeat the same operation with the sugar snaps.
Then repeat with fresh peas that (cook 10 to 15 min.).
Chop the fresh basil.
Boil water in large pot for pasta. Add a pinch of salt to water. Cook the pasta.
Meanwhile, prepare a skillet with olive oil, saute a little garlic.
Add the asparagus, the sugar snaps, peas, chopped basil, salt and pepper to drained pasta and sprinkle with Parmesan.
Serve immediately.
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Description thedieline
End-of-the-world survival kit, crafted and designed in Mexico by MENOSUNOCEROUNO.
“If the world ends this year, we better be happily ready. Expecting a beautiful chaos, MENOSUNOCEROUNO created JUST IN CASE ®, the perfect brand for the end of times. A brand that covers all your basic apocalyptic needs. Our survival kit re-packages a collection of iconic products from Mexico to enjoy in no particular order. The perfect gift for friends and clients (only the ones we want to keep).
Modern mexican design for the end of times.”
01 Chocolate Abuelita ® : Dark chocolate laced with cinnamon and covered in sugar. With more than 70 years in the market, this classic delight will make you feel well under any circumstances.
02 Doméstica Yellow Notebook ® : A design classic from Monterrey. Tell the story, write like John, draw like el Bosco, or use it to start a fire.
03 Simple Knife ® : Clean affordable design, a minimal hunting tool for animals or zombies.
04 40 Emergency Black Matches ® : Start a fire, get warm, light your way with style. Black is beautiful.
05 Xtabentun D’aristi ® : Original Mayan liqueur from Casa D’aristi in Yucatan, one of our favorite brands of 2011. Celebrate like the old times!
06 Basic Water ® : Drink wisely, survive up to ten days with one liter.
Designed by MENOSUNOCEROUNO
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Alicia Keys Soho Penthouse for Sale
Description trendland
Talking about dream location, well this is probably one of my favorite street in Manhattan. The 30 Crosby street is where Alicia Keys and husband Swizz Beatz lived in for the last two years. This (sorry for the term) cheesy Soho Penthouse has just come up on the market via Sotheby’s, for $17.95 million. When I say cheesy, I’m talking mostly of the furniture and arrangements and not the place itself. I mean who wouldn’t dream of a 5 bedroom, 4 bath of 6167 sqf triplex Penthouse with an additional 3000 sqf terrace in a pre-war Condo in the heart of Soho !
Sotheby’s Description:
Enter via keyed elevator to either floor; this magnificent sun filled loft has 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4 powder rooms an enormous state-of-the-art windowed gourmet eat-in kitchen, walk-in butler’s pantry, separate formal dining room that faces East encased in a glass solarium, an expansive living room with fireplace, library/media room are all surrounded by undoubtedly one of the most beautiful private terraces in all of Soho. A floating glass staircase leads to a separate private master suite complete with spa, pass through dressing area and private terrace.
More information at www.sothebyshomes.com
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Curiosity Object
Description originale
Both pieces of furniture and display windows, these lights act as small curiosity cabinets highlighting the beauty and strangeness of their subjects.
When turned off, the bulb and socket disappear beneath an opaque black tinted glass. When lit, the bulb gradually reveals itself behind a soft veil, never dazzling. The base is made of blackened oak and the bell of blown glass.
This series sets different scenes of an exhibition, inciting one to observe and reflect. These lights question what is to be looked at: the object or its content? Where are we supposed to be focusing our attention in this day and age?
For its first presentation, we have chosen to present construction debris.
Under these luminous bells, they become specimens of a strange preciousness. From the displayed object, the glance shifts to the exhibiting object.
Au croisement du mobilier et de la vitrine, ces luminaires fonctionnent comme de petits cabinets de curiosité qui mettent en lumière l’étrangeté des choses de ce monde. Lorsque la lampe est éteinte, l’ampoule et la douille disparaissent sous l’opacité du verre teinté au noir. Lorsqu’elle est allumée, l’ampoule se dessine progressivement derrière un voile noir dégradé, sans éblouir. Les pieds sont en chêne noirci et les cloches sont en verre soufflé.
La série compose différentes scènes d’une exposition qui invite à l’observation, à la réflexion.
Ces luminaires questionnent sur ce qu’il faut regarder ; l’objet ou ce qu’il contient ?
Sur quoi sommes-nous supposés porter notre attention aujourd’hui ?
Pour l’installation à la Galerie Cat Berro, nous avons choisi de présenter des déchets issus de la construction. Sous cette cloche lumineuse, ils deviennent des matériaux d’une étrange préciosité.
Photos © RIBON
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Raspberry Lime Cheescake : Pantone 1895 C
Description trendland
Rasberry Lime Cheescake
Preparation Time: 30 min
Cook Time: 45 min
Wait Time: 6 hours
4 cups graham crackers
2 cups cream cheese
4 tbs butter
1 large egg
1 lime
1 cup powdered sugar
3 1/2 tbs raspberry puree (to make from scratch use frozen raspberries and 1 tbs sugar)
Preparation
Mix graham crackers to reduce to breadcrumbs
Add melted butter
Cover the bottom of a silicon mold 7 in. in diameter with this cracker powder
Place in the refrigerator
Preheat the oven to 250 farenheit
In a bowl mix the cream cheese and powdered sugar until smooth
Add the already beaten egg, the grated zest and the lime juice
Add the raspberry purée and mix
Pour this preparation on the hardened crust. Smooth surface
Cook for 45 min in the oven
After cooling, place in refrigerator for a minimum of 6 hours or until the following day
Remove from mold and serve very cold
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‘Mad Men’: The story behind Don Draper’s new digs
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“Mad Men” returned after its long hiatus Sunday, earning record ratings and a host of Midcentury Modern design fans newly obsessed with Don Draper’s new Manhattan home. It’s June 1966, and though Draper (played by Jon Hamm) might be a newlywed, he’s traded in his dreary digs from last season for an Upper East Side spread complete with serious bachelor pad trappings.
Apartment 17-B, right, set decorator Claudette Didul said, is “in a high-rise that feels like it was built in 1960 with a white-carpeted sunken living room and a fascinating fireplace and a Case Study-style kitchen with two pass through windows.”
It also sports walnut cabinetry with a built-in television set and one of those new-fangled-for-the-time push-button phones.
Didul said Draper’s love of sleek modern lines and high-tech gadgetry and manly appointments (leather lounge chair, countertop cocktail bar with a drum-shaped ice bucket) is contrasted with his new wife Megan’s youthful taste and love of color.
“I imagine she might’ve dragged Don through Bloomingdale’s to see the model rooms,” Didul said.
The set decorator also took inspiration from two books by 1960s bestselling interior design author Betty Pepis and “Decoration U.S.A.,” a 1965 collaboration between Jose Wilson and Arthur Leaman. “The colors of the rooms and furnishings are so vibrant in those books they almost make your teeth rattle,” Didul said.
The kitchen has rich blue and blazing coral cabinets exhibiting “happiness and hopefulness,” Didul said. “The pastels of the 1950s are giving way to brighter and earthier tones.” She spotted the brown 1964 Frigidaire in a vintage copy of the Los Angeles Times Home Magazine. “It’s my favorite appliance in the whole show.”
Keep reading to see Don’s dining and living room and a list of Didul’s shopping sources …
The Draper living room has grass cloth wallpaper and curtains with a matching valance made from retro material from Fabricut. Outside the window wall: a 1964 white metal patio dinette set by Samsonite that Didul purchased on eBay. The modular sofas and ottoman were designed by “Mad Men” production designer Dan Bishop and built by Omega Cinema Props. Don’s Lied Mobler black leather lounge chair came from Galerie Sommerlath in Los Angeles; the magazine rack is from Amsterdam Modern, also in L.A. The glass-topped coffee table is from Deja Vu in Long Beach, and the counter stools are a vintage design by Erik Buk purchased on Craigslist from a Virginia seller.
The dining room has a strong Danish influence. The dining table set and credenza were purchased at Danish Modern Noho. The rug, designed to look like a 1960s rya, was created from shag carpeting at S & J Biren floor coverings in Los Angeles. The gray armchair is part of a pair purchased on Craigslist “because they reminded me of chairs I had seen on ‘Bewitched,’” Didul said.
Custom-built kitchen cabinets have a handy pass-through window to the dining room, a built-in cook top and a revolving spice rack, far left, purchased on Etsy. Didul shopped for glasses, cookware and kitchen accessories at the antique malls in Orange and Pomona, and the Pasadena Antique Center and Annex and Novotny’s Antique Gallery in Pasadena.
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Staka
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An Icelandic duo’s first accessories collection references the nation’s most prolific saga with Viking Age materials
Staka marks the first collection in an ongoing series between Icelandic product designers María Kristín Jónsdóttir and Bylgja Svansdóttir, comprising a curious mix of finely crafted unisex leather neck accessories. The aristocratic vibe of each piece stems from the design duo’s concept for the range, which draws inspiration from one of Iceland’s most notorious narratives, the Brennu-Njáls saga. Like all Icelandic sagas, the author remains anonymous, but the extensive storyline is centered around a familial feud which brings the idea of masculinity into question. The designers were also particularly taken by the tale’s leading lady, Hallgerður Langbrók, a femme fatale “who was notorious for her majestic appearance and temperament”, explains Svansdóttir.
Cut and molded from “Viking Age materials”, each piece is designed to tell a story about the wearer’s social status, but the beauty lies in their ambiguity. “We want each person to have the freedom to decide their own story and social status,” explains Svansdóttir. “The responses we’ve gotten so far have been very interesting, people guessing which pieces famous characters from The Icelandic Sagas would have worn, etc.”
Each equipped with their own portfolio of distinct works, the pair met while both exhibiting at Reykjavik’s Spark Design Space. Having bonded over a shared passion for unconventional jewelry and accessories design, they will continue to evolve the Staka line together, adding to the exciting range of unusual statement pieces.
Staka 2012 is available in limited supply at 38 þrep in Reykjavik, which stocks an equally exciting inventory of fashion and design goods.
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Thailand’s Floating Cinema
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The drive-in movie theater may be a uniquely North American institution, but the icon of the wide-open American landscape recently experienced its most heroic revival in Thailand, leaping forth from its humble, grounded origins and into the clear blue waters of Nai Pi Lae lagoon on Kudu Island. For the final night of the Film on the Rocks Yao Noi Festival earlier this month, guests were taken by boat to savor a final screening on a floating cinema designed by Beijing-based architect Ole Scheeren. Scheeren’s Archipelago Cinema consisted of a floating screen, cradled between two towering rocks, and a separate raft-like auditorium, together offering a spiritual and vaguely primordial cinematic experience.
Scheeren described the project rather poetically as “A screen, nestled somewhere between the rocks. And the audience…floating…hovering above the sea, somewhere in the middle of this incredible space of the lagoon, focused on the moving images across the water: a sense of temporality, randomness, almost like driftwood. Or maybe something more architectural: modular pieces, loosely assembled, like a group of little islands that congregate to form an auditorium.” More after the jump.
Though the floating drive-in departs significantly from its American vernacular counterpart, the project adopted vernacular Thai building practices, gleaning techniques used by local fishermen to construct floating lobster farms. The cinema was crafted out of recycled materials, and its modular construction allows for flexibility and future reuse. In fact, after its run as a theater, Archipelago Cinema will be dismantled and donated to the community of Yao Noi as a playground and floating stage.
All images courtesy the architect]
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Student Work – Daniel Brokstad
Description lovelypakage
Designed by Daniel Brokstad | Country: Norway
“Possession is a limited edition unholy wine collection, featuring three different red wines; “Evil Demon – Bloody Shiraz”, “Haunting Ghost – Spoory Cabernet” and “Old Witch – Cursed Pinot Noir”. All the wines comes in a solid coffin-shaped glossy casing, which adds to the exclusiveness of the wine series. Each are based on different occult themes as satanism, the paranormal and witchcraft. The type design on each bottle reflects it’s theme and was made in a rough way to contrast the otherwise clean setup and design, to give it more of an edgy look. This is a self initialized conceptual design.”
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Monocasco Concept Bike
The Monocasco Concept Bike is a tribute to the original OSSA Monocasso that famed Spanish racer Santiago Herrero rode in the ’70s. Herrero, who died in track related crash in the 1970 Isle of Mann TT. The bike is an electric version, designed by ART-TIC Team.
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1938 Phantom Corsair
“A six-passenger coupé prototype automobile built in 1938. Designer Rust Heinz planned to put the car into limited production. However, Heinz’s death in a car accident in July 1939 ended those plans, leaving the prototype Corsair as the only one ever built.” – Wikipedia
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Marou Chocolate
Description packagingoftheworld
Designed by Rice Creative, Vietnam.
Chocolate makers working directly at the source of the cacao farms are still very few and far between. Marou Faiseurs de Chocolat, based in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is one such company who have created the first single origin gourmet bean-to-bar chocolate to come out of Vietnam.
Marou was founded less than a year ago by two adventurous Frenchmen. They decided, to use the small amounts of cacao beans harvested, fermented and dried on small family farms throughout the Mekong Delta and southern highlands of Vietnam, to make an extraordinary chocolate.
Marou approached Rice Creative at the beginning of their adventure, with the mission to build the brand’s visual identity and packaging.
Inspired by Marou’s unique story, we sought to develop an identity and packaging system with the right mixture of modernity and tradition. The most exciting aspect of the product for us, was that each variant of Marou Chocolate could be based on the province from where the cacao beans grow. The geographical location of the farm and its soil determines the characteristics of the cacao beans and therefore the flavour of the chocolate.
After much deliberation, we found the simplest way to create a system for the bars was to name each bar after the province where it’s beans originated, and ascribe a natural colour-shift. Seeing the Trinitario cacao pods first hand, we found a greatly inspirational spectrum of hues. Deep vermillion to ochre yellow, grass green, midnight blue, and flushes of peacock aqua all appear.
We wanted the packaging to be strongly linked to Vietnam. We began collecting beautiful ceremonial papers that are still produced by artisanal printers in Cho Lon, the old Chinese quarter of Saigon. These papers are hand printed with intricate traditional lattice patterns. Typically, the patterns are adorned with illustrated fruits, flowers and auspicious animals. Inspired by this illustration style we hand drew our own original chocolate oriented ornaments of cacao pods, flowers and leaves, throwing in some heavenly looking clouds for the tropical monsoon. Our custom lattice pattern keeps a traditional look and creates a framework to incorporate some modernist typography, inspired by the old signage still found around the country.
To highlight the hand-made, artisanal quality of the chocolate itself, we commissioned a local printing shop to use the traditional silk-screen printing techniques to hand print the design in antique gold ink on each wrapper. The finished packaging is then given to Marou who then hand wrap the chocolate bars.
photos by Arnaud de Harven
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絵に描いたようなオアシス、ゴビ砂漠
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New work from Olly Moss.
