The Burning House: What are Your Most Essential Objects?

We’ve written about Foster Huntington’s love of simplicity before, but we’ve recently discovered another project of his: The Burning House. This one, makes us think about our Life Essentials by asking the question, “What would you take with you if your house was on fire?” We love that Huntington has taken this familiar question a step further by asking…

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How to Hide an Ugly Flat Screen TV

We’ve long wondered why we see so many ugly black flat-screen televisions proudly displayed on walls of living rooms. One of the best disguises we’ve seen for flat-screens is a painting or mirror that sits in front of the TV on special hinges that lift it up when you want to watch TV. An especially beautiful iteration of this idea is like a minimalist abstract painting, but is a panel made of antique Flemish linen.

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Trending at the Int’l Furniture Show: Faux Distressed Surfaces

Designer Laura Handler, whose Montana home we featured a while back, sent us a report of her vist to ICFF, the yearly International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City.  Here’s the trend she spotted and her funny and insightful commentary : I did notice an interesting phenomenon. There seemed to be a growing trend of faux distressed…

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A Surprising Micro-world Inside Our Tears

Rose-Lynn Fisher has found a fascinating world of differences inside the tears we weep—be they from joy, frustration, grief, or cutting into a pungent onion. In the tradition of Eadweard Muybridge‘s high-speed shots of everyday movements… —which startled the public upon release…or Wilson Bentley‘s fabulous snowflake photography, prior to which scientists assumed most snowflakes were probably alike––…

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The Modern Primitive’s Guide to Starting a Fire without Matches

Italian industrial designer Francesco Faccin, who teaches about “objectness/project making”,  made a beautiful little video of the “bow drill”, a device he designed to start a fire manually, using the principle of rubbing two sticks together. “…a beech spindle is rotated within pre-formed holes in a board made from linden wood…The user kneels on the board to…

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