I’m proud to announce I’ve formally started working on preparing the original minusfive WordPress theme for mass release. The theme was inspired by my first visit to MoMA, a place I dreamed of visiting ever since I found my passion for modern design.
There are many things to work out in order to make the theme flexible enough so it can work seamlessly in any WordPress install. I hope to be posting soon about the actual release.
Located at only 2 hours [drive] from downtown Tokyo and surrounded by the Pacific Ocean on one side and beautiful mountains on the others, the house is a natural retreat designed by architect Kiyonobu Nakagame. More images after the break.
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You’re probably drooling all over your keyboard by now, aren’t you? The Brionvega ALPHA is an LCD TV / DVD player combo by italian designer Valerio Cometti, whose inspiration for this product comes from the immortal designs by Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe and Eileen Gray.
You can buy it now from the Brionvega page.
A friend sent me a link to milk.dk—she thought I would like their desk. Boy was she right! I mean, what’s not to like? Electronic height adjustment, built-in [concealed] cable management, modular multifunctional trays; all this without compromising on looks. Designer Søren Kjær really hit a home run with this one. Unfortunately, prices are not available anywhere I can see, but there is a form on MILK’s site where you can request more information.
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Tadao Ando (Ando Tadao, born September 13, 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture is sometimes categorised as Critical Regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field.
He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism.
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