Chanel Birdcage Earrings

Rare 1980's era Chanel costume jewelry Birdcage earrings with dangling CC'S.

Comfy Cargo Chair by Stephan Schulz

Via @smowblog, an empty frame "that you can fill according to mood and situation"... that's also a chair. From of an interview at (smow) with the designer Stephan Schulz.

Sé Collection by Jaime Hayon

Designer Jaime Hayon will launch his first complete collection of furniture at the upcoming London Design Festival.

Created for UK based luxury brand Sé, the collection will include tables, sofas and armchairs "delicately proportioned but with a wit and presence that sets them apart from any other."

The installation will be situated in the Brompton Design District at 221 Brompton Road, London SW3 opposite the Victoria and Albert Museum during the 2010 London Design Festival.

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+ londondesignfestival.com

Happy Sucker! Sucker! by Rafael López-Bosch

Rafael López-Bosch is an artist whose sculptures are loaded with meaning, but are also the type of pieces that will be interpreted in as many ways as there are viewers. He uses humour to make complex topics more palatable. "It is important to laugh at yourself, using humour allows the realise of tension and we can see things in a different perspective." His current show, entitled The Good Times Are Killing Me, features man and beast in narratives that cannot be taken literally, but must be digested slowly in order to make the most sense.

Artist: Rafael López-Bosch
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The Good Times Are Killing Me runs through September 24, 2010 at the Galeria Fucares Almagro in Almagro, Spain.

Self-Portrait by Damien Hirst

Opening at the end of the week is FYI - The Reflected Gaze - Self Portraiture Today, a group exhibition of work by several prominent artists of the day. The works on display are self-portraits, a reflection of contemporary art in its many forms (Chuck Close is depicted in a tapestry, KAWS in a series of bronze busts, and Damien Hirst by the seemingly obligatory skull). In addition to marking time and place, the self-portrait reveals some mystery and places the viewer in a conversation with the artist. The works of art shown in this exhibition cover a wide range of media and styles; the Torrance Art Museum website is indicative of a strong show.

I Heart Downtown Case Design by Sam Abbott

From @foc_amsterdam a series of rapid manufactured case designs for the Blackberry Bold 9700 phone.


FOC Talents is a global online network of "talented, young and pre-selected designers" that send in Computer Aided Designs every quarter, based on a prior given design brief. This quarter the brief was a case designs for the Blackberry Bold 9700 phone. Here are the four designs (of 14 submitted) which will be further developed for commercialization.
Peter Hermans' B100 is "soo retro that it is contemporary again. Soo ugly that you will want one. Oh and the antenna may not be functional, it is retractable!"

Moleskine Cover For Amazon Kindle

Moleskine has introduced a cover for the Amazon Kindle that combines the classic Moleskine leather hardcover with a reporter-style notebook. Inside, a suede lining protects the electronic device, while four corner elastic bands hold it in place.
Each cover includes a package of two reporter-style notebooks with black flexible cover, rounded corners, and blank ivory paper for jotting notes. There's also a version for the latest Kindle DX (9.7" display) as well as the original Kindle (6" display).
"The very idea of this new cover came from the Moleskine 'notebook hackers', who create their own custom-made accessories weaving together paper pages and digital tools."

Light Objects by Naama Hofman

Via Naama Hofman, Light Objects are light fixtures for wall, floor or table made of bent metal rods joined by an acrylic tube that houses about 120 LEDs. The effect of these paperclip-like lamps is one of fluorescence and the tube softens the glow.

Paper Planes Chair by Nipa Doshi & Jonathan Levien

Via @Architonic, a thinly upholstered armchair with a grid patterned fabric that highlights the intersecting planes of the back and seat. More at Doshi Levien and Moroso.

Poet Two-Seater Sofa

Finn Juhl designed the Poet Sofa (1941) for use in his own home, located in Charlottenlund, a rural area north of Copenhagen. Today, the Juhl house – which is an early example of open-plan design and offers views to its garden from every room – is part of the Ordrupgaard Museum. Being connected to the landscape was something that Juhl both lived and practiced, and the influence is notable in the organic forms of his furniture. Being a true sensualist, Juhl created his furniture to be comfortable, made with the best craftsmanship traditions and showing an appreciation of materials. This original is an authentic, fully licensed product of Onecollection, House of Finn Juhl™. Made in Denmark.

• This sofa is the work of architect and designer Finn Juhl, whose pioneering work brought international prestige to the Danish furniture industry.
• Upholstery is hand sewn onto the frame.
• The color combinations are: tan with brown cushion; charcoal with grey cushion; and cream with cream cushion.

Happy Pills

iPod Retro Mini Speaker

The sturdy retro shape looks like your favorite interlocking building set (hint hint), and holds your iPod upright and gives enough volume to let you get your groove on. Perfect for your cubicle, traveling or the bathroom. No batteries needed. This speaker uses a USB to power through your iPod.
Works with iPod Classic, iPod Nano, iPod Touch and iPod Mini.
Available in Red, Blue, Green, White, Black, and Yellow ($19.75)

Whiskey Stones

Piero Fornasetti

batya kebudi

Eternity and Fatma's hand rings

Like & Dislike Stamp Set @ Tate

Show your support or express your disapproval, this incredibly addictive stamp set is a wonderfully simple way of expressing your views!

Whether being used to highlight gifts for an upcoming birthday, vent frustration at magazine or newspaper articles or give a thumbs up to a friend or colleague's work, this stamp set will prove infinitely useful and therapeutic.

Box measures 12 x 8 x 6cm

Each Like or Dislike measures 2.5cm high when stamped on paper

archie grand

Nicholas Kirkwood

chloe sevigny x o.c

Ray-Ban 3016 Clubmaster Sunglasses

Hermes medor watch

Proenza Schouler bags

Robert Bradford - Recycled Toy Sculptures

Robert Bradford creates his life-size and larger-than-life sculptures of humans and animals from discarded plastic items, mainly toys but also other colorful plastic bits and pieces, such as combs and buttons, brushes and parts of clothes pegs.

Baubike

If square wheels were even slightly workable, Danish designer Michael Ubbesen Jakobsen would have used them in his Bauhaus-inspired BauBike. The pared-down bicycle is designed around the geometric shape of the square, and its main raw materials are minimal: some metal and leather.

Victor Churchill Butcher - Sydney

In the well-established suburb, tree-lined streets offer a perfect enclave for cafes and boutiques, and for that most unlikely of things, a supremely cool butcher shop. Victor Churchill is the first, and so far the only, butcher shop established by Vic and Anthony Puharich, the father and son duo behind Vic’s Premium Quality Meat, the leading meat supplier to some of the finest restaurants in Australia, China and Singapore.

McFancy by Cool Hunter

Space invade your car

Nothing turns heads faster than a cool retro print on an über hot car, and our Space Invader and Pac Man inspired Mini Coopers had half of New York & L.A in a neckbrace from all the attention.

1930 Art Deco Henderson

The motorcycling world loves a ‘barn find’—an old, obscure machine wheeled out of the woodwork for the first time. And this is one of the biggest revelations of recent months. It’s a 1930 Henderson that was customized before WW2 by a fellow called O. Ray Courtney and fitted with ‘streamliner’ bodywork.

Nixon Trooper Headphone

50$

A Matter of Taste

What will happen if you combine footwear or accessories with food? It will be not only stylish, but tasty collection. And if you can not imagine how it will look like, then you simply haven’t seen works of photographer Fulvio Bonavia. In 2008 Fulvio published his book "A Matter of Taste" with the conceptual photos on the theme "Food as Fashion". The most improbable that all the tasty accessories of Fulvio Bonavia – are real! Author by his own hands made models from food for each shot. Unfortunately, all his creations were too short-lived. But it was nice to know that the items captured in photos are the work of human hands, not of the ubiquitous Photoshop. The idea of the author is : “If you do not want to eat it – wear it!” Pictures excite taste buds and sense of style.