A guesthouse built out of an airplane. Sounds a bit too eccentric? Well maybe, but it sure looks like a lot of fun. At 76, Toshikazu Tsukii has accomplished much more than many of his contemporaries. He has been a Principal Engineering Fellow at Raytheon Missile Systems for the last …
What about a cozy little cabin for your next DIY project? Well, one should take a lesson or two from Redditor ‘LXXXIV’, the resourceful Kiwi artist behind this gorgeous, minimalist DIY home with a meager budget of around $10,000 NZD ($8,241 USD). Talking about what drove him to build this …
It is not often that we come across the scope of exhaustion contributing to the ambit of creativity. But that is exactly the case with the above pictured Eden Lamp, a gloriously ‘green’ reaction to large scale wastage of wood. Diligently handcrafted by the team at Sebastiaan Dillmann’s design studio, …
When it comes to realm of DIY, we have had our fair share of fascinating contrivances, be it a vertical chess board or even a backyard roller coaster. However, this time around things take a more technologically refined route. Instructables enthusiast ‘designforhire’ has ingeniously contrived an advanced kitchen pantry with …
Make no mistake, solar ovens are pretty handy solutions to saving main grid electricity when it comes to sunshine lands (we are thinking Arizona!). But the predicament lies with geographic locations that are susceptible to more mundane weather conditions (let’s say London). Well, worry no more! Technology has once again …
Remember the days when life was simple? As a child, when you’d spend your Sunday afternoons listening to stories, while sitting on your grandmother’s lap. Or during those chilly winter nights when you would curl up on your favourite Grandfather Chair, with a Jules Verne novel. Student designer Nanna Kiil …
Stylish, rhythmical and yet championing minimalism in its own way – this is the Rely table designed by Brad Ascalon (for the NWBLK art gallery). The slim support legs visually clash with the multi-layered volume displayed by the table top. In fact, it is this top section that emerges as …
Simplicity is beauty – this age old dictum is righteously upheld by the Qgini, a collection of bathroom accessories designed by the duo of Daniel Debiasi and Federico Sandri (for Antoniolupi). Comprising of pretty elementary laser-cut metal sheets, the apparent ‘magic’ lies in the apt shaping that contributes to their individual …
For your new house with swanky interiors and a bathroom to die for, those boring porcelain sinks are hardly appropriate. But how about modern art for a sink design? The new Penta Sink by the famous Polish designer Mac Stopa of MyBath, with its brilliant interplay between transparency and opacity, …
Architects everywhere are taking the world by a storm with their incredibly artistic, yet surprisingly space-saving home designs. Well, Sarah Deeds, the architect of Deeds Design, showcases her designing talents as befits the poster child for such spatially efficient house designs. Her 700 sq ft attic floor apartment in a …
