Showing posts with label furniture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label furniture. Show all posts

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Thoughts about indoor airspace

I can't decide if this place is awesome or terrible:



Gorgeous windows, gorgeous furniture, yet the scale seems all wrong and I'd hate to see the heating bill.

Is it just me, or should they hang a taxidermied whale from the ceiling? If you want to be a tad more traditional instead, maybe hang a few gigantic paper ball lanterns? Such a shame to have all that wasted airspace....

Monday, July 27, 2009

Philippe Starck, eat your heart out

InventorSpot: 10 New Designs Every Safe Hospital Should Have!



These students' designs are just incredible. Cabinets which are unlocked by a patient's RFID wrist tag? Mattresses which change color when accidentally pierced by hypodermic needles? Magnetic blood pressure cuffs?

Hospital gear can be useful AND gorgeous; I think it's a great sign when hospital design is so good that you might even consider having it in your own living room -- and you're not even ill. If only they offered more options in magenta + orange, or at least in a jaunty argyle....