Showing posts with label furniture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label furniture. Show all posts
Monday, August 8, 2011
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....
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....
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....
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