Day 342 - Contemporary art: illusive light installation in the dessert

Philip K Smith III made an amazing installation.

He modified a wooden cabin in Joshua Tree, California, and transformed it into an illusive object.
By adding mirrors to the cabin, he succeeded in creating a 'transparant' installation that seems to be part of its surroundings. The title of this installation is Lucid Stead

Phillip K Smith III: Lucid Stead (Joshua Tree, California 2013) from royale projects on Vimeo.

Day 319 - Playing with perception: creative approach of urban space and objects

Benedetto Bufalino, a French artist, designed a picnic table. A wooden table with two wooden benches. Quite normal, or not?

Bufalino plays with scale and perception. His picnic table is huge. The oversized proportions of the picnic table make us look like miniatures. Take a look at the photo's below (source: designboom.com) and be surprised.

Day 279 - Furniture design: 'matroesjka chair'

Vivian Chiu studied Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design.

She designed several chairs. My personal favorite is the Inception chair.
A chair that consists of chairs that are progressively getting smaller.
Like a matroesjka they can be taken apart and/or put together.

Source: Vivian Chiu

Day 134 - Design I like: cute birdhouse (seen in Maastricht)

Last Sunday I was in Maastricht, a large city in the south of the Netherlands.

Maastricht is Dutch, but the atmosphere is definitely Parisian. It has luxury stores, lively shopping streets and a Burgundian lifestyle.

Of course I went to 'Wyck', a quarter with trendy boutiques and restaurants, art galleries and interior design shops.

In the Rechtstraat I discovered a boutique that sells this wooden birdhouse: a cafe for birds!
Cute, isn't it?

Birdhouse 'Cafe' - Photo: © 2VORM