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Posts tagged “materials - misc.”

Narrow Modular Pavers by Stepstone

Sometimes a new proportion is all that's needed to bring a breath of fresh air into a common material. These pavers by Stepstone Inc. are a fine example......

Justin Green of Build It Green NYC!
AT Offline 7.10.08

Build It Green NYC! >> See Slideshow Justin Green, Director of Build It Green NYC! was another of 4 presenters/panelists at last Thursday's AT Design Meetup on Green @ Home. Justin recognized t...

Door Handles, Pulls & Hardware by Frank Gehry

Starchitect Frank Gehry tends to be a little overexposed. But we're rather fond of his new designs for door knockers and door pulls that were added to his two collections made by Italian manufacture...

MANDAL Headboards as Architectural Installation

When the 2008 IKEA Catalog debuted last summer, we remember loving the creative use of multiple MANDAL headboards. Over on ikea hacker, Diane used that same image of the doubled-up headboard as insp...

Flickr Find: Cork Wall

Cork is one of our favorite green materials. We saw earlier this week that Yemm & Hart will recycle your wine bottle corks into floor tiles. Here we see large cork "bricks" on the wall of a mid cent...

A Low Impact Material: 3form's 100 Percent

We've seen 3form's beautiful (and green) Chroma before. 3form has many lines of green materials and now they add one more: 100 Percent......

Outdoor Corian Lampshade by Sterling Surfaces

What is that beautiful shell-like object, you say? It's an outdoor lampshade made of Corian by Sterling Surfaces, a Massachusetts company that specializes custom fabricating pretty much anything out...

Materials Monthly from Princeton Architectural Press

If you're a designer or just interested in new materials for designing your own home, you might like this. It's Materials Monthly, a subscription to 10 mailings per year of the latest and greatest a...

Charles Goodman Barrel-Roof House
Washington DC

When we read that one of Charles Goodman’s Barrel-roof homes was having an open house on Sunday, heat or no heat, it was a must see. Whenever we drive by River Park we admire the uniqueness of this...

Rare Earth Magnets

We learned about these magnets at our brother's wedding. They were used in the corsages and boutennieres in place of pins that stick through clothing. We've come across them again now: this time in ...

ICFF 2008: Trends with Texture

Texture is creeping back into modern design in a big way. As designers develop new technologies and techniques in fabrication (and continue to explore traditional crafting techniques in contemporar...

NY Good Questions: Type of Insulation For the Ceiling?

Dear AT, Advice is sorely needed. We bought a warehouse condo and are in the process of renovating. On the final approval of our plans the condo board says we MUST use 2 inches of insulation on ...

Good Questions: Has Anyone Used Grout Colorants?

Hello AT, We had Ann Sacks Penny tile installed in our bathroom last year and now have several areas where the grout has become dirty looking. I've tried everything (and believe it was the fault of...

Rammed Earth Bathroom Walls

We love this rammed earth construction by Terra Firma Rammed Earth Builders. It's uncommon enough to see on a home's exterior. But would you believe you can also use the material in bathrooms? Check...

Hide and Peek Bed Spotted at Shimmer Screen Website

We were simply checking out this cool material called Shimmer Screen. But we didn't expect to see this use of the material, which could be done by anyone in their home. Even though it's not Bedroom ...

Linea Collection by Modern Doors Direct

Flush is the thing to be. No, not in the Bathroom Month sense of the word. Flush modern doors! It's tough to acheive a detail that puts a door surface flush to a wall surface without a jamb of some ...

Above View's Exotic Animal Skins Plaster Tiles

The textures in these plaster tiles by Above View are incredible. They're modeled after exotic animal skins like elephant, crocodile, ostrich, and stingray. See more photos after the jump......

The Fall of the Roman Brick

We love Roman bricks and always start when we see them. They're much longer and more slender than standard bricks (about 1 5/8"H x 11 5/8”L). We rarely see them and they're almost impossible to so...

Margaret Taylor's Reclaimed Patchboard Furniture

Re-Use. We found these unique cabinets buried in the design*sponge Eco Gift Guide and wanted to highlight them. We were thrilled to see that there is an entire series of reclaimed patchboard furnitu...

Marimekko Gift Wrap at Crate & Barrel
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The gift wrap is the gift when you're dealing with such beautiful papers as these by Marimekko, now at Crate & Barrel. Via: Happy Mundane......

Blogging New York Spaces... All Things Cork

Quite possibly on of our top five favorite materials. Cork is warm and natural and modern, too. We were pleased to find the material highlighted in this month's issue of New York Spaces magazine. ...

Sliding Welter Wall
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German Engineering. We're intrigued at the possibilities of the German designed Welter Wall as a design element in small spaces. The hardware's mechanics allow for a smoothly sliding "c-wall" to env...

NYT: Modern Green Retreat

Greener, Happier. Architects Paul McKean and Amy Donohue tackled The Complexities of Keeping It Small and Simple when they built a weekend home outside Portland, Oregon in the Hood River Valley. The...

Iconic Colorcore Panel by B+N Industries

Now with more contrast. The imprints in Iconic Panels by B+N Industries have been in single colors, until now. The company has now introduced Iconic Color-Core Panels, which have the same great reli...