I’ve been searching for a side table in white or silver to play against my dark orangey-red rug. It has to be small, budget conscious and round. This table, from Chiasso.com, has a shape reminiscent of the Charles Eames Stool Shape C, and might do the job. Priced at $218, it comes in a little higher than some of Chiasso’s other side tables, but I’m putting it on my Maybe List nonetheless.
I initially went to the Citizen-citizen.com site to take a look at the black crow style kite featured in Met Home-April 2006. I found an interesting table that had the appearance of being made of ice, but once I had moved on to other items, I couldn’t find it again. The site is stylish but completely un-navigable. Isn’t that anti-design? The only link I was able to consistently find, as I muddled through a mess of Flash and attempts at clever wordplay, was titled “Fuck It”. How appropriate.
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Accessories by NOJuju.
Here is a small bio and list of links to some interesting articles and interviews with Toyo Ito, architect and designer.
Icon Magazine: did you always want to become an architect?
Toyo Ito: in reality I always wanted to be a baseball champ.
I have always been athletic and played baseball.
at a certain point since I hadn’t managed to enter any university,
I had no choice but to sign up for architecture.
Toyo Ito is one of the world’s most innovative and influential architects.
Toyo Ito, Architect - Background:
Born in Japan in 1941, Toyo Ito graduated from Tokyo University, Department of Architecture in 1965.
Toyo Ito started his own architecture studio, ‘urban robot’ (urbot) in Tokyo, 1971; it became Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects in 1979.
Interviews and Articles
Toyo Ito: Image of Architecture in Electronic Age: designboom
Toyo Ito: Pavillion at the Serpentine Gallery - London 2002 (photos documenting the construction)
Toyo Ito: Nice Interview with Icon Magazine
Toyo Ito: Another Interview with Icon Magazine
Toyo Ito: Sendai Mediatheque Multi-purpose cultural centre made with steel tubular lattice structures. The building appears light by day, and also at night when the structure glows artifically from within. The Sendai Mediatheque contains a library, art gallery, audio-visual library, film studio, and cafe.
