Architecture & Interiors With Meredith Swinehart
This week in design news: Norwegians smash 100 chairs, Frank Gehry designs a surprisingly simple sailboat, and another Steve Jobs biopic opens this weekend.
Frank Gehry Designs a Sailboat
Above: The first Frank Gehry-designed sailboat is made of wood, titanium, and glass and is named "Foggy"—a play on the acronym for Frank Owen Gehry.
With help from Argentine naval architect Germán Frers, architect Frank Gehry designed a luxury sailboat to be used for both pleasure sailing and racing. The boat will be moored in Marina del Rey, California, near Gehry's LA home, but first Gehry plans to sail with the boat's owner, Richard Coen, to Miami, Cuba, and Panama. Gehry, who is known for creating dramatically curved designs, told his co-designer: "Don't let me go too crazy—the boat has to work." Read it at Town & Country.
Crackdown on Fake Furniture in Norway
Above: Manufacturer PP Møbler calls the Round Chair "absolutely the most important work of Hans J. Wegner."
Norwegian customs agents destroyed an order of 100 fakes resembling Hans Wegner's Round Chair, made in China and ordered by a Norwegian restaurant owner. The owner offered to compensate Danish manufacturer PP Møbler—who owns the copyright to the chair—in exchange for retaining his order, but he was ultimately forced to pay to have the chairs destroyed instead. Read it at Dezeen.
Amazon Launches "Handmade"
Above: Marbled Stained Glass Trays are $55-$75 from Debbie Bean on Amazon Handmade.
On Thursday, Amazon.com launched a competitor to online crafts marketplace Etsy, called Amazon Handmade. The initial product lineup includes more than 80,000 items from 5,000 sellers in 60 countries. Amazon Handmade forbids outsourced production and said it is strictly reviewing vendors to ensure all wares are made by hand. (Meanwhile, recently launched Etsy Manufacturing moves that retailer toward machine-made goods.) Read it at The New York Times.
Yves Béhar Wins Design Miami Award
Above: Photo via Fast Company.
Swiss-born designer Yves Béhar is the 2015 recipient of Design Miami's Design Visionary Awards. Through his San Francisco firm, Fuseproject, Béhar is known for designing for positive social change and environmental impact; projects include an inexpensive tablet computer for children in developing countries, and a wearable illness-testing device for people who lack access to consistent medical care. The award will be presented during Miami Design Week, December 2-6. Read it at Design Miami.
Would Steve Jobs Approve?
Above: The newest Apple campus was designed by Studio HOK, the designers of Apple's current headquarters.
Steve Jobs is in the news again with this weekend's limited release (in NYC and LA) of Aaron Sorkin's new biopic on the Apple founder. Head designer Jony Ive disapproves of the film, telling an audience at a recent Vanity Fair summit that "We are celebrating Steve's life, and at the same time we are [seeing] the incredibly choreographed release of a film about him, and I don't recognize that man at all. It's heartbreaking." Read it at Vanity Fair.
Meanwhile, we wonder what Jobs would think of Studio HOK's design for Apple's latest "spaceship" style supercampus in Sunnyvale, California. The 770,000-square-foot structure is five miles from Apple's main campus-to-be in Cupertino, designed by Foster + Partners and currently under construction. Read more at Wired.
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Home Inspiration With Remodelista Team
Read on to see what we loved this week.
- Above: In preparation for our upcoming West Coast Cool issue, we came across a tour of Dinosaur Coffee in Los Angeles. Photograph by Lily Glass for SFGirlByBay.
- Online home decor retailer Dering Hall has updated their website design; head over and take a look.
- If you're in the Bay Area, drop in on Glassybaby's just opened Hot Shop (745 Heinz St.) on Saturday, October 10, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., for glassblowing demonstrations, live music, and food. And next Friday, October 16, and Saturday, October 17, find some of our favorite local makers at the Everyday Home Studiopatro Pop Up. Go to Studiopatro for information.
- If you're in the New York area, designer Brad Ford is hosting his second annual Field + Supply Modern Makers Craft Fair in High Falls, New York. For information and directions, go to Field + Supply. Come see what Workstead, Apparatus, Joshua Vogel of Blackcreek Mercantile, and lots of other high-end craftspeople have been up to; we'll be making a day of it and hope to see you there.
- Above: Plumen's sleep LED lightbulb is now available in a dimmable version. Photograph by Ian Nolan and styled by Poppy Norton.
- Take a look at the dramatic transformation of Shoppe by Amber Interiors in Calabasas, California.
- It's no surprise that the world's most stylish college dorms are in Berlin.
- Above: On our wish list: The bentwood ash hook by Copenhagen's Line Depping, invisible hardware included.
- Ten minutes is all you need to clean a bedroom.
- Eight tabletop essentials for Halloween.
- Above: Benjamin Moore named Simply White as their color of 2016. Photograph courtesy of Benjamin Moore.
Instagram and Pinterest Picks of the Week
- Above: This week we're keeping up with Henry Built (@henrybuilt) via Instagram. Stay tuned for a tour of their new Mill Valley, California, showroom next week.
- Above: Our new Pinterest obsession is artist Claire Cottrell's Architecture board.
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