Have A Little Heart This Valentine's Day. Here's 64 To Choose From.

This large selection of handmade Italian ceramic hearts designed and decorated by various artists are designed to cover every gamut of love from desire to heartbreak. Each individual heart measures approximately 5x12 cm and makes a great paperweight in addition to being a declaration of feelings. Some are interactive and others are simply decorative, but all of them are sweet.









In addition to unique ceramic hearts, Creativando makes other ceramic wares such as vases, paperweights and artist decorated butterflies. They also create furniture.

Creativando is inspired by a passion. From the passion of Laura Ellero and Mauro Bassani, the founders, for contemporary art and design. Hence the idea, at the beginning just a hobby, to "produce" gifts and everyday objects revisited with an artistic and graphic point of view. Nowadays Creativando distributes its products worldwide. The philosophy is very simple. A small artisan entreprise who made of creativity and service its strength. And that puts a lot of passion in all its work.

Environment and Made in Italy
Selected materials and maximum attention to product quality and manufacturing, a craftmanship for details, from concept to packaging. This allows us to offer a product that has all the value and reliability of the product Made in Italy.

Creativando

From The Garage To The Wine Cellar, 35 Photos Of A New Gorgeous Modern Concrete & Glass Home In Italy.

House M is a residential home designed by Bolzano-based Architects monovolume architecture + design that is located in the center of Merano, in the quiet area of Obermais near the Northernmost part of Italy. Construction on the private concrete home began in 2011 and was completed in 2012.

Dressing Up Your Drawers. 70's Pop Imagery On Dressers With Classic Silhouettes From Ypsilon.

Ypsilon of Italy is known for their luxurious bathroom furnishings, most of which are chests of drawers and vanities in an ornate style. However, they've just added the Ypsilon POP collection, designed by BB Associati for the brand. The free standing laquered wood chests of drawers feature fun colors and imagery, combining a 70's pop art element with a classic silhouette.





They can even customize them with an image of your own choosing, such as your own dog or face. The two drawer chests are designed for any room in the house and are available in gloss, matte or two color.

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For pricing and other information, contact them at office@ycollection.it

YPSILON

City On Fire. The Nerone Wall-Mounted Bioethanol Fireplace.

The new Nerone wall-mounted fireplace designed by James Di Marco for Caleido is a bioethanol* fireplace set within a graphic skyline made of epoxy resin coated carbon steel. looking like a city ablaze, it combines warmth with art and is definitely a conversation piece, on or off.

Lego-Like Recycling Containers from Flussocreativo.

Named LECO, these plastic recycling containers (patent pending) are designed to emulate giant Lego Bricks. Designed by the Italian industrial interior and graphic design company Flussocreativo, the project is described as follows:

Leco is an ecological station facility, young and colorful with a strong reference playful etched in collective memory.



Containers designed for separate collection, composed of five elements in polymer of which two are for aluminium and glass, respectively blue and green, and two, of larger size, for paper (white) and plastic (yellow).



The originality of the form of Leco deviates from the classic collection container for trying to involve the user through two major aspects: the liking for aesthetics and modular functionality.

Leco is clearly a reference to the “Lego”, a world game that, since you’re a child, increases the ability to manage and combine small items, stimulating creativity.



Hence the desire to create, even if for a delicate issue such as environmental conservation, the opportunity to interact with the containers in a nice way, overcoming aesthetic and formal obstacles.



The result of that vision has led us to create a collector who had the power to attract people, not only for its use, but also for its ability of solving space problems and induce to the practice of daily separate collection.

Specifically, each container has an external shell with both extremities channel into assembly, that recall, in a very intuitive way, the handiness of interlocking between elements typical of the game “Lego”; while in the front, there is folding door designed to accommodate the bag.

Leco is a new, exciting and colorful solution to try to improve the aptitude to recycle in a spontaneous way, by giving a daily aid to the environment.



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Alien Boob Dress & Eyelashes Galore in Gianni Molaro's Art Couture Collection Runway Show.

Italian art couture and wedding gown designer Gianni Molaro featured his new 2012 Spring/Summer Couture Collection at Rome's Fashion Week (Alta Roma) earlier this month. The show consisted of some couture wedding gowns and a few truly bizarre concoctions (some actually included a working siren light, umbrellas, bicycle wheels and plush tentacles). All were paired with the application of bright eye make-up, a slew of false lashes, up-dos and more than a few rhinestones.






Filled with sculptural art-like gowns and wild styling, it was his "“Fishlike Alien With A Literal Boob In The Center” gown that seems to be receiving the most attention from blogs and newspapers - and much of it negative. While the gown was undoubtedly unattractive, albeit imaginative, it does a disservice to the rest of the collection and the unusual make-up that adorned his runway models.


above: the ugly Alien Boob gown that is not truly reflective of Gianni Molaro's new collection

That said, I wanted to share with you the entire collection and a close-up look at the wild make-up and false eyelash application in the runway show.



































images courtesy of Fashion Mag

The designer:


Gianni Molaro

ATELIER MOLARO
V. ROMA 122
SAN GIUSEPPE VESUVIANO (NA)
T 081 5297520
E giannimolaro@gmail.com


On a side note, the designer's art-filled home was featured in La Reppublica Napoli last year, you can view a slideshow of that here.