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Radius Turns 20 Metropolitan Cities Into Cities Of Light. Metal Landmark Skyline Candle Holders.

Technically Paris is called the City of Lights, but with Radius' City Lights wall mounted (or mantel) tea light holders, twenty different Metropolitan cities become backlit, creating a worldwide urban ambiance in your home or office.

Berlin:

Following the success of their city coat racks, Cologne-based Radius Design and Michael Rösing have accurately laser-etched arrangements of landmarks and architecture from various cities such as Paris, Sydney, London, Vienna, Milan and New York.

Radius City Coat Racks, which inspired the City Lights candleholders, are available in 50 different cities:

Below are 8 examples of the Radius City Lights Tea Light Holders from their selection of 20. They make great housewarming gifts or gifts for those who miss their home cities.

Milan:

Paris:

Frankfurt:

New York:

Berlin:

Cologne:

London:

Lübeck:

The powder coated steel candleholders measure 31.5" x 2.16" x 7" and have holes for wall mounting.

Price: EUR 79,00 ($106. 55 USD)
design: michael rösing & team
measurements: 80 x 5.5 x ca. 18 cm max. (31.5" x 2.16" x 7")
material: powder-coated steel

20 different cities available, shop for them here.

Highland Park 50 Year Old Whisky Limited Edition Bottle Wins 2012 Design Award.

Recently, the stunning, and extraordinarily expensive (just over $15,000) , limited edition bottle designed for Highland Park’s oldest ever island single malt whisky – Highland Park 50 year old, won the award for Best Design at the World Whiskies Award 2012. What's inside the stunning bottle was also named Best Single Malt Scotch 41 Years and Over (Multiple Casks), at the 2012 Whisky Bible Awards.

With range hoods varying from modern to baroque -fit for any style kitchen, Bastille Metal Works has has revolutionized the art of cooking ventilation.

Art Inspired Range Hoods:

above: Andy Warhol's Soup Can and Knives silkscreens are translated into custom range hoods by Bastille Metal Works

above: A Jasper Johns inspired range hood

above: A vintage Chevy's front end crafted into a functional range hood by Bastille Metal Works.

With a 100% customizable line of slip cast range hoods in an endless combination of patterns, sizes, designs and materials, the artisans at Bastille Metal Works pride themselves on their ability to offer beautiful, hand detailed functional additions to your kitchen that will captivate the eye.

The slip cast zinc range hood (also available in bronze, copper and pewter) is designed specifically for each client. Where another company may hesitate to take on a custom project, Bastille Metal Works accepts such ideas not as a challenge, but as an opportunity to truly shine at their craft as custom metal designers.

Traditional range hoods:

Bastille Metal Works

Turning Discarded Graffiti Spray Cans And The Leftover Paint Inside Them Into Art.

Canlove is a collective of artists devoted to removing discarded spray paint cans from heavily concentrated graffiti zones and properly recycling them by turning them into various artworks.

Discarded empty spray cans are a natural part of the scene in areas with a lot of graffiti. Some cans lie around for years before being sent to the landfills. And these cans are not necessarily environmentally friendly either. Many times spray cans are not recycled because of their pressurized and toxic nature.

Canlove takes those cans and unlocks their potential as a medium for artwork in themselves. The results are everything from unusual floral-like bouquets which use every part of the can to abstract art made from the residual paint left in the cans.

Flowers
These beauties are pretty self explanatory, and can add a burst of color to anywhere they sit. Metal cut flowers, bouquets or plants made from the discarded cans. And the best part is you don’t need a green thumb to own one forever.

Bouquets:

Custom Bouquets are available in a range of styles and colors, please contact them with any custom requests.

Cut Metal Flowers:

Orchids:

Other Floral Plants:

Many of the above shown arrangements are currently on display at the Chalk Gallery in Venice. To inquire about pricing, contact them at getlove@canlove.org

Bleeds
All of these works were created from the residual paint left over in the spray cans. It is released in different ways to achieve the desired painting technique for the piece. Sometimes hundreds of cans make up one work since there is so little paint in each can.

Splatter and Skelecan:

Intersect:

Pulled Apart:

Galaxies:

See all the Bleeds here

Canscapes
Canscapes are mosaic types of art created from body of the can. The square of metal that it becomes is colored completely on its own, its the paint drying when its exposed to air that makes the composition of the swatch. They collect them and rivet them together into the following compositions.

The Mucho Amor series: