Modern Home On The Island of São Miguel by Portugal Architect Bernardo Rodrigues

This single family residence, House of the Flight of Birds (or Flight of Birds House), located on São Miguel Island (St Michael Island) in the Azores was designed by Portugal's Harvard and Columbia educated architect Bernardo Rodrigues and recently featured in Architizer and on Arch Daily.

In case you haven't yet seen the unusual modern home with it's incredible rooftop views, take a look.












The incredible views from the homes' inviting undulating rooftop:






The interior:






Architect: Bernardo Rodrigues
Location: Ribeira Grande
Preliminary Study: James Grainger, Pedro Mosca, Natacha Viveiros
Execution: Nelson Ferreira, Ye Xuanyong, Vasco Melo, Laura von Dellemann, Alexandra Balona
Work: Adriana Massague, Rita Breda, Ana Soares, Jessica Silva, Sofia Cordeiro, Raquel Fernandes Elena Archipovait Marcello Zahr
Project Year:2002-2010
photos by photographer Iwan Baan


Bernardo Rodrigues is one of Portugal's most innovative architects. Be sure to see more of his work at his website.

Attn. Location Scouts!
The owner of this amazing home is now allowing the home to be used for commercial print and television shoots. If you have a luxury product or service you think is appropriate, please contact me for more information.

A Little Lichtenstein For Your Home. Rugs & Sculpture By The Famous Pop Artist.

Attention Pop Art lovers, now you can add a little Lichtenstein to your home with this fabulous pop art carpeting and a limited edition sculpture from the famed Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein.



I spotted (no pun intended) this carpet years ago, but was never able to find where or how to purchase it. Now, Artware Editions is selling the pop art carpeting made by Vorwerk, as wall-to-wall or a bound area rug.



Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923 - 1997)
Object: Carpeting
printed nylon
14’ minimum width
Retail Price: $18 / square foot
Description: This carpet design by Roy Lichtenstein is available as wall-to-wall carpeting or bound as a custom-sized area rug with black trim. The nylon makes it perfect for high-traffic areas or kids’ play rooms.

Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. A 50% deposit is required to place an order.

In addition to the rug, for serious art collector's, they are also selling this wonderful original Roy Lichtenstein porcelain and cast resin mobile sculpture in a limited edition of 125.






With Landscape Mobile, Roy Lichstenstein has designed a beautiful "art system" as a table centerpiece. Invoking Alexander Calder's standing mobiles, Lichtenstein termed this piece a "stabile". It is in fact a non-moving object representing a tall tree set in a green basin intended to be filled with flowers. To create a sense of moveable, balancing parts, Lichtenstein added an abstracted background of clouds, rain and a bright yellow sun. This porcelain and cast resin stabile can be viewed from all four sides, and its thin profile makes it an ideal and unobstrusive centerpiece.

Manufactured by Bernardaud in Limoges, France. The edition of 125 is individually signed and numbered.

Buy both here at Artware Editions

Robox - The Robot-Shaped Bookcase for Casamania by Fabio Novembre.

Looking for a fun way to store the books in your children's room or modern office? Irreverent designer Fabio Novembre's Robot shaped bookcase for Casamania may be just the thing. Presented at this year's Salon del Mobile, the Robox is made of varnished metal and stands 184 cm tall.





Fabio Novembre

Lighting? Speakers? Try Both. Sensai Wood Designs Light Up A Room With Sound.

A beautiful new collection of lighting that function as wireless bluetooth loudspeakers for the home. The Sensai wood collection designed by Decoma consists of a suspension light, a floor lamp, a table lamp and a wall sconce in dark and blonde woods that conceal omnidirectional speakers.

Suspension lamp/speakers:



Table lamp/speaker:




A view of the underside:


Wall sconce light/speaker:




Floor lamp/speaker:


Listen to the radio or music wirelessly through the discreetly concealed speakers within the contemporary lighting. The bulbs are available in white, red, green or blue bulbs and have three dimmer levels.

The Sensai collection will be distributed through FDV group in their Alt Lucialternative Line.

Japanese Botanical Artist Makoto Azuma Goes Green With The Classic Aeron Chair.

Apparently, a rolling task chair does gather moss.



Japanese artist Makoto Azuma, known for his botanical creations, has collaborated with Herman Miller’s Tokyo store, to create this "green" version of Bill Stumpf's Aeron chair. The faux moss-covered chair will be on display in the store this summer.








The chair will be on display this summer at the Herman Miller store in Marunouchi, which just opened earlier this year. In addition to their standard line-up of products, the Marunouchi Herman Miller store is known for their one-of-a-kind collaborations with Japanese designers.

Herman Miller

GE Recreates Van Gogh Painting with Plants for London's National Gallery

above digital composite by Laura Sweet

GE (General Electric) and London’s National Gallery just unveiled an ecomaginative collaboration – an installation of Van Gogh’s famous A Wheatfield with Cypresses, made from over 8,000 living plants and on display on the western side of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square.


above: 'A Wheatfield, with Cypresses' was painted in September 1889, while Van Gogh was a patient at the St-Rémy mental asylum.

above: More than 25 varieties of plant have been used to mimic the strong bands of color in the original picture.

The living painting has been constructed by specialist horticulture and design company ANS using over 8,000 plants of more than 26 different varieties. To create the artwork, each plant was selected for its unique colour to match the tones of the original painting.


image courtesy of GE

image courtesy of GE

image courtesy of GE

image courtesy of GE

image courtesy of GE

image courtesy of GE

image courtesy of GE

The living painting is a creative manifestation of GE’s commitment to the environment through its ‘ecomagination’ business strategy, which is concerned with meeting customers’ demands for more energy-efficient products.

The green doesn’t stop there: GE also contributed environmentally-friendly Jenbacher cogeneration heat and power engines that will help reduce the Gallery’s carbon footprint.

People can see the living wall in Trafalgar Square until the end of October.

Thanks to GE Reports and London's National Gallery for the info