Product Pick Of The Week: think/thing's Nestt Child Car Seat

Let me start off by saying I have spelled the name of this product correctly. Sadly, in some other articles and press, the product has been misspelled as "nesst".

Apparently the Nestt by think/thing is presently in production and has been approved by the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. It must be expensive because it's falling into the 'luxury' category as stated by both the designers and other reviews.

In addition to its organic modern egg design, the Nestt uses a steel safety cage in its skeleton with memory foam cushions that clearly provides enormous side-impact protection for young children.

For the "I'm-so-hip-I'm-bordering-on-space-age" baby!





Learn more about it here.

2013 UPDATE: Sadly this never came to fruition and Think Thing seems to have disappeared.

Four Fabulously Fun Finds For The Home

The Archangle Floor lamp in Bilbao pattern ( traditional gothic stained window) or Rio (colorful modern abstract pattern). Screenprinted polyester fits over a standing floor lamp with a white matte metal base. From Sipure Design.



The Inside Outside Cabinet. A wall mounted composite medicine cabinet from Authentics. In bright yellow, it has line art of bottles and items you find in a bathroom or medicine cabinet, only printed on the outside. Available here.


Salt and Pepper in One by Munire Kirmaci, 2006
Sharing the same housing this holds both your salt and your pepper in one simple modern object. Tilt one end to dispense salt and the other for pepper. Made of stainless steel and rubber plugs.



Available in the male for or female form, these classical busts called ART relic's are coated in a chalkboard finish so you can graffiti them as you like! Made by Seletti, they come in a limited number and arrive in a crate, just like a real relic. I LOVE them!
Buy the Art relic busts here.

At 395$ A Bottle, You Won't Be Beer-Bonging This Brew.

Above: Bottles of Vintage Nr. 1 sell for $395 USD and have 4 different labels designed by Frans Kannik.

Danish brewery, Jacobsen Brewhouse (owned by Carlsberg), has produced the most expensive beer in the world. The crown jewel has been named Vintage Nr. 1, and comes corked and wax-sealed in a slender, misty green bottle, just like a bottle of vintage champagne.



The unique brew, named Vintage Nr. 1, possesses a complex mix of flavors; with hints of prunes and port, the beer also has a distinct smoky caramel and vanilla aroma.


Above: The beautiful packaging


Only 600 bottles have been brewed and in a very short time the expensive brew has become a hot topic among international beer connoisseurs and journalists alike.

Vintage No.1 has, as the only contemporary beer, been matured in J.C. Jacobsen's original crypt-like cellar from 1847, for six months in new Swedish and new French oak barrels. "The project started as a wild idea and a wish to create a new type of beer that had never been seen before. During the aging process in new barrels, lots of chemical processes take place. Not all reactions are known but they taste wonderful", says Jens Eiken, Head Brewer at Jacobsen.

The beer will be sold mainly through three up-scale restaurants in Copenhagen, Denmark.


Above: each label is a hand stilled litho depicting Danish Fables


Each bottle of Jacobsen Vintage No. 1 is labeled with an original hand stilled lithographic print made by the Danish artist Frans Kannik. The prints depict fables of Sif. Sif was married to the Nordic god Thor, who was often used by Carls Jacobsen as a symbol of strength. 


Above: Artist Frans Kannik

Beer Facts (from the brewery):

•The Jacobsen Vintage No. 1 is a barley wine with an ABV on 10.5%

•The grists contain Maris Otter pale ale malt, Maris Otter Imperial malt and caramel malt. Invert sugar is added during the four hours wort boiling as well as bittering hops, in the shape of Challenger and Target, and aroma hops in the shape of Bramling Cross and Fuggles.

•The beer is fermented at 25°C with English ale yeast.

•The beer is matured in new Swedish (the oak is from Hjo in the middle of Sweden and the barrel is bought through Thorslundkagge) and new French barrels (Cote dór barrels) for six month.

•The beer has flavours of vanilla, smoke, caramel and port from maturing on Swedish or French Cote dór oak casks. The bitterness is soft and intriguing.

•During the production and aging of a barley wine, Maillard reactions are continuously caused which adds caramel, nut and yeast aromas to the beer.

•In Jacobsen Vintage, you can taste different personalities in the beer in the form of Maillard, Schiff, Amador and Strecker.
(source: carlsberg group)

Wanna buy a bottle? go here.