Need To Add Some Warmth To Your Home? These Chazelle Fireplaces Are Hot.

Chazelle fireplaces -- Cheminées de Chazelle - offer a large range of enclosed fireplaces varying from rustic and traditional to modern and streamlined. Using materials like traditional stone, blue stone, granite, cement, metals and woods, they have wall mounted, inset, and traditional fireplaces that are as hot looking as they are functional. Below are a few of their more contemporary designs.

The Aleria:

The Antalya:

The Arche:

The Arlequin:

The Bambou:

The Biarritz:

The Boat:

The Fura:

The Fura Twin:

The Galet:

The Hossegor:

The Linea:

The Louise:

The Malte:

The Oostende:

The Opole:

The Pivoines:

The Tokyo:

The Venlo:

The Vittoria:

The Voissay:


To see their full range of heating products, go here.


Cheminées de Chazelles
Tel. : +33 (0)5 45 23 50 50
Fax : +33 (0)5 45 23 53 09

Nudo: Adopt An Italian Olive Tree & Get Your Own Oil

I love this idea. Nudo allows you to adopt an olive tree on a hillside in Italy and reap the benefits (e.g. olive oil) that the tree produces for a year.



You get to browse the grove online and pick your own tree and then you can make arrangements (they say you are welcome anytime, just give them a call first) to go see it, water it, even hug it.

Below is the map of available olive tree groves and images of the trees within each grove.








They can also give you updates on how your tree is doing.




Once you've chosen and adopted a tree, the first thing you'll receive is an adoption certificate, to make you official, and your tree information booklet. Then over the course of the year you'll receive two more packages, one in the spring and one in the autumn, containing all the produce from your tree.


Above: Antonio at work, pruning your tree

Above: Tiberio, their organic inspector, makes sure your trees are pesticide-free

above: the local press

Above: your olives

Above: your oil

They call it "your tree" but in actuality, they collect your tree’s harvest with about 50 of its neighbors – to give us enough olives to press in one go.

Spring package:


This package contains your organically produced extra virgin olive oil. Each tree produces about 2 litres of oil a year and they guarantee a minimum of 1.5 litres. If your tree produces less than this, they'll supplement it with the finest oil from one of their other groves.

Autumn package:


This package contains more extra virgin olive oil, this time from their flavored range. For their lemon oil, they crush whole lemons along with the olives; for their chilli oil, they infuse the oil with fiery Sicilian chillies. You'll receive three different tins from the range.



For just $65 (+ postage & packaging) you’ll receive 3 packages over the year:
1. Spring package (all the extra virgin olive oil from your tree)
2. Autumn package (three flavoured extra virgin olive oils)
3. Personalized adoption certificate and booklet about your tree


Their oil has been described by the BBC as 'Italy's finest cold-pressed olive oil'. Their tins look at home in the very most la-di-dah of kitchens. They are carbon positive and all their oil comes from small scale artisanal groves, so buying from them helps ensure the life of farms that make the Italian countryside as pretty as a picture postcard.

Their address is
C.da Appezzana 29,
62020 Loro Piceno (MC),
Le Marche,
Italy

You can phone them at local rates on
+39 339 4422 495 (Italy Office)
020 7617 7235 (UK Skype)
718 473 0732 (USA Skype)

Adopt your tree here.

You can also shop online for Nudo products like those shown below here.

Working In A Cube? Try Working In An Orb: The Globus Workstation

Nope, it's not a space age prototype. It's an actual produced product. And it's available for purchase. Globus is a mobile work station (flexi-station) in two guises. In its closed form, this work station fascinates and intrigues-not unlike a modern office deathstar. It hides its function and intrigues onlookers.



In its open form, the work station is inviting and multi-functional. In fact, the Globus is a flexible, mobile, all-in-one work station with a work-top and a comfortable swivel chair. So there’s a place for you everywhere and at every minute of the day. A product of vision. A vision of what a flexible and mobile work station should be.


The Globus has been developed by Lande Productie Schijndel BV in The Netherlands for Artifort and Gispen. Designer: Michiel van der Kley

Construction: The Globus has a cast aluminum base on wheels supporting a moulded plastic globe with two sections. Once it is opened, the wheels a blocked. One half of the globe is a comfortable seat. The seat’s swivel action makes sitting down and standing up very simple. The other half of the globe hides a small table that can be easily adjusted for height.



The footplate can be powder coated in any color in the standard Artifort collection. The globe itself can be sprayed in any RAL color. The seat can be supplied in various colors of leather or fabric.






Uses: Globus is a beautiful, multifunctional, space-saving work station that’s equally at home in a public environment or an office. Would also be ideal for use in a hotel lobby or airport business lounge.


Made for Artifort & Gispen. Available at LIMN, San Francisco.