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The Loop Runs Circles Around Other Modern Outdoor Showers.

The Loop is a freestanding polyethelene shower system that can be used indoors or outside is available with colored LED lighting for indoor or outdoor use. Oh, and did I mention how crazy cool looking it is?

Here's a neat way to add a little excitement to your nighttime swim, besides skinny-dipping. Spain's Vidrepur is an Eco-friendly glass tile company that makes luminescent tiles that absorb the daytime light and then give off a glow for 6 to 8 hours.

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Made of 100% recycled glass. They can be used on walls, backsplashes, countertops, floors and pools. Just leave in the light a few minutes then turn off the lights and see the glow.

Vidrepur Fire Glass lumiscent tiles

Fosvit by Mosavit is a new patented luminscent vitreous mosaic tile:

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And Mosavit's Fosvit tile around the waterline of a pool:

Fosvit Tiles

Ezzari makes "Fosfo" or "Fading Out" glow in the dark ceramic tiles:

Ezzari Fosvo tiles

Italian company Lucedentro makes photoluminescent tiles as well as many other photoluminescent products:

Lucedentro

Susan Jablon's glow in the dark tiles as bathroom backsplash and shower:

Susan Jablon

There are other companies make glow in the dark or photoluminescent tiles, these are just a few of them.

all images courtesy of the individual companies

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.

We often think of knit or crocheted objects made with yarn, cotton and wool as cozy, comforting, even grandma-esque. But the works of artist Patricia Waller will most certainly shift that paradigm.