DWR's Champagne Chair Finals, Vote For Your Favorite.

Design Within Reach asked for votes for their Most Popular Champagne Chair Award.

The chairs included were selected by the design-savvy, Champagne-loving staff of Design Within Reach.

Below are the finalists from each round of voting, going up against each other for this coveted award.



The designer of the Most Popular Champagne Chair will receive a $500 DWR gift certificate and their winning chair will join the other outstanding chairs on a nationwide Studio tour.

The Champagne polling booth will close on Friday, February 9th at 5pm PT and you can vote only once, so choose wisely.

Cast your vote here.

Mac•a•licious.

Never mix up your ipod with everyone else's in the gym locker room.
Or question which laptop is yours in the student library.

As a big mac enthusiast, I was thrilled to read about Etchamac in the premiere issue of Mac Life, a new magazine.

Customize your mac product with laser etching. Here are just a few examples:








Etchamac will basically etch anything you want onto your mac product-for a price, of course. But it's a great idea to help distinguish your mac from the hundreds of others out there. Or, as a corporate promotion, etch a nano with your logo!

Be it an ipod, mac book or G4 laptop... aluminum, polycarbonate or plastic, seems they can etch on most anything, check them out.

Funky Find Of The Week: The Bruce Balcony Grill

Designed by Henrik Drecker, the Bruce Balcony Grill is such a cool simple idea and space saver. Very euro. Click on the pic to learn more or to purchase.

If Tattoos Were Made of Gold. The Jewelry Of Michael Spirito.

Tired of cutesy hearts for Valentine's day?
How about flaming hearts in 14k or a Heart wrapped in a 14k crown and thorns from Michael Spirito's fabulous collection, Exhibitionist NYC.
Cause that's about as 'sweet' as his jewelry gets.




Meet Michael Spirito of Exhibitionist, NYC. When Michael Spirito took the Accessories award for his fascinating jewelry at the 'Gen Art Design Vision Awards' in June 2002, the fashion community realized there was a revolutionary talent in NYC. The designer's reputation continued to grow with a 'finalist' placing at the 2003 'Rising Star' awards.

His Latest Collection, "Shockra" (a fun play on the spiritual word Chakra) is reminiscent of John Hardy on Acid:



His Memento Mori collection will make any psuedo punk or macabre maven giggle with glee.




His other collections like Royal Pearl, Strong Sterling, Crown Jewels, etc use what I like to refer to as "tattimagery", all the icons people love in tattoos; hearts, swords, thorns, skulls, wings, but all done in a tasteful way with wonderful craftsmanship and materials.

But, to be fair, in addition to his stable of trendy imagery from brains skewered by swords and hearts on fire, he has a line of one of a kind signature jewelry that is absolutely stunning in both the design and craftsmanship.

here's a taste of that:



Michael's line is now sold internationally - from NYC to Los Angeles, Tokyo and most recently Moscow. Exhibitionist continues to grow while retaining a decidedly independent philosophy. "We don't conform to trends, we'd rather stick to our own interests & develop a market" says Spirito.

Really Michael? Well, I think your stuff is completely trendy, but I love it!