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The Most Smokin' Range Hood Ventilators, The Elica Collection.



above: Legend ceiling mounted range hood

The Elica collection of ceiling and wall mountable range hoods from Italy are so beautiful and innovative that even if you're not in the market for one, they are worth sharing.

They go beyond their technological function of sucking smoke out of your kitchen and become pretty pendant lights and even sculptural elements for any modern kitchen. With a large selection of styles, materials and colors, the Elica Collection is a breath of fresh air, literally and figuratively.

The entire Elica collection is shown below, with models listed in alphabetical order:


Helix:


Isolabella:



Karma:


Legend:


Menhir:


Ola:

Ola (wall mount):

Ola (suspended):

Om and Mini Om:

Mini Om (color):

Om Special Edition:


Oxygene:

Solaris:

Space:


Star:



Twin:

Victoria:



Vogue:

Vogue (Black leather and steel):

Vogue (all steel):

Wave:


Goldstream:

Blackstream:

Whitestream:



Product Design: Elica Team,
coordinator Fabrizio Crisà
Via Dante 288
60044 Fabriano AN Italy
T +39 0732 6101
F +39 0732 610249
info@elica.com
www.elica.com
www.elicacollection.com

If you never saw the Mirabilia Range Hoods from Falmac...

see them here.

Judging Art By Its Cover. The Book Sculptures Of Mike Stilkey.




Los Angeles based artist Mike Stilkey's wall mountable book sculptures are stacked books whose spines and covers are painted with acrylics and colored pencil to form one image. His elongated forms of humans and animals with thin features are both simultaneously ghoulish and beautiful. And his style is clearly reminiscent of late German expressionism.


above: Dog Playing Dead, 2008, ink, colored pencil and acrylic on books, 26 x 10.5 x 6 inches

Take a look at his wonderful book sculptures (all the images below are composites of individual sculptures by If It's Hip, It's Here):











The following images are from his show solo "Words Fail Me" at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver, last September. Images courtesy of Daily du Jour:





You can purchase some of the above book sculptures at the following galleries:

BLK/MRKT Editions
David B. Smith Gallery
Gilman Contemporary


The artist at work:

Artist's Bio:
b. 1975 in Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles native Mike Stilkey has always been attracted to painting and drawing not only on vintage paper, record covers and book pages, but on the books themselves. Using a mix of ink, colored pencil, paint and lacquer, Stilkey depicts a melancholic and at times a whimsical cast of characters inhabiting ambiguous spaces and narratives of fantasy and fairy tales. A lingering sense of loss and longing hints at emotional depth and draws the viewer into their introspective thrall with a mixture of capricious poetry, wit, and mystery. His work is reminiscent of Weimar-era German expressionism and his style has been described by some as capturing features of artists ranging from Edward Gorey to Egon Schiele.

His more recent work has been shown at Kinsey/DesForges Gallery in Culver City, CA, David B. Smith Gallery in Denver, CO, Gilman Contemporary Gallery, Ketchum, ID, and Rice University Gallery, Houston, TX.

Visit the artist's site here.



Fecal face has a great interview and visit to the artist's studio with tons more pics. Check it out here.

Dialing For Dollars. Russian Bejewelled Luxury Mobile Phone Goes On Sale.


Seems we can't get enough of luxury mobile phones and Russia's Isse is yet another player in that arena. And right now their newest model, The Monaco, is reduced in price by over $1000 each. And PS. each comes in an exotic wood music box.



ISSE was established in 2005 and unites the efforts of specialists from Europe and Russia in design, jewelery art, marketing and high tech. As a result they offer exclusive limited edition jewel encrusted mobile phones.

The newest addition to their line is the Monaco.
With the efforts of the best specialists from Milan, Moscow and New York, four original models of the Monaco were created.

The front panel of the phone is entirely done of gold and silver. The design of the metal is done by applying the technique of “heated enamel”.

A real 1.5 carat diamond, natural ruby, garnet and topaz are embedded in the phone. The display is protected from bruising by a specially created sapphire glass. A multi-step hand grinding, engraving, polishing of the corpus and different ways to apply the platinum, gold, silver and color-stable enamel, stress the individuality of each model. In total 60 technological steps are needed for the creation of such a phone.

For each ISSE “Monaco” phone, adhering to the age-old Italian traditions, a bejewelled hand-made case is created. Each is made from different pieces of rare woods. Inside there is an original Swiss musical mechanism.

When the case is finished it is being locked by an individual key and the music dies away until its owner chooses to replay it.

“Monaco it’s our third collection of exclusive phones,” – says the ISSE’s general director Vladislav Mukhin, -“for its creation we were inspired by the atmosphere of the European paradise – princedom Monaco.

Each model has preserved the emotion and beauty of Monaco: its azure coast, fashionable villas, snow-white yachts, burring in verdure gardens and the excitement and profusion of Monte Carlo. And even the midday sun shines as if it was diademed (sic) in a golden crown, surrounded by diamonds and rubies.”

The Monaco Exclusive (blue or gold):



The front panel is entirely done of white gold
Heated black enamel
130 diamonds of a 1,5 Ct weight (VS1 quality), topaz.
Sapphire glass
The corpus is covered by a resistant turquoise enamel
Colors: blue and gold

Price
 was :$ 3,900 now on sale for: $ 2,100

Monaco Sun (red, white, black or gold):


The front panel is entirely done of white gold
Heated black enamel
45 diamonds of a 0,5 Ct weight (VS1 quality), topaz.
Sapphire glass
The corpus is covered by a resistant turquoise enamel
Colors: White, red, black and gold


Price:
 was $ 3,500 now on sale for $ 1,990

Monaco Goldkin (gold or red):


The front panel is entirely done of white gold
Heated black enamel
45 diamonds of a 0,5 Ct weight (VS1 quality), topaz.
Sapphire glass
The corpus is covered by a resistant turquoise enamel
Colors: red and gold



Price
: was $ 3,400, now on sale for $ 1,900

Other models:



Each bejewelled hand-made Monaco comes with:
▪ ISSE mobile phone
▪ Charging facilities
▪ Extra accumulator
▪ Soft cover
▪ Hands-free
▪ Instruction
▪ Guarantee stub
▪ Owner certificate
▪ Certificate on precious stones and metals
▪ Certificate of the Ministry of communication of Russian Federation

You may order the phone or get additional information contacting by:
+7 (495) 585-9655


learn more here.

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