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A Sneak Peek at the Homes in DWELL + Marin Magazine's Upcoming Modern Home Tour.




The first annual dwell + Marin Magazine Modern Home Tour will take place on April 30–May 01. This unique offering is a two day tour of modern homes in Marin County designed by some of the Bay Area’s most creative and accomplished architects.

The tour will feature a total of ten modern homes. Five in Southern Marin (Sausalito, Tibouron and Mill Valley), on the first day, April 30th, and five in Central Marin (San Rafael, San Anselmo, Larkspur & Lucas Valley) on the second day, May 1st. Tours begin at 10am and end at 4pm. (link to purchase tickets is at the end of the post)

Here's a sneak peek at six of the spectacular homes featured on the tour for you (in case you can't make it to the tour yourself).


The Bridge House by architect Stanley Saitowitz:






images courtesy of Stanley Saitowitz and Natoma Architects

The Deam Home (home of DWELL founder Lisa Hedberg Deam by husband and architect Chris Deam):







Architect and designer Chris Deam

The Pfau Starr Residence by Pfau Long Architects:








images courtesy of Pfau Long Architecture

Sausalito Liberty Houseboat by architect David Spurgeon:








images courtesy of David Spurgeon Architect

Mill Valley residence with green roof by architect Scott McGlashan:








images courtesy of McGlashan Architecture

Tibouron Residence by Sutton Suzuki Architects:








images courtesy of Sutton Suzuki Architects


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You can purchase tickets for either or both days of the tour here. A portion of all ticket sales benefit Architecture for Humanity.

From Virtual 3D To Reality: Peter Donders New Aluminum Morphs Chair, The Shelly.





Belgium-based designer Peter Donders, who specializes in 3D Design, Modelling, Prototyping, Manufacturing & Visualisation, Furniture Design & Development has just released his newest chair in his Morphs collection. Using various software programs Peter designs his pieces on the computer in 3D and then fabricates them for the real world.


above: designer Peter Donders atop his carbon fiber stone, another piece in his Morphs collection

Shelly, is a beautiful single chair cast from one entire piece of aluminum and has an elegant fluidity with an interplay of organic curves that makes it stand out from other functional chairs.





Aluminium chair, cast in 1 piece in a 3D printed sand mould.

The chair consists of only 1 single surface (shell) with a minimum thickness of 8mm.

Weight +/- 12 kg

Dimensions:
H : 962 mm
W: 579mm
D: 667mm
Price on demand.
If you are interested in purchasing the Shelly, contact him here.

Peter Donders
Opitterkiezel 206
B-3960 Opitter Bree
Belgium
Tel/Fax : 0032 (0)89 864 888
Mobile : 0032 (0) 496 25 67 93

The Evomobil. Ora-ïto Collaborates With Citroën For An Imaginative Vehicle.









above photos by Romina Shama

Evo Citroën - The Evomobil



Paris, France, April 2011 — Cit­roën has al­ways been con­sid­ered as the most in­­no­­vat­ing brand of the car in­­­dus­try. The brand has cre­at­ed some of the most sym­bolic cars be­­come the clas­sics as the DS. The lo­­go is al­­so an in­­sti­­tu­­tion.



Af­ter more than 3 years of col­lab­o­ra­­tion with Cit­roën on the de­vel­op­­ment of ar­chi­tec­­tu­ral pro­­jects, Ora-ïto turned to the man­u­­fac­­tur­er to de­vel­op his first ar­tis­tic pro­­ject. The icon­o­­clas­tic artist wasn’t dream­ing about another con­­cept car but a ge­net­ic tran­s­­for­­ma­­tion. An un­u­­su­al cre­a­­tion re­u­nit­ing more than 400 years of his­­to­ry, a re­flec­­tion on the evo­lu­­tion of the mo­­bil­i­­ty and the le­g­endary know-how of Cit­roën.



The ge­net­ic tran­s­­for­­ma­­tion is a fact re­­sult­ing from er­rors of copies dur­ing the cel­lu­lar di­vi­­sion. When they are caused by in­­ter­ven­­tions, they be­­come ex­tre­me­­ly rare. The monu­­men­­tal sculp­­ture cre­at­ed by Ora-ïto is the cross­ing of two ty­polo­­gies, a ma­­chine of the past and a cur­rent car, a sub­­­tle his­­toric and so­­ci­o­log­i­­cal tes­ti­­mony on the func­­tio­n­al mo­­bil­i­­ty of the XVI Th cen­­tu­ry mixed to the mod­­ern world.



On the edge of the hy­poth­e­­sis and the con­tem­po­rary art, this hy­brid ob­­ject is based on the ful­­fil­l­­ment of child’s dream with an ob­vi­ous com­mit­­ment for the ecol­o­­gy. In the vo­­cab­u­lary of Ora-ïto, we find a re­al as­ser­­tion ex­­press­ing and re­al­iz­ing the imag­i­­na­­tion.



This cre­a­­tion be­­comes by de­f­i­ni­­tion a vi­­sion in op­po­si­­tion with the ag­­gres­­sive uni­­verse of the car in­­­dus­try. In­­spired by the first Cit­roën car and based on his de­sign­er’s com­pe­­tences, Ora-ïto won­ders about the er­­go­­nomics of the in­­te­ri­or of the first mo­­bile mo­d­ule. He has worked on the codes, the DNA and the phi­lo­­so­­phy of this in­­­dus­try to mod­­ern­ize it with the pos­si­­bil­i­ties and the ex­ist­ing tech­nolo­­gies. As­­so­­ci­at­ed to the re­search and in­­no­­va­­tion de­­part­­ment of the dy­­nas­tic Cit­roën, he has de­vel­oped a sur­pris­ing and un­ex­pec­t­ed sculp­­ture join­ing all the pa­ram­e­ters and the tech­nolo­­gies ap­pro­pri­ate for the uni­­verse car man­u­­fac­­tur­ers, part­n­er of the in­­ter­­na­­tio­n­al fair of con­tem­po­rary art of Paris (FI­AC).





Bap­­tized “Evo­­mo­­bil” he cre­ates a mono­­typ­ic kind, which pos­sess­es on­­ly sin­­gle spe­­cie. The term “ge­net­ic tran­s­­for­­ma­­tion” is used to in­­di­­cate an ir­re­v­er­si­ble mod­­i­­fi­­ca­­tion of the ge­net­ic and hered­i­­tary in­­­for­­ma­­tion. If the tran­s­­for­­ma­­tion ar­rives up to cells then, it is passed on to the de­s­­cen­­dants of the mu­­tant in­­di­vi­d­u­al. This change can get a se­lec­­tive ad­­van­­tage. This is the base of the pro­cess of the evo­lu­­tion.




Ora-ïto has na­t­u­ral­­ly imagined others mo­d­ules to join the in­i­­tial pro­­ject. A con­t­i­nu­i­­ty of the imag­i­­na­­tion al­low­ing to mul­ti­p­­ly new ac­­tions and us­es of “Evo­­mo­­bil” as car op­­tions. He has named this “plugs” which are in­­de­pen­­dent and can be con­nec­t­ed on the front and the back of the ve­hi­­cle. In case, sev­er­al ge­net­ic tran­s­­for­­ma­­tions com­bine, we can say they share a com­­mon an­ces­­tral ge­net­ic pool. Ev­ery pod is orig­i­­nal and unique as a sculp­­ture that al­lies the dream to the for­­mal, the past to the tech­nol­o­­gy. The idea to work sev­er­al en­ti­ties al­lows all the “ge­net­ic tran­s­­for­­ma­­tions “ to spread an uni­ver­sal mes­sage on the evo­lu­­tion of the mo­­bil­i­­ty and gives to the car in­­­dus­try new di­rec­­tions nev­er in­­vesti­­gat­ed.


above: ORA-ÏTO is the la­bel and the name of the French de­sign­er who cre­at­ed, at the age of 19 the very first vir­tu­al brand.

Ora-Ito
Citroen

Fashionably Dress Your Wounds With Leather Bandages





Scott Amron of Amron Experimental has come up with a chic and clever way to fashionably "dress your wound". The New York designer/artist and electrical engineer sells his "Hurt Couture" pressed black leather bandages 3 to a pack for $15. He claim that the leather actually breathes better. Not sure if that's true, but they certainly look better.



He intends to come out with some Louis Vuitton ones, too (shown above) but for legal reasons they are called Luis Vuitton bandages. Get on his mailing list for those here.


Interested in other types of luxury first aid?
• Swarovski studded bandages
• Alyssa Dee Kraus designs sterling silver and 18k gold band-aid jewelry
• Check out the sterling silver bandage rings by Michelle Lopez at Artware Editions.

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