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Frank Gehry Ultra Cube

Frank Gehry Heller Ultra Cube at the Mercedes Benz
Metropolises Center Concept in Cologne Germany.

Mercedes Benz recently installed the Heller Gehry Ultra Cubes by Frank Gehry at the Mercedes Benz Metropolises Center Concept in Cologne Germany.

Frank Gehry Ultra Cube: functional and modern. The Heller Gehry Ultra Cube was designed by Frank Gehry for Heller. The evolution of Frank Gehry's Cube Collection is the Ultra Cube. Made with a completely new technology and materials, the Ultra Cube is brilliant in all ways. With its resistant high-gloss surface (superior quality automotive lacquer), this multifunctional piece is perfect, indoors and outdoors.

The Heller Frank Gehry Ultra Cube displays clean modern lines in the typical style of Frank Gehry. This modern cube with its sculptural shape is a great accent piece in any interior. The influences from his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall are clearly visible.

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Frank Gehry Heller Sofa

Frank Gehry Heller Sofa

The Heller Gehry Sofa was designed by Frank Gehry for Heller. It is part of Heller's Frank Gehry Furniture Collection which includes a spectacular modern furniture group of three cubes, a bench, an easy chair, a coffee table and a sofa. The Heller Frank Gehry Sofa displays clean modern lines in the typical style of Frank Gehry. This modern sofa with its sculptural shape is a great accent piece in any interior. The influences from his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall are clearly visible. These accessibly priced pieces display the unmistakable deconstructivist touch of his architecture. Made of rotation-molded polymer, the cubes, bench, easy chair, table-seat, and sofa are all suitable for commercial, institutional, and residential use, indoors or out.

Frank Gehry is a leading expressionist postmodern architect. Frank Gehry likes to use unusual materials for his architecture and furniture, and with the furniture series for Heller, he succeeded again in lending such everyday material as polymer a new aesthetic dimension. Heller's Frank Gehry Furniture Collection is a great way to add a modern touch to any space.

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Heller Joe Chair

Heller Joe Chair

The Heller Joe Chair is a classic modern lounge chair inspired by the baseball glove from baseball legend, Joe DiMaggio!


Joe DiMaggio with Marilyn Monroe in 1954.


The original Joe DiMaggio Glove.

The Heller Joe Chair is shaped like an oversized baseball glove. The Joe chair was designed by Italian designers de Pas, D'Urbino, Lomazzi in 1970. Originally in leather, it is now reissued in a new self cushioning plastic polymer which makes it perfect for both indoor and outdoor use.


Joe adds a smile to any environment at a price that doesn't break the bank. Joe came to international attention in 1972 with the new york exhibition 'italy : a new domestic landscape' at the MoMa - museum of modern art. Play ball with this iconic modern lounge chair!

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Studio 65 Gufram Bocca Lip Sofa

Studio 65: Gufram Marilyn Bocca Lip Sofa

The Studio 65 Bocca Lip Sofa by Gufram is a fantastic icon of modern furniture design. Studio 65's Marilyn Bocca Lip Sofa was produced in homage to the Surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Salvador Dali designed a quite similar piece in the 1930s that was meant to resemble Mae West's lips. Studio 65 updated Salvador Dali's design in 1972 and called it the Marilyn Bocca Sofa in honor of Marilyn Monroe. This lip-shaped sofa provides a natural and inviting place to rest with its graceful and comforting shape. This sensual icon of modern design is destined to be a conversation piece for many years to come.

The Studio 65 Gufram Marilyn Bocca Lip Sofa is made with cold expanded polyurethane. It is upholstered with a vibrant lipstick-red elastic fabric. This sofa seats one or two people.

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Gufram Cactus

Guido Drocco & Franco Mello: Gufram Cactus


Guido Drocco & Franco Mello: Gufram Cactus

Cactus, designed by Guido Drocco and Franco Mello for Gufram in 1968, is an icon of design made in Italy. The Gufram Cactus is a striking sculptural addition in any room. It provides a natural and peaceful oasis with its graceful and comforting shape. It is destined to be a conversation piece for many years to come.


Guido Drocco & Franco Mello: Gufram Cactus

The incredible Gufram Cactus is part of a set of design icons created by Gufram in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The series is known as the Multipli Collection. The Multipli Collection featured several everyday objects including grass, cactus, rocks, granite. All of these objects are produced in a polyurethane self-hardening foam with a patented lacquered finish. In 1986, Gufram re-editioned this piece and produced only 2000. The Gufram Cactus is included in several museum collections around the world and documented in a number of publications on decorative arts from the 20th century.

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Garden Design in France

Gardens at Le Château de Gourdon

A very special photograph. The most wondrous gardens perched against the mountainous flank of Le Château de Gourdon. The slightly hazy valley adds to the charm.


Le Château de Gourdon is in proximity of Saint Paul de Vence in the Provence region of France. Le Château de Gourdon is perched on an almost uninhabitable mountain top. The castle's gardens were designed by Le Notre, Louix XIV's gardener who also did Versailles park.



The picture shows the very precise hard work done by the gardeners, resulting in the geometrical shapes of the trees and golf like lawn, and the view of the impressive canyon below the garden. The two gardeners, feeling the heat of the summer season, add a human touch to the picture.

Inside the castle is an impressive collection of early 20th century design with a focos on French furniture designers Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann and Pierre Chareau.





The current owners of Le Château de Gourdon have a great appreciation for good design. They have created a museum inside which displays the work by famous designers including Pierre Chareau, Francis Jourdain, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, Jean Dunand, Eileen Gray, Pierre Legrain, Louis Majorelle, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Jean-Francois Leleu, Alfons Mucha, Marcel Breuer, Jean Puiforcat, etc.

Le Château de Gourdon

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Fruit Party Objet d'Art

Fruit Party Decorative Centerpiece

Fruit Party is a brilliant decorative art object which has a special calming effect. You can just keep on staring at this for hours on end. Of course, you could stare at real fruit for hours as well and it will cost you much less. But Fruit Party is very special never the less. Fruit Party is one of the most unique and ornamental centerpieces we have ever found. Fruit Party is made with a papier-mache and willow wood. Fruit Party is exceptional since its base was made with a 17th century Dutch weaving technique which utilizes Willow wood. This refreshing and innovative approach to Scholten & Baijings of this old technique has resulted in the colorful Fruit Party. Fruit Party's top is made with richly colored papier-mache in a vibrant light green color that has a natural and almost healing quality to it. An usual and extremely fine object d'art.

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Arik Levy Ceremony Flower Vases

Arik Levy: Ceremony Glass Flower Stick Vases

Ceremony is a 7 piece set of beautiful flower stick vases. was designed by Arik Levy for Gaia & Gino. Price is for a set of 7 flower stick vases in either clear, silver or bronze. Each of these flower stick vases range in size from 14" to 19".


Arik Levy's Ceremony flower stick vases allow for a beautiful minimal flower arrangement without depriving us of the essential: the pleasure of the senses. These seven vessels display a rather austere aesthetic, inspired by laboratory pieces used in chemistry. Ceremony offers endless possibilities: everyone is free to arrange flowers in their own unique way, either solo or in groups. And if the flowers are missing, these vases are classy enough by themselves to leave on permanent display. These vases are made with Borosilicate Pyrex glass with is available in clear or coated with silver or bronze. Please note that the pictured round vases are not included.

Arik Levy is one of the most promising designers of the 21st century. "If I hadn’t been a designer, I would have been a scientist," says Arik Levy. The Paris-based industrial designer has captured the attention of companies like Vitra, Ligne Roset, L'Oreal and Renault. "I work like a researcher in a lab, searching for the genetic codes of materials or companies. Once I've decoded them, I inject my own gene in different places." He believes that changing this "genetic code" essentially creates a new material. "I try to use materials in places they are not normally used to give them another kind of life." Using unconventional thinking and smart design processes, Arik Levy transforms everyday household objects into striking works of art. His latest creations for Gaia & Gino are irresistible and functional design objects.


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Sweet Cake Giant Cupcake Case

Are you ready to make some giant cupcakes? Better start looking for the perfect cupcake recipe!
Sweet Cake by Beerd van Stokkum is a real show stopper, we fell in love the moment we saw it and had to have a couple of these super sized mod cup cake cases for ourselves! Sweet Cake by Beerd van Stokkum is a gigantic muffin cake case that serves a multitude of purposes. Exactly like an original cupcake case but blown up to gigantic proportions. The case is made out of durable thick Polyethylene which is a synthetic material that makes it suitable for re-use (indoors and outdoors). It can be utilized as a flower box, dog bed, basket for your cat, a place for storage, and more. Choose your flavor! This huge cupcake stand is a great gift for everyone...people and pets.

Beerd van Stokkum: "I noticed that the Sweet Cake is a powerful and cheerful product during the Salone del Mobile in Milan, where people of different age and nationalities encountered my stand enthusiastic and with a big smile on their face".


The Sweet Cake is made of thick synthetic material and is appropriate for inside or outside use. Despite of the firm material, the Sweet Cake weighs no more than 11 lbs.

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Alien Pendant Lights

Invasion from another world. It seems as if a strange creature is sliding down a rope. Gently and almost weightlessly, radiating a warm and graceful light. The electrical cable is available in either red or silver fabric.

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Sculptural Pet Feeder

Brandon Warren: Wild Rock Cat or Dog Bowl Pet Feeder

Brandon Warren's Wild Rock Bowl will please even the most demanding cat or dog (and their owner). The Wild Rock Dog Bowl was inspired by river rock; Wild Rock reflects the paradox of the domesticated: nature evolved to fit into Man's environment. The formed glass embraces and smooths the sculptural language of rock, and naturally indicates fill lines for food and water. Wild Rock represents this synthesis of nature and function, tamed and refined, that makes your pet a domesticated animal. Wild Rock melds form and function in a way that can be appreciated by human and pet alike. Made of porcelain. Silver one is titanium coated.

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French Glass House Architecture

Maison de Verre
Barrès-Coquet Architects

If you love the Philip Johnson Glass House or the Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House, you will certainly appreciate this beautiful minimal piece of modern architecture. La Maison de Verre was created by the French architectural firm Barrès-Coquet for a client in the Rhône region of France. A minimal industrial design approach led the firm towards a very minimal glass house with a steel frame. Special details like the steel bolts add to the visual effect. This beautiful icon of modern architecture is completely surrounded by nature. Poplar trees and a pond create a beautiful relaxing environment. The glass windows create a seamless flow between indoor and outdoor.




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