Maarten Baas did a new thing and it’s awesome
Everyone’s favorite Dutch designer-slash-heartthrob Maarten Baas designed a new thing! Find out what those funny horn things are after the jump!
Archived entries for Tres Chic
Incoming: The Plastic Blizzard
Holy crap, look at this gigantic upside-down pile-o-prisms just in from Tokujin Yoshioka studio! What you’re looking at is a huge tangle of 6-sided minimal snowflakes made from acrylic prisms. It is called, appropriately, “Snowflake” and will be viewable at the Kartell showroom in Milan during the Salone del Mobile from April 14-19.
It will be installed to coincide with the release of Yoshioka’s The Invisibles polycarbonate furniture collection for Kartell, which one day we will buy when we’re doing the interior renovation of the Fortress of Solitude.
Lifestyle Photos Cause Yearning for Life, Style
I’m not usually one to plotz over glamorous lifestyle photography– at least not the kind that glamorizes, say, parties I’m not invited to, or exhausted-looking girls in their underwear. You know? I mean, I live in East Williamsburg like everybody else. I know plenty of conscientiously-dressed white twenty-somethings. So I don’t normally need pictures of your friends, thanks– no really, just put the flickr page and body-glitter down and back away.
So maybe it’s all the torrential downpour we’ve had in NYC the last few days talking, but hoo boy, I’m falling hard for the sense of locale in Laura Taylor’s photography here. That porch photo up there? It’s definitely causing my biweekly “why the fuck don’t I live somewhere with an average temperature above 50 degrees” crisis of self doubt. Not that the rain hadn’t covered that already. Anyway, I hope this inspires some of you to move to California like reasonable adults.
Also? Homegirl is 21 freakin’ years old. Respect.
Tokujin Yoshioka & Hermés do it
Hermés is going to have 10,000 of Tokujin Yoshioka’s babies and wrap them each in a dozen $375 silk twill Christopher Columbus scarves because this window display he put at the Maison Hermés store in Tokyo is so baller. Or at least that’s what I’d do.
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Olivier Zahm @ Half Gallery, NYC
So, Tuesday 12/1 was Olivier Zahm’s opening at Half Gallery @ 208 Forsythe. In attendance: yours truly, and a swarm of European fashion trend-stars. The show features big, small, and naked printouts of the Purple Fashion magazine editor’s Diary. Arriving early (during installation), I missed out on the concept of being fashionably late… but the crowd got considerably more fabulous as the night went on. That, my friends, is what I really came for.
(and of course to knock off the photo stylings of the guest of honor.)
Works on paper
Here at No Smarties we are general subscribers to the idea that things are enhanced when you attach paper shapes to them, and as such we would like you to gander at this group of people in France called Ndeur who are making some pretty sweet paper shoes and other body accessories in a line of projects called Make a Paper World.
Or is it just one person? Mathieu Missiaen? Like on this Facebook page? We don’t know, and it doesn’t matter. Just look at this faceted face mask:
Swineflupendous
And these other damn awesome shoes made as accessories for designer Heidi Ackerman:
Make a Paper World has its own MySpace page here and Ndeur’s main website is here. Worth a look.
Enhance your face
Love these facial enhancements designed by David Toro and Soloman Chase. Pictured above: Bindi Face.
Reflector Face
Even the images that aren't there are awesome
Dork Shoes
Conceptually stunning and fantastically executed- these shoes are made from Minke whale dork, and are the brainchild of Icelandic designer Sruli Recht. These shoes are truly art, and if you are lucky enough to obtain a pair of these Hvalsforhúdsskórs you also get to own a little bit of the artist himself, and no, it’s not what you’re thinking. Recht says: “my own blood gets on everything I make- one day auctioneers may gene test my work for authentification.” Simply put, that is true love.
Providence Shouted Out, Stomped
Call me crazy, but does it not look like Providence in this new photo by Miles Aldridge? Isn’t that the superman building?
Well, we take what attention we can get up here.
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Local River
Local River is a home garden and aquarium for growing fresh meat and vegetables. Utilizing the process of aquaponics, the system is completely self-sustaining with the vegetables using the water from the tank to absorb nutrients and filter the water which is then recycled into the fish tank. It’s creator Mathieu Lehanneur designed Local River with Locavores in mind: “responding to the everyday need for fresh food that is 100% traceable.”
