We Hearties 2.10.10

This guy Gregoire Alexandre is just super duper

BIID for the furniture world: chairs that have been given decorative glass prostheses.

Check out the disposable & painful-looking sunglasses-on-a-roll

This cabinet just looks so lovely and horribly frustrating

Louis Vuitton again wins the prize for most vaguely-offensive handbag

No Comments / Email This Post » Feb 10.10 / We Hearties / by Andrew

Know Arties: Fiona Shaw

My Discomfort Is Evident But I Am Unsure Of The Cause (Prelude To An Unfinished Narrative), 2010

Really dig the work of UK artist Fiona Shaw. We are suckers for text work and chairs in things, and boy howdy does she have both in excess. Yeah!

No Comments / Email This Post » Feb 08.10 / Vernacular Fancy / by Andrew

Alert! Dan Golden started a blog!

No Smarties’ newest BFF and all-around wonderful man Dan Golden has become a fellow bloggeur! His recently revamped site includes not only his fucking great designed objects but also Sad But Beautiful, his holla at yo’ journalism. You might want to subscribe to that shit. If you don’t know who Dan is you can go over and read this interview he did with Design Glut.

Bonus: Check out this old drawing he dug up and sent over. Love that guy.

No Comments / Email This Post » Feb 07.10 / BFFs / by Andrew

Icy Hot

Wowow check out the beautiful photographs of Kevin Cooley.

1 Comment / Email This Post » Feb 07.10 / Glowing / by Andrew

Congorock!

Love the Jungle-Book-meets-Seventh-Seal vibe of this new video for Babylon by Congorock, directed by No Smarties BFF Pomp&Clout.

No Comments / Email This Post » Jan 31.10 / BFFs / by Andrew

Lighthouse!

The ethereal indoor/outdoor Lighthouse by Swedish architect Thomas Sandell just looks fucking good. Look at it! It’s the type of thing that works equally well amongst clutter or clean. It’s a moment of calm - whether in the lunar landscape above, or your sock-and-beer-can-strewn living room.

And plus it’s totally the shape of houses that children draw, which to varying degrees is the scale by which I judge things. Holla to your iconography!

It is available for a weirdly unknown price from this Swedish lighting store. If anyone’s adventurous enough to call them and buy this thing please send pictures! And then invite me to come live with you. thx.

No Comments / Email This Post » Jan 30.10 / Dreamhouse, Glowing / by Andrew

Join the club

You don't view the club chairs, you are viewed BY the club chairs. Or something

French artist Olivier Bardin installed this gaggle of chesterfield club chairs in the Tate Modern for their exhibition, The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space. It is (they are?) a performance. What happens is this: you look at the club chairs, then you look at the people in the club chairs, then you become the people in the club chairs, and then other people look at you. Bam!

Point is, given our affinity for things chesterfield, No Smarties will be moving offices to this room faster than you can say “brandy snifter.”

No Comments / Email This Post » Jan 25.10 / Heck Yes, Vernacular Fancy / by Andrew

Wow, look at this inexplicable and lovely folded mirror in red paint & polished steel, Lisiere, by USIN-e designers.

No Comments / Email This Post » Jan 25.10 / Dreamhouse, Things that look best by themselves / by Andrew

Today, in risky office supplies

"Leafy"

I don’t mean to get all NSFW on you but this paperclip holder is pretty hilarious. Kind of subtle, right? Until you figure out what it is. You’ll have to decide for yourselves if this violates your office’s sexual harassment policy.

Venus’ Clips, by Barcelona-based designer Marc Graells. According to the designer, the holder can be arranged as “more or less leafy according to anyone’s taste.”

No Comments / Email This Post » Jan 18.10 / Shiny, no no no no no no / by Andrew