Longevity and health concerns are making linoleum floors popular again. The original linoleum flooring, developed in the late 1800's, was an English inventor's blend of linseed oil...hence the "lin" in linoleum...finely divided plant materials like cork or wood powder, and jute backing. Linoleum... View full entry
"So farewell Milan and hello, er, Rho-Pero. With the Salone Internazionale di Mobile moving to a new out-of-town location next year, this year's furniture fair marked the end of an era." milan top ten View full entry
Milan is always about new ideas, but more than in recent memory showed a restlessness this year to get on to the next big thing. In the absence of a driving design movement, individual statements trumped aesthetic consensus. NYT (w/audio tour) View full entry
"The camp I'm putting together aims to barely break even, and hopefully will place a stake in the ground as a kind of gathering place for people out there that wish to engage in a new discourse of creativity. I'm sure you've noticed all of these metal/plastic boxes that sit under desks or on top... View full entry
"Enter Slowly," terms scribbled on Eileen Gray's E-1027 by Corb, serves as the guiding idea for reconsidering eight masterpieces through installations at the Salone del Mobile, Milan. Julie Iovine reports for the NYT. View full entry
A list of links:Fuorisalone - homepage zonatortona - news (italian)designboom - diaryInterni - events Javier's previous link - Pol Oxygen - posting daily and finally HiddenArt - London design at Milan View full entry
This year's Fiera in Milan will have the largest ever presence of British design. From the usual suspects: Arad, Coates. To the stararchitects: future systems, hadid with a whooping $85000 table, and young newcomers exhibiting in the Paul Smith Milan headquarters. (The Guardian) Hadid's polyseter... View full entry
HiWellvetted has just posted the top web picks from March 2005 from all your favorite portals. View full entry
Blaine Brownell's Transmaterial will be going to print with the support of Princeton Architectural Press. Blaine welcomes new content submissions for publication in the upcoming book...I am pleased to announce that Princeton Architectural Press has agreed to publish Transmaterial, a catalog of... View full entry
Frontier Carbon Corporation (FCC) of Tokyo, Japan, has established Frontier Carbon Corporation America (FCCA) to begin production of fullerene materials in the U.S. (aka "bucky balls," after Fuller). Fullerenes are large carbon molecules (that look like Bucky spheres) with unique properties that... View full entry
Next month Industrial Plastics is selling off its goods and shutting its doors. NYT View full entry
Wood.e is essentially electrified wood. Furniture made of Wood.e, with an electrical current of 12V, permits one to easily plug in different applications (plug and play). Wood.e is a built-up composite comprised by plywood and two integrated conducting layers. These layers allow for unprecedented... View full entry
Awesome collection of 360 types of stewardess uniforms from 211 countries of various airlines worldwide, collected by HLM steward Cliff Muskiet. View full entry
Personally, I'm not much of a video game enthusiast, but the new PlayStation Portable may turn me into one. Genious combination of technical innovation, marketing, and product design. CNN explores the latter in this review/gallery. View full entry
Dr. Vecchio has a soft spot for biomimetics and is pushing new uses for abalone as a lightweight structural material. | nytimes View full entry
