Showing posts with label outdoors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outdoors. Show all posts

6/26/2008

Fold It Up Design






Some great little space savers that can be folded, packed or collapsed. Includes a canvas bucket and grill among others.

6/20/2008

Sustainable Design







Sustainable design offered at Branch. Some fun and cool stuff.

6/15/2008

Making Concrete Planters




Concrete planters are durable throughout the year and a great aesthetic choice for a modern garden. Here is a great link to making your own, or if you're not so inclined, purchasing your own.

6/03/2008

Artful Glass At Vivre





A few artful glass designs from Vivre featuring a birdhouse, long hanging light, candle holder and oil lamp.

6/02/2008

Smart Herb Pots

This smart little design is the Sagaform Herb Pot Trio. Great looks at a great price, $34.

5/30/2008

Orange Street Studio, Modern Landscapes














In this day and age of more is more, it's refreshing to see a less is more approach to landscape design. Forget the pavers and block that so many are using to try to simulate stone, flowery planting galore and psuedo natural water features and go for concrete slabs, stone, real wood decking, geometric water features and minimalist planting. Orange Street Studio has taken this route to modern landscape design with stunning outcomes. Here are a few of their residential projects with many more photos at there web site. This is doable and affordable modern landscaping.

4/30/2008

Cement Planters By Pull And Push





These cement planters from Pull + Push have a great modern architectural design to them that is all the more interesting due to the fact that they are each a little less than perfect. I think the are sublime.

4/29/2008

Soleil Outdoor Furniture


A fresh design to add interest to outdoor living, Soleil is perfect for lounging and entertaining. Constructed of steel mesh, it features a powder-coat finish for added durability and three color options. At Room & Board.

4/08/2008

Modern Fountain

I don't think I've featured a fountain until now, and it's not because I'm anti-fountain. I just think it's very hard to find interesting, well designed fountains. With every home goods store in the US selling low end fountains they all look pretty much the same, cheep. But this is an exception. The Falling Water Fountain is sharp looking and comes in this great blue but can be special ordered in other colors. It has a universal appeal that is modern, Zen, and would even fit in a traditional designed space.

4/06/2008

Outdoor Color



Add some color to your outdoor environment with these cool accessories.

Pod Outdoor Lounger

Pod is an outdoor lounger constructed of lightweight, structural foam with WeatherTex marine grade vinyl exterior. It has give to it so it conforms to your body. It's a great modern look in white for relaxing.

3/30/2008

Easy Modern Landscape Design








Rosenlof/Lucas is a modern landscape design firm that has some wonderful ideas about modern outdoor spaces. Their beliefs are stated on their website and lend themselves to accessibility and affordability. "our beliefs are very important to us. we believe in design. we believe design should concern itself with the everyday and be affordable and accessible to everyone. we believe surrounding yourself with things you care about makes your life better. we believe modern progressive design inspires people."

3/09/2008

DWR Outdoors



The Veneto Collection pairs the durability of teak wood with an innovative hand-woven fiber called WaProLace, creating a uniquely modern outdoor seating and dining collection.

10/11/2007

Park Planters

Drawing inspiration from the bonsai, park planters were created to elevate the common household plant to the status of full grown tree. The potted plant becomes the backdrop for an urban park scene. Ranging from dog walkers to flashers and muggers, no two scenes are alike ensuring the autonomy of each piece.

9/16/2007

Three In One

Indoor or outdoor, planter or table or stool. Griffin.

7/23/2007

Loop Chair



This is a very cool piece of indoor or outdoor furniture. It's the loop chair from Galla Wright, 2004 and is available at MOMA.

7/21/2007

Solar Gets Hip



The Corona solar lights are a very cool design in the often bland world of solar lighting.

7/11/2007

Light Up The Outdoors



Cool pop furniture you can use outside that lights up. At Generate.

7/08/2007

Sticks



It's a Bertoia Sounding Sculpture meets modern space divider. Use indoors or out, it provides an eclectic screen. Sticks available at Extremis.

Campfire Modern

This is a great contemporary twist on the old fashion campfire. Enjoy the glow, cook or keep warm. It's full of great style. The Qrater.