Between Oxford and London, between trashy and luxurious
Sometimes it's a fine line separating gaudy from opulent, and trashy from romantic. Straddling those lines is the Crazy Bear Hotel in Old Beaconsfield, England Conservative Beaconsfields might be the last place in Britain you'd expect to find the decidedly unconservative Crazy Bear. Indeed, from the outside this hotel blends into ...
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The Electrolux Flatshare Fridge keeps shared living cool
Nearly all refrigerators are designed for single-family households. Ask someone who has lived in a group house or shared living situation and you'll get a story of woe about a time that someone was looking forward to enjoying a lunch of leftovers only to go to the fridge and find ...
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From Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder to your living room
What do you get when Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder in the first Star Wars movie and Marty McFly's futuristic hoverboard in Back To The Future 2 are your inspiration for designing a chair? You get The Lounger from the British company Hoverit. It is a little hard to tell from the photos but ...
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Espresso making goes mobile with the Handpresso
What do a diamond and a shot of espresso have in common? That's no meant to be a bad joke. It's a serious question. And the answer is: Both can only be made under pressure. In the case of the shot of espresso the pressure is required to push hot water ...
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Sleep Revolution bring storage, flexibility to the box spring
We aren't sure exactly when the box spring was invented but it probably wasn't too long after Homo sapiens stopped sleeping on cave floors. And for most of the time since the box spring has remained, well, like a box spring. Until Sleep Revolution made a better version. The Sleep Revolution ...
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Lounge, work and meet at the Workflow
Designers are finally starting to come around to the idea that a work cubicle can be more than a desk and three bland walls. A cubicle needn't be the drab workplace that imprisoned the protagonists of Office Space and Dilbert. To wit: the Workflow "inverted office cubicle" from the multidisciplinary ...
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