It doesn’t matter what your poison of choice is,chances are you would have heard of the much coveted Johnnie Walker Blue Label. Now the iconic whisky brand has joined creative forces with the Porsche Design Studio and come up with the Johnnie Walker Blue Label Private Bar. The uber-luxe bar will give a high to all luxury enthusiasts who consider $156,000 as just petty change. The bespoke bar will be stocked with crystal glasses, ice
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Some clocks are just clocks, while a rare few are objects of genius. German design studio Biegert & Funk brings typography, time, art and light (not to mention a more figurative form of brilliance) to its ‘Qlocktwo’, a clock that tells time in words presented in a quadratic matrix of letters that, when illuminated from behind, form phrases like “It Is Half Past Twelve,” “It Is Three O’Clock” and “It Is Ten to Seven.” This work
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True to form, the utterly urbane (and widely revered) American designer Calvin Klein wastes no time or energy with fussy details on his Curator daybed, which features the same clean, sleek lines and austere yet oddly luxurious element found across all of his design collections. With a walnut finish, the 72” x 32” piece comes in left-facing and right-facing models, fitting perfectly into whatever space you choose and easily doubling as a chaise lounge in
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Miss Manners, known in real life as Judith Martin, once said: “The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.” We’re scratching our heads about what was so offensive about the minuet, but she had a point; there’s just something about the synergy of gathering around the dinner
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Minimalists with a penchant for clean lines and understated elegance with a hint of personality need look no further than Cappellini’s thin black table, with glass tabletops sitting on an interlocking pair of thin steel cubes coated in matte black powder epoxy. Nendo, the designer, likely had an M.C. Escher drawing in mind (although consciously or not, we can’t say) when he created the original sketches for the visually arresting piece. In any event, the
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