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The Crystal ChairToday: To build a chair usually does not begin with filling a large glass tank with water, nor does it involve submerging polyester fibers. This is the approach of visionary Japanese industrial designer Tokujin Yoshioka, who in doing so has developed the beautiful and poetic Venus Natural Crystal Chair.
Make It Right Gets MadeYesterday
Feng Shui by an IrishwomanYesterday: Home as sanctuary: it's a parallel famously established by the Japanese and Thai, but the Irish?
Kid Lit Goes UndergoundYesterday: What is a paper engineer? Something like an architect-but for paper. (Think pop-up books and origami, not bridges and skyscrapers.)
Where Art Meets FarmingYesterday: On a 21-acre plot in New York's Catskills Mountains lies an enchanting organization, the Andes Sprouts Society, which is devoted to furthering the exchange of knowledge and sustainability through urban gardening and field farming. The group now sponsors its own architecture and design competition based on the concept "small is beautiful" and they are inviting design submissions for sustainable studio/living units on a more diminutive scale.