The Full Spectrum: Herman Miller

Cai Guo-Qiang, a Chinese artist who has received international recognition for his often politically-charged work, has a current exhibition with a focus on the Berlin wall. With a history of making works of beauty from violent beginnings; he is famous for using gunpowder, fireworks and explosions in his sculptural installations.

Francesca Signori

FRANCESCA SIGNORI DESIGN specializes in luxury bespoke chandeliers and unique large scale, custom made installations. They use virtually any material and work on any scale in order to best suit the spatial context. All pieces are made to order.

Coco Chandelier

Club Occhi Occhi Oh

5m x3m

Thereza Rowe

http://www.therezarowe.com/

karen barbe

http://shop.karenbarbe.com/

KALLA

KALLA etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop/HitomiKimura?ref=seller_info
blog http://kalladesign.blogspot.com/

Bigprint little

http://www.bigprintlittle.com/

Rikshaw Design

http://www.rikshawdesign.com/

camilla david textiles

http://www.camilladavidtextiles.com/

Kristen Doran

http://kristendoran.bigcartel.com/

Lara Cameron

http://www.laracameron.com/index.php?p=textiles

Sprout Design

http://www.sproutdesign.net.au/

House doctor

http://www.housedoctor.dk
view one of the collections here
http://ipaper.ipapercms.dk/HouseDoctor/Everyday2010/

Laura Splan!

Laura Splan works with several mediums but I find her wallpaper that is hand block-printed, the ink being the artist's own blood! She also has done drawings with her blood, she has used cosmetic face peels as a material for sculptures and clothing.
http://www.laurasplan.com/projects/wallpaper_installation.html

Luxurious Apartment

luxury apartment condominium that owned by William Powel the vice president and CFO at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas. This luxurious apartment has been designed in black elegance theme

Small And Elegance Toilet Room By Marsh & Clark Design

Marsh & Clark Design believes in uniting traditional craftsmanship and innovative design to make good on the promise of elegant, timeless and sustainable spaces. It well done by the designer and the founder Stephanie Marsh Fillbrandt that had been designed small and pretty toilet room for tight space

A Laundry Basket That Function As Accessory by Helene Steiner

Want to have laundry baskets that can function as accessory to your home? Polyp is the solution for you.

Contemporary Bright Vivid Stretch Chair by Jessica Carnevale

just like the spider’s web “Stretch” has make its debut for chairs collection this year

Portable Compact Kruikantoor Office Cabinet by Tim Vinke

Kruikantoor designed by Tim Vinke is also another space solution that gives you a compact office furniture. This compact furniture could provide you with a full functional home office with all the features that you need.

Furniture Collection from Bauke Knottnerus

Rockies is a furniture made from tree’s trunk or root covered in high gloss polyurea. T

Live Lamp Inspired from Cactus by Kara Bartlet

Live Lamp designed by Kara Bartlet for to (HOLD).

Beijing Noodle No. 9 Minimalist Restaurant Interior Design by Design Spirits

interior of Beijing Noodle No.9

Attractive Luxus Rocking Chair by Christian Flindt

There are two interpretations as you look at this eccentric modern chair. It looks as if it smiles and also the shape is almost like a heart shape.

Creative Sensible Hand Made Wallpaper for Kids by Victoria Cramsie

I know it’s a bit outdated but this is seriously one fabulous fun wallpaper design for children. Victoria Cramsie has brilliantly created this creative wallpaper design called “Hand Made”. It is definitely one lovely and fantastic screen printed wall paper with hand shadow shapes

Crochet Covered Lighting

Father of Fractals

Celebrating Benoit Mandelbrot, the Man Who Made Math Beautiful

By Rebecca Boyle Posted 10.18.2010 at 2:08 pm 6 Comments

The Famous, Influential Mandelbrot Set Wikipedia

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As modern mathematicians go, few were better known or more celebrated than Benoit Mandelbrot. The father of fractals died late last week at age 85, prompting reflection on his contributions to geometry and our understanding of natural phenomena.

Click to launch the photo gallery Mandelbrot wrote mathematical formulas that help explain nature, supplementing the cold, sharp angles of basic Euclidian geometry with fantastic spirals, asymmetric tendrils and repeating bubbles. With his formulas, complex structures like coastlines could be explained with a little neat math.
In the intro to his book “The Fractal Geometry of Nature,” he asks, “Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain or a tree.”
In fractal shapes — which Mandelbrot coined from the Latin word fractus, or “broken” — each part mimics the pattern of the whole. Magnifying each part reveals ever more complexity, repeating in an infinite cycle.
The Mandelbrot set is basically a set of complex numbers, which belong to one side of an equation or not. Images can be made by assigning colors to each number. Mandelbrot completed his first fractal visualization at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York in 1980. His work was perfectly suited to the nascent world of computers, but it helped us understand natural phenomena better than ever.
Mandelbrot showed that very simple formulas can yield extraordinarily complex results. Fractals can be used to model everything from broccoli heads and mammalian brains to stock markets and the distribution of galaxies.

Polish Paper Art

Wycinanki: Polish Paper Art

Polish Wycinanki Paper Art via here

What is Wycinanki you ask? Why it's what they call the art of paper cutting in Poland! Isn't it beautiful? The colors are vibrant and the flower and animal shapes are so delicate. Wycinanki is pronounced Vee-chee-nun-kee, it originates from sheepherders that would cut out designs from materials such as leather and tree bark as far back as the early to mid 19th century.

The types and amount of colors used in Wycinanki paper art vary by region, they are often used as decorations for the home, furniture and even as gifts. Wycinanki paper art mainly feature various types of birds, such as peacocks and roosters, as well as flowers, popular holiday scenes and circular or star shaped medallions. Today, some cities and towns in Poland still hold Wycinanki paper cutting contests to find the most talented design. Cool huh? There is no shortage of beautiful things to discover and learn about on this earth!

I like this paper art much better than Origami!

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