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Achille Castiglioni’s Inspiring Casa d’Oggi
In 1956 Italian industrial designer Achille Castiglioni created “COLORI E FORME NELLA CASA D’OGGI”, the installation of a living room at Villa Olmo, a neoclassical villa located in the city of Como,...
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A Rusty Corrugated Shed with a Modern Interior
Raffaello Rosselli In our continueing search for examples of the incorporation of organic and decayed materials with modern functionality, we present Australian architect Raffaello Rosselli‘s lovely...
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Tiny Transforming Apartment Yields One Big Idea
(Video link HERE.) We find this video of a tiny apartment* in which each piece of furniture transforms into something else strangely compelling, all the while feeling that having to transform...
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Tyvek Carryall-Envelope via FedEx
Sally Schneider We recently needed a sturdy envelope to carry some papers in our big satchel. Hmmm. What to use? FedEx envelopes are made of Tyvek but they have all that terrible writing on them. NOT....
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Magazine Page Envelopes + the PERFECT Multipurpose Business Card
Sally Scheider Pamela Hovland, who designed Improvised Life’s first site design, periodically sends us notes in improvised envelopes she makes out of pages torn from magazines and catalogs, whenever...
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Niemann’s Workspace: Plywood Picture Rails + Other Good Ideas
Christoph Niemann During a visit to Christoph Niemann’s website recently, we found ourselves smitten with the images of his workspace. They were full of decidedly straight-forward, practical ideas...
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Disguises for Computer Cables + Other Ugly Stuff
Christoff Niemann As we scroll through design sites, we periodically spot some new gadget for keeping ugly computer wires in check: reels that wind them up, dongles that collect them behind your desk…...
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Inspiring Messy Workspaces of Famous Creatives
(Video link here.) They Might Be Giant’s just released their new song I Made a Mess, which is a sort of homage to something we strongly believe (#12 in our Manifesto): Making a mess is an essential...
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Workspace: A Cheap Stylish File Cabinet Strategy
Sally Schneider While planning the office portion of the Laboratory’s renovation, I had to be lean and efficient, having spent some serious money on a sliding wall to make it all disappear. I happily...
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Great Ideas from a Ridiculously Minimalist Apartment
Henry Bourne for the New York Times The Times T Magazine featured ANOTHER perfectly minimalist apartment with no sign of a human being in it. Still, we culled some good ideas from Danish designer...
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Writing Reading Dreaming Room in a Closet (Ocean Vuong)
decodinglabs.space Reclusive poet Ocean Vuong discovered that a closet can make the perfect writing space. So we hunted down examples for a tiny room that can serve many unexpected purposes.
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The FlexiSpot Sit Stand Desk Changed My Life
Sally Schneider After 2 months of test-driving a Flexispot Sit Stand Desk, I’m smitten, fitter and thinner. Here’s my honest review, with pros, cons and what to look out for.
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Disappear Visual Clutter with Uniform Cardboard Boxes a la Laura Handler +...
Margot Hartford Photography for Houzz If you have a lot of small items, projects or papers to store, and an eye that is pained by visual busyness, I recommend a strategy used by designer Laura Handler...
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Karl Lagerfeld’s Inspired Ideas
Annie Leibovitz for Vogue After legendary designer Karl Lagerfeld passed away in February, we looked back into our archive for good ideas any of us might steal and employ…
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