I Want One!: Another Stealth Laptop

Remember the laptop disguised as an evening bag? (If not, scroll down).

Here's another laptop we love; this one makes you feel you're an heiress or a baron or something.

It's the "Steampunk Laptop" from Data Mancer,which bills itself as offering "Prestidigital Datamancery & Paraphrenalic Techofetishism."

You can see more of their wildly designed things at: http://www.datamancer.net/steampunklaptop/steampunklaptop.htm

The Fall of Domino, and questions for you

Last week, we broke the news to you about Domino magazine tumbling down the chute of financial catastrophe, falling fast on the heels of Pier I and Levitz Furniture, which are going out of business altogether, and perhaps preceding Sharper Image and the esteemed (and 99-year-old) Ethan Allen Interiors, which are shutting down many stores in an attempt to stay afloat. As with most news, this item about Domino was first roundly discussed in the blogosphere, and then made its way to print, notably appearing in an exhaustive aritcle in yesterday’s New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/garden/05domino.html

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I Want One! Really Cool Furniture

And we mean, REALLY cool, as in frozen.http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/frozeniture_12545.asp

New Concert Hall Look

You may think that all the grand old venues in New York and other major cities are such icons that they will forever be the same. While it is hard to imagine Carnegie Hall as anything but Carnegie Hall, other venues do get reimagined and rebuilt.Among them, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. It's now been redesigned by the architectural firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and is featured in The New Yorker.

You can see the article here http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/skyline/

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I Want One! Stealth Laptop Evening Bag

Tired of that laptop that looks like, well, a laptop?



How about this, from designer Vivienne Tam?