Finish interior designer Elina Aalto has created a novel window shade that comes in cities, instead of colors!
Whether it’s Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm, or Helsinki, the city’s night lights bring day lights into your home in a most delightful way! Aalto’s Better View Blinds reduce harsh light and glare in an artistic pattern that casts interesting shadows into your living areas.
Aalto’s patterns are sequences of square and rectangular cut-outs in her black fabric roll-up window shades. When the fabric is pulled down to shade a window, natural daylight enters through the pattern creating a night time view of a city. This juxtaposition of night upon day is very effective in limiting glare, creating interesting interior shadows, and making a cool, artsy wall design.
Here are some display photos of Better View Blinds in interior design. This first city is “Paris” at night.
The leading and most progressive lighting designer in the world has not disappointed at Milan Design Week ‘09. Netherlands-based Royal Phillips Electronics introduced the world’s first interactive OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) lighting concepts for professional and home use. These exciting designs respond to you, wherever you are, and take your intuitive cues very personally.
Each of Philips installations at the Milan show has a different set of features, but they’re all show-offs in one deserved way or another. This hanging lamp, for example, boasts flat lights that respond to a wave of the hand or just your presence in a certain area.
(more…)
Do you have someone in your family who loves to sing in the shower or the tub? Or if you happen to be a news junkie like I am, missing the latest breaking news and current weather reports are something I don’t like to miss. If either of those scenarios sound familiar, the Mood Light Shower Radio may be just the ticket. (more…)