Leica à la Carte–Custom Built Cameras

Leica à la carte enables buyers to put together their own unique camera. There are over four thousand technical and styling nuances you can specify to ensure that the Leica built, will be unlike any other.
The online Configurator allows for a choice between two models, the Leica MP or M7, and from the modular component system select the details that match your needs and wishes in terms of style, functionality, and practicality. Options include: lens cap color; leather trim; viewfinder frame-lines; controls; personalized engraving.

Leica MP, M7, by Leica

SevenUp by Tim Baute

Chandeliers have always been very romantic design pieces in every space, but according to Tim Baute they’ve also been extremely massive. With this in mind Baute designed a chandelier which would keep the nostalgia, but give it a lighter touch.

SevenUp, by Tim Baute, INTERROR.BE
via: Yatzer

Catskill Mountain House by Audrey Matlock

A glass house cut into a rocky slope emphasizes simple geometry and indoor-outdoor relationships.

Catskill Mountain House, West Shokan, New York, by Audrey Matlock

Rhinoceros by Carsten Höller

Rhinoceros, by Carsten Höller

Georgica Pond House by Bates Masi

The limestone, steel and aluminum house was built on the foundation of the original house also designed by the architect. The expanded house with a prime location needed to conform to subsequent zoning which required it to be built within the same footprint of the original house.

Georgica Pond, East Hampton, New York, USA, by Designer, for Bates Masi

Bloom by Naho Matsuno

The triangular serving plates come in five sizes, with reverse indents in the center. They have several uses depending on whether they are used upright or upside down. Stack them for buffet dining.

Bloom, by Naho Matsuno, Produced by Arita-yaki pottery, at Koransha Co.,Ltd.

Swedish Style by Tham & Videgård Hansson

Financial Consultant Niclas Sundström made a single call to only one architect’s office when he wanted to get its 375 square metre apartment in the turn of the century Humlegården neighbourhood renovated; the call went to Tham & Videgård Hansson.
“We asked the designer to reinterpret Josef Frank, lifting him into the twenty-first century,” says Sundström, who will live in the flat with his wife and two children.

Apartment, Stockholm, Sweden, by Tham & Videgård Hansson
via: Residence Magazine

Photography by Frederik Vercruysse

Considered compositions and delicate colour sensibility are the hallmarks of Belgian Photographer Frederik Vercruysse.

Images by, Frederik Vercruysse Photographer

Exhibition: The Art of Timber Construction

Guanyin-hall, Dule-monastery Tianjin, Jixian (Liao Dynasty 916-1125)

Chunyang Hall, Yongle Palace, Ruicheng, Shanxi Province (Yuan Dynasty 1271-1368)

Bracketing Cluster (Dougong) (Song Dynasty 960-1279)

Hall of a Thousand Buddhas, Temple Zhihua, Beijing (Ming Dynasty 1368-1644)

For about three centuries, almost all public buildings in China were built according to a hardly ever changing construction system: an enormous, curved hip roof rests on wooden posts with wide overhanging eaves and tile covering, supported by an elaborate wooden construction.
In the 20th century, documentation and teaching models of the highest accuracy were made of the most important buddhist temples and palace complexes. These large-scale models precisely show all the details in order to enable their study and a possible reconstruction of the historical buildings. The exhibition at the Architekturmuseum shows 19 of these models, among them detailed models of the bracket system (Dougong) and reproductions of the oldest timber constructions existing in China.

The Art of Timber Construction: Chinese Architectural Models, at Architekturmuseum der TU München, Munich, Germany, October 22 - January 24, 2009
via: designboom

Dune Bathtub by Mario Ferrarini for Antonio Lupi

Mario Ferrarini has designed a bathtub based on a sine wave. Dune is a place to relax, an oasis of well-being. The circular shape of the base transforms into “a sinusoidal evolution” with surfaces that change depending on your viewpoint. Observe, meditate and relax.

Dune, by Mario Ferrarini, for Antonio Lupi