Those who have a heart to spend outrageously to contribute their share to the ongoing eco-friendly drive can materialize on this upcoming opportunity. Designed by Brazilian designer Hugo França’s eco-friendly furnishings are targeted to don the interiors of your home with elegance yet in an earthy manner. Hugo whittles strikingly essential fittings from redundant Amazonian Indian canoes and plunged Pequi trees, dating back to 1000 ages ago.

His wide catalogue packed with offerings comprises of low-slung coffee tables, chaises, lounges and gorgeous room dividers. But this earth-consciousness drive can set you back for an implausible sum of some tens of thousands of dollars.

The demonstration is up through 14 June.

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After the usage of interactive floors for imparting knowledge amongst kids (albeit still a concept), the realistic turn taken by interactive flooring is clearly visible at The Science Museum as part of their “Science for Survival” exhibition. Featuring an interesting projection by experts, Arcstream AV has unveiled their revolutionary offering of an Interactive Floor ‘Living Image’. How this system works: Its access to an overhead projector and a variety of sensors performs the real-time changing of an image as and when some on goers steps upon. The floor interaction via changing images of pool of water, fishes, water ripples purely depends upon the movement of people walking on it. Its infra-red sensors provided by Electrosonic enables top track several people at one go.

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The projector used has a reasonably normal resolution of 1024 x 768, but is chiefly bright at 6,500 Lumens.

It is the ability of this technology that very beautifully engages people’s senses i.e. sight, sound and touch. The exhibition would be open till November 2008.

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After wearable chairs, how about walking table? Sounds interesting! The comfort of walking tables can be materialized by installing it during part-time as during that hour most ups and downs happen. With this revolutionary furniture piece, not only work-load would become easier but also it would engage its guests.

Enjoy the walk with this table. Wondering if this is for sale?

For all those watch lovers, here is an opportunity to flaunt their mechanical watch collection by adding a spark of life to their otherwise dead mainsprings. It is possible via Steinhausen’s latest offering of a Watch Winder that can lodge around 20 mechanical timepieces. And if by any chance your mechanical masterpieces catch ill, it would still welcome them to offer a soothing device to your guests. This designer Watch Winder Pro by Steinhausen Armada looks like a retro cabinet. Apparently it has two electric motors, which replicates the feat of your wrist by leisurely rotary motion, thus twisting up your mechanical timepieces. The Armada comes in a cultured, cherry refined wood case that breeds vintage appeal throughout. Priced at $1500, this may convince you to purchase five elite mechanical wristwatches within this amount.

P.S.: Ink this deal with Steinhausen Armada only if you respect watches (no matter you don’t respect time) and should have gamut of automatic watches to flaunt.

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Call them coffins or couches; they very well deserve this tag. I somehow have a deep inclination for weird stuff especially furniture accessory. Days back, I put across alien furniture and now this Coffin Couch worth $4,500 each would surely compliment them.

Designed using recycled 18 gauge steel coffins; the raw material was gathered from local funeral homes based in Southern California. Against the health and safety law that doesn’t allow funeral homes to resell used coffins, these coffins were sold to public as the idea of recycling sound quite interesting.

These coffins cannot be used for burial purpose due to some aesthetic discrepancies. It was that recycled coffin that underwent a sm,all process of refining and the result is elegant coffin couches.

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Check out alien life-size props, if you are interested in more value-add.

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The online market space is witnessing a surge in elite designer furniture niche. While months back, Christie’s rechristened it’s House Sales as Christie’s Interiors to invite creative minds, collectors and new-entrants achieve exclusive range of objects and collectibles. This practice was smilingly followed by another antiques and design-based site, 1st Dibs that enables people a stress-free access over a pool of vintage designs.

And the latest in the headlines is Artnet’s Design Marketplace that features furniture and decorative art gathered from over 150 galleries across 75 countries. The site displays around 3,000 works for sale from 1,000 plus established designers’ viz. Carlo Mollino, Isamu Noguchi, Jean Royère, Marc Newson and Zaha Hadid, amongst many others. It gives you an easy search facility to look for products while searching for designers, products, style, age, price and also location. The cost of these designer accessories varies from $$$ for a vase to a designer creation of “room-within-a-room” stimulated by a conventional Dutch bedstee by designer Hella Jongerius.

The ramparts and cabinets of Jongerius’s Bedstee are slackly upholstered and it offers a soft statuette of a candleholder. The piece generated a sale of $80,000 via NY shop Moss.

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You should not restrict the worth of a solar panel to its utility factor as its aura and artistic exquisiteness gives enough reason to install it in courtyard. If you wish to enjoy tea in an open sky (in garden) then SOLo Lounge Table would bring an end to your search. It is elite in design, appeal and utility. But so are others then why ink deal with this? Correct! I respect your thought and thus would give you a justified reason to debar every other table. It doesn’t occupying the empty space in your lounge but also is feature packed with a USB, lighter and standard 3 prong outlets; thereby allowing you to charge your electronic devices (laptops and other portable devices) without plugging them in.

This pioneering table makes use of Bluetooth technology to gather, allocate and display information on both the tabletop LCD display screen and between computers and internet. It works like this: The silicon cells rooted on its glass surface accumulates the solar energy and then very efficiently converts it into electricity. It is efficient to harness over 17 kilowatts of solar energy every year.

This amount of energy is suffice to charge your mobile phone almost 300 times and laptop by 200 times. It would surely achieve its deserving visibility in the coming years to come via its contributing share to green drive.

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Changing interior decors can infuse life even in a dead room. But for installing innovative products one need to have enough space, thereby offering them their share of visibility. And at the same time time-crunch is seen as the loud issue everywhere. During last two months, I have introduced you to the ranging forms of aquariums that serve dual purpose. Starting from Spacearium (a wall-divider aquarium), fish, farm cum kitchen garden, customized aquariums, Moody Acquario (bath tub cum aquarium), Coffee table cum Aquarium, today there is a new mammal to this growing eco system.

Burning your stress, this Eco-Desk with integrated aquarium focuses upon rejuvenating you besides adding an aesthetic feel to your living room or workplace. The AZOO Eco-Desk Lifestyle Aquarium features an integrated self-contained system that cleans water automatically, thereby offering a never ending pleasure for its owner. While through the day you can utilize this as work table and in presence of any guests you can flaunt this pricey possession. The table top is designed using a single piece machined aluminum table frame with built-in optically clear glass that opens up easily offering an easy access for its set up.

Its internal frame features a glass aquarium and two 13 Watt T5 light housings that are on a hinge arm that offers a comfy access for light tube substitution and alteration. The eco-desk includes Azoo’s conservation sump system for consistent water flow and active cultivator bed for organic filtration and a stable pH of 6.8 for maintain correct growing conditions of water plants. It is available in five models and two styles (metal or wood) through authorized AZOO online shop.

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The flow or rather beginning of this post may initiate free wheeling debate but the bottom line is your hunt for ultra-contemporary luxury sinks would surely end here. Featured here is handful of stylish sinks designed for filthy rich who values creativity. Festooned with Swarovski crystals, these sinks come fully dressed in a royal porcelain coat. Kirk Guthrie, the owner of Linkasink got stimulated by his wife Toby and thus came out with the elite production of crystal coated porcelain items.

The crystals availability is in numerous shades viz. pink, black, blue, and turquoise and not to forget the exclusive prism tinge called aurora borealis. Those who think dealing with crystals would be a too pricey deal can put their fingers upon pearls. It’s price range varies from $1,900 and $12,200, depending upon the design, structure and usage of material while designing Swarovski Crystal Sinks.

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Those who love being in the company of water can here explore the pool of opportunities. Earlier we have introduced you to coffee table cum aquarium, underwater lodge that offers aquarium feel, River, Fish, Farm cum kitchen Garden, Moody Acquario aquarium and other set of customized aquariums. Today there is a reinvention to the very idea of installing aquariums. Dubbed as ASP Spacearium fish tank, it aims to “revamp your indoor space,” against being a masterpiece or hanging accessory with some fish in it residing at any corner.

Featured here is the ASP Spacearium fishtank that offers the looks similar to a plasma TV. The gigantic acrylic tanks are twisted like gently curvature ellipses, and vary in the size across 5-8 feet, which is functional enough to behave like room dividers. Those who have an interesting collection of vibrant fishes can turn this fish tank into a beautiful wall divider.

Price: $8400

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