Wednesday, January 9

Affluenza: January 9

BeaYukMui presents the tuxedo t-shirt of cashmere sweater dresses:

http://www.welcomehuntersla.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_25&products_id=223beayukmui

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The Ping Pong Door flips down, creating a ping pong table between two rooms:

http://tobiasfraenzel.com/

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Check out the packaging for Coal gum (scroll down):

http://eternallycool.net/?p=965

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Colour Calendar 2008:

http://www.youworkforthem.com/product.php?sku=C0132

It would be fun to get this and change the color scheme of Baby Ruthless every day accordingly...

(Hint.)

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I love this Plaid Belted Picnic Dress by 3.1 Phillip Lim, and just think of the freaky moire patterns you'd make on security cameras!

http://www.ronherman.com/detail.aspx?ID=18040

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Philippe Starck's black crystal chandelier (71 large!) gets appropriated by...Home Depot.

http://purecontemporary.blogs.com/behind_the_curtains/2008/01/youve-done-it-m.html

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An Open Flame Is The New Bowl Of Rocks, part of a continuing series:

http://www.contemporist.com/2008/01/04/fire-furniture/

Honorable mention:

http://www.vauni.com/

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Oh BROTHER:

"The inside of the plate is printed with undeniable, provocative, bitter and indigestible sentences about hunger statistics in the world."

http://www.rafaelmorgan.com/2008/01/hunger-for-truth-plate.html

Students!

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Tiny city, made of ashes:

http://io9.com/327758/welcome-to-junk-city

io9, incidentally, is Gawker's new science fiction website. Of interest to a couple of you, I'm sure.

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The Fiona coat by Soia & Kyo:

http://www.soiakyo.com/shop/2008/shop.php?id=7&couleur=4

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Remember months ago when I featured that...thing that was a log in a metal sleeve with a handle? I think I might have to start featuring stupid products that are actually just a log, the way I highlight products that feature impractical open flames.

Two examples:

http://store.roseandradish.com/product-exec/product_id/672/nm/Roost_Log_Box

It's a hollowed-out log, you idiots!

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60103750

Uh, Ikea, I still love you, BUT THAT IS A TWO BY FOUR.

I'll be taking suggestions for the name of the new feature. Please apply yourself...no "getting wood" puns, and no Ren & Stimpy "It's log" references.

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Design Milk has a nice wrap-up of red sideboards. I particularly like the Style Park one with the wave in it:

http://design-milk.com/current-obsession-more-red/

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I didn't know Tord Boontje did a wall panel for CB2. It's on sale this month, too:

http://www.cb2.com/family.aspx?c=587&f=2156&viewall=1

I *hate* the vertical symmetry, though.

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The Ellipse bookcase from La Maison Coloniale:

http://www.lamaisoncoloniale.com/index.php?id=23&backPID=23&tt_products_cat=11&L=6&tt_products=1957

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"Change the seating, change the room." Do you have a gorgeously book-lined minimal loft that you'd like to CHANGE into the common room of an Evergreen College's dormitory? The Mah-Jong Modular is for you!

http://purecontemporary.blogs.com/behind_the_curtains/2008/01/change-the-seat.html

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Intriguing yet utterly confusing wooden perpetual calendar:

http://www.mcachicagostore.org/main/item_detail.php?pid=230&cat=Stationery%20and%20Office

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The problem with futons, of course, is that they look like futons. Here's a nice one from PB Teen (!), though, that handily conquers this problem:

http://www.pbteen.com/products/p2980/index.cfm?pkey=ccolnew

I especially like the brown.

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Affluenza, definition of: a leather flyswatter that costs over a hundred dollars.

http://www.billamberg.com/pages/product/product.asp?prod=SB04

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