Brothers Vincent and Georgeson, the founders of Misewell, a Milwaukee-based furniture design and manufacturing company, were at ICFF 2009 to showcase their latest collection. They popped up in summer of 2008 and it’s amazing how much attention they’re already getting.
They won this year’s ICFF Editors Award for best new designer and had tremendous traffic at their booth.
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LV’s teamed up with artist Richard Prince to wrap the Hong Kong Museum of Art for a special exhibition. “Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation” is a new show organized in coordination with the Consulate General of France. The special facade is based on Prince’s ‘After Dark’ series and features enlarged covers from pulp-fiction novels printed on fabric.
At the show, expect to see a wide range of mediums from paintings, photographs and video installations with works by Frank Gehry Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gilbert & George, and Jeff Koons. Many of Louis Vuitton’s collaborations with artists such as Takashi Murakami, Stephen Sprouse and Richard Prince will also be on display.
The show will be running until August 9th.
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Lexus has released some photos of its 2009 LF-A 24-Hours Nurburgring Race version, a car “developed with an eye toward commercial release.” Lexus engineers will use feedback from the 24-Hours Race to tune the production LF-A’s performance.
Power comes from a 4.8L V10 making more than 500-hp. The Lexus LF-A will race under the team name – GAZOO Racing.
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For their 100th Anniversary, Selfridges has a long list of collaborations and this may be one of our favorites, along with Coca-Cola and Moleskine. Courtesy of hypebeast, “Utilizing the Bold model in a Pantone Yellow 109 leather-bound colorway, this extremely limited edition phone features a production run of only 10 units, in the stores signature color choice. With a retail price of roughly $1,500 USD, the phones are now available through the Selfridges London location.”
Chris Dattola is the leading man for a playful, surprisingly laid-back editorial photographed by Joe Lally for the June issue of German GQ.
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Well-known computer graphics company NVIDIA and mobile solutions company icon icar have teamed up to develop a 3-D gauge cluster for cars. There’s definitely a whole lot going on in these clusters like radio and navigation information along with the standard speedometer and fuel gauge. Everything’s presented in a very appealing display, that might even end up lowering costs for manufacturers because everything is digital (Changing measurements like mph to kpm and Fahrenheit to Celsius would require no additional parts). (more…)
AirTran had hopes and dreams of becoming the first airline to offer Wi-Fi access on all their flights but Virgin has come out on top in this one. They’ve just announced that all 100 of their daily flights will have access to the WWW. Pay to play: $12.95 for flights greater than 3 hours, $9.95 for flights less than 3 hours, $5.95 for red-eyes and $7.95 if you just want to use your cellphone/PSP.
Having a tough time find pants that provide the right amount of… ventilation? Well, look no further than Outlier‘s Climber Pants (via Selectism). “The Outlier Climber pants are a full on reengineering of slim cut pants for a cyclists world. The innovative vertical yoke removes most of the traditional stress points that cycling generates in a garment, allowing for a free range of movement. The curved waistband is higher in the back to hide your crack from the world and lower in the front to allow you to lean forward and ride in comfort.”
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Daily Icon turns us to the Houdini chair by Stefan Diez. e15 introduced the first two items of the new chair family Houdini in Milan, a side chair and chair with armrest. Both chairs are made from 4mm thin oak-veneered plywood using an unusual production methodology. The outcome is a new silhouette of wooden furniture where the chairs’ back and seat run in bent curves around the base forming a seat shell.
Both chairs are available in natural oak, black, white and grey lacquer finishes as well as custom colours. In Milan e15 will also present the side chair and chair with armrest with partial and complete upholstered options.
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Former model and current photographer, Nigel Barker started on runways from Milan to New York to being behind the lens. He started StudioNB in 1996, as he left his British roots and opted for Manhattan’s Meat Packing District to be his work’s permanent home. Nigel’s done photography for GQ, Lucky, People and Interview. StudioNB’s advertising clients include Pierre Cardin, Ted Baker, Bentley and Frederick’s of Hollywood.
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