In a quick break from Chrometastic tradition today I want to talk about other materials - while the Chrometastic predilection endures it doesn't mean that orther materials aren't also highly valued - steel, leather, oak, wool, loads of things. Even (whisper it) some plastics are good enough for Chrometastic.
But after chrome, it's gotta be glass. Great for storage and making windows out of, glass really is a wonder material:
I've recently looking around the net for furniture online outlets - there's also quite a lot in the way of homewares and kitchenware as well. Still not chosen the sofabed I'm looking for yet - hopefully get a chrome one!
It's always our mission here at Chroemtastic to seek out the best designs for the home in our own style. For chrometastic has its own set of aesthetic values.
We came across this collection of furniture by Calligaris while surfing the web, and have to say it is very cool. Loving the woodpecker logo. Is it just me or does all the best stuff right now have avian logos? Am thinking Carhartt duck, Penguin clothes, Puffin books. All smart stuff.
This blog is mainly about interior design, but design itself is an overriding interest here at Chrometastic. Especially now that there's even a browser called chrome. And yes, that is my favoured web browser.
The interesting thing about websites is that there's never been an accepted or standard way to do things. This has led to some incredibly inventive sites, and to things like blogging becoming big, then social networking taking off.
With smartphones now the norm, and tablets taking off web design remains at the heart of innovation.
Was it really only ten years ago that websites had that unmistakeable Y2K look? It feels like it was a different century.
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Now that the old type of light bulb is on the way out and the long life low energy bulb is king, it means that it takes a bit more effort to light a room. This is probably no bad thing, as two or three soft light sources is better than a single 100 watt bulb. Does it save any energy? Probably not, but hey.
Especially important are directional, concentrated lights sources. Have a browse through furniture online and see what would help light up your living room.
Anish Kapoor's sculptures are often simple shapes made of chrome. Interacting and reflecting with their surroundings, they show changed perspectives and interrogate the nature of perception.
I'll bet that when Streetband sang the song Toast on Top of the Pops in 1978 (yes, that's soon to be famous and eventually to be ex-famous soul singer Paul Young on vocals), they would have thought that 32 years later people would be eating futuristic food like green gloop and entire meal-in-a-pill. All of this done in space, or at least on board a jetpack.
But no, we're all still eating toast. Toasters have moved on a lot since 78 though. Think back to what you had then, a little metal walled job that got mad hot on the outside, and more often than not carbonized the kids' breakfast while they fought over whose turn it was on the Atari Space Invaders.
Toasters in 2010 are better machines, and also often use a design aesthetic rather than sit forlornly in the corner of the kitchen. This Bodum toaster is a good example of a fine modern toaster:
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