Gary Player / Pro Golfer / Golf Course Designer Gary Player and Gary Player Design have executed over 300 golf projects in 35 countries on five continents. The company offers three different design brands: Gary Player Design, Player Design, and Black Knight Design. With golf accepted back into the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de […]
Category Archives: SHINY OBJECTS
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Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was a Dutch architect and furniture designer born on June 24, 1888 and died on June 25, 1964. He was a principal member of the Dutch artistic movement “DeStijl”. Rietveld’s most famous design is his “Red and Blue Chair” pictured below. Rietveld was born in Utrecht Holand, in 1888, the son of a joiner (woodworker). He left […]
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On December 11, 1980, Ettore Sottsass organized a meeting with designer friends, and in 1981 they formed a design collaborative named Memphis. The name was taken after the Bob Dylan song “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” which had been played repeatedly throughout the evening’s meeting. The Memphis Italian Design Group drew […]
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CREATIVE PEOPLE ENJOY PAPER & THE “ReMarkable” E-INK “PAPER” TABLET BRIDGES THE OLD SCHOOL vs TECH GAP. (This article has excerpts from Valentina Palladino’s review at arstechnica.com. For her full review, please access their website.) The reMarkable tablet offers a unique reading and writing experience. Unless you use a Kindle paperwhite or other paperwhite e-readers regularly, you […]
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Marlow-Hunter 31 An Affordable Sailboat for the Ocean Marlow Hunter (formerly Hunter Marine) has a 31-footer back in its line-up. This new boat incorporates some clever new features not seen in earlier anywhere. Although some other 31-foot keelboats are as wide as this new Marlow Hunter, very few create such a strong impression. […]
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Tailored and tightly fitting cargo trousers are much better looking than the older, bulky, big legged ones. What pant is humble enough that it has never been crowned fashionable? Cool enough that it is worn by artists and house painters? Functional and comfortable enough that it would be elected “the-pant-for-all-time” instead of fashion for […]
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Royal Copenhagen China has beautiful design. (The teapot and formal tea cup are good examples.) The Story of Royal Copenhagen by Evelyn Marie Stuart Early in the 20th century surprisingly life-like little porcelain animals, in soft gray and white or tan and white, were the first Royal Copenhagen objects to enliven upscale department stores in the United […]
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Mauviel M’steel Wok by Anna Addoms Most people own a wok for stir-fry and high-heat cooking. Interestingly, you can utilize a wok for a number of additional uses. Here are five additional uses for a wok in your kitchen: Deep-Frying Steaming Warming Tortillas Smoking Making Popcorn Below are a range of woks that can […]
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The CAMERA OBSCURA The dictionary definition: 1) A darkened box with an aperture (convex lens) for projecting the image of the external scene onto a surface inside, based on the way our eyes see. It is important historically, because the concept lead to the development of photography once film was invented. 2) A small round […]
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</ifr Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. ( listen)) is an Italian brand and manufacturer of luxury supercars, sports cars, SUVs based in Sant’Agata Bolognese and tractors Lamborghini Trattori in Pieve di Cento, Italy. Few know that the company is owned by Volkswagen through its subsidiary Audi. Ferruccio Lamborghini, an Italian manufacturing magnate, founded Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini S.p.A. in 1963 to compete with Ferrari. The company gained wide acclaim in 1966 for the Miura sports coupé, […]