Design

April 26, 2022

Designer Spends Over 190 Hours Embellishing Dress With a Fairy Tale Landscape

French designer Sylvie Facon creates custom-made dresses that are fit for a fairytale. Her specialty practice involves embellishing delicate silk gowns with embroidery, beading, and even painting. One of her most recent creations features a romantic depiction of a bucolic, European landscape framed by a leafy border. The finished piece required over 190 hours of meticulous work.

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April 18, 2022

Ingenious Chair Designed To Easily Transform Into Storage Shelf

Finding furniture that is affordable, attractive, and functional can be a challenge, especially when it comes to scoring the ideal furnishings for a kid’s room. The best kid's furniture often serves multiple purposes and includes storage solutions or other innovations to make the most of limited space and manage the clutter of an energetic child’s domain.

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April 8, 2022

Designer Creates Solar Desalination Skylight as Low-Tech Way to Produce Drinking Water

Fresh, clean drinking water is essential. Many communities around the world already suffer from a lack of clean drinking water. Resource scarcity is also a significant impending challenge of climate change. To help combat this, New Zealand architect Henry Glogau has designed Solar Desalination Skylight, a beautiful and functional light fixture which transforms seawater into clean drinking water.

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