Cool Hunting
| 02 February 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Cool Hunting Valentine's Day Finds
by Ami Kealoha
Predictable Valentine's day fare validates everything consumerist and cheesy about the made-up holiday. For paramours and life partners alike, these gifts are perfect ways to treat sweethearts to something as special as they are. Check them all out after the jump.
Simplehuman Single Cup Pod Brewer
by Evan Orensten
Simplehuman, makers of well designed things for the kitchen and laundry room, have just launched their first kitchen appliance: The Single Cup Pod Brewer.
Water is heated to 200º (considered optimal by many baristas) and forced through the single use coffee pods, which are widely available from most coffee suppliers. The brewer is best for a cup in the morning at home or to have near your desk at the office.
Available at Simplehuman online for $130.
Melt Modern
by Evan Orensten
Matt Proctor and Aixé Djelal are Portland based cast aluminum artisans who create a range of one-of-a-kind decoratives and architectural elements. Aixé describes their work as "molten lava frozen in space," and that's pretty accurate. Their work exhibits an unusual blend of organic shapes, voluptuous lines and surface texture, and is made entirely of recycled aluminum.
Melt Modern products and information about custom work is available online.
We were a bit slow weeding through our inbox, so you may have caught their work on a few other sites in the last few days: Charles & Marie, Product Dose, Designsponge, Urbanzeitgeist.
Everyday Studio "Water" Dish
by Josh Rubin
Like other people's children, your pet should be indulged and spoiled constantly. Everyday Studio offers stylish and simple American-made pet accessories that are unparalleled from what we can tell.
They've just released a set of freestanding stainless steel feeding bowls with designer acrylic frames that come in three different heights for dogs of varying stature. Of course you have your choice of design and color, seeing is believing with these guys. The amount of innovation they have managed to squeeze out of something as simple as a dog's waterbowl is an example of the holy design triumvirate of aesthetics, quality, and functionality.
These folks know their business and the secret's getting out; they've been written up in scores of mags from Interior Design to Modern Dog.
