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ICFF 2006, Part II
by Ami Kealoha
Earlier this week the week we brought you ICFF 2006 and Beyond. As promised, here are a few more events happening this weekend, this time focusing on reader-contributed specifics.
—Icing or Cake is Fabrica's window installation displayed at both Chashama and The Apartment that asks questions about consumption.
—Bambu, maker of bamboo dinnerware and utensils shows two collections at Hautegreen, Williamsburg's eco-chic design show.
—At the ICFF, designer Thomas Carbone exhibits his "Space Chair," inspired by the 50s-era Birdcage Maserati.
—slowLab presents 13 Objects, a "Tinned Brass Collection" by Beirut designer Karen Chekerdjian at Costantino.
—Husband and wife design team Zia Priven show a scaled-down version The Troy, a chandelier made from ping-pong balls (pictured), and The Infinity, their ball chain pendant, at ICFF.
BMW Says "No"
by Josh Rubin
I'm very proud to welcome our newest site sponsor, BMW. Their campaign, "No," is all about resisting compromise, second guessing, middle management and anything else that may get in the way of building the best product possible. The Why We Say No site is a repository for anyone to share their own "no" and watch the nos of others. Thanks BMW for supporting us and more importantly, thanks for supporting creatives around the world to help make "no" a good word.
Mork and Mindy Dunks
by SummerSeventySix
Quite possibly the strangest idea yet as part of Nike's SB (skateboarding) range are these Mork And Mindy Hi-Top Dunks. For those unfamiliar with the character played by Robin Williams in the late-1970s/early-1980s, Mork was an alien from the planet Ork, who arrived on Earth in an egg. His catchphrase was "Greetings Earthlings" and Mindy was his girlfriend (kind of). If you never saw it, it was pretty weird, a bit like these shoes. Looking like something straight out of Studio 54, the rainbow soles are inspired by Mork's braces/suspenders. They're expected to be available in the Autumn.
via Hypebeast
Akomplice
by Jacob Resneck
Akomplice. Their imagery is provocative: the Statue of Liberty holding a pistol; a column of tanks spiked with roses; a dancing Marvin Gaye rising from an urban cityscape.
"There's a political underlying theme, it makes you notice and makes you think," Patrick, 22, told Cool Hunting. "We just like to make clothes that we'd want to wear, but we want to make something better each time around." It was his younger brother Mike, now 20, who had the idea for t-shirts, Patrick said. Skeptical at first—the brothers had no design background—the two began to collaborate. "I said let's focus on music, but a couple months later, we had our first season which we hustled to all of our friends," Patrick said.
From these humble origins, their tees are in stores in seven countries across North America, Europe, and Asia (and available on their site and at GCS Clothing) and they just released their fourth season, including some limited editions. The shirts are on soft, combed cotton and run bigger, Patrick said, in line with their hip-hop clientele.
Nike Joga3 Soccer Ball Vending Machine
by Josh Rubin
Joga3, Nike decided to install a vending machine that spits out soccer balls for $20 a pop. All of the proceeds will go to maintenance and repair of the Chelsea Piers fields.
Christie's: Exceptional Motor Cars
by Evan Orensten
Every car in Christie's Exceptional Motor Cars at the Greenwich Concours d'Elegance Including the Sergio Franchi Motor Car Collection auction has a story—the people who made it, owned it, where and how they bought it, and sometimes how they restored it.
Many of the 46 cars in the sale were collected and owned by the famous tenor Sergio Franchi. His favorite car—and the highlight of the auction—is his 1930 Isotta Fraschini 8AS Boattail Convertible. Isotta Fraschini's were truly the cars of royalty in the early 1900s—both those with countries and those who commanded their people from the silver screen of Hollywood (perhaps best personified by Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard who was driven in her similar looking 1929 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A Castagna Transformable).
One of the fascinating things about many of these fine automobiles is that you would order the chassis from the manufacturer, and then have any of several coachmakers finish it for you. Sometimes standard packages were offered and sometimes they would create completely custom cars. While this practice exists today (with coachbuilders such as Fisker, who build custom bodies on Mercedes chassis) this artform has lost visibility from the much more plentiful field of customizers, like those featured on Pimp My Ride, who take existing parts (mostly) to modify production cars.
Many of the cars are much more accessible, and practical, than the IF (which is estimated to sell for somewhere around $700,000), with bargains to be found on recent classics like Jaguar, Delorean and Buick, and "Janie," who earned her fame by being the last Checker Cab in service in New York.
4 June 2006
12:00 pm
Roger Sherman Baldwin Park
Greenwich, CT
USA
