Posts Tagged geek chic
Like tea, only better
Posted by katiesol in Beautiful things on February 8th, 2010
Cosy knits for your tea - tea + knitting = The Best. Sure, you could pay $15 for this, but I reckon it’d be pretty easy to knit yourself.
Hanger tea - because teaspoons are for losers and those stupid strings always end up in the cup
Typewriter teapot - God, yes. I just love that this exists. Of course, I couldn’t buy it until I had a room full of curios otherwise the other kitchen implements would bully it (I think I watched Sword In The Stone one too many times whilst growing up).
Pretty little milk jug - this doesn’t go with anything I own either, but I still want it devilish bad.
Pure unadulterated grade-A awesomeness
Posted by katiesol in Beautiful things, From around the web on February 4th, 2010
Unborn children of mine take note: this is what your future holds.
I’d rather have the Lego version, to be honest.
Waterfall sink - like an infinity pool in your kitchen. Yes please.
As good a motto as any.
Finally, a use for all those old boring books I buy from library sales because they look nice but actually they’re rubbish. Happy day.
I just adore this AT-AT Walker inspired lamp, even though it’s completely ridiculous that the light lives in a drawer.
Great finds from around the internet
Posted by katiesol in Beautiful things, From around the web, When I win the lottery... on January 23rd, 2010
Just a few of the brilliant things I’ve come across lately. Needless to say, I want them all.
Origami tea bags - Beautiful origami green berry tea bags by Natalia Ponomareva. Just a concept for now.
BookBook - A MacBook cover that looks like an old book from TwelveSouth. Lush, but it’ll set you back $80.
Amazing chairs - it’s not always easy to get excited about chairs, but these are exceptionally beautiful with their Rob Ryan style cutout fairytale design. By Kranen/Grille, via DesignBoom.
I’m Here - a short film by Spike Jonze that debuted at Sundance this week. It’s a robot romance, somewhere between Wall-E, Where The Wild Things Are and 500 Days of Summer with a typically dreamy aesthetic and inspiring soundtrack.
Moss wallpaper
Posted by katiesol in Beautiful things on October 10th, 2009
Moss. It’s not something the average person devotes a great deal of thought to, but there’s something really appealing about carefully controlled moss. I liked the idea of poetry moss on a tumble-down whitewashed wall in my garden-of-the-future and these moss-decorated interiors are pretty nice too:
It is a beautifully unusual idea, and a nice antidote to the staid wallpaper designs and plain walls that most of us endure. I’m not so sure about inviting actual moss into my house though, I can see that getting out of control quickly and turning the house into the garden and the street into my home when my landlord finds out.
The delicate designs are the work of Tokyo-based design studio nendo, whose adorable ethic is:
Giving people a small ” ! ” moment.
There are so many small ” ! ” moments hidden in our everyday.
I love those ! moments. Images from doornob via @katiescott1980
I don’t care if you’ve already seen it
Posted by katiesol in Beautiful things, From around the web on July 26th, 2009
I think pretty much everyone on the internet has seen this now, but I’m posting it anyway:
De. Lish.
First spotted on TooMuchNick
Eco graffito
Posted by katiesol in Beautiful things, When I win the lottery... on July 7th, 2009
If I had a garden, I’d want a shabby, peeling whitewashed wall at the far end at a right-angle to the unruly hedge concealing the door to the secret garden. And on that decrepit, possibly unstable wall, I’d like a pertinent (if slightly pretentious) quote about the beauty of nature and the ethereal qualities of garden-based life. Typographically appropriate and written in moss.
I’d also like a comprehensive herb garden.
Sporeborne moss graffiti by Anna Garforth
Trees means tunes
Posted by katiesol in Beautiful things on June 27th, 2009
Feast your eyes on these delicious wooden headphones. You could totally listen to the entire Michael Jackson back-catalogue on these /tenuousMJreference.
Created by supercinq for soon-to-launch music label The Perfect Unison, the wooden headband is made from Finnish birch and inspired by skateboard decks. There are more designs here. Don’t know how comfy they’d be, but still: WANT.
Everything I had to know, I heard it on my radio
Posted by katiesol in Beautiful things on June 18th, 2009
…if by everything, you mean the Top 40 on a Sunday afternoon and the taping of various brilliant 90s pop songs.
I’d like these postcards in my life.
From Laura Barnard
Geek chic seats
Posted by katiesol in From around the web on May 11th, 2009
Some supremely lucky guy or gal has a piece of paper in their pocket that’s worth a cool £110,000,000 after winning the Euromillions lottery last week.
Apart from the obvious - quit their job, buy Buckingham Palace, give their friends a fiver each, holiday to secret Caribbean island etc - they can now afford to recklessly purchase all those things you come across on the internet that you’d love to buy but never would. My first stop would be these Y12,000 (around £80) Command Sit stools, designed by Ross McBride.
They’d look pretty cool dotted around the games hall of my new LA mansion, huh?