All The Days Ordained

Italian designers have created one-off looks for Coca-Cola Light, in support of the victims of the 2009 Abruzzo earthquake. The designs by Moschino, Versace, Missoni, Alberta Ferretti, Blumarine, and Etro are on exhibition at the Milan Fashion Centre and will be auctioned.

Posters for Penguin Audiobooks, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Wizard of Oz, and The Jungle Book.

The ear-thing kind of freaks me out, but the drawings and design are brilliant.

Les Sports d’hiver a St. Pierre de Chartreuse designed by Roger Broders c. 1930

An Italian pendant reliquary from the 1350’s, made from silver, silver gilt, and enamel. This lid would have opened to reveal a small personal holy relic. So beautiful.

Two extremely rare Famille Rose ‘Heaven and Earth’ revolving brushpots with Qianlong seal marks. Rich with Daoist and cosmological symbolism, only one other pair and two single examples of revolving brushpots from the Qianlong period are known to exist. The creation of revolving and interlocking porcelains represented an astonishing triumph of ingenious design and almost miraculous craftsmanship. The upper part of these two pieces represents Heaven with rainbow colored clouds, while the lower portion, the realm of a dragon - the Emperor – represents Earth.

Gstaad Royal Hotel and Winter Palace in Switzerland, advertisement c. 1913

See-Saw table designed by Marleen Jansen

Jo Malone’s Peony & Moss, Iris & Lady Moore, and White Lilac & Rhubarb perfumes

German-based duo Jirko Bannas and Oliver Seltmann have designed the Polaboy, an LED-backlit photographic frame that is a direct 10:1 scaling up of an original Polaroid snapshot. A unique take on the Polaroid picture, these installations acts as a both an art print and a light source. Lightboys, the company behind the concept, take images submitted to them and blow them up to ten times their original size, and then giving them back light of constant illumination. With 5,000 lumens of LEDs to provide the light source, the result is one that mimics the authentic warm hues of an actual Polaroid photo. The images are printed on a special slide film, and can be changed at any time. The whole rig is only 20mm thick, running 12 volts, 45 watts.

Beautiful video campaign for Poetic Wish watches by Van Cleef & Arpels

This poster by The Calvert Lithography Company c. 1890 has incredible colours.

Lladró’s new collection, Metropolis, is a series of functional objects including vases, lamps, mirrors, and boxes all in the shape of buildings.

Pantone bikes designed and made by Abici Italia.

Luminarie De Cagna is an Italian family business that began in 1930. In those days, they would illuminate buildings and town squares with oil and carbide lamps, soon making the change to electric lights. From 2006, the company has used only LEDs, joined together to make large curtains of light, blanketing buildings or other objects. For the Light Festival Ghent 2012, Luminarie De Cagna is occupying Belfortstraat in Ghent, Belgium, with a giant colonnade made of wood and hundreds of thousands of coloured lights, with arches reminiscent of Romanesque and Renaissance architecture, with an entrance of 28 meters high. And for those concerned about wasting of energy, these 55, 000 LED lights consume only 20Kw/h of electricity. Impressive and enchanting even in photographs, I can only imagine how mesmerizing this would be in real life. 

Wallbanger, a wall-mounted bar designed by Urbancase