Orée Completely Wooden Keyboards

September 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Original, rational, elegant, engaged – Orée. These keyboards were designed with those four words in mind. Julien Salanave, Franck Fontana and Christophe Della Signora collaborated to create keyboards that were different from those currently available.

Each of the Orée keyboards are crafted, polished, oil-finished and assembled by hand in the Orée workshop in southern France.

*Orée keyboards can be personalized to your country layout (US QWERTY/ UK QWERTY), keyboard layout (Mac or Windows) and keyboard font and purchased for €125

Johnny & Vanessa Split

June 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

After 14 years and 2 children together, Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis have decided to call it quits on their relationship. There are rumours that Angelina Jolie is the cause of the split, but no-one really knows.

Johnny is famous for his weird and wacky roles in movies like Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland and Sweeney Todd: The Barber of Fleetstreet, while Vanessa Paradis is a star in her native land of France.

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Making Of The Palme D’Or

May 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

As the Cannes Film Festival is currently taking place on in the beautiful South of France, I got to thinking and wondering about how the Palme D’Or was made. This video was made by fashion photographer, Piotr Stoklosa and follows the making of the awards by Swiss watch manufacturers, Chopard.

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The Perfect Wedding Destination

February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

If your dream is to get married in a fairytale like setting, there is no better place to look than the land of love, France. Want to make your wedding day even more surreal, get married in a bona fide castle. The Chateau d’Esclimont is the former home of the La Rochefoucauld family and was a jewel in the Renaissance era.

Situated on 60 hectares of parkland, it has towers, balconies, turrets and belfries. This seems to be the ultimate romantic place to stay and celebrate what is the start of a lifetime together. The Chateau is less than an hour away from Paris, between Versailles and Chartres Cathedral. There are any number of activities for your wedding guests to be entertained with, from hunting, to canoeing, bicycles and a fitness trail, even flight and dinner in a hot air balloon.

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Lacy Metal Sculptures

September 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Cal Lane in her workshops with some incomplete art pieces

As a self confessed “Devil’s Advocate”, with a preference for contrasting textures placed side by side, Cal Lane’s career choice doesn’t really come as a surprise, especially when you find out she creates delicate metal lace sculptures from wheelbarrows, oil drums, metal pipes and I-Beams. These delicate sculptures form three dimensional installations at places like Museum of Lace Manufacturers in Retournac, France and they manage to represent the height of femininity, in the lace and the strength of masculinity. All of Cal’s work has meticulous skill and attention to detail, as can be seen in some of the pictures below.

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Touch Sensitive Art From ENSAD Students

September 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Touch Sensitive Painting

A five day workshop is held in collaboration between ENSAD and MIT’s High-Low Tech for students to research and explore the relationship between screen printing and the construction of new compounds using electronics and sensors. Cristobal, Helena and Liberty from ENSAIT, were assigned “Please,…” and they were searching for ways to incorporate the word into the ENSAD Workshop’s context as effectively as possible.  [Read more...]

Designer Bubble Tent

June 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Designer Pierre Stephane Dumas has come up with a new way of camping for the exhibitionist in all of us. It’s a transparent modern version of the tent and it’s part of a brand new hotel, opened in 2010, called The Bubble Tree in France.

The tents, being transparent, afford guests an uninterrupted view of the starry night sky. They can be hired at sites all around France, for around GBP4000. Popular with British tourists, they go for around GBP625 per night. The tents are inflated by a small pump mounted outside that maintain the pressure and provide sound proofing for the occupants inside.

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FIRE in the hole!!!

May 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment

There is no need for trend setters to bow to the utilitarian look of safety devices any more. With Fire Design from France, you can show your loyalty to your country like this: You can even design your own fire extinguisher! Each fire extinguisher comes with a mounting unit which allows the extinguisher to be placed in an upright position or to be mounted on the wall. “The concept of Fire design is unique in Europe. Fire design offers you a large choice of design, coming in a broad range of colours and patterns, also customised to satisfy all tastes.

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Cinco de Mayo Baby!

May 16, 2011 By

Cinco de Mayo, not to be confused with the Mexican Independence Day which is on the 16th of September, is a celebration of the unlikely victory of Mexico over the French. Just think if they didn’t win, South America might have been speaking French and eating baguettes instead of churros! (Which are divine BTW).

So if you have a Cinco de Mayo celebration, wedding/ birthday whatever!, planned, it’s gotta look something like this:

Cinco de Mayo Wedding Cinco de Mayo Wedding table

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