Design 100 Goes Green
The May issue of Metropolitan Home features the magazine's "Design 100 Goes Green" list. Here are a couple of products that I especially liked:
#6 - David McLimans' Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet - Each letter of the alphabet represents a different endangered animal (e.g., the P is a piping plover).
#17 - Scandinavian stool - Bent and lacquered birch plywood is stained brown or white, and paired with a cushion covered in a Josef Frank fabric.
The list also includes a mention (#85) of "Design for the Other 90%," an exhibit opening May 4 at the Cooper-Hewitt — which happens to be one of my favorite museums. And, I happen to be going to NYC next month, so I am definitely going to check it out.
#86 is a "floating pool" that's coming to the Brooklyn waterfront. A former cargo barge has been transformed into a pool — 4' deep and 82' long, with seven swimming lanes. There's also a snack bar and dressing rooms. How cool is that?
And I love that #95 is glass artist Dale Chihuly's live-work complex in Seattle. Also not to be missed: the sod roof that's featured for #98.