PicoCool

”Plushdepartment combines the power of computers with living, organic and beautiful materials. We create cases from ceramic and glass and concrete and wood. We add colour and style and pattern and line to what used to be a boring square box.” Designs range from shiny gold casings, sleek minimal black and white, to the PURE*ZENDER, an urban, street art-inspired computer and amplifier. The computers are Intel Core 2 Duo, 1000 GB hard drive, 2 x 2048MB highend Dual Channel RAM 800MHz memory, and comes with network gigabit LAN, USB, Firewire and more.  Currently available for purchase in the Netherlands, Germany and Turkey.

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Simple concept, well executed: the Big Window House by Tezuka Architects.

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British designer Max Lamb makes chairs, shelves and other home products, but there’s always a pleasant twist and surprise to each. See his latest work at his site and be sure to take a look at the SLS chair, Soft Poly Chair, and Sheet Steel Chair.

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Minimalist espresso and coffee cup by Julie Pfligersdorffer. (via emikw at Stylehive)

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Barbara Cohen’s jewelry designs are anything but ordinary. Each piece combines both natural and synthetic materials to become a hybrid.  There’s both minimalism and decorative embellishment, hard and soft, ancient and modern.  Cohen writes, “Upon seeing my collection of fossil pendants a fellow artist called me an organic perfectionist.” In this seeming contradiction lies the intrigue and the beauty of her series: Mesh, Cocoon, and Stone. Thanks to Stylehiver, fiction, for bookmarking these to the Hive.

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