These vessels are celebrating the so called accidental aesthetics series, showing off the beauty of the imperfect, asymmetrical, human. Like things in nature: corals or stone formations in oceans or mountains come about by multiple conditions and accidents of their environment, these objects are celebrating the aesthetics of combining different ... Read More »

Though a labor strike in Kuwait is on its third day, a spokesman for the oil ministry said Tuesday output has moved higher to 1.5 million barrels per day. Talal al-Khaled, a spokesman for the oil ministry, said Tuesday oil facilities in the country were producing an average rate of ... Read More »

Goose feather sofa, design by Jean-Marie Massaud part of Yale Collection. An armchair and sofas with large seat cushions.  [SOURCE:- Interior Zine] Read More »

An increase in oil prices, along with refinery slowdowns and higher demand, means U.S. retail prices for gasoline are on the rise, market analysts found. Motor club AAA reports a national average retail price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline Tuesday at $2.11, unchanged from the previous day, but ... Read More »

Taliban attackers in Afghanistan staged an assault on a government security agency in the capital, Kabul, on Tuesday morning, killing at least 28 people and wounding more than 320. The assault, which include at least two attackers and a car rigged with explosives, came a week after the Taliban announced ... Read More »

When President Barack Obama arrives in the Saudi capital on Wednesday, he’ll face an increasingly assertive leadership still heavily dependent on U.S. weapons and military might that nonetheless has little trust in him and essentially believes it’s been thrown a curveball. The president is expected to push Saudi Arabia, the ... Read More »

A rug collection Bleux Neighbourhood from Designer Rugs was inspired by living environments and organic forms – veins, rocks, minerals. Two Sydney – based designers Skye Molyneux and Eva Krane, recreated  incredible patterns as colorful rugs. These soft forms and shapes create a basis on which can be placed beautiful ... Read More »

One of the strongest qualities of Italian design is creativity. This sofa is an example of a creative approach to the design and selection of textiles. Pixel sofa is dressed in patchwork covers in different colors- floral and graphic, combined with monochromatic textiles. The Pixel sofa is characterized by a series ... Read More »

A balanced energy portfolio suggests the U.S. economy won’t take any major hits from lingering weakness in the oil sector, a White House spokesman said. The U.S. Energy Information Administration said last week it expected domestic production to decline in most of the Lower 48 states and Alaska because of ... Read More »

The Syrian opposition coalition negotiating in Geneva said Tuesday there can be no solution in Syria with President Bashar Assad in power, and called for international monitors to observe a cessation of hostilities agreement that has all but collapsed. The head of the U.S. and Saudi-backed coalition, Riad Hijab, also ... Read More »

Young Irish-born, London-based designer Claire-Anne O’Brien is not the first person to apply knitting to product and furniture design. But what’s particular about her work, shown recently at Designersblock during the London Design Festival, is its compelling formal quality. O’Brien creates pieces that border on highly defined sculpture, but which ... Read More »