We’re pretty sure this is the most stylish Yamaha SR125 roaming the streets of northern Spain, but that’s no surprise: it’s the latest machine from Café Racer Dreams. It’s also the 56th build to roll out of the Madrid workshop — via Bike EXIF
If you love vinyl, you might just want to cover a wall in the Sevens wallpaper by Ella Doran. It looks like someone has just stuck a load of old 7-inch singles on your wall and in a way they will have. But without any harm to any records. This is digitally-printed paper that gives the effect. Perfect for a quirky feature wall. Ideal for where your deck or decks reside. There are two colour schemes to choose between, each one available in 10m rolls, with a width of 52cm. Don’t be wasteful with it though, as it sells for £150 per roll. Oh yes, samples are available — via Retro To Go
Giancarlo Zema has added some new pieces to his Bright Woods Collection for Luxyde — via Contemporist
Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) have recently completed the new headquarters for The Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé in Paris, France — via CONTEMPORIST
This 1980s John Lautner-designed Alden Schwimmer Residence in Beverly Hills, California, dates from 1982 and is up for sale for the first time since the ‘90s. The agent describes it as a ‘modern hilltop castle’ perched on a 4.33 acre site above Benedict Canyon and offering a 180 degree view from the huge terraces. The house has also just undergone a multi-million dollar restoration and renovation by Lautner-trained architect Duncan Nicholson, so looking it nest right now too. It all comes at a price though, with $21,000,000 being the asking price — via WowHaus
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The Boulder display units by CoucouManou are available from Not On The High Street. It’s (almost) all about the colour, with slabs of bright shades (there are three colour schemes to choose from) filling the back of the ever-so-slightly curved storage areas within the units. There are tall units and short units, both of which are made predominantly from oak and with those short oak feet. Handmade, so obviously not cheap, with the short unit and the tall version selling for £1,595 — via Retro To Go
Commissioned by Indigenus to design a planter, Laurie Wiid van Heerden of Wiid Design created Soma, an over-sized planter made from wood and concrete — via CONTEMPORIST
This lovely villa is up for sale in Kalmar, Sweden, and from the outside, it looks pretty normal. That is until you start noticing the Predator masks adorning the walls, before coming to the giant Predator statue, right next to the door that leads into an Home Theatre seen in the header image above, designed to look like a Predator Spaceship — via Kinja
William Pereira designed the Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego — via ArchDaily
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This is the real original Batmobile. Built in 1963 in a barn, it’s a ’56 Oldsmobile 88 with a body fashioned after the 1950s comic book Batmobiles. It’s the very first car DC Comics ever licensed, and it’s for sale, hitting the auction block with Heritage Auctions in December — via Supercompressor
European car owners are confronted with the very real possibility that wild animals will invade and eat their vehicles. To combat this danger, engineers at Audi rigged a car with multiple cameras and recorded what happened when martens were allowed access — via Youtube
Pierre-Yves Petit dit Yvon Watching Paris
, Paris 1920s — via mimbeau
Bill Tufts always wanted a pipe organ and had one installed in his home in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Tufts recently passed away, and the home is for sale, with the organ and its 2300 pipes. Don Haan of Haan Pipe Organ, who originally installed the organ, said the same job today would cost over a million dollars. Strangely, Tufts never learned to play the organ. The house is on the market for $129,000 — via Neatorama
Gehry Partners designed Biomuseo in Panama. The project comprises three main elements: the museum building, the exhibition design and the surrounding park — via ArchDaily
B-ILD transformed a dilapidated bunker into a holiday home for a promotion. Due to the success of the refurbishment, it was decided to keep the bunker permanently open for accommodation. The half-buried bunker lies on the site of the Fort Vuren in the Netherlands in a green surrounding — via ArchDaily
It is enough to make the neighbours green with envy and decline an invitation to tea. The vogue for a designer kitchen is set to be eclipsed with the sale of items unheralded in the competitive world of interior design: a fitted kitchen by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
In what is believed to be a world first, a selection of kitchen units designed by the celebrated architect and designer is set to go up for auction next month with an estimated price for the collection of £20,000. Lyon & Turnbull, the Edinburgh auction house, will be auctioning off three lots which previously made up the kitchen of The Moss, a house designed by the architect and built in Drumgoyne, near Killearn.
The three lots which make up the kitchen include a small pine kitchen dresser valued at £400 to £600, a large pine kitchen dresser valued at £3,000 to £4,000 and a substantial range of kitchen cupboards and work tops whose estimated value is between £3,000 and £5,000. The kitchen collection will be sold on 29 November at Lyon & Turnbull’s Decorative Arts Sale in Edinburgh.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh famously believed no detail was too trivial to be beyond the eye of a true architect and on one occasion even specified what colour of cut flowers was permitted on the living room table so as not to clash with the rest of the decor.
The kitchen he designed for Sir Archibald Campbell Lawrie, who died in 1914, is set to attract bids from all over the world. What makes the set unique is that the kitchen units were removable as opposed to build into the fabric of the home — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Landscape architect Paul Sangha has created Metamorphous, a corten steel sculpture designed to provide a solution to foreshore erosion for a waterfront property in Vancouver, Canada — viaCONTEMPORIST
Police Motorcycle originally uploaded by Red Wolf
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