Bike love - Two Italians doing fantastic bikes. Mouthwatering I would say .

http://www.biascagne-cicli.it/

discovered @ http://lescouillessurlapotence.wordpress.com/

I've come across these Bac Sacs several times and wasn't so sure what to think of it. I don't like it when something distracts you from the plant itself. I want my plant pots to be very simple either terra-cotta ( I have to admit that it somehow does not really fit our climate it think - it's better in the south) or Eternit . Even though I like the new pots they do I keep collecting the old one whenever I see one.

BACSAC® was born with the encounter between designer Godefroy de Virieu and landscapers Virgile Desurmont and Louis de Fleurieu. Together, they looked for an alternative solution to get round the constraints of the creation of a roof garden in town: difficulties of transportation, excessive weight, but also lack of choice of containers, most of which are often very expensive. How can one reverse the tendency to pay more for the container than the contents? How can we make mobile an instalation which is often fixed because of its weight and its rigidity? How can one create a planted area at the lowest cost?

What I really like is when they are planted with vegetables, like have in a small vegatable batch on your terrace or in front of your house. Like on this image:

Prices range from 30 € to 130 €.

http://www.bacsac.fr/en/

So many nice woven stuff coming out of the uk at the moment, love the colors in this collection.

Eleanor produces a woven blanket collection each winter. The designs are developed and sampled by Eleanor on her dobby loom in the London studio and the production runs are then woven up at a small traditional mill in Wales. All of the blankets are woven in 100% pure new wool and have a blanket stitch edging.

A love of pattern, colour and texture runs through all of Eleanor's work.
Her designs celebrate traditional British fabrics, reinterpreting them in a contemporary context. Her practice includes large-scale projects, bespoke and commission work, mill-woven design and design consultancy.
Alongside her own work, Eleanor is also an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins.

http://www.eleanorpritchard.com

I hope you don't get bored with my crush for porcelain. It's also not the first nymphenburg post on fieldreport but this Lightscape  line I only just discovered and it's so beautiful it deserves an other mention here.

Sheets of hand-made paper, curved and folded into sculptures, made templates for vessels and plates. From these wafer-thin paper models, Nymphenburg porcelain master craftsmen then made delicate porcelain objects that match the original designs even down to their very fibre structure. The biscuit version – unglazed and unpainted on the outside, but covered on the inside with a fine glaze – draws all of its magical power from the architectural quality of the design and from the feel and the materiality of pure untreated porcelain.

Thats the sort of accessory I would like to have on my bike:

Product designer Fraser Mort has created Bike Light to make cyclists feel more confident. Bike Light is an LED dot matrix, where the cyclist can design and download their personalized graphics, animations or phrases to use as their rear light.

Cycle culture is gaining in popularity, and for new cyclists it can be hard to feel confident sharing space on the road. Bike Light is addressing the relationship between cyclist and driver, and is designed to challenge the drivers eye and to put cycle safety products in a different context.

Bike light is milled out from one solid piece of aluminum, which encloses the 8x8 LED dot matrix. The bike dock is made from ABS plastic, and connects to the bicycles dynamo via a USB socket in the back of the light. The light is designed to look at home either on a bike or plugged into a home computer. Bike Light can be programmed with still graphics, animations or words and phrases via web-based software. Here you can exchange designs through an online community, posting them on networking sites like Facebook, Twitter or Flickr.

http://www.frasermort.co.uk/

More beautiful porcelaine. This time from the german designer Alexa Lixfeld.

"SHE COMBINED HER PIONEERING EXPERIMENTS WITH CONCRETE IN THE FIELD OF TABLEWARE WITH THE ULTIMATE IN FINISHING, THE TRADITIONAL JAPANESE URUSHI LACQUERING TECHNIQUE FROM WAJIMA, WHILE LEAVING THE CONTRAST OPEN AND VISIBLE. AFTER A TEN-YEAR CAREER AS A MODEL, ALEXA LIXFELD STUDIED AT KÖLN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF DESIGN, UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED ARTS PFORZHEIM AND DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS. SHE WORKS IN HAMBURG SINCE 2006, RUNNING HER OWN STUDIO."

Cups – porcelain vessel
Handmade vessels made of solid coloured porcelain, outside matt, inside glazed.
Available in three different sizes and eight colours.

Kubus – porcelain vessel
Handmade vessels made of solid coloured porcelain, outside matt, inside glazed. Through the productionprocess the vessels bend individually - so each piece is unique. Available in eight different sizes and eightcolours. The sizes are calculated so the vessels fit next to each other either way -it becomes an architectural game.

Ricebowls – porcelain bowl
Handmade bowls made of solid coloured porcelain, outside matt, inside glazed.
Available in three different sizes and eight colours.

Showcase the process based development of contemporary design. The cooperation of computer aided design = CAD and traditional craftsmanship. Metamorphose of formal aspects of industrial manufacturing and uniqueness which can only be achieved from traditional handmade crafts.?Metamorphose of a cylinder and one straight as well as one upside-down smaller cone in CAD, conversation through CNC lathe and traditional craftsmanship. The shapes a computer generated, meanwhile its manufactured using crafts the improper ornament of the ridges become decoration. The design is subsidized by the colour graduation of solid coloured porcelain compound.?The set consits of nine shapes and five colours. The vessels can be ordered individually and in eight different colours.
 
awards:
NOMINATED: DESIGNPREIS DEUTSCHLAND 2010
FORM 2008
GUTE GESTALTUNG 09
DESIGN PLUS 09


www.alexalixfeld.com

It's getting obvious that I like ceramics and Porcelain but I think I'm not the only one how discovered this old artisanry.
I just came back from the paris fair and have seen more ceramics and Porcelain than ever.
This is quite a nice jung brand from france. They work make rather modern designs on Limoges Porcelain.

"Fascinated by the white gold from Limoges, NON SANS RAISON makes stir the Past’s conscience by making its promotion, through creative modernity and in the respect of the ancestral traditions. Performance, daring creation, imagination, innovation and know-how fit the creations and speeches in which NON SANS RAISON enjoys to evolve.Moved by passion and technical expertise, NON SANS RAISON has an impact over the table arts and develops this white gold in its collections."

http://nonsansraison.blogspot.com/

I came across this beautiful ceramic in Paris. Made by the swiss artist Christiane Perrochon.
What I like about it is the very special jet very subtile colors she uses plain shapes.
www.christianeperrochon.com

An other Outstanding book from the berlin based Publisher Jacoby & Stuart.

Jacoby & Stuart was founded  in 2008 by Nicola Stuart and Edmund Jacoby.  They publish beautiful and ambitious kids books and  rich illustrated books.

A church, trees, some houses,; then a street, a factory , rails, skyscraper - from page to page of this pop up book grows a village to a modern city. Kids learn how a city takes shape and works.
The fathers of Bauhaus would have been immersed who paper engineering can manifest architecture and city planning. But also function follows form, as kids and parents will  develop their own ideas on urban planning development starting from this phase model. New architects needs the world.

Ein weiteres Buch des berliner Verlages Jacoby & Stuart.
Jacoby & Stuart wurde im März 2008 in Berlin von dem Verlegerehepaar Nicola Stuart und Edmund Jacoby gegründet und bringt ästhetisch und inhaltlich anspruchsvolle Kinderbücher, reich illustrierte und gut geschriebene Sachbücher und Bildbände heraus.

Eine Kirche, Bäume, ein paar Häuser; dann Straßen, Fabriken, Schienen, Hochhäuser – von Seite zu Seite dieses Pop-up-Buchs der neuen Generation wächst ein Dorf zu einer modernen Großstadt. Kinder lernen mit diesem Buch, wie eine Stadt entsteht und funktioniert.
Die Väter des Bauhauses hätten gestaunt, wie paper engineering Architektur und Städtebau sinnfällig machen kann Aber auch Function follows form, denn Kinder wie Erwachsene werden ihre eigenen städtebaulichen Ideen von diesem Phasenmodell ausgehen lassen: Neue Architekten und Ingenieure braucht das Land!

Pop-up City

Mit einem Text von Joy Sorman?Aus dem Französischen ?von Sarah Pasquay?16 Seiten, geb.,14 x 28 cm,
jacobystuart.de/

Outstanding book from the berlin based Publisher Jacoby & Stuart.
Jacoby & Stuart was founded  in 2008 by Nicola Stuart and Edmund Jacoby.  They publish beautiful and ambitious kids books and  rich illustrated books.

We got "Leute" as a present recently. A very special book. 208 beautiful Illustrations from the french illustrator Blexbolex.
From eskimos, to cowboys, to thinkers and friends. If you have a closer look one realizes the the illustrations correspond with each other. A book for kids and grownups.
The book is out in French and german and has the "Best Book design from all over the world" award.

Wunderbares Buch des berliner Verlages Jacoby & Stuart.
Jacoby & Stuart wurde im März 2008 in Berlin von dem Verlegerehepaar Nicola Stuart und Edmund Jacoby gegründet und bringt ästhetisch und inhaltlich anspruchsvolle Kinderbücher, reich illustrierte und gut geschriebene Sachbücher und Bildbände heraus.

Wir haben letzthin  "Leute" gekriegt ein wunderschönes Buch. Superschöne, Illustrationen des französischen Illustrator Blexbolex. 208 Seiten verschiedene  Leute. Cowboys, Denker, Eskimos, Streithähne. Bei genauem hinschauen Merkt man das die Leute nicht willkürlich nebeneinander stehen sondern es ergeben sich kleine "Geschichten" über die Seiten hinweg. Ein Buch an dem man sich kaum satt sehen kann. Für Kinder und Erwachsene.
Das Buch wurde mehrfach ausgezeichnet unter anderem mit dem "Best Bookdesign from all over the world"

jacobystuart.de/