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Stainless-steel, aluminum, wood, cotton, leather — anything but plastic — highlight most of this issue's soft & hard wares. Nov/Dec 2005
The Latest and Greatest Gadgets and Accessories
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NOT FOR THE FAINTHEARTED
Beginning with images derived from magazine ads and fashion spreads, Los Angeles artist Gabrielle Jennings serves up popular culture via her silhouette design, the Swoon Pillow for Eleventwentyfive. This knife-edged —meaning with no piping—pillow is made of an 8½-oz. sanded cotton twill case with zipper closure, and stuffed with a mix of 95-percent duck-feather and 5-percent goose-down. As if you needed any more incentive to take a load off.
Eleventwentyfive Swoon Pillow, $70–76, 800.506.6541, www.designpublic.com |
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STILL HUNGRY, BUT ENLIGHTENED
Enchanted with fortune cookies, Laura Victore, owner of
Boo Raley Designs, fancies that they have “a sublime simplicity
of design, and more importantly, a wonderful sense
of surprise that comes with the ritual opening of one after a
nice meal … once opened, you receive a forecast or positive
message, and then you instantly want to share your fortune
with everyone around you. It’s such a beautiful example
of the circular effect of giving a gift!” Her gift to us is
the Small Fortune leather coin purse with a satin ribbon
containing one of three uplifting fortunes.
MoMA Design Store Small Fortune Coin Purse,
$25, 800.447.6662 |  |
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BOW OUT OF UGLY CANINE ACCESSORIES
What’s that lounging in your
end table? Or, wait—is that an
end table, or a cleverly designed
dog crate? The Bow Haus Dog
Crate allows pet owners to
house-train their dogs while
keeping their homes stylish. So
lose the distracting, homely,
traditional plastic or wire
crates, and move Fido into this
durable, powder-coated steel
crate. Comes with a 1½-inch
foam core pad in either orange/
charcoal or green/mocha.
Velocity Art and Design Bow Haus Dog Crate, $389 for Studio
Bow Haus (for small dogs up to 20 lbs.) or $499 for Loft Bow
Haus (for large dogs up to 50 lbs.), 866.781.9494
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