Mar 19, 2010
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Nothing ultra new in terms of recently designed stuff, especially if you follow the world of interiors and furniture design, but I still love it. I picked up some materials from my shelf this week and found the leaflet I have showing my second favourite radiator of all time. (Yes it is sad I have a favourite, radiator, and possibly even sadder I have a second favourite, but let’s face it, ordering and ranking is what we do every day to help ourselves with decisions… granted my more important decisions are not radiator based but you know what I mean.)
Anyway, this Radiator was shown at the Cologne fair in 2007 by Italian born designer Macro Dessi, as a concept. He designed it in 2006 and his own little bit of blurb about the product is as follows:
“The raw expression of functional industrial radiators was a source of inspiration for the radiator . While maintaining this raw strenght [sic.], the object was transformed for living spaces. The rotation of the individual element is reminiscent of the sheet metal spirals of old- fashioned radiators.”
I have to say that having just experienced one of the longest, and coldest winters in recent memory, I for one, would be more than happy to actually place a couple of these beauties in my house, and even, for that matter, next to my desk in the west wing of Everybody towers.
Everybody says… great work Marco, let us know when we can buy it!
c
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Nov 01, 2008
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As we’ve already mentioned, it’s getting colder and colder now the nights are drawing in a little, and since the heating is needed most days now, we thought we’d show you this new radiator concept from Ad Hoc, designed by Stefano Ragaini and Giorgio Di Tullio. As you see, its design is based on the old traditional garden hose, which most of us have outside the house or in a shed somewhere knocking around.
The real beauty of this idea is that the hose is, as a hose would be, movable, thus allowing you to put a portion of it nearer the couch or wherever you need it to be to get warm, the website even suggests that it could be coiled up in the bed to warm it up before you go to sleep. The list of useful possibilities is as long as the coil itself. Simple. Pure genius.
The designers are a pair of Italians who have produced pieces in the past for Ad Hoc using steels of various descriptions and with the addition of Ciussaì to their portfolio, confirm themselves in Everybody’s eyes as a duo worth keeping track of.
Good work Italian lads, we’re warming to your ideas… See, warming, warming to your ideas, oh, if I’ve got to explain it, it just doesn’t work.
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Jul 22, 2008
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Anyone who has read my posts on other blogs knows that I don’t like to put the radiators on in the house during the summer months even when it is as cold as it is at the moment in Rotterdam. My fascination with radiators goes back a long way mainly due to the way they look being so damn boring and ugly. People like Joris Larman have designed some wonderful radiators which do the job efficiently and in a pretty manner. If you don’t want to go to the expense of putting in a new radiator, flooding your house and then paying a person who knows what they are doing to do it properly, these are perfect for you.
Designed by Bumrae Jo & Zemzem Kaya, these covers are a great way of hiding your ugly wall mounted heating device and adding a little bit of colour to your place. They are available in two colour ways, Red and White and Grey and White. Featured on the cover is a “nest” which will keep things warm (obviously being on a radiator) but, hey, maybe you can put your underwear in it on those cold winter days so it’s nice and toasty warm for you when you wake up.
Everybody says well done radiator covering people. Nice job.
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