I love transparency in design. Now, I don't mean the transparency design of 1998, with its tacky see through g-shock watches and calculators showing their naked mother boards. I'm talking about transparency that provides space, and light, and a sterile cleanliness you just want to pocket.
Today I'm incredibly excited about Lítill's interpretation of desk top - hard to kill - indoor plants: Modern Terrariums. These never identical, magical realms of tiny succulents, are housed by hand blown glass that remind of sad, tired, purses you never want to pick up. Their thin glass walls somehow don't provide that ship-in-a-bottle-from-a-garage-sale feel, but rather, this ethereal fauna space that seems static but is alive. Shipped with precise set up and up keep instructions for anywhere between $150 - $800, these beautiful lítill worlds of frigid plants are to die for. squeal.
So, to shout out to my favourite, affordable design store, CB2, Crate & Barrel's trendier and a little less upper east side younger brother ... a spot light on three objects that I could stare at for hours at length; a cup, an hour glass and a set of acrylic office accessories you'd not dare purchase for anyone else.
Then, of course there is Philippe Starck for Kartell and his Lou Lou Ghost chairs for $135 a pop - I WANT!!
... and for poops and giggles, this transparent toaster by Kancept, which is currently under works (said a blog from '06) - actually, it makes a lot of sense.
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