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casa d'oro - Porto
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Verner Panton (13 February 1926 - 5 September 1998) is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics, and in vibrant colors. His style was very “1960s” but regained popularity at the end of the 20th century; as of 2004, Panton's most well-known furniture models are still in production (at Vitra, among others).
Panton was trained as an architectural engineer in Odense; next, he studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) in Copenhagen, graduating in 1951. During the first two years of his career, 1950-1952, he worked at the architectural practice of Arne Jacobsen, another Danish architect and furniture designer. Panton turned out to be an “enfant terrible” and he started his own design and architectural office. He became well known for his innovative architectural proposals, including a collapsible house (1955), the Cardboard House and the Plastic House (1960). Near the end of the 1950s, his chair designs became more and more unconventional, with no legs or discernible back. In 1960 Panton was the designer of the very first single-form injection-moulded plastic chair. the Stacking chair or S chair, which would become his most famous and mass-produced design.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Verner Panton experimented with designing entire environments: radical and psychedelic interiors that were an ensemble of his curved furniture, wall upholstering, textiles and lighting. He is best known for the design of a German boats interior, now a famous museum. He is also known for a hotel in Europe that utilized circular patterns and cylindrical furniture.
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Originally uploaded by NickScando.
As part of the centennial celebration of the Oslo Architect Association, this installation art piece (with sound) has been installed nearby Akerhusfestning in Oslo. It is an 'abstract futuristic' interpretation of Skansen, a restaurant, built in 1927 (demolished in 1970) that stood near the site. Skansen was the first example of architectural functionalism (funksjonalism/'funkis') in the Nordic region. Even in the roaring '20's I don't think the citizens could ever have imagined something quite like this…
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KNM Skjold
Originally uploaded by Jan Egil Kristiansen.
KNM Skjold “somewhere in the North Atlantic”, en route back from trials with the US Navy.
After they got around to mount the gun, this is probably the fastest warship in the world. (But did we really want to disturb the huge sun bathing platform with a gun turret?) Rumoured to be clocked at 70 knots on some radar. It is supposed to be stealthy, but I hope they use a reflector in peaceful waters. They remove even the door handles to reduce the radar signature.
I have a problem distinguishing computer generated images of this ship from photographs. It does not even seem real when I touch it - it looks and feels like a fibreglass prop in a cheap sci-fi movie.
Significantly, the Royal Norwegian Navy is redecorating its patrol boats from the Norwegian coastal dark olive camo, to this desert pattern. We know where we'll need them.
Notice the square jack versjon of the Norwegian flag, the gjøs, flying at the bow of naval vessels.
Their jamming of my camera was not very successful, but it did leave some vertical striping in the image. I almost got rid of it by applying horizontal blur to the sky.
On Black
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Rehti is a group of young creative Finnish designers who are linked together by their desire to create “honest and simple objects.”
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They say: Organized purely for the love of animation and with the skills of the
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BBC news wrote today the article about breaking the whaling ban by Iceland:
Iceland has reportedly broken a 21-year-old international ban on commercial whaling by killing a fin whale - an endangered species.
“One fin whale was caught today and will be landed tomorrow,” a whalers' spokesman told Reuters news agency.
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