The Super Sense Spa, designed by architecture and design studio KUU, a 3-level spa in Shanghai completed in late 2007.

An additional floor in steel was added and the staircase leading up lands at several platforms which are for the spa’s complementary purposes such as consultation, beauty treatment, manicure or pedicure.

I am amazed at the way the designer play with the form and function of the wall that creates lighting, niches and even form spaces. Absolutely uplifting and delightful !

We would like to briefly introduce a world-class line of decorative indoor/outdoor spherical lights that are colorful, versatile and create an alluring setting for home and garden.

Moonlight globe lights are dramatic, contemporary lights in whole- and half-spheres from 13 to 30 inches in diameter that operate on standard household wiring, extra-long cord, hardwired or rechargeable battery with remote control.

Engineered, developed and manufactured in Germany, Moonlight has won numerous design awards

Shown are the 350 and 550 half-globes with green and yellow filters.

Moonlight Globe lights come in half-globe shapes and can permanently mount to any hard surface. Shown are the 350-mm half globes in Granite-Dark finish, which have been mounted to the sidewalk.

Shown are the floating 350 and 550 mm sizes and the mounted 550 mm version

Shown are the 250, 350, and 550 mm sizes in white.

Moonlight Globes shown in 750 mm size.

For more information please visit the Moonlight web page.

The New Zealand company Arvus has come with an exclusively stylish loudspeakers aptly titled “The Prerenaissance”.

Each pair of the loudspeakers has taken hundreds of man hours each and the result is of course extravagant and almost artistic.

Starting from the bottom up, the plinth is made from hand carved granite. Four chambers house a quasi-five-way design and the sound technology offered is a perfect match for the expensive looks. With 6 channels of amplification, the speakers can make up a total of 3000 watts RMS.

The design was inspired by such objects as a exotic cars, the Coke bottle and musical instruments. The angles were chosen to give the speaker a feeling movement and life.
According to Arvus there are dozens of finishing options, from wood (like you see here), painted, carbon fibre, and even stainless steel.

Each pair of The Prerenaissance loudspeakers costs $140,000 (the price includes delivery, setup, and tuning)

This Wonderful House has 4 bedroom/4 bathroom house in the Paradise Point suburb of Australia’s Gold Coast is for sale at $3.9 million, with most of the furniture and artwork included.

I love the “white” theme and how it flows through the house though :)

Susan Crook is the agent for the home, visit her website

Voting period for Peugeot design contest 2008 is on the go !

For the fifth time Peugeot is holding their futuristic design competition. Last year the Flux, designed by 20-year old Romanian Mihai Panaitescu, won the competition and was built as a concept car and eventually shown at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show.

This year the competition was themed as “Imagine a Peugeot for the Megalopolis of Tomorrow”. The participants should take into consideration Peugeot’s stylistic codes and their projects must contain the following four aspects: environmental awareness, social harmony, interactive mobility and economic efficiency.

Entries were submitted in July and a jury has selected their 30 favorite designs so that the a popularity vote (15 August through 15 September 2008) can be held on the internet.

A top ten will be revealed on 16 September 2008. At the Paris Motor Show on 2 October 2008 Peugeot will announce the winner of the competition so that the concept can go into development for a 2009 Shanghai Motor Show in China global debut.

And now the most interesting part… The finalists with their concept car designs are presented below. Just vote for the concept car you most like on the official Peugeot site. In a week we will get to know the best 10 finalists.

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Title: SVP
Author: Mickael Soubabère
Location: France

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Title: Module
Author: Cristian Fabio Di Filippo
Location: Argentina

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Title: Peugeot 888
Author: Oskar Johansen
Location: Norway

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Title: Streamlife
Author: Liang Tian
Location: China

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Title: Opus
Author: Soheil Ghotbi Ravandi
Location: Iran

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Title: Rugir (Roar)
Author: Onur Guvenc
Location: Germany

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Title: OPENA
Author: Jaroslaw Koziel
Location: Poland

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Title: Peugeot Stylight
Author: Ognyan Bozhilov
Location: Bulgaria

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Title: Peugeot Pure
Author: Pierlot Damien
Location: Belgium

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Title: Peugeot Rayo
Author: Ivan Kraljević
Location: Croatia

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Title: MoVille
Author: Woo-Ram Lee
Location: France

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Title: Ego
Author: Emre Yazici
Location: Turkey

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Title: Globe
Author: Varun Gopinath
Location: India

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Title: Seed by Peugeot
Author: Yann Terrer
Location: France

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Title: OXO
Author: Lou Ke
Location: China

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Title: P.R.O.
Author: Ke Guo
Location: China

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Title: Peugeot Alegro
Author: Alexandre Raad
Location: Brazil

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Title: xtreet
Author: Esteban Peisci
Location: Argentina

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Title: Peugeot 50x
Author: Gustavo Hernandez
Location: Colombia

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Title: Peugeot Blade
Author: Ying Hui Choo
Location: Singapore

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Title: Peugeot Magnet
Author: Tolga Metin
Location: United States

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Title: Facile
Author: Thierry Dumaine
Location: France

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Title: [E cube]
Author: Seung Hoon Yoo
Location: Republic of Korea

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Title: RD
Author: Carlos Arturo Torres Tovar
Location: Colombia

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Title: Echo
Author: Sun Rujun
Location: China

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Title: GALapagos
Author: Igor Yastrebov
Location: Russian Federation

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Title: Peugeot Verde
Author: Michael Witus Schierup
Location: Denmark

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Title: Peugeot 1009 Concept
Author: Edwin van der Mark
Location: Netherlands

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Title: Vision
Author: Shinji Nukumi
Location: Japan

These sinks with patented ‘Horizontal Integrated Siphon’ technology (basically a horizontal drain) were introduced by Italian company Axolute at FuoriSalone 2008 and will revolutionise your bathroom design.

The stunning polished stainless sink features the HIS system, which replaces the traditional drain pipe usually visible underneath basins. Instead, the water flows along the slot of the front of the basin and back into the wall connection.

The lack of pipes underneath makes these designs particularly effective when mounted by themselves, as well as highly convenient to be fitted over a vanity unit.

They are available now at Axolute’s website

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