Called “Home of the Year” by some American journalists, this stunning house sits among the Hollywood Hills and it’s full of new technologies: CinemaScope theater, 7.1-channel surround-sound, intricate TV concealment, extensive automation.
The residence was designed and built by Temple Home, whose co-owner, Xorin Balbes, has earned recognition for his restoration of famous Los Angeles-area homes.
“They developed it as the ultimate bachelor pad, and part of their thing was that they wanted all of the technology that a young Hollywood actor or director might want,” says systems developer and DSI co-founder Eric Thies.
Michael Jackson is reported to have paid £1 million to rent a large country house near the edge of an ancient 22-mile maze of haunted passageways.
The undisclosed home is thought to be close to the Chislehurst Caves in Bromley, in the south-east suburbs of London.
The three-storey pile – built in the 1800s – has quarters for 20 staff as well as an underground cinema, music room, indoor swimming pool, lake and private wood.
Marble always evokes a sense of quality and luxury… and the new marble bathroom suite by IQquadro is no exception.
In stunning black marble known as Black Chelsea, the Amor and Memories ranges have strong visual impact. The Amor bath is shown here – a serene, linear form with a rectangular shape and well-defined corners.
German designer Andreas Ostwald has created the Cara pendant lamp for lighting manufacturer ANTA. The lamp features a cluster of white/silver printed circuit boards equipped with LEDs.
70 LEDs are attached to pentagonal pieces of silvery polycarbonate to create a mobile that changes continually. It faintly gives the appearance of a constellation of stars hanging from the ceiling ! Visit the ANTA website – here
This chandelier, made of molded thermoplastic “pebbles” with a polished chrome finish, can make any room look like it has fragments of a T-1000 liquid Terminator dangling from the ceiling. Designed by Ross Lovegrove this year for Artemide, this lamp is called “Mercury, obviously named for the cool blog-like organic shapes that resemble mercury.
During the day the piece acts as a sculptural object reflecting the dynamics of natural light and the movement of people around them. When it lights up, the pebbles reflect light in a chaos of distorted color. I love it, but at $2,700, I wouldn’t be able to afford the electricity to turn it on!
John pomp has redefined contemporary design through the art of glass blowing. for the past decade, he has been living and working in new york city, and has established himself as one of the leaders in modern design.
Master of fine glass, lighting, and sculpture, he utilized all three of his specialties to create this giant aquarium of light.You can see more of the Infinity Chandelier (above) here on YouTube.
John Pomp runs a public access, educational, glassblowing facility in Brooklyn, New York called One Sixty Glass. He has also designed an exclusive line of glass for Tiffany & Co. and donna karan’s new york flagship store and designed glass for an installation at jcrew’s rockefeller center store in new york city . Images and other works can be seen at johnpomp.com
