米蘭達的藍色花園

Music, Travel, Architecture, Design, Photography....etc. & life collage. "If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on" - by Steve Jobs

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Figurative Papier-Mâché Lamp Sculptures Illuminate a Room with Ethereal Elegance

For nearly 10 years, Sophie Mouton-Perrat and Frédéric Guibrunet have combined soft lighting with delicate paper craft to create ethereal sculptures. Working under the name Papier à êtres, the duo uses the papier mâché technique to construct life-sized women clad in elegant, billowing gowns that double as lamps. The top portion of the unconventional, all-white lantern features the ladies’ upper bodies while their pleated skirts illuminate the space.

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Fallen Cherry Blossom Petals Fill a Lake in Japan for Naturally Beautiful Scenes From Above

Photographer Danilo Dungo captures the brilliant bursts of Tokyo's cherry blossoms from a bird's-eye view. He directs his DJI Phantom drone over Inokashira Koen, a popular public park, to secure his shots during the short season each March or April, when the trees bloom in bright pink.

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New uses for old churches | All media content | DW.COM | 02.01.2016

Congregations are dwindling so churches which are fine architectural gems are converted for other uses. Almost fifty per cent of churches in the Netherlands stand empty.

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A Masterly Miniature on Boston’s Beacon Hill

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Intricately Designed Pop-Up Cards for Every Occasion Imaginable

A pop-up card offers a special moment of surprise for its recipient. Massachusetts-based company LovePop combines these thoughtful sentiments with the latest technology to create stationery that is as intricate as it is heartfelt.

LovePop cards depict a myriad of subjects appropriate for a variety of occasions. Beautiful bouquets, fantastical characters, and beloved beverages grace the center of these sculptural creations. To produce them, 3D modeling software is used to build the designs which are then laser cut in separate pieces. Because this machine offers such precise trims, the details in each card is stunning—a pirate ship, for instance, has tiny shapes within each of its sails. Hand assembly is the final step to bringing these pop ups to life.

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See What It’s Like to Live in a Glass House

Kim and Jeff Valles have called a glass house home for the past 10 years and wouldn’t have it any other way. “A glass home was pretty frightening in the beginning,” Jeff says, but now it’s the homes with solid walls that feel foreign to him. “You sit in someone else’s living room and you hear something and you turn, expecting to see out the window, and you look into a wall,” he says.

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Houzz TV: Meet the Gamble House, a ‘Symphony in Wood’

Wood. If one word comes to mind when considering the houses of brothers Charles and Henry Greene, it is “wood.” They used lots of it, from the structure (beams and columns) to surfaces (walls, ceilings, floors) and even the furniture they designed. Yet their use of wood is as much about quality as quantity, for they exploited the wood’s potential through craft and raised the beauty of their architecture inside and out. Their manipulation and expression of wood broke from the applied decoration of the prevailing Victorian, Queen Anne and mission styles of the day, and in this light their architecture can be seen as modern.

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Christmas miniatures | All media content | DW.COM | 18.12.2015

Delicate wooden angels from the company Wendt & Kühn are the perfect edition to any festive decor. For 100 years, the company has been producing hand-made figurines, following strict instructions from its founder.

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Kitchen Storage Ideas

Beach Style Kitchen by Traverse City Architects & Building Designers Marty Rhein, CKD, CBD - BAC Design Group

Transitional Kitchen by Winchester Kitchen & Bath Fixtures Shenandoah Cabinetry

Traditional Kitchen by London Paint & Wall Coverings Mylands

Traditional Kitchen

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A Magical Tree House Lights Up for Christmas

A Magical Tree House Lights Up for Christmas

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Christmas in Chicago

If you’re a director scouting locations for a Christmas movie in the U.S., your top choices may very well be New York and Chicago. There’s just something magical about these cities this time of year. Finding ourselves in the Windy City recently, we decided to send a video crew around to capture the twinkling lights on popular brownstone homes, architectural landmarks and more.

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Lumio

設計師 Max Gunawan 出生於雅加達，現居舊金山，他自從創立了 LAEM，拿下了無數獎項。這個像本書一樣的燈 Lumio，就是他的作品之一。將它打開，燈光就會亮起來，你可以把它作為裝飾品放在桌子上，或是將它固定在天花板上，作為一個壁燈，有大中小不同尺寸，還有不同顏色，可以變化各種造型，它的可能性無窮無盡。你可以隨身攜帶，因為它不需要插著電也能用，新一代的 Lumio 有 USB 插口，能為你的手機充電，還配有可更換的磁石蓋。

這設計太棒了，可以運用在各種場合、變化各種造型，而且好美。

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置身櫻花海裡的精靈樹屋 品茗賞花超浪漫

在日本就有一座最夢幻的樹屋建築，每到春天，四周櫻花盛開綻放，讓小屋置身於陣陣粉雪中，充滿浪漫氛圍。

位於山梨縣北社市的清春白樺藝術村內的哲之茶館(Tea House Tetsu)，由日本建築大師藤森照信親自設計打造，以自然素材在巨大的檜木主幹上建造一座散發日本清幽淡雅氣質的樹屋茶館，雖然僅是靠著樹幹作為支撐，但也不需要太過擔心，藤森照信的作品可是經的起暴風地震的考驗的，只管把自己交給茶館，盡情享受充滿古樸氛圍的品茗時光就好。

【Info】 Tea House Tetsu 地點：日本山梨縣北杜市長坂町中丸2072 電話：[phone] 交通：搭JR中央本線新宿站至長坂站下車，轉乘巴士約10分

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Cloud art: heaven on earth

Dutch visual artist Berndnaut Smilde creates clouds on the ground and takes photos of his surreal scenes. His beautiful installations exist only for a moment, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

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Christmas in Prague

Visitors are flocking to Prague to sample some seasonal delights and marvel at the seasonal illuminations.

Christmas in Berlin

Locals and tourists in the German capital Berlin are looking forward to Christmas. The shopping streets are illuminated and a great variety of Christmas markets offer specialties like mulled wine and roasted almonds.

Metropolitan Christmas in Amsterdam

During the advent season Amsterdam’s canals are illuminated by beautiful lights. Other season’s traditions include drinking eggnog, eating delicious Pepernoten cookies and going ice-skating in front of the Rijksmuseum.

City of Christmas lights: Stockholm

Typical Swedish Christmas fare are glog, peppermint candy canes, and gingerbread. And because it gets dark so early there’s candlelight processions and lots of Christmas illuminations all over the city.

Magical Christmas in St. Gallen

Euromaxx heads to the Swiss town to see some of the finest Christmas decorations the nation has to offer. Enjoy a special Advent themed guided tour through the town.

Christmas shopping paradise: London

The British capital is a shoppers paradise at Christmas. From the upmarket department store Harrods to the dazzling Christmas lights of Oxford Street. Typically English : mince pies and Christmas stockings.

Christmas illuminations

During the weeks before Christmas, cities around Europe commission impressive illuminations of their shopping streets. They help to put shoppers in a festive mood and encourage them to spend more money for presents.

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Period London Townhouse Gets a Lavish Makeover

Houzz Tour: Period London Townhouse Gets a Lavish Makeover

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Tatsuya Tanaka (b.1981, Japan) - Miniature Calendar

Since 2011, Japanese artist Tatsuya Tanaka has been engaged in his “Miniature Calendar” — a project which has seen the art director create a pocket-sized scene of everyday life, on a daily basis. What initially started as a means of photographing his collection of diorama dolls amongst familiar settings constructed to scale, has now unfolded into a long-term venture… one that he’s not likely to stop anytime soon. Find more about the artist on the full interview on Designboom.

© All images courtesy of the artist

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