Leave it to the Germans…

Do you like shelving? Do you also love a good mp3 player? Odds are you’re German. Here’s the latest from the country that brought you Hegel, Kant, and Nietzsche (you’re welcome), the Hohrizontal 51:

hohrizontal51It’s a shelf, it’s an mp3 player, it’s a hi-fi stereo system!

Seriously, this is pretty cool. An elegant, slim little stereo system, very high quality, that adapts to your mp3 player and doubles as a convenient, stylish shelf.

future bath 8Fits in the bathroom!

Interior design of home cinema IILooks great in the living room!

What a product. I have a feeling it could try and take over the world someday.

(also, somewhat unfortunately, only plays Kraftwerk)

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More Gehry

Just to wash the taste of that hat out of our mouths:

Gehry's early sketch for the Walt Disney Concert Hall

Gehry's early sketch for the Walt Disney Concert Hall

And the finished product:

Yep.

Yep.

It gets better, and more whimsical; here is one of his building in Prague, nick named the Fred and Ginger House after the famous dancing couple.

Going into a swoon.

Going into a swoon.

And the finale:

Stick to building, Frank. You're pretty good at it.

Stick to building, Frank. You're pretty good at it.

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Bad Romance Indeed

So, uh… Frank Gehry, world famous architect, designed a hat. It wasn’t magical.

Ladygaga

That hat was designed for Lady Gaga, the unfortunately named but daringly attired pop superstar to wear at a benefit for the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. He designed it on his iPhone, which is just too much.

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Where Would We Be Without Mies?

Apropos of nothing, really, here is the mythical Barcelona Chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Mies van der Rohe was possibly the greatest designer of furniture ever to live, if that’s enough for you. Florence Knoll, having left the office of a somewhat dunder-headed executive, joked to her companion: “Where would they be without us?” “My dear,” he said, “Where would we be without Mies?”

barcelonachair

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Pictured with the Barcelona Table, Couch, and Ottoman

Pictured with the Barcelona Table, Couch, and Ottoman

All Mies did was school sucka punks what thought they knew.

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