Design, Science and Technology

The WestEdge Design Fair held its second annual design event over at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.

Take a virtual tour of the showroom floor and a closer look at a few favorite exhibitors, from lighting design to art installations and custom furniture pieces...

Via Lauren Moss

Here is yet another way to store your bike, in a house in Sydney by Tribe Studio.

We have shown many ways to hang a bike on a wall and even an occasional way to hang your bike from a ceiling, but Australia's Tribe Studio tops them all with this atrium designed to store bikes in the sky. No bikes on the wall in this house; the studio tells Dezeen: "The bike pulley system into the void was Tribe's idea, the drive was to keep the walls free."

Via Lauren Moss

When the studio Ruetemple created a room in a Russian home meant for a young brother and sister, they didn’t take a conventional approach to the design. The two-storey space, called Interior for Students, needed to be a place for the kids to study, sleep, and hang out with their friends.

So, architects Alexander Kudimov and Daria Butahina filled it with some fun details like a mezzanine hammock and a moveable cube. They built a fixed space for school work and dynamic areas for play using none of your typical furniture.
The lower level of the 108 square-foot room features a modular seating and sleeping cube on wheels. It can be arranged as a trio of sofas, as a long continuous line, or even closed up and made into a room within a room. Fixed office furniture occupies the other side of the space, and it includes desks, cupboards, shelves, and a staircase. All items are made from the same materials so that they appear as one cohesive piece of furniture.

Via Lauren Moss