Just yesterday I was writing about how our modern lifestyles ought bring about changes in our houses , and here’s a shining example of this being brought into practice: Pigeontail’s Papercore Coffee Table . It’s funny to think a modern crime like identity theft would actually shape furniture design, but there are tons of us that own paper shredders and use them to fastidiously destroy every credit card offer that comes in the mail. Brooklyn-based Pigeontail Design embraces this reality and brings us a coffee table with a slot and hand-crank, making this the only piece of furniture that could prevent you from paying for someone else’s overseas jet-ski purchase.

Just yesterday I was writing about how our modern lifestyles ought bring about changes in our houses , and here’s a shining example of this being brought into practice: Pigeontail’s Papercore Coffee Table .

‘counterpoison’ (production stills), 2004 production stills, pasted digital print with cd-rom, dimensions variable, approx. 130 x 92 cm image courtesy of claire fontaine, galleria T293, napoli and caterina tognon arte contemporanea, venezia paris-based collective artist claire fontaine will showcase a selection of her work at her solo show ‘unbuilding’ as a part of the 12th architecture biennale in venice, italy. the double exhibition venue at the gallery caterina tognon arte contemporanea is made in collaboration with marco altavilla and paola guadagnino of T293 naples

We first wrote about Jeffrey Stephenson’s killer computer designs back in May, and he wowed us with his Art Deco, Mission-style and Machine Age machines (above), which are not just concepts but working PCs. We closed our entry with a request for a Mid-Century Modern, and Stephenson has taken us up on the challenge! (A caveat: Stephenson has warned us that this machine, unlike the ones on his site , is “a crude draft” and “not ready for primetime” and that he had no intention of posting it in such an early iteration; but he did want to get some feedback, and agreed to let you Corohounds take a look and offer your opinions.) His departure point for the design: “What if IBM had invented the PC twenty years earlier

Our speaker at the June 2010 CreativeMornings was fabulous Paola Antonelli , Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The event was generously hosted by the MoMA . Watch Paola’s talk below: 2010/06 Paola Antonelli from CreativeMornings on Vimeo .

(Photo by Michael Wesely. Larger, less adulterated sepia-toned version .) Vis-à-vis BLDGBLOG ‘s post yesterday on slow photography (and what sounds like a proposal for a neo-atavist Google Street View for off-the-beaten-path, off-grid landscapes, with herds of Strandbeesten replacing Google’s fleet of peeping toms ), here are Michael Wesely ‘s two-year-long exposure photographs documenting the construction being done at Postdamer Platz in post-reunification Berlin. (Photo by Michael Wesely.) (Photo by Michael Wesely.) Commissioned by DaimlerChrysler, the images were taken from five different locations between 1997 and 1999.

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