The upper east side of upcycle

previously on "upcyclish": Decafe lamps made me floating in my imagination to my other life in parallel universe, and there, they are:
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Hello sweety darling, I'm Laura Green. I work in a bio energy venture capital fund (Wall street, of course). Recently I moved with my family to 740 Park Avenue (corner of 71st Street, you know...). When I am in the mood for a quick morning coffee, you can find me at Sant Ambroeus on Madison Avenue. Darling - what's 100$ for a breakfast when you pay 1,000 $ on every minute you are late for a meeting?
So, here are my interior-Eco-chic-designer's few recommendations for our new living room, which I obviously approved them all because SHE IS my admirable hero. (true, I gave a ring to a good pal of mine Larry Gagosian, and she was his first choice...)

{1} NAif - Carina van den Bergh. Well, there is nothing naive in this multifunctional minimalistic furniture, I tell you darling.
{2} Decafe - Raul Lauri. As my admirable hero said: It's a must!
{3} Cloudscape - Joon and Jung. Between Moon and Sun...
{4} Hemp chair - Werner Aisslinger. Natural fibers which are moulded under heat.
{5} Love me bender - Breaded Escalope - I don't think I got it. Are they for real? are they artists? designers? chefs? what the heck?
{6} Potrero - Alexandra Kehayoglou - I can feel Julie Andrews is singing in my living room.
{7} The Edible Selby - The Selby's second book - that's a present from my admirable sweety hero... photographs of the most creative and interesting people in food around the world.
{8} Snail hooks - IHanna - So it's not ecological - hang me!
{9} Hush - Freyja Sewel - Escapism inside escapism... Hush is made from 100% wool felt and its cushions are stuffed with recycled wool fibers. That's what they called emotional designed shape?
{10} The Long Drawers - Oliver Taylor - Hero says it's sustainable only if you take into consideration it's classic quality design. This piece of immortal furniture can run in the family for years.

Well I was mumbling a lot, wasn't I? I'm off to Le Cirque darling, going to meet some friends for dinner... we have to go over the details of next week Junior League's event... 

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Tea time - Breaded Escalope: 

esc. Now!

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life. Ella Maillart

Escapism {1} Decafe lamps.

Absolute design (Minimalistic organic-emotional shaped).

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Renewable and biodegradable material (Made from recycle coffee grounds)

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Innovation

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PERFECTION
(of sustainable design)

No wonder the Spanish designer Raul Lauri, won the Salone Satellite award 2012 for the Decafe project. The perfect Decafe lamps made me want one of my own, and than made me go wondering where should I put that one, and that thought led me fantasying about my "other life": my other career, my other apartment in some other place in the world... - YES! It's escapism for the pure essence of it, and as Jordana Brewster said: "I think escapism is really important". And in that case, my upcycled - upper east side - living room - look collection - will be served on my next post...

Escapism {2} Watching a good movie starring: interior.
You can check my collection on pinterest.

The interior design of the movie The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski).

Escapism {3} Wandering at the The Cool hunter's site

La Banane Hotel - St. Barts

Escapism {4} Good Night and sweet dreams:-)

The lab girls

The lab <1> Ab-cyc-lutely design studio

For the Kulla girls sustainability is definitely in their blood. They drink from reused jam jars. Their place is full of lost vintage furniture waiting to be repaired. Their studio's design projects are usually characterized with community or environment contents (or both), such as designing agriculture children's farm. In general they believe in reduction instead of mass production.



The lab <2> Upcycle the shutters

Adi Shpigel and Keren Tomer go along since their product design studies at Shenkar College. At those times they have noticed a repetitive behavior - many people in Israel have changed their 60's plastic shutters for glass windows. After they have managed to get a stock of those hated shutters they started observing them, checking them and testing them. The solving of the shutters puzzle came from the side look of them - their profile. Than they could thread iron through the inner part of the shutter, and by that to strengthen it enough for seating. Another option they discovered to upcycle the shutter is to slice it, and than join the slices to a decorative screen.

The lab <3> Upcycle the sawdust

This time sawdust was in question. What could they do with it? How could they glue it? The girls tried time after time all sort of solutions until smoke was out of the "lab". One day they had their Eureka:-)! They cooked the sawdust together with reused-colored-nylon-shopping bags and for their surprise, it was the ultimate design complete solution, without using any glue and upcycling the bags as well.

The lab <4> The Liar- Truth-Teller Enigma

The famous puzzle from The Labyrinth (1986)

Left Door Knocker: It's very rude to stare! 
Sarah: Oh! I'm sorry, I was just wondering which door to choose. 
Left Door Knocker: What? 
Right Door Knocker: It's no good asking him, he's deaf as a post! 
Left Door Knocker: Don't talk with your mouth full! 
Right Door Knocker: I'm not talking with my mouth full, I... 
Sarah: Wait, wait, I can't understand you. 
Left Door Knocker: What were you saying? 
Right Door Knocker: Ah! Mm. Oh, oh, it is so good to get that thing out. 
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The solution:
"Guard, what would the other guard say if I asked him where his door leads?”

Relationships

"A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark"
Woody Allen, Annie Hall (1977)


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Relationship {1} Harmony in the studio
Giga is playing with Tia which is caring for Cookie (their dogs) which is watching the Kozo (David) who is preparing tea for Anati (his wife) and me (their brand new friend:-), and on Thursdays nights he (the Kozo) converses with his best friends over a jam session.


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Relationship {2} Flirting with the pipes
David has began his water pipes romance after he had finished studying at Shenkar college. He found couple of those sexy pipes in the street's waste, and tried a few things with them (a table for example). Once he made the connection with light, he was on fire!
Now days invitations are coming from all over the world (even from an Arab royal family).
To keep up the increasing demand, and to keep his sustainable agenda as well, he sometimes buys useless stocks from manufacture factories. Yet, for keeping the personal touch of each lamp, he has to make it on his own. Sometimes he still secretly puts together small old parts founded in the streets.



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Relationship {3} With the "upcycle" idea
For David upcycling is a concept beyond the design field limits. For example it can be a cover for an old song, or a pie from leftovers in the fridge. They call it: Thursday's pie, (as Thursday is the last working day of the week for us).
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Relationship {4} Light fixtures of the "Kozo":

Upcycle relationship with > "Mona" - Cooperation with the phenomenal illustrator Ola Liola Kushnir
"Yo Mona Lisa, could I get a date on Friday and if your busy, I wouldn't mind taking Saturday"...
(Fugees)

Upcycle relationship with > "Kozo"
"Nobody fucks with the Jesus.”
(The Big Lebowski)



Upcycle relationship with > "Giga"
"Shall we shag now, or shall we shag later?"
(Austin Powers)




Upcycle relationship with > "KirZaz"
“Demented and sad, but social.”
(The Breakfast Club)

Upcycle relationship with > "Mimi" (Mi = Who?, in Hebrew) - This film and all the others of the "Kozo" made by Anati

מתבייש קצת, מתרגש" 
רק אותה אני אוהב 
את מי? את מי? 
"את מימי 
(אילנה לופט ושלמה ידוב)

"I am a little ashamed, I am excited
I love her only
Who? Who? Mimi"

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Relationship {5} Friends