Results for the MUJI Award 3 were recently announced. This year’s theme was MUJI Found. Contestants were challenged with exploring products having a long tradition and adapting them for today.
Taking silver was Ken Sugimoto and Eri Sugimoto (USA) for Trash Pack for Outdoors.
“A trash bag that easily stands up by itself. By taking advantage of [...]
kcud falls into the category of garbage bin lust, worthy of standing next to the arne jacobsen series 7 chair.
slim
nice wheels
visit iwc
via mocolocco.
and if you need a reminder of how to clean the arne jacobsen see clean+istry’s posts:
hot seat: cleaning the jacobsen series 7 side chair
arne jacobsen series 7 chair update
Stock Back solves a problem that plagues the modern living space: where to pile newspapers and magazines in anticipation of recycling day. But please, don’t call Stock Back a magazine rack.
According to Cubisto, the maker of Stock Back, people typically store unsightly newspapers and magazines out of sight, in a closet for instance, where they [...]
If the differences between an air purifier and an air humidifier seem vague meet the Hitachi Cleair 7. Yes, that’s a new word: clear+air=cleair.
In this instance “7″ represents the number of tasks this machine is capable of handling: air purifying, deodorizing, humidification, dehumidification, skin moisturizing, clothes drying and condensation control. [...]
It’s time for [best of] clean+istry: july ‘08. Links to our favorite posts of the month.
Know the life expectancy of home appliances with a new report by the National association of homebuilders. Would you be shocked to learn that cleaning and maintenance is the headline?
Will we ever bore of reading/writing/learning of new ways to clean grout? [...]
Saturday’s San Francisco Chronicle features several homes designed and built following the 1991 fires in Oakland and Berkley which clearly demonstrate that fire resistant materials can be both architecture and maintenance friendly.
This 2007 house designed by David Stark Wilson features zinc siding and should remain maintenance free for the life of the house.
The roof [...]
Control device manufacturer IDEC has developed a high-tech dog bath system called Wan Love Yu (”Dog Love Bath”), which eliminates the need for shampoo. Instead it relies on technology typically found in industrial water treatment systems.
Wan Love Yu features a special shower head that discharges water containing approximately 600,000 tiny air bubbles per cubic [...]
Take a break from cleaning (keep it brief, though) and visit Remodelista , where you will find a beautifully curated series of posts, including Taizo Kuroda pottery (pictured below), crafts, hotel chic and the introduction of Muji’s new flagship store in The New York Times’ building (the source of Clean+istry’s preferred white cotton t-shirt).
The [...]
Any casual reader of Clean+istry is well aware that we are HUGE fans of the designer Naoto Fukasawa (read his NYT’s profile) and the design house Plusminuszero, and particularly of the donut shaped humidifier that has transformed one of the single most ugly appliances in the home into an object deserving “placement”.
We’ve blogged the humidifier [...]
Several days ago, we found the williams-sonoma kids melamine puzzle tray, designed to retard the development of early childhood food fighting syndrome. We lamented that there was no adult equivalent.
Not so fast. Tokyo-based Ross McBride has designed a series of three porcelain dishes and an ashtray. Each piece is paired with, and indented [...]