Beta Tank - Taxing Art

http://www.betatank.net/taxing-art.html

I saw someone had blogged a chair by Beta Tank just like this table which reminded me I had seen these people in Basel. A really interesting take on the Art-Design debate. This is a table but once you turn the squares over to make lots of pyramids it loses it's function and is now art. Meaning in Germany initially it would be taxed as a functional object at 19%. Turn the pyramids and it will be taxed 7% as a work of art.

The same is true of this box of hammers/work of art/coffee table. On the way to basel someone on the border will have decided which category this fits into.

Christoph Thetard - R2B2

This is Christoph Thetard's final project at Bauhaus-University Weimar.

Designed to reduce energy use in the kitchen a foot pedal and flywheel power a coffee grinder, food processer and hand blender. Looks like something Brunel would make...

Has other nice work at http://christoph-thetard.de/christoph-thetard.de/Blog-engl/Blog-engl.html

Estelle Sauvage - Kettle

Incandescent light bulb now banned in France, put to new use by Estelle Sauvage. I was briefly looking at ways of reusing the incandescent light bulbs a couple of years ago as more and more countries ban them. I did not think of this, damn it!

Apparently heats to 90C perfect for tea...

Robbie Henderson

http://www.robbiehenderson.co.uk/

I love this concept. When we have killed all the animals how will we replace them. A feather to cross pollinate flowers. Pretty little object raising a serious issue.