Slate-ish

Who says scrap is useless? Slate-ish  is a tile product made in the US from 100% post industrial waste reclaimed from the fabrication of  paper-laminate products which are normally used for countertops (Richlite and PaperStone), skateboard ramps, bathroom partitions, lockers and more. The scraps are cut into various geometric shapes, and hand-split to create a tile that …

Modern Kitchen with Fabric Doors

Demode  is offering material doors in their Meccanica Kitchen line for a modern "dematerialized" aesthetic. Created by Gabriele Centazzo and engineered by Valcucine, the Meccanica Kitchen uses less materials in its construction thus creating a revolutionary eco-friendly kitchen system. The Meccanica Kitchen is characterized by tubular iron (anodized aluminium) frames that create different modular elements  which can easily be …

Grants for Redesigning the Toilet

Tuesday, at a conference in Rwanda, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched a program aimed at “reinventing the toilet,” and providing $41.5 million in grants to create and test new approaches to improve sanitation in the developing world. "No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the …

Monogram Experience Center

I recently took a fabulous trip up to Louisville, KY as a guest of GE Monogram and spent a few days at their Monogram Experience Center (MEC). It's one thing to look at an appliance online or in a catalog but it's another to experience actually cooking with it. At the MEC I was able …