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Montblanc Nicolas Rieussec Horological TimeWriter Table Clock

During 2011's SIHH event, Montblanc has a few "stars" of the show, but one of them was certainly this limited edition table clock made in cooperation with German clock maker Erwin Sattler. The clock is officially called the Montblanc Nicolas Rieussec Horological TimeWriter Table Clock. It combines a few important things for the brand, and will be made as a limited edition set of just 19 pieces.

The clock starts with.... the clock. It is made in cooperation of Munich based Erwin Sattler. The clock replicates the look of the now famous Nicolas Rieussec Chronograph watch collection. The dial combines the time, a chronograph, and two power reserve indicators. The clock is sort of like two clocks in one mechanically speaking. Both set of parts are in the same unit. As such, the table clock has two balance springs, two timing mechanisms, and two barrels to hold power. Why two? One is for telling the time, while the other is for the chronograph mechanism. The Horological TimeWriter has a 15 day power reserve and must be wound via the back of the clock.

Gallery: MB Horological TimeWriter table clock

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Own A Piece Of The Original London Bridge

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Auctions

The small table above is no ordinary antique. The oak table is made from the ancient wood salvaged from the foundations of the Old London Bridge and is set to be auctioned off on June 30 by Lyon and Turnbull in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is expcted to sell for up to £3,000 (around $4,520).

The foundations of the bridge over the Thames River were laid in 1177. The wood was removed in 1833 before the bridge was rebuilt. The center of the table has a brass plaque in the center which reads: "The Oak of which this table is made was under the foundation of Old London Bridge, Upwards of six hundred and fifty six years and taken up from thence in 1833 by Sir Edward Banks and William John Jolliffe Esq. The contractors and builders of new London Bridge." That 19th century bridge was replaced by the current bridge which opened in March 1973. Material from the older bridge was sold to Robert P. McCulloch for $2.46 million and reconstructed at Lake Havasu City, Arizona where it has become a popular tourist attraction.

[via BBC News]

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Isotrope Design's Geo Table

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Art

Inspired by the earth but ultra-modern in its appeal, the Geo Table by Isotrope Design is meant to evoke feelings of topographical mirroring. The table, which can also be used simply as a piece of art, is made by layering carefully engineered slices of wood and encasing them in an acrylic housing that features etchings representing air currents on the top and water currents down below. Definitely a piece that will cause guests to pause and take a longer look, it's available in 3 colors (clear/white, tan/clear, and mahogany/clear) and measures 15" x 15" x 21".

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C Table Combines Art and Decor

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Furniture and photography meld in one cool table. The C Table is a collaboration between art photographer Richard Bettinger and the McLaughlin Collection, a maker of acrylic furnishings. The C Table features Bettinger's fine art photos on the top surface. Shown above is Bettinger's Light Speed on a pair of C tables positioned back to back. The tables are available in pure white or inky black Lucite. The table can also be positioned so that the lower part can slip beneath sofa or chair. Several other images from Bettinger are available. The McLaughlin Collection's acrylic furnishings and accessories are durable and 100% recyclable and the acrylic scraps produced during the manufacturing process are collected and recycled into new material. The products are hypoallergenic and produce no off-gassing and all furnishings are manufactured in the U.S. The C Table is available to interior designers and architects through David Sutherland Showrooms.

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Ideas for Setting a Memorable and Beautiful Dinner Table

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Dining

A dinner party is a perfect opportunity to show off your personal style, taste, and flair for decorating. It's especially fun because it's on a small scale so you can be braver than you might be otherwise and try something new and different. There are very few rules, here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing.

Go with a monochromatic color theme Decorating the table in nothing but luxe shades of one classic color theme like all in whites, silvers, or shades of gold can add an impressive visual impact to the meal. To keep everything from blending together choose elements that have different hues, textures, and patterns for lots of visual appeal within the single color family. Don't be afraid to mix matte pieces with glittered or sparkling ones.

Choose a theme Themes are always a fun and interesting way to decorate almost anything, and dinner tables are no exception. Holidays lend themselves especially well to themes (i.e. use personalized Christmas ornaments in place of name cards) but other themes like winter (everything in smooth white and glittering crystal), contemporary chic (minimalistic, simple, and clean with lots of geometric shapes), or just mix and match whatever you think looks good together and call it eclectic.

Focus on one spectacular piece If you have one amazing or particularly impressive item, like a centerpiece or set of glassware, then decorate the rest of your table in a way that complements and draws the eye back to it. The approach will vary depending on what your highlighting but in general the focus piece should contrast with the rest of the table either in color, texture, or pattern, and everything else should somewhat match each other.

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Setting a Formal Dinner Table: What Goes Where?

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Dining

Hosting formal dinner parties isn't an everyday event for most of us, so don't feel bad if you need a refresher course on how to properly set a table. Here are a few basics.

Start with the dinner plate, which we all know goes in the center, and place a salad plate or soup bowl on top of it. The charger, if you're using one, goes underneath the dinner plate. To the upper left of the dinner plate goes the bread plate and butter knife, and to the upper right goes the water glass and wine glass (and the coffee cup, but it usually isn't placed until the dessert course).

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Kreiss: Casual Elegance

by Carrie Coolidge (RSS feed) —

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Kreiss is a nominee the Luxist Award category of best in furniture.

Since its founding more than 70 years ago, Kreiss has been family-owned and operated. The company is credited with pioneering the "California Look" with its stylish use of natural materials and casual yet elegant and comfortable designs.

Each Kreiss piece is an impressive combination of originality and master craftsmanship. They are made with all natural materials including pure, artfully woven fabrics. Every design is an original, inspired by the lives and travels of the Kreiss family while created by craftspeople whose skills in hand-detailing and hand-finishing is unrivaled. Indeed, everything made by Kreiss is "done by hand", from being handmade, hand-carved, hand-finished and hand-stuffed to hand-packed and hand-delivered.

The Kreiss Collection of furniture, offers hundreds of combinations, encompasses California Casual as well as European Formal, Spanish Mediterranean and other classic styles. This diverse selection allows a versatility to create living spaces that suites homeowners' unique personalities and lifestyles. From a coffee table with a polished travertine top, to an armoire finished with French wax, a bed of hand welded iron or the look of hand distressed wood, the Kreiss Collection offers fine furnishings and accessories for a life of casual elegance.

First available only to the trade, the Kreiss Collection has now grown to 20 retail/trade Kreiss showrooms across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The company has a loyal following of clients, ranging from international celebrities, to captains of industry, to a cross section of discerning homeowners.

The entire Kreiss Collection is designed and manufactured at the company's San Diego headquarters.

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Exotic and Traditional: Kreiss

by Carrie Coolidge (RSS feed) —

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The Nairobi Drum Table by Kreiss has been one of the trademarks of Kreiss' "exotic" look since it was introduced more than 15 years ago. An exotic colonial English-style piece, the table works just as well in a traditional as it does in a contemporary setting. The shell of the 140 pound table is tiled with treated coconut shells that were hand-applied into a mosaic pattern giving the piece a unique look. The table has cast bronze animal feet while the surface of the table has a medallion insert that has been etched to obtain an antique texture. The table, which measures 38 1/2 inches in diameter and 20 inches in height, retails for $4,650. It can be ordered directly from Kreiss at (800) KREISS1 or (800) 573-4771.

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Azimuth Roulette Watch: With Real Gambling Action!

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Timepieces / Watches

Are you ready for this watch novelty from Azimuth? A few years ago Girard Perregaux released its working slot machine watch, and around the same time Daniel Roth had announced his dice playing watch. The theme of gambling watches continues now with the Roulette watch from Azimuth which features a working roulette wheel. Press in the die shaped crown and the small white ball on the roulette wheel begins to spin - randomly stopping on one of the numbers. How cool is that?

Aside from the roulette function, the watch clearly tells the time via easy to read partially skeletonized hands and a spinning roulette wheel's spinning handle that serves as the seconds hand. The case is uniquely cut in a very angular design probably meant to look like a roulette table. As whimsical novelty watches go, this is up there on "well done" list. Inside the watch is a modified ETA 2824-2 automatic mechanical movement. The stainless steel watch case is 45mm x 34mm and is ergonomically designed to fit snugly on the wrist. The rear of the watch reads "BEAT THE CASINO" optimistically, as the face of the watch is fitted with sapphire crystal as well as a balance wheel porthole on the rear of the watch.

5000 Azimuth Roulette watches will be available starting at the end of 2009, when they will be released to celebrate the "grandest' Casio in Asia's opening in Singapore. No doubt this is an apt watch for the occassion.

Ariel Adams publishes the popular watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

Gallery: Azimuth Roulette Watch

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$10,000 Ferrari F1 Gearbox Table

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Gadgets, Luxury Cars & Autos, Sports

For $10,000 you can get a one-of-a-kind piece of furniture crafted from the gearbox of Ferrari's F2000 Formula 1 racecar. At the end of the 2000 racing season, the complete 7-speed gearbox was signed by Ferrari's championship-winning driver Michael Schumacher, Scuderia Ferrari Executive Director Jean Todt and Ferrari CEO Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo. It was mounted to a 18"x18" carbon wall plaque with an authentic Ferrari fender shield mounted in the middle. Performance furniture firm RaceChairs is now offering it for $10,000 with the option of having a custom lamp or table (above) completed showcasing the gearbox. RaceChairs notes that due to the espionage problems with rival teams, Scuderia Ferrari is no longer releasing these kinds of pieces to private collectors, so this is your last chance.

[RaceChairs via BornRich]

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Retro Golf Furniture by Clubhouse Design

by Paul Rogers (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Sports

The other day we profiled a boutique line of furniture inspired by the Fender Stratocaster electric guitar. Which got me thinking about another quirky furniture maker, Clubhouse Design, whose golf-themed tables, chairs and accessories evoke a certain midcentury-modern cool.

Take the L.A.-based company's Classic Table ($200, pictured above). Its clear glass surface sits atop three legs of artfully bent steel that look like clubs from the Hogan and Snead era, complete with rubber grips and persimmon heads. The chrome-finished Wine Rack ($240) consists of 12 circular sleeves supported by four aluminum-headed clubs. The Classic Barstool ($470) features a contoured cherry wood seat and a back composed of six club handles, each bearing an actual Lamkin grip that almost begs golfers to wrap their fingers around it.

To check out or purchase these and other pieces from the collection, a take a swing through the company's web site, clubhousedesign.com.

Gallery: Golf-Inspired Furniture by Clubhouse Design

Satellite Coffee Table by Clubhouse Design

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SwiTCh Table & Chair

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor

I'm somebody who loves to switch things up pretty regularly, but with most furniture there's only so much you can do, like put it on the left side of the room or the right, under the window or across from it, etc. The swiTCh Table & Chair by Ellen Ectors, however, opens up a whole new world of function and design possibilities. Created to serve the multi-purpose needs of today's modern consumer, swiTCh can be a table, a chair, or a table and a chair at the same time. It combines cube and sphere with hard and soft to be a truly versatile and interesting addition to a room. Each set is 100% Belgian, 100% handmade, and numbered to be 100% individual.

Via cut 'n' paste weblog

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The Table that Delivers Wine and Dessert on Command

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Wine

The Gorenje SmarTable: It's a sleek, albeit fairly plain, dining table that turns into an all-inclusive wine and dessert mini-bar at the press of a button.

Awesome.

I think this is the perfect furniture/gadget for a sleek outdoor gathering on the patio -- after dinner is finished and everybody is relaxed but too lazy to get up you can have a cool glass of wine ready with just the flick of a finger. And clean-up, at least for that moment, is as easy as pressing a button and closing it all up again!

I want one.

£1000

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The Ultimate Minimalist Desk

by Annie Scott (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Gadgets

Heckler Design calls it "The Last Desk You'll Ever Own."

This minimalist desk, the OneLessDesk, is simple, chic, and clearly designed with Mac in mind.

It looks so beautiful, but could you really run your life with no hard copies of anything? Maybe it should be called OneLessDesk-OneMoreNearbyFileCabinet.

It comes in white or silver, and when you nestle the lower part in? It's about one foot deep. Just a foot! That's probably less space than your side table!

And, there's more that you don't see. The top shelf there is hollow, so there's a place for any usb and wifi ports you may need. Very smart design, Heckler. We approve.

Gallery: "The Last Desk You'll Ever Own"

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Rowland Ripple Series Tables

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor

The Rowland Ripple Series is a set of beautiful tables that are a nice balance of smooth contemporary styling and creative design. Designed by Lee J. Rowland each of the Ripple Series tables is an optical illusion of the movement of ripples in water created by a mix of polished aluminum, clear polyester resin, and aerospace engineering technology (to help it all come together).

This large rectangle would make a beautiful and cutting edge conversation piece in an office, or one of the smaller versions could make a dramatic statement in a modern decor home. $45,000+/-

Via Dvice

Gallery: Rowland Ripple Series Tables