CONTEMPORIST

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 02:40 PM PDT

Coates Design completed the Ellis Residence on Bainbridge Island in Washington State.

Description from Coates Design:

The Ellis Residence is an example of modern residential design incorporating local environmental concerns, state-of-the art energy efficiency and visionary educational opportunities for the public. The project embodies the client's vision of home that raises the bar for energy producing housing while maintaining aesthetics and livability. This LEED Platinum certified home is a milestone in the efforts to create truly sustainable designs.

Perched high upon Yeomalt Bluff, this home enjoys a commanding 180 degree view of the Puget Sound and City of Seattle. It features a 70% energy use reduction compared to an average North American home through the use of geothermal heat, photovoltaic energy collection, solar hot water, thermal massing, and heat-recovery technologies. Additional key features include: rain water collection cisterns, radiant floor heating, site-milled wood trim, triple-glazed windows and a vegetated roof.

Visit the Coates Design website – here.

Photography by Roger Turk of Northlight Photography

Lighthouse Lamp by Dimitrios Stamatakis

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 04:17 AM PDT

Greek designer Dimitrios Stamatakis has created the Lighthouse Lamp.

Lighthouse Lamp’ reflects the philosophy, that objects have an independent validity of their own and can therefore exist autonomously regardless of their surrounding environment while at the same time they have the ability to transform and re-establish the space.

Like a lighthouse, the lamp is intended to define its own environment through its functionality and presence in space; it is designed to develop a sense of orientation through radiation of light and energy, and influence in a positive way those around it.

The vertical use of the light which defines its form and design, provides a 360º diffusion of light in space while it is placed on the top of a tripod. In this way it offers a monumental character to the lamp seeking to attract life close to it.

"Lighthouse lamp" is made of soft maple wood, borosilicate glass (known for having very low coefficients of thermal expansion (~3 × 10?6 /°C at 20°C), which making it resistant to thermal stress and gives to it properties of high heat diffusion, more than any other common glass) and a 60cm customized led square rod from warm white 24v led strips and a dimmer.

It is produced on a 12 pieces limited edition series in collaboration with Paris based Tools Gallerie (www.toolsgalerie.com), which is the exclusive distributor in France.

Visit Dimitrios Stamatakis’ website – here.