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Design and Innovation

Showtime House in Tribeca, See It While You Can!

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See Rooms Inspired By All of These Shows at Showtime House!

As a hardcore NYC-loving gal, I am always looking for fun weekend adventures to have here in the city. Today I am putting fans of Modern Interior Design and / or Showtime Television programming on notice: you only have two more weeks to see the mind-blowing awesomeness that is Showtime House, which Geoffrey and I spent a couple of hours exploring yesterday afternoon. For this years’ exhibit, two New York penthouses – located at the top of the luxurious Tribeca Summit Lofts building – have been transformed by a selection of renowned designers into thematic rooms inspired by Showtime’s 6 Original Series; Californication, Dexter, Nurse Jackie, The Tudors, United States of Tara and Weeds. The exhibit is a collaboration between the Showtime channel and Metropolitan Home, and features entirely different rooms than those found in last year’s Gramercy Park Showtime House. So even if you went last year, you will want to go again.

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Just in Time for Halloween: The Blood Stained Bath Mat!

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BLOODBATH MAT
“Bloodbath Mat” Get It?

I don’t usually consider myself to be in possession of a particularly sick sense of humor, but I do appreciate the twisted sensibility of this Blood Stained Bath Mat. Maybe that’s because I am currently immersed in trying to get caught up on three seasons of Dexter. Buy one for yourself (only $37.50, what a bargain!) at This Link!

Arts and Culture

Ron Arad’s No Discipline at MOMA: A RAD Exhibit!

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No Discipline
So Rad!!

A very good activity to plan for a rainy day in NYC is to go to a museum. Whether it’s the Whitney (aka the “Whip Me”), The Guggenheim (The Guggy) The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) or some other place where we can get in for free with our badges from our day jobs, Geoffrey and I like to do the museum thing every few weeks. Because art is awesome. Since our last trip to MOMA, which was I believe to see the James Ensor exhibit back in July, they’ve installed the mind-blowing, skull crushing, eyeball exploding No Discipline design exhibit by Israeli designer Ron Arad and it just fucking will not stop rocking.
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Design and Innovation

Coffin Couch

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Why wait: enjoy the comfort of the afterlife today! Through the miracle of modern carpentry you too can have your own earthly piece of heaven. This little gem of a Coffin Couch has a velvet-upholstered, thick foam cushion and classic metal spring construction seat. It also folds up to a fully shut position. Available in purple, red, or black fabric, this unique conversation piece sells for $8,000, plus shipping, from Von Erickson via Etsy.

Design and Innovation

Shark Attack Wet Suit, Gnarly

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shark attack wet suit
“Ouch! That Stings!”

Nothing shows the possession of a splendid sense of the morbidly hilarious quite like emerging from the surf in a wet suit designed to look as if you’ve just been mauled and partially eaten by a shark! Ho ho ho! Available in limited quantities, and by request only, from Dornob, where they have pictures of other wet suits that are also kind of wacky!

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