Can You build this Pop-Up House in Four Days with a Screwdriver?

Refrigerator.com reports on a pop-up house you can build in four days with a screwdrivers. As wild as the claim may be, there has been a great deal of momentum in creating pre-fab homes, and pre-fab home modules. This trend has been covered and supported extensively by Dwell Magazine/
In this case, the home, called Passivhaus (“Passive House”) was designed by MultiPod Studio. According to Refrigerator.com:
The Marseille-based design firm has come up with a prototype called the Pop-Up House—made out of wood, foam, and screws—that you can supposedly assemble with just a basic screw gun.
According to the designers, the whole shebang should cost about €200 per square meter, or roughly $26 per square foot. Right now, the MultiPod website showcases two different styles of the Pop-Up House: a single-room, 70-square-meter rectangular cube and a 150-square-meter prototype with two wings (think bedrooms) on either side of a larger connecting room.
Not only does this pop-up building have interesting potential as a home, or temporary shelter, but also as a pop-up restaurant, cafe, gallery or museum.
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Certified Organic Label GREEN EMBASSY at Vancouver Fashion Week

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GREEN EMBASSY is Australia’s first internationally recognized organically certified fashion label, and they rocked the runway at the recent Vancouver Fashion Week.

FBWeb_L_053_7011GREEN EMBASSY is designed, knitted, spun, felted, stitched and embroidered from scratch at her sun-drenched farm in the Western Australian bush. GREEN EMBASSY combines the lack of eco-consciousness missing in the fashion industry with timeless designs, luxury organically certified materials, traditional handmade techniques, and elaborate art into fashionable, wearable pieces.

GREEN EMBASSY uses only the finest materials such as 100% certified organic Australian alpaca, merino, silk and organic natural fibers.  The brand recently had a successful show for EcoLuxe London for London Fashion Week 2014, and is also participated recently in a Seattle for the “Everybody Every Body Fashion Show” where the debut of their Night in The Bush Collection took place.

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New York Fashion Week for Exotic Rugs by Doris Blau

New York Fashion Week recently was in full swing, and rugmaker Doris Leslie Blau took the opportunity to show us the fashion coordination that goes into her work, with this fantastic photo shoot:

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eBay Launches Interactive Digital Storefronts

Rollout of Interactive digital storefronts created by eBay for retailers Rebecca Minkoff,  TOMS shoes, and Sony. eBay considers this a logical next step in their product strategy.

From a popup standpoint, this removes the need for an actual venue to show products, while still having a real-life presence..

Photos here are from the Westfield Shopping Centre in downtown San Francisco




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TASTEABLE: California television series – Episode 16 Intro

Intro for “TASTEABLE: California” Episode 16.

The host of TASTEABLE: California takes viewers on a weekly tour of California food and wine creators and destinations. This episode includes a recipe for Caldo Verde at Belcampo in Larkspur in Marin County, a classic cocktail from Jackson’s Bar and Oven in Sonoma, a dinner for Spanish olives at Canela in San Francisco’s Castro district, our latest roundup of California cookbooks, and a recipe for duck breast at Brasserie S&P of the Mandarin Oriental in San Francisco.
“TASTEABLE: California” is produced for and airs on KRCB public television, Ch. 22/722 on cable and dish), reaching over 2.5 million households in the San Francisco Bay Area from Santa Cruz to Napa/Sonoma, from San Francisco and Oakland to Livermore and Walnut Creek.

Intro for TASTEABLE: California TV series Episode 15

Intro for “TASTEABLE: California” Episode 15.
The host of TASTEABLE: California takes viewers on a weekly tour of California food and wine creators and destinations. This episode includes a search for culinary treats in casinos at the Venetian and Palazzo in Las Vegas and the Graton in Rohnert Park, a recipe for French moules frites in San Carlos, and a recipe for lamb and couscous from the Meritage restaurant in the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley.
“TASTEABLE: California” is produced for and airs on KRCB public television, Ch. 22/722 on cable and dish), reaching over 2.5 million households in the San Francisco Bay Area from Santa Cruz to Napa/Sonoma, from San Francisco and Oakland to Livermore and Walnut Creek.

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