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T+L Design Awards 2011

The results are in for Travel and Leisure's 2011 Design Awards. The selected winners are a mix of travel products, hotels, and restaurants. My personal favorite is the Best Hotel category winner.

Best Hotel (fewer than 100 rooms) - The Pantone Hotel in Brussels, Belgium

This colorific hotel is impeccably designed for business or leisure travel. The modern Pantone hotel is located near Brussels' shopping district and offers delightful surprises for guests at every turn. Live and dream in color at this new hot spot!

See all the T+L Design Awards on their website.

Cork Displays at Anthropologie for Earth Day

Earth Day is April 22nd, and in celebration Anthropologie has decorated their store fronts with recycled corks. Cork is a very eco-friendly resource. The retailer partnered up with Kendall-Jackson who funded the shipment of millions of corks for the project. This new partnership is also a nice way to get the public to join in recycling corks. Each of the Anthropologie stores had collection bids leading up to the launch of the beautiful displays. When the displays are broken down the corks will go to Cork Reharvest to be used as new flooring, fishing bobs, and paper pulp. Overall, it's a great idea and earth-friendly project!

Design Well Within Reach - The 'Undecorate' Movement

Many of us have wondered what today’s version of modernism might be. If design is a gauge of cultural mood, then how will it reflect this period of economic collapse and anxious recovery?

via www.nytimes.com