Tag: Wretched Excess
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Wretched Excess or the future of housing design? Another look at the car elevator
There is a perverse logic to this idea of bringing your car to your apartment.
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Microsoft puts disposable wifi routers into magazine advertisement
Microsoft decided that a good way to advertise its cloud-based Office 365 software would be to actually put a T-Mobile wifi router with 15 days of free wifi inside a magazine advert.
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Just what we needed Dept: The Pet Treat Maker
Like your dog is going to reject your home-made dog cookie if it doesn't look like a bone.
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Wretched Excess Dept: Castor Design's Marble with Fluorescent Tube
"At first glance, Marble with Fluorescent Tube's monolithic 2,500 pound base appears to be at odds with the banality of the bulb which sits on top of it."
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IBS Home Gets LEED Points, But Misses the Green Point
At the annual builders' show, a massive green show home has all the bells and whistles, but none of the logic of sustainable building.
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Wretched Excess Never Looked So Good: 45,000 Lights On A Single House
Sometimes it's worth it.
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The Year In Strange Design: 20 of the Oddest, Ugliest and Most Useless
I really didn't know where to start, there is so much terrible stuff around
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Wretched Excess, 1564 Style; The Vasari Corridor in Florence, Italy, The Original Grade-Separated Pedestrian Skywalk
I am nervous about showing this; some modern Medici's might think it is a good idea
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140,000 Square Foot 17th Century Chateau de Bellevue Demolished "By Mistake"
Russian oligarch owner is shocked, shocked to find that his house is gone
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Just We Needed Department: The Office in a Bed
We love the idea of working from home, but perhaps it is a good idea to get out of bed occasionally.
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Wretched Excess Dept: British Hedgie Builds Fowl Extravagance, Cluckingham Palace, Coop de Grace
It's a classical stone chicken coop costing $250,000 and that is both Ionic and ironic.
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Wretched Excess Comes To The Bedroom
Beds designed to be earthquake proof and that put you inside an aquarium
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Wretched Excess or Clever Design? Apartment Tower With Car Elevators Is A Bit Of Both
It is ostentatious, having your car in your living room, but it actually makes a bit of sense.
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Wretched Excess Dept: Electric Bike For The 1/10th of 1% Costs $ 36,000
They call it green. I call it too much.
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Wretched Excess Dept: In New York Condo, Cars Get Rm w/a Vu
Just what we wanted: a "suburban home in New York."
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Wretched Excess Dept: Limos Aren't Good Enough For The 1% Any More, Now They Have Sprinters
If You've Got It, Don't Flaunt It; Just Get Driven Around In A Seriously Pimped Out Delivery Van
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Just What You Don't Want For Christmas: A Single Serve Pod Coffee Maker
It's the fastest growing thing in the coffee world, it is overpriced, and it is an environmental joke.
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Just What We Needed Dept.: A Cardboard Radio
Its interesting how our attitudes have changed over seven years of TreeHugger. Is a cardboard radio really green?
