Owning a swanky home is a dream fixed in every heart. But only a few pockets are large enough to buy one. And a few are bold enough to design their dream abode of the future and why not when futuristic architecture is catching pace. And who knows if we could soon be living in Skypad apartments like the Jetsons!

Zaha Hadid has designed a Symbiotic Villa for the Next-Gene 20 project in Taiwan which was launched in Venice in September�s first week during the architecture biennale. The project has invited ten international architects and ten Taiwanese architects to design houses.

Every bit of designing is meant to catch your awe. Whether it is the sleek and glossy exteriors or the unique interior that does not let you loose touch with the world outside with the brilliant glass wall like windows. The whole place is filled with light and seems very air and spacious. If homes like these will ever be constructed is the million dollar question. They just keep designing them and they sometimes lack the warmth of a true �Home�, making them look like private but airy offices.

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Zaha Hadid is an established name for discovering designs but her latest creation for Chanel can be seen as an icing on the cake. The Chanel fashionable Art urn was developed with a portable feature so that it can display work of work from one city to another. Offering an appeal of an alien spaceship, it sports exhibits resembling Yoko Ono (presenting an interactive Wish Tree), Michael Li, Loris Cecchini, and photographers Stephen Shore and Nobuyoshi Araki. Having debuted in Hong Kong, it gold sold off in Tokyo (where it is still open for devotees until 4 June).
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Word is around that it would mark an entry in New York by October and is anticipated to hit London and Moscow in 2009, and Paris in 2010. Check out Chanels’ Mobile Art website here.
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The online market space is witnessing a surge in elite designer furniture niche. While months back, Christie’s rechristened it’s House Sales as Christie’s Interiors to invite creative minds, collectors and new-entrants achieve exclusive range of objects and collectibles. This practice was smilingly followed by another antiques and design-based site, 1st Dibs that enables people a stress-free access over a pool of vintage designs.

And the latest in the headlines is Artnet’s Design Marketplace that features furniture and decorative art gathered from over 150 galleries across 75 countries. The site displays around 3,000 works for sale from 1,000 plus established designers’ viz. Carlo Mollino, Isamu Noguchi, Jean Royère, Marc Newson and Zaha Hadid, amongst many others. It gives you an easy search facility to look for products while searching for designers, products, style, age, price and also location. The cost of these designer accessories varies from $$$ for a vase to a designer creation of “room-within-a-room” stimulated by a conventional Dutch bedstee by designer Hella Jongerius.

The ramparts and cabinets of Jongerius’s Bedstee are slackly upholstered and it offers a soft statuette of a candleholder. The piece generated a sale of $80,000 via NY shop Moss.

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