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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TASTEABLE: California - Episode 12 Intro

TASTEABLE: California - Episode 12 Intro.  TASTEABLE: California  takes viewers on a weekly tour of California food and wine creators and destinations, including a South American stew recipe at Artesano in San Francisco, a tour of modern Hawaiian food and cocktails at Noelani’s in San Carlos, an interview with Crazy Flower Wines of Napa, and a seafood recipe from the Half Moon Bay Brewery.

TASTEABLE: California" airs Fridays at 1pm on KRCB. KRCB public television, Ch. 22/722 on cable and dish), reaching over 2.5 million households in the San Francisco Bay Area and Wine Country, from Santa Cruz to Napa/Sonoma, from San Francisco and Oakland to Livermore and Walnut Creek.

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TASTEABLE: California - Episode 11 Intro

TASTEABLE: California - Episode 11 Intro.  TASTEABLE: California  takes viewers on a weekly tour of California food and wine creators and destinations, including a recipe for Spanish Tortilla from Mundaka Restaurant in Carmel, a recipe for Grilled Prawns with Fresh Polenta from Piacere Restaurant in San Carlos, a visit with the Penfold's wine ambassador and master sommelier from the film SOMM, DLynn Proctor, a chocolate bakery tour with Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, and a visit to the SF Chefs Wine and Food Festival.


TASTEABLE: California" airs Fridays at 1pm on KRCB. KRCB public television, Ch. 22/722 on cable and dish), reaching over 2.5 million households in the San Francisco Bay Area and Wine Country, from Santa Cruz to Napa/Sonoma, from San Francisco and Oakland to Livermore and Walnut Creek.

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Certified Organic Label GREEN EMBASSY at Vancouver Fashion Week

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

GREEN 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.

http://greenembassy.com.au/

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Chocolate Beverage Awards: 6-Star Picks

Have a craving to drink or sip your chocolate? Here are two 6-star chocolate beverages from Moonstruck Chocolate Co. and Tisano Chocolate Tea. 

These ratings were awarded by the judges of the Artisan Chocolate Awards in 2013. More details at www.ArtisanChocolateAwards.com

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Mardi Gras Risotto

Our Mardi Gras and Carnival themed risotto helps beckon our palates towards spring.

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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