Rugs to Riches

Rugs are used to decorate floors, dictate a fashion statement or bring color and aesthetics to a room. Here are some of the extremely creative cool rugs which you can buy.

First one shown here is an exaggerated postage stamp rug. They officially got authorization from queen's office to get this exotic print on a carpet. The wool used is authentic Newzealand wool which is hand crafted in Kathmandu, Nepal. These extremely skilled artists were able to bring 3D effect to the rug which is absolutely awesome. There are various dimensions you can choose from stamprugs.

Here's one more fantastic creation of an icon on a carpet. These are found on modernrugs. They also have a beautiful collection of many floral, figures and icons rugs on their website. Pretty cool site to go through.

Both these companies are in United Kingdom. So you need to get somebody coming from there or pay a handsome shipping and handling charges. 

Gold Biscuit

A French designer Jean Paul Gaultier who was famous for his haute couture is brought into limelight for a totally different reason. He might be famous in the fashion world of Elle, Pierre Cardin likes but was unknown to common man. But this display of unusual talent of putting an amazing design into gold biscuits made him world famous and also into Forbes list of best designers.

Jean never received any formal training in fashion design but used to sent his creations to design houses in his early days. Soon enough was noticed by the best design houses in the world. Although his cross-dressing-type line of clothes weren't made for daily usage, his tailoring skills were acknowledged. He was picked into The House of Pierre Cardin and later to manage their boutique in Manilla.

During this economic turbulence people from different investment firms and hedge funds are considering gold as the only safe bet and gold prices are soaring to new heights. This can be a diverse addition to your investment portfolio. This limited edition design of one-ounce gold biscuits with his sailor flag trade mark on it is available in US through a precious metal dealer ( Dillion Gage Metals - 800-527-7034 ) in New York. 

Mullaperiyar - Kochouseph Way

This is an old story, not a story, a real piece of life. My mom's family is a renowned family from "Guruvayoor" called "Chemmanoor". They are one of the traditional families from that area mostly business oriented. And my mom's eldest sister (Valiyamma) was married at the age of 16 which was common in their generation. She was married to "Chittilappilly" family from "Parappur", a region near "Guruvayoor". They were landlords and stingy rich. They used to have acres of land cultivating paddy and other crops. To irrigate them they used these big motor pump sets.

At times these pump sets used to have some issues and guess who used to come to fix their pump sets those days, Kochouseph. He was in his teens and used to make money through his part time business of fixing pump sets. From there he started a small revolution in kerala manufacturing V-GUARD irrigation motors, Voltage Stabilizers now into garments, resorts ( veega-land , wonderla ) and many of such trades under the brand umbrella V-GUARD.

But the beauty is that he always found an optimized way of doing any business legit and churn profit from that. These characteristics and hard work always led him from success to success. He is a philanthropist, member of kidney foundation and also may be one and only one of its kind who donated his kidney as an example of practicing what he's preaching, which ignited many youths to follow him and help fellow human beings.

That's not the topic here, when Kerala and Tamilnadu State Governments are scrambling for decisions and show who's having control, Kochouseph came up with a master plan which is very much doable and has the support from leading architects. State estimates it would cost 800-1000 crores to fix this dam, Kochouseph is predicting it can be fixed with 55 crores. And as usual he's donating 10% of that cost and technical support to fix the problem which otherwise effect 35 million people.

Wish if he can become the chief minister of Kerala, God's Own Country will be in real. Small video from a press conference.

Indian Designers

Architecture & Design used to be westerner's forte, but time after time Indians are showing their talent here too. These days animation movies, advertisements even the 5 second ballads for these advertisements are given to us. Its not because we are cheaper economically but we are proving that we can be effective in those spaces too. While my short stint in IISc Bangalore, I came to know IISc also have a design school called CPDM. And every year this school hatch 100's of highly talented designers into product designing.

I came to know this very cute design of a shelf by one of the student, Arun Francis. His project on sensational design was small project but got attention from world class designers. Its a single string design, but it will get you looking at it. He is an artist basically and also designed an electric guitar from scratch.

Don't forget to see his other works too here.