C3S + H → C-S-H + CH = LOVE CONDENSED!

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C₃S + H → C-S-H + CH = Love condensed!

Coming from the Latin word "concretus" meaning compact or condensed.

Concrete was used for construction in many ancient structures such as the Pantheon in Rome, ideal for building roads and good enough to inspire design of the times. Optimal, solid and congruent objects of desire, wholly yours.

The Pantheon, Rome

Some good looking USB sticks are coming from KixBerlin. 1GB and 4GB sticks, actually produced from real concrete in a series of colors.

Shmuel Linski’s concrete espresso machine for LAVAZZA. A chamber for the beans and an outlet for water are all that it features.

CITY RAIN concrete glasses are hand made of glass and high water-absorption concrete. An ingenious combination of two materials resulting in a beautiful drinking glass by 25togo.

"The passion of working with this raw, rough material made me think again of using concrete as the main material for other consumer products. We often encounter plastic, wood, leather and other basic materials in our homes, but we encounter concrete as a 'hidden' material which is covered by layers of plaster and paint"

Concrete speakers by Shmuel Linski.

Award winning designer Jean Willoughby brings us a cabinet that makes use of concrete, creating a clean and efficient piece of contemporary furniture.

The vintage Nixie tubes, used in former East-Germany in the mid 20th century as numeric displays, were the inspiration for the design of Daniel Kurth's Nixie Concrete clock.

The Luxembourgish designer enclosed the shiny orange Nixie tubes in a reinforced rough concrete body which can optionally be wall mounted.

The strength of this design lies in the application of 'retro technology' and its interesting combination of components and materials, where one is easily fooled as to what is old and what is new.

Love is Concrete.

C3S + H → C-S-H + CH = LOVE CONDENSED!

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