Furniture buffs should head over to the MET for the magnificent new exhibition, The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs. Based in Buffalo, New York, Rohlfs drew inspiration from both the Art Nouveau and the Arts & Crafts movement. His designs, and particularly his carved furniture, generated high praise for his workshop from across the globe.

The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs runs to January 23, 2011.

Curated toured the exhibition prior to opening. A full run of images here.

While we love our chunky knitwear, a little light layering never hurt nobody (and neither did a double negative). That’s what this Soulland piece is perfect for; layer it under a bigger jacket for a suitably gillet-esque look or wear it solo on those slightly warmer days. It’s also great for visiting those places that are unbearably warm in the dead of winter. You know, the kind of place where a chunky knit seems like a great idea – until you get inside and start sweating like Damon Stoudamire at an airport metal detector. (Norse Store)

We don’t know what’s happened to use, but we’ve turned into suckers for any sort of jacket that can do double duty. A reversible jacket? we’re on it. A Jacket with removable arms? we’re on it. A gilet with attachable arms? we’re on it (the last two examples were the same thing, but you get the point).

This Factotum jacket comes with removable arms, fulfilling our removable arm fetish. You should also be glad to know that the company are planning a push overseas soon, so you might actually be able to buy it without a proxy from next season onwards. But for now you’ll be well served keeping that proxy’s email address handy. (Mindtrive)

01. Vintage Packaging: Brazilian Cigarette Labels (above)

Beautiful the ephemera we have in this world. (dieline)

02. Design For You: The Eames Plywood Splint

“Today is the last day to go into the draw for the Eames plywood splint. I was at the Eames Office recently and couldn’t resist snapping their display of splints. These light weight plywood pieces were the Eames’ response to the heavy stiff metal splints that were used during WWII. About 150,000 of the Eames product were produced. When the war ended the Charles and Ray took the work they’d done with the splint and molding plywood and used it in their furniture designs.” (hmlifework)

03. Hidden Radio

“Hidden Radio is a nicely understated, intuitive product from Australian designer John Van Den Nieuwenhuizen. Lifting the lid increases the volume proportionally to it’s height whilst rotating it tunes the radio.” (ic)

04. Inflatable Photo Studio

“Looking for a portable photo studio? The inflatable photo studio (IPS) is a black plastic balloon that quickly setting up a controlled shooting environment in minutes. It can be pumped up ready for action in 3-4 minutes. The IPS is made from 6-10mm thick plastic and block out any light that might spoil your photography. and folds up to 2 x 2 x 4 ft when deflated. The inflatable photo studio comes in two sizes, a small 12 x 7 x 10 ft and a lager 20 x 12 x 12-ft design at $330/$400 or $350/$500 respectively.” (likecool)

Core77 previews an exceptional mobile design for the Japanese market “Tokujin Yoshioka … has designed the X-RAY phone for handset manufacturer KDDI’s designer label iida. Like those see-through phones from childhood, but better, because in their extreme miniaturization, cell phones have many hundreds more tiny micro circuits to gape at. At first, it was hard to tell how this works from the press photos, but after poking around on the iida site, we realized that it’s a flip phone, not some insanely sophisticated all-clad see through touch screen.”

More looks at the Transparent Mobile Phone by Tokujin Yoshioka after the click.

(via thecut)

Though we are 2/3rds Arsenal here, the top brass bleeds blue. In his honor, we celebrate the achievement of Carlo Ancelotti today.

For the first time in English, Ancelotti’s autobiography, Carlo Ancelotti: The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius, released yesterday. The book offers candid insight on the difference between the Italian and English games. Ancelotti’s playing days at Parma, Roma and Milan are well covered, as are his recent managerial triumphs. Friend, and former teammate, Paolo Maldini offers the forward.

All of Ancelotti’s royalties from the book go to the Fondazione Stefano Borgonovo, a charitable foundation dedicated to finding a cure for Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Carlo Ancelotti: The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius, by Carlo Ancelotti with Alessandro Aliciato, Rizzoli New York, 2010.

Available from Amazon.

A selection of images from the book come after the jump.

You need some new winter gloves, right? Fly to Milan’s Maison Rinascente and pick from one of many Trussardi 1911’s Holiday 2010 glove selection. The suedes come in some great colors. True classics right here…

Another looks at the Trussardi 1911 Suede Gloves for Holiday 2010 after the click.