The team at Alexander McQueen have a long history of working with the rose. A perennial reference and a literal material in Lees Sarabande show for SS07, Sarah Burtons AW19 collection was no exception. Speaking to i-Ds Osman Ahmed after the show, Sarah described the shows spectacular sculpted taffeta dresses -- crafted delicately from single sheaths of fabric -- as a reference to the War of the Roses and an explosion of beauty coming out of something dark. In the same collection, whorling magenta satin roses could be found on tailored suits, leather jackets were spliced with images of rose queens and a white denim dress featured an exploded frayed rose draped over the collarbone, recalling the White Rose of York.

Sarahs swirling red rose dress from the finale now forms the centrepiece of a new installation in the brands Old Bond Street store, alongside the aforementioned fresh flower dress from the end of his iconic Sarabande show.

Alexander McQueen SS07. Image via Getty.

Conceived by Sarah in collaboration with the architect Smiljan Radic, the store is designed to reflect the spirit and core values of the brand. As a result, the entire top floor is dedicated to inspiring creative thinking for young people alongside pieces from Lees Sarabande collection. The new room has samples of work-in-progress, and research into the designs can be found around a studio cutting table. At this table a range of different practical masterclasses and discussions will take place. And, perhaps most excitingly, a series of classes given to students by Sarah Burton and Head of Atelier Judy Halil on patternmaking and couture techniques will run throughout the next year.

Its the second installation in its recently-opened three-story Bond Street boutique. The first, Unlocking Stories, looked into the creative direction of five key pieces in its SS19 collection.

With its expansive new store, and its menswear show in London back in June -- a highlight of the SS20 schedule -- Alexander McQueen feels particularly present in the city right now, even with its womenswear shows remaining in Paris. And with a return to a more elegant silhouette on the runway -- pushing back on the streetwear boom of the past few seasons -- Lees influence is more relevant than ever.

Alexander McQueen AQ19. Photography Mitchell Sams.

Roses at Alexander McQueen, 27 Old Bond St, Mayfair, London W1S 4QE opens to the public on 30 November.

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Meredith James: Elevator Doors, 2019, chair, wood, plastic, acrylic paint, milk paint, and motor, 19 by 24 by 34 1/2 inches; at Jack Hanley.

There is an element of surreal playfulness to Meredith Jamess work. At first glance, Shadows on the Wall, her exhibition at Jack Hanley, looked like a sparse arrangement of nondescript midcentury furnishings: an armchair, desk, office chair, medicine cabinet, hanging light, and rotary phone. Upon inspection, these items revealed a surprise. Embedded in each was a trompe loeil sculptural relief depicting a miniature interioranother world contained within the ordinary furnishing.

Jamess previous works have often taken the form of immersive sculptures and installations that address perceptual phenomena. First exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park in 2014, her installation Far from this setting in which I now find myselfwas an open-air version of an Ames room: a structure that appears to be a cuboid room when viewed through a peephole in its wall, but that actually has differing angles, a tilted floor, and perspectival distortions that together produce the optical illusion that people inside the space are of dramatically different sizes depending on where they stand. Jamess installation featured a background painted to resemble a park promenade, exploiting the relationship between the depicted landscape and the surrounding environment to heighten its destabilizing effects.

The most successful sculptures in Shadows on the Wall engaged the viewer in similar perceptual games on a smaller scale. In Gallery Reflection (all works 2019), the mirror of a plain wooden medicine cabinet was replaced with a scale model of the gallery wall opposite the sculpture. The work prompted the viewer to glance repeatedly between the actual wall and the sculpture to cross-reference the details: the radiators, bricks, molding, and fire escape were all meticulously reproduced, and an LED light gave the scene the ambience of daylight. While the embedded diorama was a convincing stand-in for a mirror reflecting the sculptures surroundings, the viewers own reflection was missing, disrupting the perceptual continuity of the encounter.

The sound of running water emanated from Bathroom Sink, a wall-mounted rotary phone with its receiver lying on the floor beneath it. A quarter-size peephole below the dial revealed a minuscule white sink with a tiny working faucet. With the disorienting sound component and the seemingly impossible presence of functional plumbing, the sculpture possessed a sense of delightful absurdity, which was amplified by the extreme contrast in scale between the phone and the sink.

In most of the other works on view, however, the relationships between the furnishings and the sculptural additions were less compelling. In Library, a diorama of a library with rows of identical books was inserted into a cozy armchair where the seat met the back. The illusion felt one-note, the artist relying entirely on the oddity of the inversiona library inside a chair instead of the other way aroundto animate the work. More arbitraryand gimmickywas Elevator Doors, a mustard-colored desk chair in which a small mechanized elevator door was embedded. The doors opened at regular intervals, revealing an elevator shaft. Ambiguity can be enriching, but in these works it suggested irresolution. Still, the sheer level of craftsmanship in each of Jamess sculptures is commendable, and the miniatures commanded ones attention even when the conceptual premise fell short.

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NOVEMBER WAS THE MONTHof overscheduled evenings, stacked with events sprawling across three weeks and forty venues for the eighth iteration of Performa. The brainchild of RoseLee Goldberg, the biennial has since 2005 promoted the field of performance art as a coherent subdiscipline of the visual arts, drawing on histories of the avant-garde to firmly tie the fields lineage to art history. In fact, it is Performas habit to produce new commissions undertaken by visual artists with little experience in live media (at the expense, often, of supporting practitioners already active in this domain), though many performances this past month rose to the occasion.

This year, Performas anchor (following on the heels of past themes like Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, and Futurism) was the Bauhaus, the Weimar-era German school defined by its programmatic interdisciplinarity and utopian aim to integrate art and technology. While the biennials art-historical referent often bore tenuous connections to its actual program, Kia LaBeijas reimagining of Oskar Schlemmers1922 Das Triadische Ballet(Triadic Ballet) proved an exception. The performer and photographer, who hails from the New York ballroom scene, reconfigured the ballets third, so-called black act, which mobilized artificial darkness as a backdrop against which dancers negotiated their bodies relation to mechanization, space, and each other.

A series of movements unfolded, first presenting LaBeija wearing iridescent crystal-studded garments underneath a pink floor-length veil, spiraling slowly and with poise through a maze drawn in white masking tape on the floor. In the duet that followed, the dancers mirrored, matched, and exceeded each other in a dynamic contest. Around them, light reflected wildly across the theater from the myriad spherical mirrors adorning their arms and head capsrealizing Schlemmers ambition to reconcile the body and its spatial surround. (Untitled) The Black Act thrilled as it reinvested the Bauhaus legacy of collectivity with the attention to her immediate community LaBeija brought to the piece: She worked with family, friends, and her partner Tana Larot, cultivating their talents and expertise to devise a largely intuitive and unscored performance. In a particularly remarkable scene, LaBeija took leave of the strictures of the sets abstract and geometric syntax, removed the grid taped to the floor, and broke into a virtuosic improvised choreographic sequence fueled by her jazz drummer father Warren Benbows spirited solo. (Her brother, Kenn Michael, also accompanied the performance with a software instrument of his own design, which he claims produces healing and meditative frequencies.) It was clear from the warm reception on opening night that the feeling of community and care was shared by the audience, who congregated in the center of the room as the artist bid everyone to dance.

The mobilization of the audience was even more central to Paris-based Paul Mahekes Sens, a work that also privileged darkness as a key element. Before the lights went off, we were warned, This is an interactive performance. Be mobile! Maheke entered, crawling along the floor of the darkened belly of the black box as we darted around him. In fact, we spent much time negotiating where to stand and where to look. Early on, Maheke self-eclipsed his head with a mirror, which emitted blinding beams back into the room as Ariel Efraim Ashbel (the lighting designer) targeted it with a spotlight. Temporarily marking Mahekes shifting coordinates within the theater, the light dramatized the particular conditions of spectatorship that would haunt the entire production: At its most salient moments,Sensenacted a dialectic of visibility and invisibility, illumination and obscurity, to conjure a fugitive presence and spectral embodiment.

But Maheke also played with the audience, drawing us close into a circle around him, then pushing us back in a choreography animated as much by his movements as it was by the pulsations and vibrations of Melika Ngombe Kolongos live set. Kolongo, who DJs under the name Nkisi, shifted to new beats after Maheke disappeared from immediate view, leaving us to make sense of the situation for ourselves. Momentary confusion gave way to tentative head-bobbing, foot-tapping, and eventually more dynamic thrusting as the theater transitioned into a temporary club. If this spontaneous scene of the audience dancing echoed Untitled (The Black Act)s closing celebration, in Sens this social formation felt more contingent, uncertain of how or whether to cross the divide between performance art spectatorship and club behavior.

Earlier that evening, I saw artist Nairy Baghramian and choreographer Maria Hassabis collaboration Entre Deux Actes (Mnage Quatre), a coproduction of the Kitchen and Performa that took place in a Fifth Avenue townhouse a few blocks north of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work staged a dialogue within a domestic space between Baghramian and Hassabi and two intergenerational interlocutors: the Swiss designer Janette Laverrireknown for her useless though highly specialized furniture and occasionally whimsical objetsand the Italian architect Carlo Mollino. Previously exhibited at the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Muse dart contemporain of Montreal, Baghramians collaboration with Laverrire updated a 1947 boudoir installation by the late designer, with the addition of Mollinos erotic Polaroids of women posing nude drawn from Baghramians personal collection. This threesome, titled Entre deux actes II (Loge des Comdiennes), 2009, was installed on the second floor, where Baghramians signature cast-rubber sculptures formed site-specific armatures that hugged the contours of the doorframes. Such minimal interventions were echoed by Hassabis dancers, who occupied liminal spaces like the grand staircase (Mickey Mahar lay precariously across it) or stood disconcertingly in the second-floor vestibule as audiences transitioned from the fluorescently lit white cube setting of the choreographersFIGURESpiece to the more theatrical (if stark) set of TOGETHER. This attention to passage is no surprise in Hassabis work, which decelerates movement so drastically that the minutest inflections of the body are rendered in an extended continuum, performers often appearing still, like statuary.

FIGURES placed five performers in disjointed synchrony (prerecorded sequences of numbers were intermittently announced, indicating the works underlying timing). The dancers executed solos, moving (slowly, of course) along a generally perpendicular axis, in supine or erect positions. As they approached one another, however, their bodily proximity yielded improbable encounters. It would be absurd to call these moments dramatic, though it would also be disingenuous not to admit that the performers cold and eerily blank stares, their unacknowledged physical closeness, produced an embarrassment ofunnamable affect. This discomfiting excess was finally sublimated in TOGETHER, the duet performed by Hassabi and Oisn Monaghan. Positioned on a rudimentary plywood platform, the pair inched toward each other in gestures of care, intimacy, and erotic attraction as their bodies entangled and moved from standing, to sitting, to suggestively crouching positions, then back again.

The interplay between objects and bodiesbe it in the latter's reification as sculptural form or in the anthropomorphizing of sculptural propswas a connecting thread through a number of works in the biennial, including va Mags Dead Matter Moves at the Judson Memorial Church and the long-overdue restaging of Yvonne Rainers Parts of Some Sextets, which had not been performed since 1965. (But who hasnt seen that photo of Rauschenberg flinging himself onto a stack of mattresses?) Dancer Emily Coates worked with Rainer to reconstruct the piece, which featured both Rainer habitus (such as Patrick Gallagher, David Thomson, and Mary Kate Sheehan) and new faces (artists Liz Magic Laser and Nick Mauss). Nuancing many now-orthodox analyses of Rainers task-based approach to dance, Parts of Some Sextets reminds us of the allusive way in which her work might engage with the theme of labor. Her use of objects illuminates such possibilities. Rainer praised mattresses both for their sheer materiality and abilityto generate ludicrous and satisfying scenes of nonstylized effort as they are lugged around a room, as well as for their associative capacities. (Mattresses, she wrote, evoke sleep, dreams, sickness, unconscious, sex but can be exploited strictly as neutral objects.)

What was clear however, and has been for some time, is that while objects arent really neutralRainer joked in the post-performance talk that the ghost of minimal art was close at handneither is the hollowed-out body of the unexpressive and desubjectivized performer. If Hassabis dancers stared out into empty space, irrespective of the audience surrounding them, so too did the dead teens lining the darkened hallways of Bunny Rogerss cynical Sanctuary, which portrayed the aftermath of an imagined school shooting (the performance took place at Essex Street Academy). More gimmicky than harrowing, Sanctuary turned a phenomenon of mass paranoia into a spectacularized and tasteless object of consumption, one that was barely consumed, in fact; audience members entertained the most mundane conversations among the corpses (who failed to remain convincingly immobile), and distractedly walked in and out of the live talent show rehearsal that took place concurrently in the theater and featured Rogers and friends performing in distinctly amateur mode. (An exception might be Allese Thomsons lengthy though compelling piano solo).

Sanctuarys flipside might have been Palestinian-Swedish artist Tarik Kiswansons As Deep As I Could Remember, As Far As I Could See, a deeply moving performance staged in the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House at Bowling Green. This workcocommissioned by Lafayette Anticipations in Paris, and premiering here two years after Kiswanson was denied entry to the US for the last Performa Biennialsaw a cohort of preteens from immigrant families in New York reciting lines of lyrical and aphoristic poetry on loop as they walked dolefully around the oval Customs office. Their locutions were as numerous as they were impactful, evoking migration, diaspora, historical consciousness, borderlessness, and predictions for the future. The performers embodied the paradoxical position of speaking volumes beyond their years, appearing like sages or prophets. And though they did this with the same vacant stare pervading several of the works mentioned above, the spell of disaffected liveness was broken when they cheerfully swarmed the space once the performance was over.

Rachel Valinsky

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Theres been a debate since the beginning of the industry about the definition of VR, and if a vehicle simulation using screens instead of headsets should be included. If players are immersed in a shared, dimensional virtual world, so the argument goes, where they have freedom of movement and interaction, are they not in virtual reality? Definitions notwithstanding, Vehicle Simulation is an important part of Location Based Entertainment and cannot be dismissed.

Mario Kart networked simulators are among Bandi's best sellers.

Bandi-Namco Mario Kart (Arcade Cabinet)

Bandi has several VR Mario Kart locations in Tokyo and the US. Last year, the company touted its partner AiSolves WePlayVR. Neither attraction was in their IAAPA booth this year. Instead, the company was promoting a two and four player networked vehicle simulation, also based on the Nintendo franchise title, for the relatively low cost of $10,500.

A sales representative said that while Bandi is still bullish on VR, neither Mario VR nor WePlayVR was selling as strongly as the cabinets. Were focused on bestsellers this year. He put the number of Mario Kart cabinets around the world in the thousands, making it far more popular than the most popular VR systems.

Ballast Technologies

Monetize your pool with this waterproof VR system for waterparks, and other public aquatic attractions. Their tethered system makes you feel like you are swimming with dolphins or on a spacewalk.

Their DIVR uses a combination snorkeling mask and headset to provide two underwater VR experience. Theres a free floating experience, where you snorkel through a reef or float over earth by the spade station. The company just announced DIVR+, which is a wall mounted thruster that give you the sensation youre driving an undersea or outer space scooter.

Brogent racing simulator coming to Times Square.

Brogent, which had a dominating presence at IAAPA, is one of the networked auto simulation leaders. ... [+] Note motion bases.

Brogent Systems

Tawian-based Brogent systems, known for building ride attractions aroundthe world, including for the Masters of Flight ride at Legoalnd Florida. The company plans to open another version in the heart of Times Square in 2020, Director of Innovation Andy Kiang reported at a news conference held during IAAPA that five additional flying rides are planning around the world in 2020, along with an indoor car race track in Times Square.

CXC Simulations

CXC Simulations once again brought its eight networked race car simulators on motion bases to the floor of IAAPA and drew huge crowds to its installation to watch the action. Drivers wore HMDs or used the panoramic screens in front of the cockpit.

The company was founded in 2012 by Chris Considine, a former race car driver with a background in technology and engineering. The CXC Simulations Motion Pro II was initially designed as a simulator for personal use at home, but now has thirty commercial installations around the world.

The largest, Megapolis, in Puerto Rico, has ten networked simulators in their location

The Motion Pro II does convert very easily to a flight simulator - ten minutes with hand tools is what is required to add the flight controls. As you can see from these photos, the elaborate installation isnt cheap. An eight cockpit system costs $726,000. With 20% utilization estimated revenue per year is 1,051,142, based on $20 for a ten minute experience.

DOF Robotics

DOF Robotics is a motion simulator company out of Istanbul, Turkey. They specialize in large custom simulator rides but recently have been combining simulators and free roam/shooting games. Two in-development titles, Dark Matter and Light of Hope, mix motion simulation thrill rides with interactive shooting gameplay.

LA Photo party's take on shareable AR filters. Social activity with friends at the game, event, or ... [+] concert.

LA Photo Party (Mobile AR)

Catching us unaware as we walked down to the aisles of IAAPA was photo capture kiosk specialist LA Party Photo. Using technology similar to that of a Snap filter, the company has been augmenting photos at theme parks, concerts, and sporting events around the world. We were offered several choices (ours above), which were sent to me via email, ready for sharing. The system is capable of capturing and masking multiple people simultaneously.

Paradrop

The best parachute VR weve ever done! The paradrop harness is attached to a lift, so youre really several feet in the air, feet off the floor, lifted and dropped as flying. Players score by points by maneuvering through way points on the mountains. The direction of the the wind on your face will shift as you do. The company says city fly-throughs, like the one they have in Singapore, add a different dimension to the attraction, and open up a big market.

The unit is in the $100,000 range, and its an eye-catcher. They have five titles including the Singapore city exploration. Theres an international leaderboard users can access from the QR Code on their receipt.

A potential high flyer we hope to see at IAAPA next year.

Skytech Ski Simulators

This skiing simulator can be calibrated to your skills from beginner to World Cup levels. Skytech was formed by avid pro skiers in 2010 to produce ski simulators of varying size (and price) to Olympic teams all over the world. Worldwide sales now exceed 1,000 installs. We started getting orders from parks and family entertainment centers from around the world and recognized theentertainmentvalue of the product, said Alex Golunov, Head of the US Office and co-founder of Skytech.

Olympic athlete Mikaela Shiffrin training on Skytech's ski simulator. The company is turning its ... [+] attention to the location-based entertainment market.

This is what Mikaela Shiffrin is looking at so intently.

Simulators cost anywhere $30,000 - 130,000 depending on the size and power of the platform and complexity of the virtual reality system. Golunov admitted theyve been experimenting with VR HMDs but because of logistical problems posed by weight, heat, sweat, and the stress of prolonged physical activity, they dont think it would add to their best-selling system that is already thoroughly immersive and beloved by many of its users. The company says GPS-scouting drones capture new ski areas all the time

This new two player cabinet was introduced at IAAPA 2019 in Orlando.

Triotech

Triotech launched the Storm at IAAPA. This fifty square foot coin-op combines VR, a D-box motion base, wind effects, and attractive cabinet featuring a 50-inch screen TV. The player with the most points at the end of the ride wins, which the company hope will foster repeat play of this $50,000 ride. Comes with three games. "They call us the rebels of the industry. And, quite frankly, we take it as a compliment," said founder and CEO Ernest Yale.

VR Coaster's Steampunk VR Scooter bumper car conversion.

VR Coaster

This company had no demo at IAAPA because what they do is retrofit coasters and bumper cars with VR. To date theyve converted 60 parks and 70 attractions. It takes two more employees to manage up to three hundred all-in-one Pico Goblin HMD. The way it works is that the ride has been downloaded to each headset, which transmits its position throughout the ride.

Most recently they created a Roam & Ride, which combines free-roaming virtual reality with a VR thrill ride. They are also working on a water diving attraction.

Ferrari Land Tarragona. Eight networked simulator on motion bases.

Wave Formula 1 Driving Simulator

Italys Wave places guests into the realistic fiberglass cockpit of a formula one racer. Though not an HMD VR experience, the simulation is fully immersive, with three screens that wrap around the driver. There are eight high end simulation centers in Italy. In terms of wicked coolness, these guys are probably the best. But that Italian styling dont come cheap. Each simulator is over $50,000.

The Barfatorium

VR systems today have frame rates over 90 fps, so motion sickness should be a thing of the past. BUT the proliferation of low cost motion bases for VR simulators has brought it back. Yes, the motion base looks better on the floor, and youre giving the customer something theyre not going to get from the best home system, including a stomach churning feeling you get when things are out of sync just the tiniest bit.

After some misguided soul (name withheld on request) told us it was good, we set out to try the only AR HMD system at the show. It was certainly ambitious. And it was backed by the established attractions producer Sartori. It was a dark ride of sorts, a cabin in which you sit. It rolls forward. Were wearing a custom (hacked together) HMD with a wide field of view. We flew around a projected mountain landscape while shooting. Everything was out of sync from the beginning, resulting in motion sickness

Extreme Bike. What could go wrong?

Xtrematics an interesting and original take on haptics. Theyre matching an HTC Vive with two machines, one a kind of rocking motorcycle seat, for racing and flying, and another for running. The standing unit is $13,500 and has ten titles. We straddled the ATV to race over the sand dunes, instantly lost the trail and had a dizzying ride over the dunes. Oops. Note to self: motion bases & VR = no fly zone.

We also tried a player vs. player Mech battle. Each player was in their own motion cabinet. The field of play was a cityscape. You could crush some but not all obstacles. You could turn at the waist, or turn your vehicle. There were heads up displays everywhere. Its possible someone who is more of a gamer would like this, someone who could tolerate a bigger cognitive load. We tore off the HMD and crawled out of that suck panting for breath.

Rabbids 2 player VR simulator on a motion base. Not for the weak of heart or ear. They've sold 500 ... [+] of these.

Finally, there is Rabbids VR from Ubisoft and LAI Games. This is an attendantless motion base (also from D-box) with two HMDs. Its based on Ubisofts pop culture characters Raving Rabbids, which are wild rabbit-like creatures who like to cause havoc and mischief, and speak gibberish, like Minions. They are the stars of the show you ride though, screaming in your ear the whole way. There are six five minute adventures to choose from. We picked Coaster Calamity and lasted about ninety seconds before tearing the headset from our eyes. Apparently few others have this experience as, according to Bob Cooney, LAI has shipped 500 units with no end in sight.

Alexis Macklin Wraps It Up

"Virtual reality's emerging prominence in the out of home landscape was on full display at IAAPA in 2019. We saw more vendors than ever before exhibiting solutions designed to be integrated into venues. Competition in the sector seems to be intensifying, and we expect lots of movement in 2020, said Alexis Macklin of Greenlight Insights. We expect to see some consolidation in the coming years, as competitive solutions drive costs down and force weak competitors out. Vendors such as Hologate, Virtuix Inc, and VRStudios are doing their part to innovate and gain a competitive edge.

"5G is a major tailwind for the Location-Based VR market as more bandwidth and cloud computing is brought closer to the network's edge. 5G's effect will create the opportunity for technology vendors to cut the cord and bring new free-roam systems to the market, in most cases eliminating the need for costly PC backpacks and motion-tracking technology. By 2023, Greenlight Insights expects VR systems incorporating standalone headsets will represent a majority share of the HMD used in the out-of-home market.

GreenlightInsights Global LBExR Forecast. November, 2019.

"A noticeable technology missing from the IAAPA floor was augmented reality. There was only a handful of companies exhibiting AR solutions on the floor, most of which showcasing AR projected on climbing walls. Venue operators, especially at museums, tourist destinations, and other edu-tainment centers, are looking at augmented reality to better engage with their patrons and target audience. Greenlight Insights expects this trend to accelerate as Web AR deployments become more commonplace. As it was with VR, the use of AR in the out-of-home entertainment sector will be first championed by content developers and software tools rather than system vendors, so it could be an emerging trend to watch at IAAPA 2020."

Joanna Popper, Head of Location Based VR at HP, does (almost) every VR experience at IAAPA in 2.5 Mins.

Many thanks for the kind assiatence of my colleagues Bob Cooney, Kevin Williams, and Alexis Mackin of Greenlight Insights, in the preparation of this series.

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How to keep heat in and cold out this Christmas

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When the weather outside is frightful, it may take more than a fire to make your interiors delightful.

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When the weather outside is frightful, it may take more than a fire to make your interiors delightful.

The long winter evenings have arrived, along with wind, wet, and possibly snow, so it's time to make sure your home is well prepared for wintry weather. These simple seasonal switches will help keep your house homely come rain or shine - and let's be honest, it's going to be rain.

1. Keep your curtains closed

Closing your curtains limits heat loss and provides an extra barrier against the elements. Your boiler will thank you and so will your heating bill.

2. Draught-proof doors and windows

For windows that open, use self-adhesive strips to seal up any gaps around the frame, and use a soft, silicone sealant for windows that stay closed. Doors can be given similar treatment, but for floor level openings, it may be simpler to employ an old-fashioned, 'sausage dog' draught excluder. Letterboxes and keyholes are also classic sources of draughts. Plug them respectively with letterbox brushes and keyhole covers.

3. Install foil behind your radiators

If you have radiators fixed to external walls, slide a layer of tin foil between wall and unit to reflect as much heat as possible back into the room. Pick up special heat reflector aluminium foil to maximise retention and remember that hanging clothes on a radiator forces it to work twice as hard.

4. Insulate everything (but mostly your plumbing)

Exposed pipes can be snugged up with slip-on foam tubing, while boilers and water tanks can be easily dressed with jackets. A jacket costs 15-20 and should come with instructions (make sure you've measured your unit before you buy) and will slash your winter energy bills by reducing heat loss. According to the Energy Saving Trust, it should pay for itself in about three months. Wall, floor and loft insulation are similarly worthy projects, but may require professional installation for all but the most experienced DIY-ers.

5. Use a thermostat to regulate your heating

A modern, programmable thermostat has an inbuilt timer that will allow you to schedule your home's heating, so it powers down when you go out and then turns on automatically on your return.

6. Service your boiler

You do not want your boiler giving out: check the pressure (it should be at around one bar), and ideally get your unit serviced every autumn. If you don't schedule in maintenance for your boiler, your boiler may end up scheduling it in for you.

7. Clean out your gutters

Gutter-clearing is not a glamorous occupation, but fallen leaves and sticks can easily result in a clog and the ensuing build-up of rainwater can cause damp to seep into your walls. Get the ladder out, strap your gloves on, and prepare to get down and dirty.

8. Paper over cracks

To stop wet, wind, and, in some cases, heat-seeking rodents from sneaking into your home uninvited use foam adhesive and caulk to plug gaps in walls and skirting boards. High quality sealants are easy to peel off if you make a mistake, but once hardened should hold firm for many years.

9. Keep the slush away from your door

When you cross the threshold, you don't want winter coming with you and if you don't have a mudroom you're going to have to tackle the weather head-on. A rough-textured doormat will help shed mud and gunk from your shoes, a boot scraper is a must in rural environments and a plastic boot tray should protect your indoor floor.

10. Snug up!

At the end of the day, nothing cosies up a long winter evening like traditional home comforts and hygge. Pile on the blankets, set a fire going, brew some hot cocoa and throw on some Dean Martin. Bliss.

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Wooden flooring adds a beautiful, warm and welcoming feel to the home. However, it isnt exactly known for its stability.When exposed to changes in temperature and moisture, wooden floors are known to expand and shrink. This can lead to permanent damage to the floor if it is consistently exposed to high levels of moisture for example. This typically means you cant install it in areas such as the kitchen or bathroom.

However, the good news is, there are ways to bring wooden flooring into moisture-prone and fluctuating temperature areas. Advancements in technology have meant flooring can now be developed with a number of impressive features. Here, youll discover how to add wooden flooring to the kitchen or bathroom without worrying about water damage.

Consider using luxury vinyl flooring

Did you know its possible to add a wooden effect into the kitchen and bathroom without actually installing a wooden floor? Luxury vinyl flooring has come a long way in recent years, with manufacturers focusing on creating authentic wood and stone effects.

If you take a look at the luxury vinyl flooring selection at Lifestyle Flooring UK for example, youll see there are hundreds of realistic wooden effect floors available. Some of them make it extremely tough to tell that they arent really made from wood. Youll find every type of shade available from light oak to maple. They also feature different types of finish effects to enhance their authentic designs.

On top of the visual benefits, youll also receive a lot of practical benefits when you choose luxury vinyl over real wood. They are much cheaper, which is a huge benefit in itself. However, they are also a lot easier to maintain too. So, you wont need to spend hours keeping up with the maintenance of these floors.

Its worth noting here that were talking about luxury vinyl, rather than traditional vinyl flooring. The luxury vinyl floors are constructed from layers, giving them both the look and feel of wooden and stone flooring.

The benefits of engineered wood

If youre impressed by the luxury vinyl wooden floor effects but youre still determined to install actual wood, engineered products may be ideal. Youll find engineered wooden floors are much less likely to change due to difference sin temperatures and moisture.

While you still take caution installing an engineered wood floor in the bathroom, it could be a great option for the kitchen. An expansion gap will still need to be left around the room, but you should find it doesnt contract nearly as much as solid wood flooring.

As an additional benefit, engineered wood flooring also comes with a long life. This means youll be presented with great warranties included. However, you will need to check that the floor is marked as being suitable for use in the kitchen or bathroom, otherwise the warranty could become void. If youre in doubt, its always best to ask the manufacturer or the company selling the flooring.

Waterproof laminate

Did you know its possible to invest in waterproof wooden flooring? Youll find a lot of laminate products today offer great waterproof features.

Balterio flooring is a particular leader when it comes to creating waterproof laminate floors. The brand ensures each plank is individually waterproofed to provide maximum protection. These floors come in a variety of designs such as wood and stone. They work because they are made up of resin composition which is effective at resisting moisture.

By selecting a floor thats advertised as being waterproof, you know you can safely install it in the kitchen or bathroom.

Make sure youre choosing the right finish

No matter which type of flooring you choose to invest in, the finish can make a big difference to how waterproof it is. If youre buying engineered wood flooring for example, make sure it has an oiled finish.

Youll find floors with an oiled finish tend to offer more thorough protection than lacquered flooring. This is because the oil seeps into the wood, providing protection throughout rather than just on its surface.

Youll also find parquet style finishes tend to provide the most luxurious look. This style of flooring goes particularly well in the bathroom. Youll find laminate, luxury vinyl and engineered wooden floors which feature the high-end parquet designs. The only type of wood you cant use in the bathroom or kitchen is solid wood. This would become damaged quite quickly if exposed to extreme levels of moisture and heat.

As you can see, there are ways to add a wooden floor into the kitchen and bathroom. You can also invest in alternative flooring products which provide a remarkable wooden effect. You are literally spoilt for choice when it comes to water-resistant flooring. So, take your time to compare the different options available before choosing the best one to suit your home.

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An Israeli installation titled Goren won first prize the Big Emotions Award as part of the Jerusalem Design Week delegation at Design Art Tokyo 2019 in October.

By Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c

Who would have thought an exhibit about wheat could be so emotional?

An Israeli installation titled Goren won first prize the Big Emotions Award as part of the Jerusalem Design Week delegation at Design Art Tokyo 2019 in October.

Visitors to the show at Japans Spiral Arts Center, held in cooperation with the Israeli Embassy of Japan, were mesmerized by the cloud of chaff designed from actual wheat and 2,500 meters of brass wire appearing to float up from the threshing floor (goren in Hebrew).

Goren displayed at Japans Spiral Arts Center, 2019. (courtesy of Hansen House Jerusalem via Israel21c)

The ethereal chandelier of wheat was the brainchild of New York-based Israeli architect Nati Tunkelrot and Israeli designer Guy Mishaly, graduates of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.

The Middle East, for the last 12,000 years, has been home to thousands of genetically diverse varieties of wheat, Tunkelrot explains.

Visitors to Design Art Tokyo examining specimens of wheat. (courtesy of Hansen House Jerusalem via Israel21c)

Sadly, over the last hundred years this important building block of humanitys history has been driven to the brink of extinction being replaced by a handful of high-yielding and uniform strains. We wanted to give voice to this topic and spark a dialogue.

Goren originally was created for Jerusalem Design Week in 2018, which explored the role of design in conservation.

All wheat started in the Middle East region, between Egypt and Turkey, Mishaly explains.

The wheat genome is six times more complicated than the human genome. But all this biodiversity doesnt exist anymore. In the 1950s, a new wheat was developed by a U.S. scientist, that was easier to grow with higher yield, and the other species went extinct.

Goren in the courtyard of Hansen House, Jerusalem. (Ido Adan via Israel21c)

Through their research, the two artists discovered that the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Volcani Center-Agricultural Research Organization are working to gather, examine and conserve wheat strains indigenous to the Israeli region.

The Weizmann Institute and the Israel Plant Gene Bank [at the Volcani Center] have collected seeds of 890 species out of about 4,000 that once existed. They are growing them to find new and better types of wheat, researching and analyzing the valuable genome they hold inside, Tunkelrot tells ISRAEL21c.

We were amazed by the tremendous scientific research that has been done for so many years, and decided to create a visual outcome to that story and reveal it to the public.

Chaff rises in a cloud when wheat is threshed. (courtesy/Israel21c)

Cereal crops including wheat contain edible grain kernels covered by an inedible hull (chaff). When the chaff is separated from the grain on the threshing floor, the chaff rises.

Our vision was to let the visitor walk inside that experience, says Tunkelrot. We wanted to capture the wheat chaff floating in the air, uniting ancient wheat varieties with new types so you can see the differences.

The installation changes its form to fit the architectural space. In the courtyard of Jerusalems Hansen House Center of Design, Media and Technology, the wheat chandelier nearly touched the ground.

People were standing in it, walking through it, and sitting in it, Mishaly says. When the wind picked up, the whole exhibit shifted form and even the birds came to visit throughout the day.

Visitors walking through the wheat at Hansen House, Jerusalem. (Dor Kedmi via israel21c)

In Tokyo, the installation was indoors in a round gallery. Tunkelrot says its form seemed to change as you went up the ramp inside the Spiral Arts Center.

Goren on display at DesignArt Tokyo 2019. (Tal Erez)

The whole piece sparkled like a talisman of golden jewelry.

Some viewers chose to lie down on a podium at the base of the spiral to get a different perspective of the installation.

Guests asked a lot of questions about wheat, an issue that had never crossed their mind. They were intrigued by the investment Israeli scientists are making in trying to preserve the most important agricultural crop for the Western world, and they were genuinely curious about what they could do to assist these efforts, says Tunkelrot.

Even before leaving Tokyo, Mishaly and Tunkelrot had a few offers for their next exhibition location.

It is precisely due to these interactions with visitors to Goren that provide us with great motivation to continue presenting Goren in many diverse metropolises around the world, so that we might spread the story of wheat and the loss of biodiversity.

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Creating a new kitchen is like assembling the ingredient list of a delicious recipe. You have to imagine how your finished masterpiece will taste and look, whilst serving it up with proud conviction

At Long Beach, a contemporary cabin reno on which were currently working, we dreamed of a food prep zone that would be at once beautiful and practical, whilst complimentary to the rest of the newly open concept space.

This in mind, heres our carefully planned ingredient list: studied carefully, we hope itll inspire your own next kitchen masterpiece

Cabinetry

Whilst we shant pander to stereotypes, well admit that these two Scots are incredibly canny. Consequently, when it came to cabinetry, we knew there was a better way than complete demolition. So we contacted Trevor at Chaulk Design Studio (www.chaulkwoodworking.com) in Haliburton. Hey, we enjoy shopping local, so working with his team to rebrand our space was a no brainer.

Being that the existing cupboards were in excellent condition, we elected to keep them, replace the doors and drawer fronts, and add a new cupboard above the fridge freezer. Note, however, the way in which the eye level elevation heightened: Trevor did this by topping the existing cabinets (creating further storage therein) and building Shaker fronted doors to accommodate the extra height.

Counters

Having saved on cabinetry, we indulged our scheme with beautiful quartz counters by Hanstone (www.hanstone.ca) a London, Ontario manufacturer who produce a range of options that mimic stone, marble and granite.

Like many other specifiers, weve shied away from real stone, lately, finding it less serviceable and eminently more damageable. Quartz, on the other hand, is scratch, stain and heat resistant, and provides the look we love in a surprisingly accurate representation of the real thing.

Fabrication

Counters were measured, fabricated and installed by Mike Mastrogiuseppe (at http://www.thehouseofgranite.com) whose site visit and cutting service created exacting standards, not to mention a beautiful waterfall edge that wraps the peninsula elevation at one end. Take a tip DONT try and tackle a job like this yourself. Always call in the pros

Faucet and sink

Further detailing comes via inexpensive graphite grouted subway tile, and from the Silgranit sink and faucet (both by http://www.blanco.ca) The former lends a big, deep volume area for clean up, whilst the slick lines of the latter serve as highly functional kitchen jewelry.

Appliances

Weve renovated enough cottages to know that kitchen detailing is critically important. End users, more than ever, expect quality inclusions to make their time at the cottage as stress free and convenient as possible.

Appliances are by Fisher Paykel (visit http://www.fisherpaykel.ca or find them in premium appliance retailers across Canada) whose double oven has multi functions including roast and aero pastry, non-tip shelves and 8.2 cubic feet across independently operable ovens.

We love the steel finish, large windows and chunky dials that glow white when the ovens heating up, orange when desired temps have been reached and red to announce self cleaning.

The induction cooktop boils liquid in less than a minute, remaining cool to touch until pans are placed, whilst the pyramid chimney hood extracts steam and cooking odours and can either vent outside or be fitted with a charcoal filter to recirculate air.

The 32 French door, large capacity fridge freezer enjoys active smart temperature control to keep food fresh, and proved the ideal depth to avoid the clunky look that can happen when bulkier machinery protrudes beyond cabinetry lines.

Finally, an easy open/close two-drawer dishwasher allows glasses or crystal to be consigned to one level and soiled pots and dishwares to another, making each drawer a true half load for guilt free small washes.

Ceiling

With slick counters and state of the art appliances, we elected to add rustic balance with a fine line cedar strip ceiling whose knotty finish is gently soothing. Were big fans of this wood genus, finding it durable, easy to work with, and maintenance free. Contact http://www.nuforest.com for further info.

Floor

The damaged laminate was promptly removed and, in its place, oak engineered boards by Bruce Flooring (www.bruce.com) were installed to streamline proceedings. Were thrilled with the quality, and even our floor fitters commented that the product is of an excellent standard. Head in to Home Depot, as we did, to moderate spend. Every little helps, right?

Barnboard

Finding a C+J project where heritage wood doesnt feature, at least somewhere, is well nigh impossible. Did someone say omnipresent? Here, below the breakfast bar, it suffuses a little texture and serves as contrast to the simple metal framed, wooden topped bar stools.

All things considered, our room recipe is complete. Served up straight, ingredient-by-ingredient, it delivers or so we certainly hope a tasty insight into the way we plan our projects. More from us next week!

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As it does each year following its big Black Friday and Cyber Monday blowouts, Amazon on Tuesday announced its best-selling products over both sales events. The Echo Dot took the #1 spot since it was down to its lowest price ever at just $22, and that deal is still available right now on Amazon. The Fire TV Stick 4K was also a top-seller, and refurbs are available on Amazon right now with a deep discount. Where products from companies other than Amazon are concerned, the first top-seller mentioned in Amazons announcement was the iRobot Roomba 675 Robot Vacuum, which normally sells for $300 but was on sale for $199.99 during Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2019. Wait, did we say it was on sale? Its actually still available on Amazon right now at its Cyber Monday price, but only if you hurry!

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