‘I’ve always been interested in kaleidoscopes,’ David Rockwell says of his design for jeweller Mauboussin’s new 6000-sq-ft Madison Avenue flagship. When night falls, this tiny townhouse’s screened facade is lit up with the shifting colours of a projected kaleidoscope.

Read more at Wallpaper’s Retail Directory 2009

Students from the Lincoln School of Art and Design in the UK recently visited us in the LAB while they were in New York. Read about the visit here and be sure to check out the rest of their blog here.

One of the fun things we get to do in the LAB is give all sorts of tours and meet interesting people every week. In fact, if you are in NY and would like to come visit, email us at lab@rockwellgroup.com and we’ll see if we can make it work. On this occasion, we have a few four legged visitors which were too adorable not to post.

Asked to create a “Nest: Creative Construction for any Living Creature.” for the 2009 Design Trust Annual Benefit we decided to create a nest of bright ideas. Cradled within a nest of LED lights, the ecosphere is illuminated and controlled by sensors that read the intensity of your brain waves. It is a delicate interplay between life and light. To bring this to fruition we hacked Mindflex for its EEG brainwave technology. Thanks to Dave Vondel for all his help on this project.

Music: Son Lux – Epilogue designtrust.org/events/event_200911_gala.html mindflexgames.com