Bringing out the good stuff in Second Life®: fashion, hot spots, freebies, etc.

Following the closing of Cicada, Reda Bertolucci and Emilie Freund are finally releasing some of the sumptuous custom builds that they’d made for it as prefabs. My personal favourite wasn’t part of the houses that were selected for retail, which numbers three (the one I liked most among them being ‘Tanja’). Each model can be bought furnished or unfurnished and is very prim-savvy ! The houses’ rez-faux comes in the shape of a moving truck, that disappears after you’re done setting up your new home, which made me quite smile. Demos are here.

Each texture is unique and baked with shadows, giving a lot of realism without having to run actual live shadows in your client.

Aah, one of my favourite furniture makers from very early on, Tara Tagore. I may not be doing justice to her whole range of creations, since what I’m featuring here had been purchased for my moroccan home back in summer 2007. There is tons more at her store, Melino Style, which is bursting at the seams with reproductions of furniture from many exotic places in the world, where she has been, globe-trotter that she is.

The modern northern-african Muscat house at Scarlet Creative feels as open as it is also private, with its many labyrinthine rooms and corridors that are shielded only by blinds, which will still let the air and light flow freely. The layout of the house offers the ability to either spend additional time decorating and personalising the numerous sectionned spaces or to leave most of them bare, in the minimalistic spirit that the house was originally built in, using only the matching furniture provided for the house, being therefore equally as suitable for the interior design freak or the bachelor who wants a smart home right out of the box, with minimal effort involved.

A wide range of other clean, minimalistic western prefabs, of all sizes and shapes, is also available at Scarlet Creative Modern Homes.

It’s there. Ignore the tacky french people and walk away from the marketplace and around the alleyways for some pretty sightseeing.

… at all.

Modern northern african furnishings, both in minimal or traditional flavours, by Reda Bertolucci. It’s beautifully textured, with enormous attention to detail. The subscrib-o-matic at the NOTsoBAD mainstore will also welcome you with a permanent gift: a free cushion, scripted with 16 different textures, a very nice book and some animations to pretend that you’re reading it (shown in the last picture).