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Hiroomi Tahara with Fruit Bowl Furniture Collection

September 2nd, 2011

Seating is the most utilized place in everyone’s house, be it entertaining guests, hosting get together for friends and family members or just sitting and relaxing. Modern sofa should be comfortable and stylish, and designers know that very well. The Fruit Bowl collection was designed by Hiroomi Tahara (currently living in Milan) for Japanese manufacturing company Yamakawa Rattan.

The playful set reminded the creator of random fruits “Please enjoy placingvarious combinations and arrangements of cushions on this sofa as you do with a fruit bowl“-asserted Tahara.

The items were all handmade using rattan and were particularly created for outdoor decors. However, within the right context, we believe the collection can also be integrated in living rooms, office buildings and so on. We particularly like the accompanying low table and poufs with multicolored cushions, as they bring some extra vitality to the design.

Hiroomi Tahara learned design disciplines through self-thought and whilst working for various services such as an interior shop in Tokyo, he has produced a number of his own design works. When designing he always keeps “the relationship between person and object” in mind and he is strongly interested in “creating certain affections between users and objects”. This is due to his strong belief in its power of surpassing the restriction of other elements such as convenience, cost or durability at times.

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Organic Lounge Chair by Verner Panton

August 20th, 2011

What’s a house without a nice comfy chair? If you feel the same, here’s the System 1-2-3 Lounge Chair designed by Verner Panton. His idea was to create furniture that grows out of the floor and to turn it into something organic. The series originally comprised 20 different models with variations in seat height, arm rests and feet. The public was very enthusiastic about the chairs at the time.

Having a thing for pushing materials to their limit, the Danish architect and designer came up with these unconventional chairs. This collection took about three years to be finished. The name comes from the fact that there were three ways to get it, from a chair without padding to a deluxe, tufted version.

This chair has a tabular steel frame, circle shaped steel foot, removable upholstery Mira-X. Moreover you can benefit from full support and a gentle waterfall edge behind your knees. What’s more each chair comes with a certificate of authenticity and the designer’s signature is stamped into the base.

Produced by Verpan, the System 1-2-3 Lounge Chair is a good acquisition for your home. Whether you want it for its comfort or for its bold, bright colors, you can be sure that you won’t regret it.

The Panton Chair has won various design prizes world-wide and graces the collections of numerous renowned museums. Its expressive shape makes it a true 20th-century design icon. The chair offers great seating comfort thanks to the cantilever base, together with its shape designed to do justice to the human body and flexible materials. It can be used on its own or in groups, in rooms and even outdoors.

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Lamp Inspired From Cherries by Nika Zupanc

July 29th, 2011

Here is a lamp inspired from cherries by Nika Zupanc. This lighting be made with the colorful concept, such as: yellow, red, white, and black concept from this lighting. This lamp inspired from cherries you can use for home decorating. The suspended lamp is made of blown glass bulb that is hanging on metal tubing. The lamp is available as single cherry, twin cherries or triplets. Lamp design ideas which very interesting and cute, colors used are very inspiring luxury and modern lifestyle.

Girly and flirty cherry lamps are great at interpreting the delicate nature of woman, and yet strong and powerful as it lights up the room. They are designed to hang about a room and put an edgy feel upon every space. It gleams with a glow gives more appeal to its shape; a charming fascination to those who are in love with the sweet sour tinge. This is suspended lighting object making on to enjoy the formal look of this intriguing item. Nika Zupanc’s lamps will be on display at a museum in London and are available for purchase through her site.

“In a world of design which is dominated by rationalism, minimalism and technology, it is a pleasure and a necessity to find a scarce and lonely soul who puts forward her power and sensitivity to create pieces with a smart esthetic and feminine language. Let’s hope she will lead a way for the long awaited emancipation of femininity in design”, this is the way how Nika Zupanc introduces herself. Zupanc’s works deal with everyday subjects and themes that practically iconic personify mediocrity, boredom, and time constraints. She believes in and fights for the right to express values that do not derive from rationalism, technicism, pure utilitarianism, and low-key comfort – the ideas that still dominate contemporary design.

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Blust by Guy Mishaly

July 23rd, 2011

An explosion created these stools by Israeli designer Guy Mishaly. Each Blast stool is made by detonating a charge inside a steel blank, ripping legs out of the sides so that everyone is unique. No material is lost in the explosion and each stool has the same weight before and after detonation. Mishaly developed the project while studying at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.

Industries develop in different regions around a quarry or readily available raw materials. The sphere of destruction is so developed in Israel that it can almost be considered a local “raw material” around which various industries and tremendous knowledge have developed

Blast is a project in which I use this “raw material” but create objects that are disconnected from the immediate associative context and embody a new interpretation of familiar ground, while taking the explosive element and using it as a tool.

The objects start out as geometric shapes made of metal sheets that are webbed with explosive material. The explosion changes the generic shape into an object identified as having a unique character, and the effects of the explosion will always yield different objects.

The enter point to this project was how to navigate energy; creating by manipulating energy that is naturally used to harm and destroy. Another goal was to invent a system that in the same way of use will always provide different results.

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Matryoshka all-in-one furniture set

July 17th, 2011

This next compact living concept combines many types of fantastic and versatile pieces of furniture into one amazing all-in-one furniture set. Perfect for small apartments and student rooms, the furniture set can transform into a living room, dining room, bedroom and office with a few simple moves. Invented by a group of students gathered around a furniture movement –Matroshka Furniture – the compact concept measures 15 square meters.

Russian nesting dolls served as inspiration for the project. This great furniture design follows the principles of Russian doll. Components that aren’t needed at any given time are slid or placed inside another component, so they don’t use up your precious space. Even the seats themselves pull double duty as storage boxes. The highly portable furniture set includes everyday items like bookshelves, drawers, an office space, a double bed, couch, dinner table with four square stools, a wardrobe and additional storage. The simple modular furniture can easily fit into tight spaces and offer you the best of compact living. Don’t you love it?

Matroshka Furniture comprises Sara Remnerth, Anna Fossane and Anna Thorsaeus, who met as Industrial Design students at Mid Sweden University and have been running the company since 2009. In working to develop new furniture it is critical to do more than churn out just another product. Our furniture is built to be used, which makes quality, comfort and function three key elements. Giving the customer furniture that goes beyond the ordinary is the company’s passion. Their vision is to be the leading brand in multifunctional furniture.

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Modern furniture by Paola Lenti

July 5th, 2011

Paola Lenti has unveiled its new additions to home furniture collection… To make the open space more pleasant and comfortable, new unusual elements have been introduced like these very low casual tables, soft containers and cozy seating pieces. Particularly nice-looking is the ultra-modern Mellow sofa in light green, the Himba low wooden tables and the Joy colorful collection of soft woven baskets. The Picot poufs got some new colors and so the Marelle rugs. It looks like the latest trendy colors are the friendly shades of green, purple and blue. All these furniture items are designed to relax you, to cozy you up in high quality of soft furnishings and innocence of natural wood.

Mellow is modular sofa for exterior environments. Mellow has been designed with maximum regard to ease of use, cleaning and ultimately, disposal, without forgetting comfort and aesthetics. The sofa components can be easily separated because they are neither glued together nor permanently connected; the cushions with removable covers can be removed and stored, leaving only the structure outside when the sofa is not in use for a relatively long period of time. Furthermore, the homogeneity of the materials used to produce each single component of the sofa simplifies any eventual disposal procedures. The frame is made of cataphoresis treated and white varnished steel. Cushions are in cold injected polyurethane foam treated to be water repellent. Upholstery is proposed in Paola Lenti’s  new Light signature fabric.

The company was founded in 1994 by Paola Lenti with headquarters in Italy’s leading furniture district Meda, Milan. Specializing in rugs and seating furniture for indoor and outdoor environments the Company is today a reference point for textile innovation in the design world. The entrepreneurial development of Paola Lenti, was stimulated by a desire for excellence, which through coherent and dynamic experimentation, has led to the creation of collections that have changed the concept of rugs and sofa, in terms of materials, forms, production techniques, end uses.

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Sans Parapluie Wardrobe Collection by Lucas Rise

July 1st, 2011

Sans Parapluie is a new line of gorgeously refurbished wardrobes. Created by Argentinean artist Lucas Rise, the fascinating wardrobes strive to create exceptional artistic palettes and shapes on old, forgotten pieces of furniture. The artist’s vision encompasses a world of possibilities, going beyond the physical limits of the furniture and expressing a collision between cultures. The old wardrobes receive a new face that helps them create a different atmosphere in the room. Shapes and colours intertwine to capture the artist’s vision on a real canvas that will adorn living spaces.

The interiors of the wardrobe were also painted, but this time, the artist chose to use a more simple approach, painting the interiors with one or two colours. The artist not only recycles the large pieces of furniture, he also gives them a surprising twist and transforms them into the focal point of the room. Lucas Rise chose the wardrobes because of their verticality and three-dimensional shape that allows him to interact with them like he would with a habitable place. Gorgeous, aren’t they?

Lucas Rise was born in 1978 in the city 25 de Mayo, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied Graphic Design in the Design and Urbanism School of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His unique style matured during his travels and experiences in South America, Africa, the United State and Europe. Since the age of 12, Rise focuses on art that interacts, that transforms from different angles to become a universe of its’ own. His dimensional art has been featured in publications and capitals the world. In 2006 he was a finalist in the prestigious National Art Awards (Buenos Aires) for a functional sculpture featuring 20,000 individually painted pieces and belongs to numerous international private collections.

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Shelframe by Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad

June 25th, 2011

These shelf boxes by London designer Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad can be hung from the wall by a single pin. Silicone pads on the rear of the Shelframe shelves allow them to grip the wall, preventing tipping when heavier items are placed on one side.

Shelframe is a shelving system designed by London based designer Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad that suspends from a single point. The shelves are designed to occupy a space normally reserved for a framed images, and they act so as to frame compositions of everyday objects for use and display.

The Shelframe hang by a thin cable and come equipped with small silicone pads that stick to the wall and prevent the shelf from titling to one side if an uneven load is placed on them. The cable tension allow the shelves to support heavy objects while the silicone pads create a self-securing system that grips the wall as the shelf becomes loaded. This also means that the shelf does not tilt to one side if heavy objects are placed unevenly.

Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad is a London based designer with a background in photography and an interest in social space. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008, establishing a cross-disciplinary practice that produces work ranging from interior spaces, recipes, furniture, photography, public interventions, and products. Recent projects include facilitating the sharing of aubergine recipes amongst a community in the face of change (London Festival of Architecture), designing a concept hotel room (Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam), aiding gallery visitors to construct, document and consume their creations (Architecture Association, London), and appropriating the hammer into a tool for sound (YAMAHA).

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Soft side tables by Curtis Popp

June 22nd, 2011

Californian designer Curtis Popp has made a series of round side tables with colorful powder-coated steel legs that pierce each table top. Called Soft collection, the tables are made of solid rift-sawn white oak or walnut wood. Each piece is handmade and customised according to the customer’s choice of colour and material.

The SOFT Side table is part of the SOFT series of furniture designed by Curtis Popp.

The language of the entire collection is approachable and whimsical without the loss of sophistication or elegance. The table is constructed of powder-coated steel with solid rift sawn white oak or black walnut coated in a durable conversion varnish finish. Each table is made to order and by hand, so it can be customized in a myriad of colors. Each piece is manufactured and assembled locally by Sacramento fabricators and carpenters.

Curtis Popp studio prides ourselves on our relationships with our clients and our ability to exceed their expectations, delivering beautiful spaces on time and on budget. We have established relationships with contractors, fabricators and artisans to provide a truly custom experience in the built environment. We are a full service design firm, and handle every aspect of the design process from procurement of goods, schematics, construction documents and administration. Most importantly, we believe in the idea that good design is a necessity, not a luxury.

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Fractal.MGX coffee table by Platform Studio

June 17th, 2011

If you love artistic pieces of furniture, then you will love Fractal.MGX. This is a modern coffee table that represents the fractal growth patterns of trees, meaning that it is unlike any table that you have ever seen. The design of the Fractal.MGX is tree-like stems that grow into smaller branches, which eventually mold into each other to create the table top. The ridges on top of this table make it almost impossible for traditional plates and cups to be placed upon it. Fractal.MGX may not be very functional, but it sure does look pretty.

Designed in collaboration with Matthias Bär and based on an earlier prototype called the “Fractal-T”, the Fractal.MGX reinforces the growing bond between nature and mathematical formulas. Manufactured as a single piece, without seams or joints, using stereolithography and epoxy resin, the Fractal.MGX would be impossible to produce using other manufacturing methods.

The Fractal.MGX is on display at the Metropolitan Musuem of New York and the Design Hub Barcelona.

Platform Studio was founded in 2007 by Gernot Oberfell and Jan Wertel. Their work ranges from furniture, lighting and industrial products, to experimental research pieces. WertelOberfell share a strong interest in new technologies and processes and very early in their careers, discovered the possibilities of computer aided design and the idea that software is not just an everyday tool, but through experimentation, is also a source of inspiration and a vehicle for discovering new and exciting form languages. Their work combines these experiments with the logic and beauty of organic forms and the reality of product design: the right use of materials, production processes, ergonomics and functionality.

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