furniture

We’ve teamed up with Organisation in Design to give away a 25 sq m exhibition space in the heart of the new Ventura Lambrate design district in Milan during the Salone del Mobile next month. (more…)

Australian designer Christina Waterson has created the Bloom Series of furniture and homewares.
The series includes a stool, magazine rack, and ornaments that celebrate natural geometries.

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Visit Christina Waterson’s website – here.
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Inspired by the nature of a womb, the “Bubbles” by Barcelona based company Dream and Fly is a series of small, low cost hotel rooms, where travelers can have a break and refresh themselves to continue their journey. Designed for busy places such as railway stations, airports, seaports, events, resorts and international fairs, the modules come in different sizes, like Single Bubble or Family Bubble. The former is equipped with a sleeping area, bathroom, small folding workspace with internet access and a sound system; while on the other hand, the latter apart from the features of the single bubble also include baby-changing facilities. And, if you are looking for a sleeping area only, you may go for the Simple Bubble. In short, the bubbles provide a luxury retreat amid crowded places where you can work, rest or even shower during long journeys. Check out the video after the jump.

Via: Dezeen

Paris designer Lee West has designed an extra-tall teapot that has no handle but instead has a removable cork sleeve to stop you burning your hands. (more…)

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I don't know if I'd feel comfortable living in a glass house, but this is still amazing.
    
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The Great Court of the British Museum in London, Uk by Foster and Associates.

In an era in which architecture has made a point of avoiding the calm order of symmetrical forms in favor of an edgier less ordered possibility of asymmetry-- Foster's British Museum addition seems positively radical.  The glass ceiling and its delicate grid of structural steel is a feat of structural engineering and a modern take on the stained glass window.  The contrast between the modern glass canopy and the classical buildings believe activates the space almost as much as the diamond grid of shadows that moves across the space with the sun. 

They are called “Aniballs.” There is a relatively large difference between these golf ball creatures and the testicles of a cow. You can hit them all with a golf club, but only about 6 out of 8 will result in anything more than a kickback to the face. Aniballs! They come in cow, sheep, donkey, pig, goat, and dog. With four feet, a face, and a flight plan. All you need is a club, gravity, and a place to put the ball.
It’s always refreshing to do a 2 ton overground travel truck one day, paragraphs and paragraphs of description, and golfballs with legs the next. The genius of this is that one isn’t more brilliant than the next. These little guys are simple and super.
I’d love a set, and I’d totally play on-road golf with them!
(NOTE: I do not think the designers intend these for breaking windows, caution!)
Designer: Monsieur Madame Design

This is a lamp with a dimmer. Does it look like a dimmer lamp you’ve ever seen before? It reminds me of a lamp I saw in an abandoned house once; it moved up and down smoothly from the ceiling based on how much you pulled down or touched up. Well what do you know, the lamp we’re talking about right now does something very similar! Instead of the lamp moving, this, the “Etirement” lamp, has easily adjustable intensities of light.
Based on an orgaic skin-and-bones body, the Etirement has both: a skin and a skeleton. Pulling the rod you see in the center there adjusts the light the lamp gives off. The intensity of the light lowers down and rises up according to the distortion of the fabric membrane.
The designer of this object, Rémi Bouhaniche, calls the temporary, changing shape of the Etirement “a poetic time from a daily action.”
Very pretty!
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Designer: Rémi Bouhaniche

What’s a good plate with nothing on it? No, what’s a bunch of good food without a plate? What’s a good baby without a single bed to sleep upon? How about when that baby gets a bit older, what happens then? Buy more furniture for them? Heck no! You take that crib you’ve got there and you transform it into a whole bunch of little person friendly bits of fun! Complete with another bed for that ever-elongating person.
In this furniture amalgamation, the “Smart Kid,” parents will find themselves loving the lack of store-going activities they’ll have to do, and the amount of child-engaging activities their little tikes will have!
Crib, changing table, storage drawers for linens and baby care accessories, changes into a playpen, or a desk with a chalkboard, a bigger bed, sets of drawers apart, everything a kid needs in furniture up to 10 years old.
Designer: Adensen Furniture

Asia, with India and China emerging as economic superpowers, is possibly the fastest growing continent, attracting traders as well visitors from all across the world. However, the diversity in languages is one major concern that holds the visitors back from enjoying the rich culture of the region. Providing a solution, Chinese designer Tian Lingrui has come up a device dubbed “E+” that lets you visit and enjoy megacities in a convenient way. Designed for Samsung, the smart device helps tourists find, filter and translate regional languages and information instantly in their own language.

Via: Tian Lingrui