2008 Salone Del Mobile Preview
The highly anticipated, not to mention comprehensive, Salone del Mobile is one of the world’s most revered furniture and design shows. With over 2,500 exhibitors…
Homes
Mindful Tap
A shower head with a guilty conscience – that is to say you’re conscience. When you use it, the segmented joints break apart acting like…
Being Incomplet
No that isn’t a mispelling, just an intentional act to drop the ‘e’, reinforcing the idea of a chair and table existing together as one…
Loopty Loop Loopita
Update: Back in July 2007 we published a concept furniture called “Loopita” which we knew was going to be an instant hit. We been informed…
Hang Your Chair
The “Hanger Chair” is a folding chair based on one of the ultimate storage systems: the modest hanger. It allows us to store clothes in…
Death to Plant Death
Keeping a house plant alive can be more challenging than most people think. Some plants needs more light and less water, while other pot dwellers…
Mug For My Lips
You wouldn’t think a coffee mug needs re-designing but Jinhong Lin did. Lets ponder for a moment how the liquid moves from the mug into…
Nice Jugs
Take a look at this next item up for scrutiny. Wow, there are so many pun and sexual references I could make right now about…
Who you gonna call? GHOST Chair!
When there is something strange, and it don’t look good…Don’t blame Dutch design studio DRIFT. Their wizards Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn have conjured up…
A Chair For All Occassions
The Hybrid chair may be used as a dining chair, a stool, an ottoman or lined up together – a bench. It consists of 2…
A Science show in your home
Every home needs a conversation piece. Something that just knocks some socks off when you have a guest or two over. If you don’t yet…
Mobile Bathing with Moby?
Ceramist and designer Ole Jensen has cleaned up his act. Forget that hard, immovable tub you currently have in your bathroom. Ole wants you to…
This Chair Demands Rocking
If we’ve seen one rocking chair concept, we’ve seen them all – they all literally rock. So what’s different about the CNC Rocking Chair? First…
Plush Pixels
It is strange to think that not too long ago there were no such things as pixels. Before the invention of photography, artificial pixels (short…
Houston, we have storage!
Ok, I will try to avoid the obvious puns like, “this cabinet sure is out of this world!” or “hey, my furniture just mooned me…”…
Design For Communication
Design at its core has always been the exploration of spacial reference that may bring harmony or solutions to problems. The Dialogue/Monologue concept takes it…