There is a kind of beauty in asymmetry and disarray that uniformity fails to achieve, and that is what Belgian interior designer Filip Janssens's latest project best exemplifies. Titled 'Rupture', the collection includes a series of custom-made storage units that are brilliantly modern, yet practical. Each of these wooden shelves features a strategically-placed "crack" that…
Bored of the furniture currently crowding your office? With the new Scooter Chair, you can now transform your work space into a trendy office of the future. Designed by the team at Spanish studio Bel & Bel, as part of a limited edition series, this brilliantly unconventional swivel chair uses the original parts of the Vespa motorbike.…
Before the storm there is the lull. And after the storm there is creativity. At least that is what New York-based (but Chilean-born) artist Sebastian Errazuriz has proven with his beautiful design of the so-named Bilbao, an entire bookshelf created from a broken branch of a storm-afflicted tree. Named after the street in Santiago where…
Mycoform - the very term has a futuristic bearing. But beyond just sounding gimmicky, the material can very well change the way we manufacture furniture in the future. In fact, the term 'mycology' pertains to the study of fungi; and as such Mycoform is devised as a biodegradable material created from a composite of mushrooms, oat…
A sun-kissed beach touched by the azure sea - such a scenery mostly belongs to the realm of wallpapers. But what if this very 'essence' could be replicated by a furniture? Well designer designer Alexandre Chapelin (of LA Table) has surely tried his best to simulate such a paradisiacal ambit in his aptly named Lagoon…
There is untapped energy all around us: computers, appliances and even your morning cup of joe radiate heat that sadly dissipates into the air, unutilized. Denmark-based student designers, Sergey Komardenkov and Vihanga Gore, envision a future where the average IKEA table top could turn this wasted energy into usable electricity, which could then be used…
Winter is just around the corner. With this nifty Japanese invention, however, you won't ever have to fear the cold again! Known as kotatsu, this multi-functional furniture item consists of a blanket wrapped around a low table, with a heat source situated conveniently on the underside. Tucked inside the blanket, the user can keep himself or…
Optical illusions and abstractions are back, in the form of stunning wooden furniture with truly baffling patterns and designs. Hervé Langlais, the creative director of the Paris-based Galerie Negropontes, has revived the 1960s style of Op Art, in his spectacular ten-piece furniture collection, known as Shifting Reflections. (more…)
More often than not, the strict, and somewhat rigid, routine of school life takes away the one thing precious to children: their childhood. However, a new preschool in south Japan is encouraging kids to be kids, - all with the help of rainwater puddles. Designed by Youji No Shiro, an architectural firm that builds kindergartens and…
When French architectural studio, Atelier JMCA, was given the task of furnishing a small restaurant, in Paris, the firm's design team came up with an incredibly creative solution for its space-related problems. Instead of a bulky table, that takes up most of the available floor space, the innovators, at Atelier JMCA, created an ingenious, prism-shaped bar that doubles…