Guido Crepax
I absolutely LOVED these pieces when I saw them at Moss here in New York a while back but go figure, I didn't bother to write down any information about them. Thanks to our friends at Things of Random Coolness,…
Continue Reading →HUH
There's not much I don't love about the stuff over at HUH -- from the URL to the products to the fact that it's all in Dutch which evolves into something even more charming after a quick run through BabelFish.…
Continue Reading →Formable Furniture
The perennial question in a new move is finding the perfect furniture. For me, it doesn't exist. Call me fussy, but it's a frustrating experience to buy pieces because I never find what I'm looking for. Let's put it this…
Continue Reading →Take Out
This is sweet: a chest-of-drawers turned chest-of-briefcases, ready for immediate removal/use by jetsetters, drug lords, and superheroes. Called the Take Out, this modifiable storage system was born in 2003, after designer Klaus Aalto found himself needing a storage solution of…
Continue Reading →Flux E-Desk
Shane Crozier's Flux E-Desk looks like something straight out of the future. Think Minority Report, think Blade Runner, think kindergarten circa 2025; this is what I, and I'd imagine Shane, could see school desks looking like in another 15 to…
Continue Reading →Paul Isabella: Portfolio Update
Paul Isabella, the furniture design student at SCAD whose ambitious portfolio has impressed us before, has recently updated his site with more of his well-executed homework. Nothing gives us a nastier case of the warm fuzzies than watching a new…
Continue Reading →Furniture goes Carbon
I've wondered for a few years why we don't see more carbon fiber in furniture design -- especially since it's been used to make oddly shaped bicycle frames and body panels for F1 cars for years. It's not much more…
Continue Reading →Autoban by De La Espada
You might worry about a collaboration involving two Turkish designers, one Spanish designer and one Portuguese designer. How is the end product going to look? Vaguely Moorish? Eur-Afro-Asian? As it turns out, Autoban by De La Espada "” the collaboration…
Continue Reading →The Cain Collection Chair
The Cain Collection Chair began from a simple concept: create a simple, affordable piece of furniture using sustainable practices to the fullest extent possible. Designed by Staach Furniture Studio, a small furniture studio based in Rochester, NY, the Cain Collection…
Continue Reading →B.Light
Sometimes (well, a LOT of the time) we can't help but be completely flattered over the kind of people we can count as our readers. Case in point: Ben Light, a New York web developer with a sneaky side job,…
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