Cutting Table No. 1

Posted on June 16, 2008 Under Design

Icelandic designer Sruli Recht has come up with an interesting solution for traveling fashion designers and students who have become frustrated with their lack of workspace while on the road. For Sruli, I imagine this idea was born out of…

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Brastilo's New Site

Posted on June 6, 2008 Under Design

Brastilo, the contemporary furniture gurus based in Brazil, just revamped their website, giving their products and other company collateral some fresh new cyberspace digs. The updated nav makes it easy to browse by category or designer, and easily whisks you…

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Rumba Table x Musical Furnishings

Posted on May 27, 2008 Under Design

For those who find themselves filling awkward silences with off-time table tapping, an effortless creative outlet now exists. Tor Clausen creates modular coffee tables that can house four, eight, nine, and 16 percussive components including tambourine, snare, cowbell and three…

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Stanley Ruiz: The New Organic

Posted on May 15, 2008 Under Design

The first time we heard the words "warm organic material against cold steel" we began to romanticize about an afternoon trip to the gun range with Dirty Harry -- which is rather strange seeing as we don't consider ourselves the…

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Ripple Design x PAD Outdoor

Posted on May 1, 2008 Under Design

ICFF time is almost here again, which means that our inbox is about to get flooded with contemporary furniture designers hawking their wares. One of the booths we will stop by though, is the Designboom Mart, which will feature new…

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Brastilo collection x Pieter Maes

Posted on April 30, 2008 Under Design

What do you get when you combine an up and coming Belgian designer with Brazilian inspiration? Belgilian desperation? Actually, the result looks like some pretty astonishing home furnishings courtesy of 2004 Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pieter Maes. Having spent a…

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Bottega Montana: Spool Stool

Posted on April 25, 2008 Under Design

Who knew that coming up with the perfect idea for making the perfect outdoor stool was as simple as replacing the letter 'T' in Stool with the letter 'P'. Okay, so maybe that's not how the Gillia Brothers, the driving…

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OneLessDesk

Posted on April 23, 2008 Under Design

Plenty of people use their desk as a space to separate their work lives from their personal lives, but often times those hulking masses of wood and marble end up taking on a life of their own. They tend to…

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Fred Segal Green

Posted on April 22, 2008 Under Eco

Today is officially Earth Day, and while many companies will aim to show off how they've gone green for one shining moment in April, others are keen to the fact that earth day is not just on April 22nd, but…

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Droog: Now @ 2Modern

Posted on April 18, 2008 Under Design

In the past few years we've mentioned the Dutch design super-humans at Droog Design a number of times and we're absolutely delighted to have their name roll off the tip of our tongue yet again. This time around these heroes…

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