101Feb 16, 2013
VIPP, is known for its covered pedal bins, a product marginally improved since the first one made in 1939. Today they also make kitchen and bathroom accessories. The ‘table’ is their first foray into furniture. The Vipp table features a table top made of untreated, recycled teak planks, making each table unique. Every table top […]
102Feb 13, 2013
Cappellini products themselves carries around the world the image and recognizability of an international trademark. Cappellini anyway labels its products according to the materials, sometimes engraving its logo in metal or wood, sometimes applying labels in plastic or fabric. Cappellini became famous for his taste for new stars in design. In cappellini almost everybody who […]
103Feb 11, 2013
Personality is what best defines us, it is what makes us unique and irrepetible. And we like to transmit it so that everyone knows what we are like. This is the reason for Midi Colors. So that we can express our identity in the places that accompany us each day with furniture created and conceived […]
104Jan 23, 2013
In 1950, there were almost no shops in the U.S. that sold modern furniture and design. Ralph and Mary Rapson wanted to change that. While Ralph selected the designs and worked his day job as a practicing architect and architecture professor at MIT, Mary worked tirelessly on the many details – financial, promotional and operational […]
105Jan 15, 2013
A highly flexible and customisable system of sofas and sectionals. The project’s origin lies in the juxtaposition of signs: the combination of the thin frame with large-sized cushions, the structural stiffness and the soft elegance of upholstery, the coexistence of a perfect symmetry of the bases with the natural unbalance of soft sections. The system […]
106Jan 14, 2013
What was once old has become new again, or so it goes with the Artek re-issue of Finnish designer Ilmari Tapiovaara’s Kiki Collection. A winner of the gold prize at Milan’s 1960 Triennale, the collection illustrated a stylistic evolution of the interior architect’s preference for local organic material into something more industrial. Similar pieces were […]
107Dec 26, 2012
Y’a Pas Le Feu Au Fac asks their designers to contemplate their environment and take their time to produce objects with gentle tactility and a poetic aesthetic. Axel Delbrayere succeeded so strongly with the Paysages Planche wooden tray that it actually looks as though it were born of nature itself. The unbroken, long, and easy […]
108Dec 21, 2012
Yet another clever offering from renowned fashion designer Margiela that repurposes a shoe tree as a hook for a wall that serves as a place to hang your coat, bag, or whatever else. Slightly modified, its “heel” has been refit with a hook while its “underside” features mounting hardware for the wall itself. This item […]
109Dec 20, 2012
Serving as both a monthly, perpetual calendar and a metric ruler, this witty, clever desk accessory features a die-cast star that fits into the sawtooth-edged ruler and can roll along to the appropriate date of the month. The monthly calendar dates are placed at one centimeter intervals, allowing for 30 cm of measurement. One one […]
110Dec 18, 2012
A unique approach that blends the function of a picture frame with the design of a window, XLBoom’s Floating Box Picture Frame secures a photo between two panes of glass. Framed in lacquered MDF, the geometric frame allows the picture to float within, creating the effect of looking through a window. This effect works best […]