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Animal Inspired Furniture by Fratelli Boffi - Animalia

Italian design brand Fratelli Boffi is revealing a little of its wild side with the new Animalia furniture collection. And it's clearly got some animal magnetism - pun intended. This modern furniture collection by English designer Nigel Coates is...

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Rotomolded Stools by Plust: trendy Italian designs

Italian furniture brand Plust is breaking the boundary between sculpture and furniture with the Armillaria furniture collection. The Armillaria rotomolded stool by designer Odoardo Fioravanti is perfectly comfortable sitting in a corner, placed for viewing and admiring as opposed to...

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Fashionable Storage Cabinets by Casamania: luggage inspired

Casamania is leading the craze for cabinets! No longer just a functional place to stash your stuff, the fashionable Valises luggage-inspired cabinets by designer Maarten De Ceulaer offer stylish storage systems that look as great as they work. Ideal...

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Knitted Cover Chairs: Jumper by Established & Sons

Thanks to the knitted cover used in place of traditional upholstery, the Jumper chairs from Established & Sons look so cozy and inviting. Knitted in the same way as a sweater, Jumper's cover looks and feels just like a wool...

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Ready To Assemble Tables Made Luxury: ScrewTop by Joe Doucet

World renowned American architect and designer Joe Doucet has sent us photos of his latest creation - ScrewTop, a series of ready to assemble tables designed with luxury in mind. Noticed something unusual? This elegant table design doesn't hide its...

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Brick Upholstered Furniture by Established & Sons: Bricks & Mortar

This funky brick upholstered sofa, loveseat and chair set by Established & Sons is a real treat. I think it can be a great fit for a loft with exposed brick walls and beams. I really dig that darker gray color...

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Friday Fun: useless or not so designs? You decide

We've picked up a few designs from the surrounding blogosphere for you have a laugh or to admire or both or neither. Maybe useless maybe not, you decide... Sleepy Lamp by Studio Klass Coffeemaze by Erdem Selek Plastic Bottle Watering...

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Rustic Dining Table Designs: Iconoclast by Izm

There is something intriguing about this rustic dining table design by Izm, the Iconoclast table, or maybe it's just a good photograph ... but it does "breaks away from conventional 4 leg designs" as suggested by Izm. Re-inventing the common...

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Translucent Ash Wood Lamp

These amazing floor and pendant lamps are made of real ash wood! The designer Ieva Kaleja managed to preserve the rustic wood log detail on one side of the shade giving the lamp its dramatic look. These translucent ash wood...

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Arched Floor Lamp by Lucente - Semjase

An interesting lamp design where an arched shape that is commonly found in table lamps, is taken to the floor, to create the Semjase floor lamp by Lucente. This huge arched lamp is composed of three curved metal elements and...

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Extra Large Mirrors: large floor mirror by Philippe Starck

This extra large mirror is a 1998 design classic by Philippe Starck, produced again in 2010 by Italian AGC Flat Glass Co., as an eco-friendly and safer version. This beautiful large floor mirror now comes with safety features such as...

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Bent Plywood Chairs by Emmemobili

Plywood has become a material of choice for many modern designers, and these bent plywood chairs from Emmemobili is another great example of cool furniture that can be created with plywood. The Dogon chairs by designer Ferruccio Laviani are bent...

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Metal Lounge Chairs - Futuristic Chair by Heron Parigi

Metal furniture manufacturer and design house Heron Parigi has created this stylish metal lounge chair, the Luft. Luft is a steel and aluminum chaise lounge with automatically adjustable backrest and footrest. The precise mechanism allows for easy blocking and releasing...

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Funky Lamps and Lamp Shades by Metalarte

For fun lamps go with these new Metalarte lamps that boast funky lamp shades and unusual designs. For so many competing ultra modern lighting designs out there, these designer lamps display elegant artistic style and are great conversation starters. We...

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Plumbing Pipe Lights: captivating architectural elements by MESH Architectures

We find these plumbing pipe lights by MESH Architectures quite intriguing ... Especially perfect for modern lofts, they managed to fit them beautifully into many decor styles, from modern contemporary to eclectic to rustic and to more traditional ... These...

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Portable Chicken Coop Kits: urban coop by Chicken Cribs

We've been long contemplating the idea of raising chickens in our urban home, and this portable coop kit by Chicken Cribs presents an interesting modern option. The coop designer, California-based landscape architect Andreas Stavropoulos, says the kit can be assembled...

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Rustic Table Lamp by Julian Robin

What looks like block of wood is actually a lamp. This rustic table lamp was designed with nature lovers in mind. When it is off, the wood grain is visible. Turn it on and the oak leaves magically appear. The...

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Entryway Stool with Horns - the "Antler Stool"

The "Antler Stool" is an interesting option for entryway as it serves two purposes: it makes your guests laugh right from the entryway and it lets them hang hats, purses and umbrellas. Designer Ji-youn Kim explains that this stool turns...

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Small Red Sofa by Raison Pure: the back is a mirror!

This cool small red sofa is by Raison Pure Design Studio. As nicely put by Mocoloco: "Escape to the other side of the mirror when you hide behind the Double Je (double me) sofa from R' Pure Studio. From behind, the sofa disappears into...

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Wooden Bathroom Stools: laminated pine stools Tatit

Inspired by the contrasting bathing cultures of Finland and Japan, sauna and sento, the Tatit wooden bathroom stools look like a cool dynamic pair. These cute, appealing wooden stools bring earthy rustic touch to the bathroom. Made of Finnish laminated...

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Leather Soccer Chair - Soccer Themed Armchair 'Hattrick' by Paolo Lillus

This leather soccer chair makes a great father's day gift or just a cool chair to have for soccer fans, right in time for the Soccer World Cup. Patterned as a soccer ball, the Hattrick armchair rotates on a circular...

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Cool Lamps and Lamp Shades by Serien are Fun

Add fun to your interiors / exteriors with these cool lamps by Serien. The floor lamp Slant XL and the table lamp Elane each comes with its own personality. Thanks to its cool shade patterned with white dots on red...

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Cool Sofa Designs: Camp Sofa with Pouches by Cappellini

Finally someone made this cool idea reality ... a sofa design with magazine pouches on the outside of both arms. The cool Camp sofa is a new (2010) item from an Italian brand Cappellini well-known for its funky ultra modern...

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Modern Plywood Furniture by Lapalma: bare essentials

We like how designers at Lapalma can take the most common designs and strip them to their bare essentials while preserving the aesthetics. The result is the minimalist but appealing creations that are easy to manufacture and require minimum materials...

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Whimsical Coffee Tables in Steel by Square Root Industries

Square Root Industries has been creating these whimsical 3d patterns from a sheet of steel.Set on a wood or leather top and covered with tempered glass, they make interesting artistic coffee tables. There are many nature-inspired patterns cut either in...

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Unusual Lighting Fixtures: Plastered Lights by Flos

No less fascinating than the wall mounted lights we've just mentioned are these unusual Plastered Lights from Flos' Soft Architecture collection. Works of several famous designers, these lighting fixtures are actually made out of a light-weight high-strength composite material (Under-Cover...

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Wall Mounted Lights: decorative Wallpiercing by Ron Gilad for Flos

Yes, these are wall mounted lights ... but they look like they were simply pierced through the wall. So let me cut to the chase here: these decorative Wallpiercing ring lights were first mounted onto mobile plaster panels. Then the...

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Contemporary Canopy Bed in Solid Wood by MASHstudios

MASHstudios have created this contemporary canopy bed in solid teak wood. Read the designers' description below. "What's as striking as the California Pacific Coast Highway's ocean view drive? A brilliantly designed four-post platform bed in beachy solid teak. MASHstudios has spent years...

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Big Bag Loungers by Woodnotes

We've found the big bag loungers we like - the My and Roo loungers by Finnish company Woodnotes. We like them for their very earthy look achieved thanks to the material used - paper yarn cotton fabric in Sand color....

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Modern Whimsical Wall Boxes - Cornell Boxes by TECTA

These are fun. A more modern and fun interpretation of the old boring decorative wall boxes often found in TJMAXX. Can these funky designs by Alison Smithson for TECTA actually be the old world Cornell boxes that were given legs...

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