Snug is a unique floor cushion with a twist! You can sit on it or inside it… Designed by Kumeko, Snug allows you to be social while sitting with friends or quite private while enclosed with a good book inside a snugly space you can call your own. Continue reading →

The re-imagined design of the rescued chair by Nina Tolstrup from Studiomama will bring a splash of color to your interior decor. This series of brightly colored re-upholstered chairs combines the idea of resourcefulness and reinvention, bringing the designer’s ability to see the potential in the overlooked and unloved. Continue reading →

What can you possibly do with a couple of steel pipes and wood rods? Ask Japanese designer Keiji Ashizawa who created Pipeknots. This collection is based upon exploring the combination of the softness of wood with the stiffness of three welded steel pipes, all joined and fixed with dowels driven into mortises. How amazingly simple, beautiful, and inspiring? Continue reading →

Elegance is often tricky to achieve. When designing furniture, it’s a characteristic to pursue unconditionally. Italian company Meridiani managed well in designing this beautiful writing desk, named Cruise, combining elegance with function. A statement presence in any living space, in both cases of it being part of a separate working room or included in a larger living area. Continue reading →

Whether you work from home like I do, or would just like to have an elegant office corner as part of your living area, the Slim office by studio Bertjan is a choice to highly consider for its beauty and well thought of functionality.

A table originally designed to serve as a dining table was dressed up for the office and the Slim office was born. Simple, chic while having every comfort an office needs, such as drawers and a matching wall panel and trash bin, attached to the office’s leg by a magnet. What an ingenious detail you may exclaim much like I did. Wait till you hear more: the accompanying drawers can be moved freely and attached under the office’s surface just about anywhere it suits you and easily change the position thanks to the magnet system holding them together. Talk about innovative design! Continue reading →

Cloud. What better name can you give a new outdoor seating collection… Designed by Andrea Parisio for Meridiani, the Cloud collection features a pure minimal design and soft cushions. This way, you can enjoy the benefits and comfort of a stylish set both inside your home as well as outside on your patio, terrace, or winter garden. Continue reading →

The beauty of modern design is that it’s always a step (or two) ahead of its time. Every now and then I come across a piece of modern art that makes me take a step back and say “what the…??!”

The Balancing Boxes by Swedish design firm Front may have some explaining to do (in a good way, of course). Looking as though to be defying the laws of physics, this playful yet minimalist multi-functional bedside table design was inspired by the idea of ‘challenging gravity’, resulting in a series of boxes that looks to be hovering in space. Continue reading →

As a designer myself, I love when the elegance of nature is successfully portrayed in product design. In this case, fine curved lines bring out the pure shape of a fish. The Fish lounge bed is part of the Premiere collection by Ego Paris, where comfort and outdoor lifestyle blend seamlessly surrounded by sun and water. Continue reading →

It is often easy to neglect our inner child when we are constantly bombarded with managing the adult responsibilities of our everyday lives. A vacation to Disney World might satisfy, but it will cost you a pretty penny for a temporary fix. There is a however a more constructive alternative to fast rides and loud parades that will set your inner kid wild and free – your own imagination.

What better way to explore your long lost imagination than through the art of drawing. The Growth Table by designers Tim Durfee and Iris Anna Regn is an innovative, one-of-a-kind work station comprised of a series of interconnected tables that together formulate a creative hub suitable for each stage of human life. Continue reading →

When elegant aesthetics meet playful and innovative design everything is possible… even dining or holding board meetings while… swinging!
“What else will I see?” exclaimed I to myself after becoming familiar with Swing table designed by Christopher Duffy for Duffy London studio.

This is more than absolutely brilliant. While rocking chairs have been since long part of our lives as much as swinging chairs in the form of hammocks or floating couches for siesta summer times or long talks at the veranda, swinging chairs combined with a table, associated with dining or boardroom meetings is a completely new thing around the designing block. Continue reading →