The Design Crack Guide to Furniture
Bench by Modern Outdoor
Etra Small Bench
I’ve been looking for decent modern outdoor furniture for quite some time now. Outside of Europe, quite frankly, there is very little choice when it comes to where you sit on an aesthetically modern surface. Modern Outdoor gives me choices. And they give me choices like this beautiful bench above that are green [...]
Spaceless: Sandy Lam’s Expert Solution to Tiny Outdoor Spaces
I received this email about a year ago, and just never had time to post this. Sandy Lam has created an ingenious system. The pieces of furniture are built into the floor of a terrace and easily slide up to create a table or a bench. This is the perfect furniture solution for people who [...]
Bedford Smart Recharge Station
There is nothing terribly smart about creating furniture around a charging station. It’s just that it needs to be done. So often we designers design for how we lived our lives twenty years ago and not for how we live our lives now. The Bedford Smart Recharge Station recognizes your needs: pay bills, [...]
Stack by Shay Alaklay and Raw Edges for Established & Sons
I remember back in college the first time I ever saw a Rem Koolhaas house. I cannot remember the name of the house, now, but it was built for a wheelchair bound man and his wife. The house seemed simple enough at first glance, but it always seemed odd to me. Much later, I realized [...]
Thomas Wold Block Party Book Case – Hello Color
Thomas Wold Block Party Book Case – Hello Color
Eliminate visual clutter and put a bold stamp on storage with the interactive Block Party bookcase and credenza, created by custom furniture designer and fabricator Thomas Wold.”Open bookcases can look messy when you fill them, but the Block Party pieces are designed to look better with your [...]
Thomas Wold Block Party Credenza – Hello Color
Thomas Wold Block Party Credenza – Hello Color
Eliminate visual clutter and put a bold stamp on storage with the interactive Block Party bookcase and credenza, created by custom furniture designer and fabricator Thomas Wold.”Open bookcases can look messy when you fill them, but the Block Party pieces are designed to look better with your objects [...]
InModern Linear Bookcase – Slate Finish
InModern Linear Bookcase – Slate Finish
InModern designs and manufactures real wood modern furniture and furnishings which assemble and disassemble quickly and easily without any tools or hardware. Their furnishings are made from 100% renewable FSC Certified Smart Wood®, and are available in eco-friendly, UV finishes. All pieces are shipped flat to conserve packaging and reduce [...]
TrueModern Orange Low Bookcase
TrueModern Orange Low Bookcase
Adorable and sturdy, TrueModern’s kids’ furniture mixes friendly shapes and proportions with a fresh approach to color that’s fun and effective without being garish. The case goods all arrive fully assembled (you’ve got your hands full with the little ones; you don’t need to be building furniture, too), and the anti-tipping devices [...]
Blu Dot Modulicious No. 4 Maple
Blu Dot Modulicious No. 4 Maple
Blu Dot’s award-winning Modulicious collection. Solidly constructed and infinitely customizable, these pieces are great solutions for the bedroom, the living room, and home theaters because they work so well together. Use them alone or side-by-side to completely customize your solution and never worry about coordinating furniture again. [...]
Blu Dot Chicago 3 Box Shelf
Blu Dot Chicago 3 Box Shelf
The 8 Box’s smaller sibling. Part of Blu Dot’s critically-acclaimed Chicago collection, this substantial shelf is simply and solidly constructed of thick wood and powder-coated steel tubes. Classic styling makes it fit with anything from mid-century modern classics to today’s contemporary pieces. Available in cherry or maple [...]
OFFI Duoplane CD Shelf
OFFI Duoplane CD Shelf
These colorful wall-mounted shelves can be installed vertically or horizontally. They are perfect for the tight spot in the bathroom, and they work well in in groups of 3 or 4. One Duoplane Shelf holds 75 CDs.
Fokus Fabrik: A Finnish Fantasy
I’ve been meaning to write about this small Finnish company for quite some time. You need a fabric for your design that incorporates a kind of 80s collage DIY aesthetic? This might very well be the designers to look at. Their fabric work suggests industrial wastelands, flowers juxtaposed with grainy penwork of enlarged [...]
Ikea Takes One Step Back
The New York Times reported on August 14th that Ikea has now embraced Chintz. Chintz defined is overly frilly and excessive decoration in design. It’s sort of the opposite of funtionalist where clean lines and no clutter rule. Now, Ikea has taken up the chintzy trend borrowing from the hotest current designers Jaime [...]
juxtaposed: religion by mike & maaike
Juxtaposed: religion is called by blankblank, the producers of this shelf, a curated bookshelf. They have brought together the most important religious texts and displayed the in perfect balance and harmony. This is the perfect gift for those family members who are wearing a pink sheet one day and a yarmulka the next. [...]
bloombaby fresco loft
I’m playing catch-up, so expect a lot of short posts. I saw this product at this years ICFF, and I didn’t want to forget it. It’s the most stylish baby chair I’ve ever seen. The baby chair, besides looking beautiful, grows with your child. S0, it’s not a quick throw-away piece.bloombaby
Clip Chair : Design Milk
Thanks Design Milk for pointing out this lovely chair! I’m a lounge chair fanatic, but we recently had a kid and my Eames lounge chair has been moved out of the living room. Not so with this chair. Need roo for the kid to play? Bam. Chair is G-O-N-E gone.Clip Chair : Design [...]