 Rawhide Seating - The Cow Hide Chair::Here we have a chair throw with one major difference--there is no chair! Designed by Niels van Ejik for Droog, each chair is comprised of a single formed cowhide.
To make the Cow Hide Chair, an untreated… [MORE] |
 Handmade Furry Lighting - Felted Lamps By Shelemotov Denis::I bet you’ll never guess what these lamps are made of! This particular lighting design was made in Moscow by Shelemotov Denis. This handcraft felt master has a degree in sculpture from a Russian university… [MORE] |
 Upside-Down Storage - The Anti-Gravity Bookshelf::This inverted bookshelf on Instructables hangs all of the books from the bottom without damaging the books by holding them together with elasticized strips of cloth.
The intention was to create a cool… [MORE] |
 Bedside Emergency Lighting - From Desk Lamp to Flashlight::Multifunctional Boudoir Lighting seems to be a design concept implemented in most of the lighting products by LifeGoods. In addition to the Bedside Lamp recently featured on Trend Hunter, the product 'Two… [MORE] |
 Campfire Inspired Indoor Fireplaces - urBonfire::There are a number of indoor/outdoor fireplaces but there is none like the urBonfire because it actually resembles a real log fire. You know, the campfire kind you enjoy when camping.
The urBonfire is… [MORE] |
 Internet-Inspired Seating - The @ Chair::As the name suggests, the @ chair is a continuous-line design that is inspired by the undulating curves of the @ symbol.
Created by award-winning designer Brodie Neill, the @ chair is constructed with… [MORE] |
 Multifunctional Boudoir Lighting - Bedside Lamp Doubles as a Bowl::I love multi-functional furniture pieces like this Bedside Lamp by LifeGoods.
The Bedside Lamp doubles as a cool-looking light and a convenient place within reach to store your glasses, watch, notes,… [MORE] |
 Sliding Public Seating - The Come a Little Bit Closer Bench::Have you ever wanted to move a bit closer to someone without making it too obvious?
Well now you can with the Come a Little Bit Closer Bench, designed by Nina Farkache for Droog. The bench features individual… [MORE] |
 Seating From Recycled Newspapers - The ‘334’ Bench::If you care about the environment and recycling but find it hard to part with your newspapers, the ‘334’ bench might be a good furniture idea for you.
The ‘334’ bench by Oscar Lhermitte is constructed… [MORE] |
 Recycled Car Furniture - Hood Coffee Tables::Joel Hester handcrafts these amazing coffee tables in his Texas studio using hoods and trunks from vintage American cars.
Using the colorful, rusted sheet metal with unique patterns created by oxidation… [MORE] |
 Recycled Clothes Furniture - The Meltdown Fleece Chair::Designer Tom Price created the Meltdown Fleece Chair from polyester fleece clothing. What a a unique way to use thrown out polyester! His chairs are part of this years Art Co’s, From Here to Eternity,… [MORE] |
 34 Multitasking Designs::You might think that home decor involves adding things--a piece of artwork, wall color, a window treatment--but when the task is also home organization, subtraction is the guiding principle to follow.… [MORE] |
 Honeycomb-Inspired Lighting - The Beehouse Lamp::The Beehouse Lamp concept by Yar Rassadin in Russia is based on the hexagonal cells that bees create as they build their honeycombs. The honey found in actual honeycombs is replaced in this lamp with honey-yellow… [MORE] |
 Bendy Wash Basins - The Squidgy Sink::These soft washbowls designed by Helena Jongerius are a great idea. The Squidgy Sink means no more chipped porcelain sinks and it’s a brilliant idea for those small, cramped bathrooms where you have to… [MORE] |
 Wooden Clothing - Fashionable Sculpture Carvings::These artistic wood carvings and sculptures are really amazing! The skill level, the high degree of precision and the attention to detail are really astounding.
My favorite sculptures among the 10 shown… [MORE] |
 Arcade-Inspired Furniture - Qayot Pacman Seating::The ultimate in geeky furniture, Italian company, Qayot, has used the famous image of the retro video game character Pacman to create this unique seating set.
The set is made out of raw wood particles,… [MORE] |
 Stress-Busting Furniture - The Creative Wedge::The Creative Wedge designed by Brightside is a simple concept of customizable foam furniture that can be used either in the office or in your home.
The Creative Wedge is designed to promote creativity… [MORE] |
 Furniture That Blooms - The Destalt Umbrella Table::German designer Caspar Schmitz, in collaboration with Ralph Ludwig, has created a design concept for a table that is inspired by the functionality of umbrellas.
The Umbrella Table folds and unfolds just… [MORE] |
 Collapsible Rooms - Kenchikukagu Mobile Furniture::The Kenchikukagu Mobile Furniture Series is an innovative set of products by Japanese designers Atelier OPA. It includes a mobile work station, a mobile bed and a mobile kitchen.
The mobile bed can be… [MORE] |
 Sound Wave Chairs - Matthew Plummer Fernandez::This is not a Lego chair, rather it is a chair whose contour resembles the chart (shown) showing sound waves mapped on a 3D graph of volume (height), frequency (depth), and time (width).
The London-based… [MORE] |
 Camouflaged Folding Chairs - Biombo Combination Furniture::Biombo is a combination piece of furniture--a novel creation by Daniel Milchtein Peltsveger. It is both a screen and a chair. People who live in small spaces will love having this dual function piece.… [MORE] |
 19 of the Shiniest Silver Fashion and Furniture Finds::Silver is the hottest of the cool metals, even though gold is making a run at capturing the metallic fashion war. From the runways to furniture design, handbags to footwear; silver is glittering its way… [MORE] |
 19 Nifty Coffee Tables::Sure coffee tables make a good place to rest your feet when surfing the boob tube, but for those who value home aesthetics, they also play a huge design role.
These tables can work as captivating centerpieces… [MORE] |
 Trampoline Coffee Tables - Fun-ctional Furniture by Alberto Bonomi::At first glance, the walnut-veneer-finished table looks like something you might see at a local coffee shop or your hip friend’s living room. Take another look though and you’ll see that the coffee table… [MORE] |
 Coin-Operated Lighting - The Corner Lamp::To increase awareness of electrical costs and energy consumption, English designer Jethro Macey designed a lamp that is activated by inserting coins, and is set to turn off at predetermined times by an… [MORE] |
 Cardboard Mattresses - The Foldable itbed::Designed by the studio Swiss Design, the "itbed" is a portable, light bed that is made from 7 mm thick corrugated cardboard. It folds and unfolds just like an accordion, making it easy to carry and move… [MORE] |
 10 Optical Illusion Wall Decals::Whatever your furniture and decor situation at home is, trompe l’oeil furniture stickers could be used in nearly every room.
Trompe l'oeil is French for 'trick of the eye,' and these stickers are such… [MORE] |
 Leather Origami Animals - Looksur Nursery Sculptures::These stunning leather animals are from the South American design collaborative Looksur. Each sculpture is made from 100% recycled leather, so they have green credentials as well as style points.
These… [MORE] |
 Pink Retro Restaurants - Kurve by Karim Rashid::With no departure from his signature rosy hue, famed designer Karim Rashid's design of the newly opened Kurve Restaurant in New York's East Village certainly isn't conservative.
Karim says he worked with… [MORE] |
 Seats with Hidden Drawers - The Moheli Chair::One can never have too many drawers, and what better place to have a drawer than right inside the chair you are sitting on? You don’t even have to get up, simply open the drawer and grab what you want!… [MORE] |
 Furniture From Recycled Toys - Greg Lynn's Eco Welding::Greg Lynn won the Golden Lion for the best installation project at the 2008 Venice Architectural Biennale, for this series of furniture made from recycled children’s toys.
The pieces include four tables… [MORE] |
 Personalized Kitchen Floors - Vinyl Contact Paper Makes Any Surface Your Canvas::Swedish artist Olle Hemmendorff has created a unique flooring solution in his home. He didn’t want wooden floors, but also didn’t want to remove them either as this would make his flat lose value. Rather… [MORE] |
 Inflatable Furniture - Chair-air by Ontwerpduo::The Chair-air is a classic chair, hand carved in the Victorian style with an unexpected touch. The cushion is an inflatable air-bag made from sleek PVC and er, air. The rest of the chair is stained beechwood.… [MORE] |
 Origami Furniture - F1 Folding Chairs and F2 Table by Nils Frederking::Big round tables are sure handy to have but storage is a problem. Nils Frederking's award-winning folding table and chairs show his technical skills at coming up with deceptively simple folding mechanisms.… [MORE] |
 Pendulous Furnishings - Hanging Bubble Chair by Eero Aarnio::This modern looking, pendulous, spherical piece of furniture, the Hanging Bubble Chair, was made in 1968 by designer Eero Aarnio -- and is still coveted by those who want to give their home a modern look… [MORE] |
 Nature-Inspired Home Decor - Organic Interior Design::A big interior design trend today is creating natural-looking living environments that look completely untouched by a professional designer.
Such interiors usually include rustic pieces, like vegetative… [MORE] |
 Imposter Animal Fur Decor - Sheepskin Polar Bear Rug::This rug only looks like it's made from a polar bear hide -- it's actually a creation out of animal-friendly sheered sheepskin. This is one really cool rug, which is not surprising as it was commissioned… [MORE] |
 Single-Sheet Steel Desks - The Formtank 3fold::Sure, steel isn't hailed as a paragon of sustainability like cork and bamboo. But who can pooh-pooh a desk that is hand-formed from a single sheet of steel and wastes less than 4% material per linear meter?… [MORE] |
 Storage Furniture for Small Spaces - Storable Table Features Integrated Shelves::What I love about the Storable Table design concept is that not only does it spare you from having a separate shelving unit to store food items, it also keeps things organized at the reach of your hand… [MORE] |
 Futuristic Furniture - Accelerate Sofa Fills Need for Speed::These Accelerate sofa and chair design concepts by Danish designer Phillip Grass are incredibly sleek and futuristic.
Seemingly inspired by aeronautics, the ‘fly’ design features jet engine-shaped armrests.… [MORE] |
 Recycled Balloon Furniture - The Balloona Stool::Some people like collecting rubber bands or string and keep rolling up their finds until they become large balls. Well, Natalie Kruch collected 500 deflated balloons, not rubber bands or string, and twisted… [MORE] |
 Illuminated Eco Seating - Rough Diamond Chair Collection::The London Design Festival will soon feature British designer Lee Broom’s new Rough Diamond collection of illuminated chairs. His work will be on show at the Brick Lane Gallery.
What Lee Broom has done… [MORE] |
 Color-Changing 3D Wall Panels - Heat-Sensitive Fabric Responds to Touch and Temperature::The Touch Wall Panels by Visual Studio Reference are a series of modular three-dimensional panels that change color when touched or exposed to any form of heat.
The panels respond to the heat coming… [MORE] |
 Flat-Pack Funerals - DIY IKEA Coffins::It was only a matter of time before IKEA ventured into coffins. Artist Joe Scanlan has created simple coffins for $15,000--or a book for $27.50 that tells you how to make your own coffin from IKEA parts… [MORE] |
 DIY Modular Living Room Terrain - The Mountain Sofa::This Monte Bello mountain sofa system will certainly add a little mystery and visual interest to your living room.
The modular design of the Monte Bello sofa is highly customizable and lets you add extra… [MORE] |
 Books as Balance Weights - The See-Saw Bookshelf::Designers Boaz Cohen and Sayaka Yamamoto, owners of studio BCXSY, collaborated in the design of a See-Saw Bookshelf which uses books as weights for balancing. The shelf is made of American Walnut wood… [MORE] |
 Space-Age Bedroom Furniture - The Beam Bed::The Beam Bed can give any science-fiction enthusiast the feeling of sleeping on a spaceship. With strategically placed lights and lacquered wood board supports, one can easily fall for the illusion of… [MORE] |
 Flexible Floor Lamps - Fragile by Ira Rozhavsky::"Fragile" is a floor lamp designed by the Israeli designer Ira Rozhavsky. The lamp is made of crushed glass and is coated with silicon. The lamp is decorated with LED light that goes all around the edges.… [MORE] |
 Bathtub-Inspired Chairs - The Seatub::The Seatub by designer Baek-Ki Kim explores a similarity in two different ordinary objects, the bath tub and the seat.
Kim wanted to connect the feeling of relaxation we have while taking a bath in the… [MORE] |
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