"Radiation Chair" and a small table by Nocc Studio are showed in Gallery S. Bensimon during the Designer's Days 2010. A wooden chair with an oversized armrest and a strange homothetic table.

Interesting visual texture created by the acrylic overlapped walls on Marimekko's "Lumme" office containers designed by Mikko Laakkonen.

Rui Alves developed this series of colourful stools that can be combined with each other to creative furnitures. It looks like a bunch of wild animals interacting with each other and you don't need to be a kid to love the bright look.

This years "ARTWORKS" by Iittala. Oiva Toikka creates his own art made of glass. Releese in autumn 2010.

INTERNATIONAL DESIGN FESTIVAL BERLIN 2010 –
DMY. An account told through images of the main exhibition...

Designer Alessandro Zambelli. Iron cabinet joined together. A mix of color and designs.

TSC, [Tunable Sound Cloud] an architectural application to tune the acoustics of your space in real-time with a unique style! [check the video in the post!]

The LuminAR is a project from MIT that "reinvents the traditional desk lamp, evolving it into a new category of robotic, digital information devices". Combines a Pico-projector, camera, and wireless computer in a compact form factor.

One of the most elegant applications and combination of tech and furniture (desk lamp+cam) for an AR concept. Created by Camille Scherrer, “Le Monde des Montagnes” offers a glimpse to the future of pop-up books.

Curious Displays by Julia Tsao is a new platform for display technology. The surface is made of hundreds of ½ inch display blocks. Each block operates independently as a self-contained unit, with full mobility.

You don't need any tools to build this table by german designer Manuel Welsky. Its 3 pieces are mounted without any screws or stuff like that and it really looks gorgeous.

Super attractive drawers designed by Raymond Loewy for his DF2000 Serie X-line created in 1968. This one is available through Swedish gallery Modernity.

StyleFactory has just launched their e-commerce site with some killer stuff. Vote for the Glendale chair and lets see it get produced!

W101, the first table lamp made from paper of Claesson Koivisto Rune for Wästberg.

Dutch designer Bram Geenen has a follow-up piece to the Gaudi Stool that he introduced in 2009, the Gaudi Chair is made by the same principles, but includes a small backrest.

Uruguay-based Eccotrack recycles car tires to create coffee tables, bar tables, chairs and belts.

VIDEOA book that turns into a chair by Darris Hamroun. Take a seat is based on the principle that objects must adapt to the human environment.

The 'Xhosa' Charity Chair, by GROUP A, was designed especially for a charity project in South Africa

We have talked before about reclaimed Junckers sports flooring and the fact that many people like to retain the original sports markings. Well, here is a fantastic example from a newly refurbished flat in Hackney, London.

McKay Flooring uplifted the original Junckers flooring and then relaid it in London with the sports markings still intact, providing a very appealing, random pattern.

Hound Occasional Tables by designer Kirsty Whyte. Some small lacquered steel and stackable tables which can be use alone or together. Colorful and clever.

Cactus Chair from Deger Cengiz investigates the effect of visual data to the user's experience. The barrel cactus below causes temporary discomfort, despite the glass between it and the user.

The brothers Bouroullec re-model apartment No. 50 in Le Corbusier's iconic Radiant City block in Marseille.

The "Yak" by Rupert Kopp for Nils Holger Moorman was recently domesticated, and can be seen more frequently in the family hallway.

The outdoor collection ILLU by Bleu Nature offers an openwork shelter in natural oak, from French forests. Unvarnished and untreated, the wood laths rest on a white, lacquered stainless steel structure.

Arik Levy's work "Luminescence, between Fire & Ice" is exhibiting at the Santa Monica Museum of Art until August 21.

Lampe TV-Flash by Denis Santachiara for Roche Bobois is a lamp that can hide a TV.

Ordinary products- a chair, a pair of shoes, a pair of boxing gloves, a doormat and a chest belt-are supplemented with electronic digital counters that count peculiar interactions with their users.
Designed by Julijonas Urbonas at the RCA.

New images of the Cloud softlight by Molo Design. These lights won the ICFF and triumphed in Milan.

Montreal-based designers Thien and My Ta Trung's Pâté Chinois series is a concept centered around the beloved Quebec dish Shepherd's Pie.

iQubic furniture system by Karol Mizdrak is based on four modules A, B, C and D It is characterized by a classic, timeless shape of a cube, multiplied modules allow you to obtain any unusual, yet functional systems.

Competition for a light setup in Akureyri Culture House - Iceland. From Paolo Gianfrancesco.

"Qbik lap" by Enrico Zanolla and Andrea Di Filippo from DZstudio for Miniforms Spa. Recently showed in Milan 2010, this lamp is made of perforated and folded steel.

Lithuanian deisgner Vytautas Gecas ahas created this coat rack made of wood and concrete. Contemporary and clever.

Sculptural furniture from chopped pine by Jae Hyo Lee

Gio Tirotto re-interpreting the “habit” of temporary seat on your Vespa, presenting it again with the most classical Italian designs’ shape. Vespino is an elastic product that can adapt itself to any place or situation.

Auction house Wright is offering this amazing clothesline of lamps designed by Gaetano Pesce in collaboration with Sandro Cammilli on June 8th as part of their Important Design Auction.

Super Nova, The Huggable Inflatable Light. Designed and developed by Cleanroom; Super Nova lights produce a soft ambient glow, bright enough to light up a room while calming and energizing the space.

Last April UVA (United Visual Artists) created "Speed of light" for Virgin Media to celebrate the tenth anniversary of broadband in the UK. One of the several light installations featured a mesmerizing laser living room.

Furniture is designed by Patricia Urquiola for Molteni Italian manufacturer. The main feature is a piece of furniture has a door or painted metal mesh tray.

For Tectona, french designer Inga Sempé has designed "Delta", an outdoor shower made of teak and inox. Minimalist and elegant.

A nice touch of color on Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier's Wardrobe, (1956-59) Available at Galerie Patrick Seguin.

BeatBelly fitness family, designed by We Are Perspective from Amsterdam. These breakthrough fitness benches lets people train their stomach and trunk muscles in an intuitive manner.

Nice and simple desk by Ett la Benn. As an escritoire, side table, storage or desk: "trestle" is both multifunctional and space-saving. Available in walnut, oak, cherry and maple wood, and 4 combinations of high-contrast lacquers.

Two hand built school chairs that explore the relationships and connotations of an early childhood memory through their connection to one another.

Christian Germanaz colorful chair "Half & Half" designed in 1964 and available through Demisch Danant.

Design collective Pour les Alpes will present multi-faceted wooden plant pots at the DMY International Design Festival taking place in Berlin next week.

"Tourbillon" vase by parisian designers A+A Cooren. A glass vase whirlwind shaped, which remind us the cycle and movement of water.

VIDEOHeart of the Home: Electrolux presents the kitchen of the future. Imagine never having to use pans or pots again, never having to worry whether the ingredients are fresh or never having to look up a recipe in a cook book.

Why do many products only serve a single function? This question served as an incentive for Neffa to look for unexpected and surprising combinations. One of the newest concepts is Ivy Xposed; a combination of light and plant.

San Francisco based Botany Factory makes amazing succulent terrariums in hand-blown glass vessels. Their production is like a science experiment, albeit one conducted with color, texture and visual composition.

Designer Elisa Sighicelli came up with a great idea for a fresh desk, Il giardino segreto. Available from Edizioni Plusdesign made of rosewood and birch.

A lovely deer vase (Hirschblüte) by Akari Luig (akamoyo) a German-Japanese design all-rounder living in Berlin.

"Horti & Horti" is part of Danese's "Waste Not" collection, a combination of previous and vintage designs to give them a new greener purpose. Horti & Horti is composed of a book shelf by Paolo Rizzatto and containers by Enzo Mari.

Tim Byrne repurposes and rebuilds old industrial machinery into tables -- the wheel actually functions to adjusts the table top height!

Bulgarian designer Jovo Bozhinovski of Elza design created the dynamic Desk E.L.A. Made from fiberglass, attached with two steel cables to the wall.

A vuzzle chair by Christopher Daniel consists of 59 small cushions. You can shape the chair by detaching cushions from the complete cube. Each cushion has magnets under the surface which hold the whole structure together.

With their "Diffractions", french artists Etienne Rey and Laurent Le Bourhis from Voss Studio play with glass, lights, reflects and spaces. Poetic and colorful.

The Italian/Dansih duo behind GamFratesi has definitely become a new design-favourite of mine. How can you not help but to fall in love with this amazing desk called Rewrite?

Fredrik Ohlén: 20 Square Meters of Floor. How can we create a kitchen that serves all the possible functions, takes up less space and is more flexible than kitchens designed today?

Debuting at this year's DMY Berlin is the Cloud Stool by Studio Joon & Jung. The highlight of the seat is its cushion which is constructed of grey and white stuffed cords, knotted and twisted to resemble cloudscape.

Chalk is a great ping-pong table by studio Aruliden for Puma and ideal for the social athlete. Its chalkboard surface with many other possible uses, and the convenient compartment underneath safely stores your beverages.

For its 25th anniversary, the French magazine Intramuros has collaborated with DuPont™ Corian® and invited the designers who have been featured on the cover of the magazine to transform an A4 sheet of white Corian.

"Elica" is a lamp created by Brian Sironi for Martinelliluce. Devoid of a switch, the user rotates the lamp to turn it off. The "Elica" won the iF product design GOLD award in 2010.

Concept by italian design duo, Spigoli Vivi. "Jarst" is both planter and composter designed for interior spaces with a carbon filter to eliminate odors.

Minjjoo Children's Door, it's basically a small door within a regular door, with its own lock and handle, Cool!

New York based designer Alvaro Uribe shows us his astonishing carbon fiber Plum stool. Between lightness and performance.

KILE from Yukari Hotta. Storage furniture with a simple form and a friendly assembly system. The only fasteners are the wooden wedges which hold whole construction. No extra metal fasteners are used at all.

Beautiful "Steam_11" walnut chair by Korean artist Bae Se Hwa will be part of Gallery Seomi's exhibit at Design Miami Basel 2010.

Chin up by british designer Lisa Sandall. A small wooden storage to put along a wall. Between balance and imbalance.

Michael Hilgers has taken the organic outdoors and spun the traditional designs into modern gems.
Take a look at this cool ash tray and much more....

Ligne Roset is celebrating their 150th anniversary with a trio of limited edition products, in a run of 150. First are two editions of of the Pumpkin chair by Pierre Paulin, one in red shades and one in blue shades.

Lintukoto by Elina Jarvinen for Eelovi™ is a home for the light bulb. Turn on the light to keep you company in the darkening evening. It won’t let you down, you can always be sure there is going to be someone at home.

DMY International Design Festival 2010.
8th edition of a young festival takes place from 9-13 of June.

Designed by Patrick Jouin, the Bloom.MGX light has an articulated shade that can be opened or closed like a flower,

Mew tables and chairs from Marcello Ziliani for Casprini. The chairs (called “Azhar”) have a striking lacquer finish. The tables (“Atatlas”) have a similar base to the chairs and features an oval top.

The ME & U swing from Softline is a perfect indoor swing for the entire family. The removable upholstered covers are great for cleaning and comes in great colors!

Great shelf called 'Stacked' has a nice freestyle design. by Muuto.

HEMEC creates cute, fun, customizable eco kid furniture from paper tube rolls.

Industrial Upholstery, a project by Gilli Kuchik from Bakery Studio, explores new ways of upholstering furniture.

Check out this series by Julia Fellner. The ceiling lamp “yes!” remembers, when you jump for joy. Its paper lampshade is perforated with a triangle structure. More to be presented on DMY10 in Berlin. Starring the whole superéquipe Team.

ABC chairs. Rotterdam designer Roeland Otten has designed a collection of 26 chairs, each spelling out one letter of the alphabet.

Artware editions is presenting a small selection of artist deck chairs featuring the work of Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Sir Peter Blake, Keith Tyson, Marc Quinn, Sam McEwan and Rob and Nicky Carter.

Blow by Konstantin Grcic explores the physical boundaries of mouth-blown glass. The main body of the tables is conceived as a free form balloon onto which the table top of hand-made sheet glass is attached.

A new form of chandeliers designed by Hayon Studio combine several types and sizes to collect from the beauty of modern securities Swarovski crystals.

Design inspired by the beautiful fireflies in the garden on summer nights by Vuk Dragovic. It has a built-in lights, powered by solar energy collected during the day and emitting light at night.

The Hold on Tight shelf by Coleen and Eric is a modern, minimalist dream. Its approach to storage includes a built-in, adjustable bookend that looks pretty hot for a shelf.

Axe by Nicola from Bern uses four axe handles as table legs. Their initial violent purpose is set as contrast to the formal reference to classical furniture.

So many (old) drawers in great new furnitures made by Hamburg based Entwurf Direkt.

We love the stool Volubilis, imagined by the designer Benoit Convers for IBRIDE...

Smart! This cute lil bassinet transforms into a rocking chair for weary mommies and daddies.

Laura Strasser's 14% hanging lamp is almost art. Each porcelain lampshade is a cast of the previous, larger shade and is itself the model for the next, smaller one.

Reindeer Multi-functional Chair by Brazilian Studio Batia Studio.

From ICFF - an incredible 'spring dress lounge' sculpture forged from reclaimed upholstery springs via brooklyn-based artist susan woods.

Stretching sheet of laser cut steel up to a maximum strain of creating a static equilibrium.

Pictures from the model citizens show, during ICFF

Muti Randolph is one of the world's top audio-visual artists. In this video he shares what's behind some of his most famous creations, which meld architecture, industrial design, music, and engineering.

A German architect and industrial designer who lives and works in Los Angeles decides he needs a cat tree in his ultra modern home, the carpeted monstrosities are absolutely out of the question. So what does he do? Franklin Cat Furniture.

Dutch designer Erik Griffioen has used small wooden pieces to create this sharp chair of scrapwood, the GR22.

The ec-O bench by designer Steve Ma is a bench made from recycled material that grows plants, generates electricity.

Absolutely in love with the juxtaposition of the lacy, delicate lines with the hard black color on this nebula console from Arktura.

James McAdams bar furniture changes its mood dramatically from day to night and works well in both conditions. This furniture can be reconfigured from a double seat to a standing bar surface.

Eames Inspiration. The chairs in molded wood, just like Ray and Charles Eames designed in 1946, are being reimagined by street artists and featured in Barney'ss windows and being sold to raise money for Operation Design.

Concrete & Leather lamps by studio belenko!

Borderline Lamp by A+A cooren designers. Two shells – one black, one white – are joined to form a sharp borderline between dark and light.

New line of stacked Baltic birch furniture designed by Laguna Beach based industrial design team Cerno.

Hellman-Chang teamed up with Swarovski to create a limited edition series of "Crystalized" tables like this Crystal Omni Side Table.

"Umberto & Luisa" clotheshangers from Soup Studio. Why stick to conventions? This typically rude Italian becomes a great coat rack.

Kate Dixon's ferris wheel toy box.

Run for Rest won the Public Design Festival in Milan. Architects Joana Pestana Lages and Maria Joao Fonseca mock modern life by using a hamster wheel like contraption to force one user to work (run) to cradle the second.

"Diptere Table" by french designer and architect Paul Coudamy - an extendable table made of two hinged wooden plates.

Console table from Vidame Création - is deep and forceful functional concept

FEATUREDSwarm for Council by Mike and Maaike! Beautiful new modular room/space divider launching at ICFF!

FEATUREDCASAMANIA’s “Philippe I” coffee tables by Sam Baron ~ such a lovely mix of lacquer and wood ~ see pics of it from Milan Salone!

At the BKLYN Designs 2010 Show, Lamacek were exhibiting this beautiful rocking lounger.

The Washstand by German designer Janis Ellenberger is a cool concept for a one of a kind product. It would fit perfect into small apartments. part of the Private Space collection.

Impossible is not a word italian plastics manufacturer Kartell and design diva Starck are ready to take. The beautiful Mr. Impossible chair defies standard manufacturing processes and moves design forward to the future.

Inhabitat's Best Student Design award at BKLYN Designs 2010 goes to Schair by Charlotte Kreitmann. It's made of reclaimed wood and transforms from a chair into a bench.

This year at BRKLYN Designs, manufacturer and design house RAM Metals and its subsidiaries (Tides, Planter Worx and Raine Heidenberg Interior Design) put forth a strong selection of expertly crafted metal furniture and planters.

Italian-Singaporean studio Lanzavecchia + Wai presented a collection of Scaffold Lights, lights made of fabric stretched over steel wire frames in the Ventura Lambrate district of Milan last month.

Brazil No.2 is a limited-edition armchair designed by architect / Maya master Daniel Widrig, built from laminated wood sheets via a 5-axis CNC router. Digitally prototyped through digital dynamics simulation.

FEATUREDA close up look at the prototypes and testing stages that lead to the 2 year development of the beautiful Fritz Hansen NAP chair by Kasper Salto

Secchiolino by italian designer Alessandro Zambelli is a baby chair made of reclaimed paint bucket.

"The real concrete tube" by german label diffikult is a lamp made of concrete and steel.

This gorgeous IKEA iPhone App by Andy Fisher is like living in the future today. Place IKEA furniture in your room and check out what it'll look like.

Check these amazing new chairs at the ADIDAS Originals Store in Thailand by the talented artist ISE Ratinan Thaijareorn.

Have all of the classic chairs from the 20th century in your living room - if only on the wall. Laser cut from paper. From Cut Out Paper, a small studio based in East London.

Blending existing design with re-designed parts to create new icons. Rearranged suggests an alternative to the established design. Here is theThe Charles and Ray Eames Plastic Chair in different configurations.

Climate Capsules: Means of Surviving Disaster - More than twenty-five mobile, temporary and urban capsules intended to make human life possible independently of the surrounding climatic conditions.

The Design Glide bar stool by Haziza is distilled to its essence. Available in twelve unique colors including Tangerine, Flamingo, Passion Pink, Crimson, Sapphire, Orchid, Sky, Marine, Honey, Iguana, Fig, and Greek Urn.

The beautiful Etch lamp by Tom Dixon is a celebration of maths and intelligence; manufacturing processes to the service of creativity.

Filos by italian designer Alessandro Zambelli is a small armchair made of beech wood and colorful leather.

Tua is a a table lamp with which you can create a personal relationship; surprisingly simple, because it has been thought out with a great deal of care. Tua is inspired by the palm of the hand containing a light. By Marco Zito for Foscarini.

FEATUREDPatricia Urquiola’s “Vieques” bathtub and Gwenael Nicolas’s “Sen” faucet ~ even more beautiful in person, so sleek and subtle ~ lustworthy design details!

Uhuru has just unveiled their Cyclone Lounger - a roller coaster chair made from wood planks reclaimed from the Coney Island boardwalk!

One_Shot.MGX by Materialise is a foldable stool that is 3d printed. The stool emerges from the machine in its final form, complete with hinges that are concealed by the graceful structure of the stool itself.

Landcarpet, winner of EDIDA 2009 for best floor covering China is a series of area rugs, inspired by nature and farmed landscapes showing the world from straight above, as we usually see it only out of the window of a plane.

Based on satellite images Land Carpet is a captured fascinating aerial view to touch. The stylized fields are of different height and let Land Carpet appear like a miniaturized landscape. Land Carpet is a piece of nature in your apartment.

As each culture deals with landscape and farming in a different way Land Carpet comes in various series, each of them representing a different continent or country. Europe is held in warm green and brown colors, USA comes in very fresh green colors, Africa in a series of earthen tones and Netherlands as a colorful array of flower fields.

The stylized fields are of different height and let Land Carpet appear like a miniaturized landscape.
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Land Carpet has been developed by designer Florian Pucher since 2007.

Karim Rashid's radiator Rock and Roll, designed for IDEE.

Matali Crasset designer lighting collection presented in Milan with branching forms. the Foglie (‘leaf’) series includes wall, floor and pendant lamps, and was created for Pallucco.

Leaf swing from Mut is inspired by the falling leaves of Autumn. Designed for Indoor and outdoor use, this swinging seat filters light, creating gorgeous shadows.

The grad show at Emily Carr University in Vancouver BC featuring work from over 70 students from the Design Program as well as student work from the other faculties.

Marie Antoinette POP. This cute cabinet is inspired by by the exquisite French interiors of the 18th century. Sam Baron for casamania.

With nolastar_wood, the nolastar family is now complemented with a new collection made from natural materials.

FEATUREDIKEA's latest SOLIG Solar Powered outdoor lighting looks like it'd work just as well in your living room... if you can get enough light to them!

Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek created these small containers milled from scrap wooden slices.