Expo 2010, held in Shanghai, is racing towards being ready for the opening ceremonies. Countries are invited to build pavilions to showcase their cultural character toward the central theme of the Expo: Better City, Better Life.

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Some interesting lighting from Flos this year includes the K-Ray by Philippe Starck and Eugeni Quitllet, Teca by Ron Gilad (shown above) and Fool Moon from Tim Derhaag.

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Looking for protection from harsh summer rays? Or, if you live in my neck of the woods, summer showers?

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Peg Puzzle Player by Jongchul Kim is a music player comprising of independent modules each symbolizing different functions viz. play, next/previous song, volume up/down and LCD display. Place them each in their respective places on the cradle and they get recharged.

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This Coat Hanger Namouk by swiss wallstreet had me look. What an eyecatcher! And what a tremendous sculptural quality it has. (I wish they’d show a video of how the wires turn into a hanger.

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Victor Carrasco’s voluminous washbasin for manufacturer Boffi—appropriately designated VOL—is one part industrial functionality and two parts contemporary elegance. If, that is, your design parlance equates the latter with simple clean lines and smooth contoured edges.

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Good news for dead beat ! To allow you to tidy up your workbench in just few seconds especially when you’re visited by some big guns, Line Depping has created the easy-packing table that can take in any sundries. Or CDs, or books, such a table is enough.

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British designer Karim Rashid and artist Michela Vianello have designed a one-off, Murano glass light for Italian lighting brand Andromeda.

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Dutch architects Ateliereen Architecten have completed a 25 metre tall viewing tower at an outdoor sports park in Reusel, the Netherlands.

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Paris designer Aïssa Logerot has designed a collection of furniture comprising interchangeable components lashed together with string.

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Big fan of bunnies, so I am stunned by this scrap wood bunny made by Florentijn Hofmanvia Design SpongeDesign.

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Fabulous chair from waste trimmings at Scraplab

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We all are well aware of the effect of intense work environment and modern lifestyle on our bodies, right? For those who stand for long time suffer diseases related to blood circulation while those sitting for long time face spinal problems.

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Fun, colorful measuring spoons by Joseph Joseph with a dual purpose - refrigerator magnets!The teaspoon and tablespoon measures each contain a 1/2-measure fill line and magnets within the handle make it easy to attach to a fridge or any metal surface.

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New designers 09: graduate designer Charlotte Kingsnorth presented a sofa inspired by obesity at New Designers in London earlier this month.

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I am in love with the “Daily Aesthetics” collection that gets its inspiration by everyday food containers.

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Halogen lamp 230V-250W. Stand in chrome-plated steel, reflector in chrome-plated or painted steel. Base in painted steel. Supplied with dimmer.



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New Designers 09: Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication graduate Harry Hasson exhibited furniture held together using ratchet straps in tension at graduate show New Designers in London earlier this month.

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Who here loves magnets? Raise your hand. Oh that was pretty rough. Too bad you don’t have magnets on your arms and sides to make that hand raising a little easier. Here you are using muscles and such like a sucker!

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Possibly Olivia Bradateanu has been deeply influenced by the classical book “Gone with the Wind”, he brings out the new design called “Shelf in the Wind”, a hardwood shelf that seems to be blowing away in the air. It really can stimulate our imagination in daily life.


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The thoughtfully creative table is from England, featuring at a smooth wave section that can house CDs, books and along with a surface on top to hold snacks and beverages.


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The 28 bulbs on the perimeter are 10-watt Xenon Festoon ones and supply the users with a safe 12V electric power through the lampshade.


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An entry at the Electrolux DesignLab 2009 contest, the “Egg” by Romanian designer Vlad Icobet is an all in one cooking and food preparation unit that unfolds like a flower from a cylindrical starting position.

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Aodh O’Donnell’s sublime Armadillo Chair reminds me of Ryan Dart’s Quarry table—from an aesthetic as well as conceptual perspective. Both Dart and O’Donnell have structured their unique pieces around a look created by the timeless process of evolution: in the case of Quarry, the epochal play of water and wind on rock; and in the case of Armadillo, the millions of years of mutation and selection that manifests today in the digging, burrowing, and curiously armor-plated little creatures called armadillos.


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One of my favorite wedding gifts I received was a set of Danish housewares firm Bodum’s glass-walled Canteen tumblers.

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Here are two creative individuals who have decided to DO something instead of offering lip-service to the term RECYCLE


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These shadow mobiles by smarin, sway like clouds in the sky. they come in a range of sizes and are moved gently by the wind. made of pure linen voile or silks, their translucency allows light to filter through, casting shadows on the surrounding environment.



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“Out of the box” is the name given to a residence in Bangalore by the Indian architecture firm, which features the perforation design to block views from within.

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Nothing is actually special with this watch besides the FaceBook name. It has two colors white and blue.

with the city of shanghai continually changing chinese firm archiplein proposed
a way to preserve old culture and future projection through a phoenix monument as
that fills each part of ruins. they chose the theatre as the archetype of the chinese popular
way of cultural expression.

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The whole poetic universe of Paola Navone is revealed in the new Gervasoni collection. The spirit of eclecticism, the pleasure of intermingling, the instinct to let loose one's imagination without limit of space and time.

The various areas represented by the Gervasoni stand open onto one another, creating a uniquely fluid and permeable space: living-room area, an eating area and a sleeping area in which the new pieces designed by Paola Navone blend into a spontaneous game of cross-reference and suggestion.

Each piece - articles of furniture, sofas, armchairs, tables, chairs and mirrors - tells its own story in its own language. Their blending stimulates the beauty of counterpoint, of life itself superimposed over things. The new and rich collection is known as the Sweet collection. Included in the collection are articles inspired by different "worlds", by artisan knowledge going back to ancient tradition and accommodated by the modern and instinctively curious eye of Paola Navone.

Traditional and modern materials - wood, marble, pressed bamboo, rattan, but also rubber and cement - are brought together with a sensitive and masterly touch and coloured in white, blue, grey to create a refined harmony of contrasts. We have a series of tables for the dining area, with frame and legs in tinted oak and top in cement or Carrara marble. The products come in three sizes: rectangular 260 x 100 and 210 x 100, and square 160 x 160. To accompany the tables is a chair in walnut canaletto wood with a curved wooden back and a seat of interwoven rubber or taut reinforced fabric.

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The collection MOMA, designed by Javier Mariscal for the Spanish brand VONDOM, is a series of objects for outdoor. It was decided to do a new typology of furniture to unite the function of a flowerpot and an outdoor table, thus MOMA was born, a collection characterizes for its versatility and originality. From the question ¿how do we sit down? Came up three versions that could be adapted to three different environments: one for chill-out, Low, completed with an pouf of great comfort of the same collection; another for use it seated in a chair or a seat, Medium, and another to be reached by feet or seated on a stool, High, thinking about the pleasure of enjoying a cup of wine outdoor.

The first sketches presented organic shapes that in the development of the project they were deriving toward more architectural forms that recall to a column with capital or to a corbel. There has a hole with function of flowerpot with self-watering system patented by VONDOM in the supporting surface.

They are manufactured by the technological process of rotational molding with ecological material of resin of polyethylene, in great variety of bright shades, what gives an more original and fresh touch to the collection.

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Swivel steel base. Stiff polyurethane external body covered with Ecopelle or cowhide
95. Internal body upholstered with selfextinguishing polyurethane foam/Dacron
Du Pont with elastic strip suspension. Non removable internal nylon cover. Removable external fabric or leather cover.

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The Italian manufacturer MDM World announced this morning that its Estrema chair, designed by Massimiliano Della Monaca, has been certified by the folks at Guinness World Records as the (drum roll, please) World’s Lightest Chair.

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The elastic sofas, a sort of moldable piece of furniture that transforms their configurations when you sit on them, can be either your armchair or a stool.

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