Taking a risk to develop something new can be difficult for Chinese companies. Lasfera, a Beijing firm run by a German designer, hopes to push the envelope by focusing on design and craftsmanship.READ»
Joel Pirela of Miami-based Blue Ant Studio has whipped up a great little poster that tests two favorite talking points of designers (and the people who write about them): their crappy vision from spending way too much time in front of ...READ»
As secularism spreads across Western Europe, cathedrals are morphing into much more than places of worship. They’re tourist destinations, meeting halls, and vaulting concert venues. Yet with rare exception, they’re furnished as if ...READ»
Think about flat-pack furniture, and what springs to mind but some cheap, plywood chair that looks like a high-school kid’s final project in shop class? Sure, there’ve been plenty of variations on the theme, a few of them nice ...READ»
In my house, the dining table is everything but a dining table: a desk, a makeshift file cabinet, and a cat perch. Multifunctional? Sure. Fun? Maybe for the cat. Contrast that with Marbelous, a table that doubles as a big marble-maze ...READ»
Social networking, CCTV, open-plan offices: Never before has it been so easy to connect with other people -- and so damn hard to be a creepy lurker. Furniture to the rescue!
Hush, by recent design school grad Freyja Sewell, is a ...READ»
Far too many people toss their outdated clothes or, worse, send them to Salvation Army assuming, wrongly, that someone else wants to snatch up a pair of 1987 Z. Cavariccis. Tobias Juretzek ain’t one of them. He takes his old shirts, ...READ»
Kids are terrible at concentrating, until you put a video game in front of them, and suddenly, they’re doctors performing brain surgery. (Or so conventional wisdom goes.) Dutch architects i29 put that theory to work on the furniture ...READ»
Designers love to say that their furniture “tells a story.” Italian designers Studio Formafantasma take that one giant step further with Domestica, a chair commissioned by the Dilmos Gallery that tells the history of their nation. ...READ»
The Brothers Dressler, our favorite Canadian salvage junkies, have built a boardroom table using nothing but -- you guessed it! -- salvaged goods. Commissioned by the YMCA in Canada, the table is a mishmash of moose bone, barn wood, ...READ»
Bad design usually hides in plain sight. Take auditorium seating: cushioned, fold-down seats that offer just enough leg room to be bearable but not enough space for another person to squeeze past. Really, the only real innovation in ...READ»
This concept marries some of our favorite things: bikes, good-looking street furniture, and self-generated power. Not only does it provide a bench (always in short supply) but it invites people to hop on the attached stationary bike ...READ»
The Danish Arts Foundation recently announced the winners of its competition to design furnishings for the UN’s Trusteeship Council Chamber, originally designed by the famed Danish architect Finn Juhl and now undergoing a ...READ»
If a pile of firewood is a monument to potential energy, then this storage piece is a monument to yours. On the outside, it's a tightly packed New England-style firewood stack. On the inside, designer Mark Moskovitz has roughly ...READ»
KAKO.KO, a design studio in Belgrade, has designed a lovely armchair that folds like a piece of origami into a working stool.
Regular readers of Co.Design know that we go gaga for furniture that can morph, Transformer-style, ...READ»
If the thought of assembling a Billy bookcase fills you with dread, then we’ve got a table for you: Designed by Ding 3000, JOIN has three oak legs that fit together like a beginner’s puzzle, no tools required. Just place the glass ...READ»
For any young designer who thinks that the most innovative design bubbles up from some wellspring of genius within, independent of his predecessors' crotchety ideas, the Design Museum Holon has a welcome rejoinder: an exhibit that ...READ»
French furniture manufacturer Ligne Roset showcased an inventive line of sofas, chairs, and desks at WantedDesign, part of New York Design Week, on Friday. The company has long been a proving ground for the leading lights of French ...READ»
Here's one for those of you still nostalgic for R.E.M.’s glory days: Thanks to PIN-UP magazine, you can wake up with Michael Stipe every day.
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PIN-UP, a fashiony architecture rag, commissioned Stipe to design a ...READ»
Sebastian Errazuriz’s Magistral Cabinet isn’t just a cabinet, it’s a freaking weapon. Covered in 80,000 bamboo skewers, it’s ready to stab its army of quills into any nosy houseguest, any transgressor of the properly placed ...READ»
