Continuing on the trend of chairs that seems like artwork, or was it artwork that performs like chair? Either way, the Spike chair by Alexander Lervik challenges that notion with a seemingly impossible-to-be-comfortable chair that by all accounts, hugs your each and every curve.
Wonmin Park’s Haze series of furture reminds me of soft jelly candy I had as a kid. Maybe I should try and take a bite…
Sina Sohrab is an Iranian-American designer with a reductionist vision of the world. Forms are reduced but not its functions…
British designer Faye Toogood’s series of Element tables and Spade chairs are fun, irrelevant and slightly artsy. Just the way we like it.
From bees honeycombs to crystalline structure, the hexagon pattern has been prevalent in nature due to their efficiency. Furniture designer Haldane Martin designed a set of hexagonal tables in various sizes and heights that can be arranged in various ways and it could also be nestled efficiently underneath one another.
Kasper Hamacher’s use of the nature of fire and wood in producing these beautiful stools is simply brilliant.
So the Bouroullec brothers successfully created a the Steelwood Chair where one material cannot do without another, Hilla Shamia has taken the idea one step further by fusing wood and aluminum into a beautiful inseparable new material, casting them into furnitures.
Japanese designer seems to all have the talent to distill an idea to the essence and then add that drop of embellishment to it that makes the product simply desirable. Oji Masanori is exactly such a talent. He’s products are simple, thoughtful, but at the same time, extremely precious and luxurious. Everything from a child-safe table corner bumper in buttery leather instead of the usual rubber to a trivet that looks as good as it is useful, Oji’s eye and idea of everyday object can do no wrong…
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I love the thoughtfulness and humour that Daphna Laurens infuses into her Cirkel collection of floor lamp, wall lamp, coffee table and mirrors.
The Lazy Football chair by Emanuele Magini puts a set of goal posts between your legs, and lets you play ball and get some exercise, all without leaving the comfort of your seat.
Conceived as a continuation of 132 5. Issey Miyake, the origami, materials experimentation lab, for Artemide. Wonderfully Japanese, sharp and fierce! See also 132 5. Issey Miyake.
Studio Toer created a table that you could order online and they could post to you in the mail, taking IKEA’s concept of flat-packing to a much higher level.
Piet Hein Eek has a bunch of very thoughtful, very dutch designs. One of my favourite is the Chunky beam bench.
The chunky beam bench is part of a series of objects made from enormous old beams. Since there is only a limited stock of these beams, the series is limited. A chunky beam armchair, as well as a number of other objects, is also being produced. The idea is inspired by a large number of beams we purchased a few years back and which we had been at a loss at what to do with ever since. So this back-to-basics design, in all its simplicity, is the result of a rather long process of designing, experimenting and producing. The models are numbered consecutively by name (i.e. armchair no. 1, bench no. 2, and so on).
Rachel Boxnboim sews each of these objects, fills them with liquid clay, drains off the excess fluid and then fires the clay coated fabric to create these organic but usable tea sets for to go with your Sunday scones and its paper dollies . Such labor intensive process creates unique one-off tea sets as the moulds can only be used once. 
For the motorhead in all of us, Classified Moto upcycles suspension springs from decommissioned bikes into center pieces anyone would be proud of.
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