Brussels-based designer Marcial Ahsayane designed the most precious letterbox, which looks after and water its very own plant with a sloping roof. via Contemporist
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For the photography geek in all of us, the new Canon Lens Mugs are deliciously fun and strange and quirky and obvious, (or get them in Nikon Lens if that’s your ‘cup of tea’) from our best-photo-friends at Photojojo. Best part of it all? It is dishwasher safe!
Wonderfully graphic, nordic inspired patterns and prints from Sanna Annukka of the recent Keane album fame. Is the Soul Bird not just perfect for Christmas gifting?
British furniture company Established & Sons has the right kind of humour to pull off the Takeaway boxes, which resemble burger boxes you get from fastfood chains, but folded out of a single sheet of metal and coated in the prettiest, shiniest gold.
By turning a spiral staircase on its side, the 4th Dimension Clock by 22DesignStudio is cast out of concrete and looks as though it is ready to fold into itself. I want to scream Inception! Inception! everytime I want to tell the time now. Buy it for USD375 here.
Created by Apple collector Jonathan Zufi with a mission to catalog all of Apple’s products since 1978; Shrine of Apple is a beautiful, if not timely tribute to the untimely passing of its hero and leader.
Remind yourself of the perils the world is facing everytime you have a nice cold drink. By Atsuhiro Hayashi.
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By extending a wine cork into a plate, there is now more space for your cheeses and fruits and even an ashtray! Brilliant move by Carlo Trevisani.
The simplest ideas makes me happy. Being able to imagine pinning my notes on my archenemy makes me happier. by Daniel Caramelo.
Florian Schmid has created these intriguing stools with a new material know as Concrete Canvas. It combines the softness of cloth with the stability of concrete. Once brought in the final shape, you just have to water the material and within 24h it will alomst harden out completely.
The Air Vase by Tokyo-based Torafu Architects is formed from a flat perforated paper stretched on each side into shape. With the top and bottom of the paper in different colour, be amused by the different look from different views. Oh did I mention that the packaging is so cute.
This simplest ideas often work the best. Case in point, the Magnetic Light Switch cover by Jake Frey. Always the first thing you put away when you get through the door and the last thing you grab when you leave, the cover allows you to ‘hang’ your entire bunch of keys by the door so you will always know where to look. Going for USD 24.95 at The Fancy Store.
I love found beauty in everyday, mass-produced items, especially when presented in the way that they are in a new book by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of british design firm Industrial Facility. Especially interesting pieces to note are the penknife-scissors ( or scissors-penknife, depending on which you use first) from Japan, where the apparent danger of using the Frankenstein tool outweighs its space-saving merits and the “Two-headed nail” which, by simply duplicating the nail head, create a new product that is easy to remove after serving its temporary purpose.
A cool little thing… marking the point where you stopped in a book and giving you a surreal space to store it as well! Buy it at Sleek Identity.
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