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Useful Arbeitsloser (Jobless) by Sanghyeok Lee is a series of furniture that reflects the life of its designer. The collection is focused on its joints and resembles scaffolding and construction, which, for the designer, is representative of life in a foreign country. From the designer: A scaffolding resembled a life of a designer who lives in a foreign country in a way that it is always passed by, constructed and moved away without much attention, while being a necessary element in construction sites. Useful Arbeitsloser (Jobless) is assembled pieces of furniture. The brass joints symbolize the weight of life and the act of screwing the joints is a part of a life to create comfort.

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Useful Arbeitsloser (Jobless) by Sanghyeok Lee

Float Wall Desk is a minimal design created by California-based design firm  Orange22 . The founder of the company believes that well-designed objects elicit strong emotions, starting with a sensory experience at its core. He states, “That’s what interests us about design—that capacity to affect the emotions of those who experience it.” The Float Wall Desk was designed to easily mount onto any existing wall space, creating in itself a flat surface that has multi-functional utility. The desk takes up minimal space due to the slide-out tray, which can be used as both drawer to hide peripheral accessories or as a surface for the mouse and keyboard.

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Skim Milk: Float Wall Desk by Orange22

I’ll be honest – I’m not a camping person. I enjoy short hikes in the daylight, so a hiking and camping lantern isn’t something I’d actually use camping or hiking, but these lights from Snow Peak are cute and modern enough that I’d surely put them in my backyard or use them around the house.

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Get Out! Modern Camping and Hiking Lanterns by Snow Peak

This Rainbow Book Chair designed by Chen Liu  is kinda fun. I think that it would be really cool in the kids section of a library or a school for a more playful atmosphere. This first version is made from yoga mats, but she is planning to explore other materials like felt.

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Rainbow Book Chair by Chen Liu

This month’s  Designer Dailies  follows the seemingly wacky antics of New York based designer Brooks Atwood. Atwood, Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at NJIT and head of Pod Design , the studio he established in 2003, works in many mediums, across the fields of architecture, industrial design, and creative environments. If you recall, we just posted about h is Pod Chair . Its specializes in integrating advanced technologies and attaining material transcendence

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Designer Dailies: Brooks Atwood of Pod Design

One Nordic Furniture Company has found a way to merge high-end design with the sensibility of flat-pack furniture. On their latest piece, they partnered with Italian designer Luca Nichetto to create the Hai  lounge chair that incorporates a folding backrest that makes shipping much easier. This chair marks the first collaboration with a non-Nordic designer and it appears to be a good one

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Hai Lounge Chair by Luca Nichetto for One Nordic Furniture Company

ACME Furniture is one of the largest furniture manufactures in the United States. The company has six different branch locations, including New York City, New Jersey, Miami, Dallas, Atlanta and San Francisco. With so many different service branches, ACME Furniture is able to reach the vast majority of the country, without over extending itself. ACME recently purchased and developed a 400,000 square foot warehouse in Los Angeles, where the company ships out orders in under two days, with very little wait time, as the facility houses 12 million dollars worth of inventory at all times. This way, over 90 percent of the orders are filled within the initial 48 hour span.

ACME Furniture uses a large amount of products from Malaysian factories. Some other factories provide additional features and material, including those located in Brazil, China, Taiwan and Vietnam. Due to the long term relationship ACME has with the different factories, it is possible for ACME to receive a significant discount on the furniture, and this is reflected in the price and the consumer is able to save a good amount of money by buying ACME Furniture, instead of going with a different brand.

There are several different kinds of material provided by ACME Furniture. These are broken down into family room, dining room and kitchen, home office and more rooms (which is essentially just side rooms that have no real classification, or don’t have enough furniture designs to be considered its own room collection). With so many different room furniture options, it is possible for anyone to locate and decorate their entire house with furniture from the ACME Furniture company.

When it comes to the family room, ACME Furniture produces furniture ranging from couches and love seats, sleepers that fold out from traditional couches, side tables and coffee tables. A large supply of mattresses are available, California King bedrooms and sets give the largest available size of mattress and bed style, while ACME Furniture also sells Eastern King bedrooms, queen size bedroom sets, twin bedroom sets, bunk and day beds and full size bedrooms. This way, no matter the size and no matter the overall style, it is all found right here at ACME Furniture, so there is really no reason to look anywhere else.

Dining room and kitchen comes with mostly different table and chair decorations, although outdoor furniture and occasional tables are also part of this collection, should a specific table or look be desired for the house. Home office chairs, desks, cabinets and other equipment can be purchased at ACME Furniture, along with other material to fill out the house.

ACME Furniture is one of the largest furniture manufactures not only in the United States, but in the entire world. As ACME works closely with the developer and the produce selling companies in Asia, ACME Furniture is able to receive a significant discount on just about every item, and these prices are reflected in the prices, allowing clients to save on almost everything.

Sweden & Coffee by Raúl Arribas is an experiment with two Swedish traditions: glass blowing and coffee. The coffee set is primarily made of glass, blown by Reino Björk . I love the copper, smoky smooth glass paired with the textured cork. I wonder how the cork would hold up over time? Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook .

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Sweden & Coffee by Raúl Arribas

With the bee population dwindling around the globe, Auckland, New Zealand native Rowan Dunford , developed a product to bring beekeeping to urban environments. With bees being critical to the world’s food supply, creating products like the Urban Beehive could help stabilize the problem by easing the beekeeping process. Dunford wanted to eliminate any fears that might come with starting your own hive, like cost and complexity. Perfect for the beginner, the modern hive is simple and designed for flat-pack shipping and assembly

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Get Out! The Urban Beehive by Rowan Dunford

Dutch designer Floris Wubben is known for his mixture of modern and natural designs and the latest is Potato Family , a collection of shelving units that resemble potatoes. Little Potato – first image also The design was inspired by childhood figures that kids made out of chestnuts and potatoes. (Remember making those by jabbing toothpicks into the potato for the arms and legs?) The playfulness of that activity comes through with things like how the polished stainless steel legs are positioned and the skewed shape of each shelving cavity. Twin Potato The Potato Family was constructed in collaboration with artist Bauke Fokkema. Twin Potato – detail I love how the texture of the Dutch Fir wood mimics that of a peeled potato.

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Potato Family by Floris Wubben