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Benchchair from German designer Thomas Schnur for Outdoorz Gallery takes its inspiration from the famous Monobloc Chair but puts a new spin on it. The chair’s silhouette is stretched, elongating it into an almost abstract shape. What was once a chair, is now a bench. I love how it feels like a chair on one side and an abstract sculpture on the other. Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook

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It’s a Bench! It’s a Chair! It’s Both: Benchchair by Thomas Schnur

Swedish furniture and product designer Ola Giertz created the Thread Bench , which looks like metal easily bent and twisted into the finished shape. In actuality, the bars of metal are manually bent by both cold and warm forging, a much more labor-intensive process. Watch this: Inspired by a child’s playful outlook at the world, Giertz wanted an asymmetrical, “lighthearted style” to reflect that and asked the question, “Why does everything have to be so perfect and tidy looking?” The bench appears chaotic, opposite of most work found in furniture design, but still has a sense of playfulness. Wire models Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook . © 2012 Design Milk | Posted by Caroline in Home Furnishings | Permalink | 1 comment

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Thread Bench Made from Bent Metal by Ola Giertz

Design Store(y)  heads to the East Village this holiday season to tour  Still House , owned by Pratt graduate Urte Tylaite. The 300-square-foot sliver of a space was designed by Brooklyn-based firm Silva/Bradshaw, and features wood plank floors, a dropped wood plank ceiling, narrow wood plank shelving along the walls, and plywood display cases down the middle. Tylaite featurees items from local designers, plus pieces from Scandinavia and Japan. Still House opened its doors a bit over 18 months ago; we’ve been dying to get inside. Did you search for storefront for a long time

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Design Store(y): Still House

Interior designer and architect by training Grégoire de Lafforest created this lamp that looks like a balloon and lights up when a bulb-like pump is squeezed. Made of plywood of walnut, lacquered steel and blown glass, the actual lighting mechanism is hidden, making the lamp feel a little magical, as if alighted by a swift breeze.

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A Lamp That You Pump Up? Olab by Grégoire de Lafforest

Remember when your desk accessories consisted of sticking your pens and pencils in an old coffee mug (guilty!)? Thank goodness those days are over and designers like Héctor Serrano have come out with great desk-worthy options like Desktructure for Seletti . The modular pieces, made out of fine white porcelain, include pen and pencil cups, open containers, and little boxes that are perfect for office supplies and other trinkets you need on the fly. You can use the pieces separately or push them together to become an industrial warehouse (gray), a ship (blue), or a city (red), each containing a band of color at the bottom. Desktructure will be launching at Home 2013 from January 13th – 15th at Earls Court 2 in London

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Desktructure by Hector Serrano for Seletti

Remember when we featured the Curl Tables by Constanze Schweda earlier this year? They’re back with three new pieces that were also inspired by Kirigami (a type of Japanese origami) and have a similar feel to the Curl Tables. Leaves – Magnetic Wall Sculptures Each piece is made from a single sheet of steel that is sliced and formed into each three-dimensional design. The thin metal is easily sculpted into shape and then becomes more rigid the more it’s worked with.

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Magnetic Wall Sculptures Inspired by Origami from Constanze Schweda

The design of the Curl table lamp combines both the light source and the light’s reflector into one curvy piece. Designed by Sebastian Bergne for Luceplan Spa , the unconventional lamp uses what’s known as “tuneable” LED lighting to adjust the white light temperature from 2400˚ to 3500˚ kelvin.

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Curl Table Lamp by Sebastian Bergne for Luceplan Spa

It’s that time again – time for a whole new year. A fresh start.

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The Best 2013 Modern Calendars

Presented last week at Design Miami, Front Design’s new Surface Tension Lamp designed for Booo is pretty darn awesome. Essentially it’s a light that constantly blows bubbles. The bubbles catch and reflect the light, just like a regular lightbulb, except each of these is temporary with flecks of color

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A Lamp That Blows Bubbles by Front Design

Wanmokku is a minimal design created by Japan-based  Torafu Architects . The initial inspiration for the design came from an informal encounter with a Jack Russell Terrier. Through careful observation, the designers noticed that the dog would always come into close proximity to the clothes of the owner – most likely due to the reassuring scent and pleasant touch of the fabric. Torafu decided to take this interesting observation a step further by creating a furniture piece which would use the owner’s old clothes as a foundation for where a dog could play and rest. The elastic nature of the clothes forms a hammock like surface when attached to the frame.

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Skim Milk: Wanmokku by Torafu Architects