We have a clue about Furniture

Founded by product and furniture designers Robbert Ramaekers and Rogier Rensen, Belgian company MaaK creates modern furnishings that span classification. Some of their products feel mid-century, some feel ultramodern and others are more Scandinavian.

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MaaK Belgian Furniture Design

Italian company Benetti Stone has decided to bring a bit of the outdoors in with their MOSSframe idea. They take natural stabilized lichen and contain it in a white lacquered frame that comes in seven different sizes for your walls.

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Clever Wall Planter Idea: MOSSframe by Benetti Stone

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday! I’m traveling this week for the holiday, so instead of a Weekly Six, I’m bringing you some book picks. I have to admit, I’m a sucker for a good chick lit novel, but I do love a good memoir as well. What about you – what type of books do you gravitate towards?

Whether you’re also traveling or just enjoying a lazy day this holiday weekend, these are some books that have been on my Kindle wish list most recently.

1 – Gone Girl
2 – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3 – Where We Belong
4 – Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
5 – Just Kids

What books are on your wish list or what have you read that you can recommend??

Read this article: sixdifferentways.com

This chair makes me want to sing “I wanna rock right now” really loudly (from Rob Base’s song “ It Takes Two “) and I have the Zurich-based Micasa Lab to thank for that. They developed the iRock , a traditional looking rocking chair with the ability to charge your iPad (or iPhone) just by simply rocking back and forth. The chair has a dock that your iPad sits in so you can conveniently control the music you’re rocking out to, along with built-in speakers. The design, powered by a generator that converts the movement into power, makes it possible to listen and charge your Apple devices at the same time.

If you’ve stuffed a Christmas stocking in the last ten years, chances are you’ve used a product conceived by  Knock Knock . You know them, those tongue-in-cheek sticky notes and pre-printed grocery list pads in perky colors. Berkeley, California native Jen Bilik, who founded the company in 2002, achieved her goal, which was to create witty, design-driven goodies.

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Friday Five with Jen Bilik of Knock Knock

I’m so excited that Society6 has just added pillows to their lineup of artist-designed products. So this week’s  The Design Milk Dairy  is all about that fluffy, comfy home accessory that helps make your couch truly yours . You can order a pillow cover or a cover with a faux down insert in three sizes: 16″x16″, 18″x18″, or 20″x20″. They’re made of made from 100% spun polyester poplin fabric and are individually cut and sewn by hand.

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Fresh From The Dairy: Art Pillows

Kristine Five Melvær  recently exhibited tableware at Food Work , an exhibition initiated by Torbjørn Anderssen and Espen Voll that features 21 designs by eight Norwegian designers, shown during Designtide Tokyo 2012 . These  objects are part of her Still Life project, in which she reinterprets traditional still life motives. The first piece, a set of two bowls she calls Soft Bowls, are designed to tell the story of a changing shape.

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Food Vessels by Kristine Five Melvær

We’ll take a break from all of the Thanksgiving talk and keep it a normal Wednesday with a colorful Product Pick. What you see above is the Nodo Collection of Tables by Pentagono Estudio.

The tables are made from fiberglass fibers that are interwoven together in a specific way that provides balance for the table to stand on its own. The second picture gives a nice upclose and personal look into this detail.

The photos and information on these tables were found on Design Milk, and there is no mention of other colors being available. I wouldn’t mind the fluorescent yellow though – would you?

Read the original post: sixdifferentways.com

Lounging around is rough, right? Well, sometimes it can be when you’re in one of those uncomfortable chairs made from hard wood. This curvy Outdoor Bean Bag Lounger from the New Zealand-based Lujo Living aims to change that. Remember how comfortable bean bag chairs were when we were kids

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Get Out! Outdoor Bean Bag Lounger by Lujo Living

Holly Wick opened her eponymous shop, Holly’s House  exactly one year ago, motivated by the desire to bring fresh, new design to West London. Wick, who also runs an interior design consultancy, stocks heaps of fantastic items from established brands, including Moooi and Diamantini & Dominiconi, alongside indie talent from the likes of Phoebe Richardson and Andy Macgregor. Let’s celebrate Wick’s first year of success with a  Design Store(y)  so we can learn (and see) more. What motivated you to open the store? In recent years there has been a surge of exciting design shops opening in East London.

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Design Store(y): Holly’s House