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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

Unless I lived in a gigantic castle-like home, I can’t imagine that this piece would look good in my home. But I love it. LOVE. it.

It’s the Diamond Sideboard and it so grand and exquisite and dramatic. Do you agree? The gold leaf lion feet take a little bit away from the contemporary feel of this product, but who cares?! Sometimes a little mixture of old and new works perfectly together.

Anyway, if you would like the Diamond Sideboard in your home, it is a limited edition piece designed by Boca do Lobo.

What do you think of this week’s product pick, the Diamond Sideboard?

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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

Have you ever seen a square wreath before? Up until this post on Coco + Kelley with the first square wreath above, I’m not sure that I ever have! But now that I have seen them, I am obsessed. What a difference changing the shape can make!

Not that there is anything wrong with a round wreath, but it’s always fun to do normal things a bit differently. Plus, I love the way the shape works with the rectangular shape of a door, even better with square or rectangular windows.

While these are great for holiday decor, the first and fourth wreaths could be used all year long.

What do you think of square wreaths? Do they give wreaths a more contemporary look or do you prefer the traditional round wreath?

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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