The New York-based industrial designer and RISD graduate, Louie Rigano is well on his way to taking over the design world. Not only does he create well designed and aesthetically pleasing things, he also puts a lot of thought behind his work and concepts. The Fan Lamp was inspired by a traditional Japanese folding fan and made of bamboo and washi paper. Rigano’s design uses the same assembly and materials as the traditional fan, but by simply bending the bamboo, a new idea is formed. The washi paper used is both durable and practical and it diffuses light beautifully.

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Fan Lamp By Louie Rigano

LIGHT_NESS is a lighting concept by Amsterdam-based company UXUS that is an interactive project that puts the end user in control of the design. The lamps are made of a frame, neon orange tape and a cord. The final product is created by wrapping the tape around the frame to create the lampshade. UXUS developed the concept where user and designer roles become interchangeable; the consumer dictates what the product should look like and the designer is limited to simply providing the material

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LIGHT_NESS by UXUS

Materials: 75 5/8″ Besta shelf unit, Antonius clothes rail, 4 3/8″ Grundtal hooks, screws Description: We needed a narrow piece of furniture to hold our various coats and jackets (you need quite a variety in Seattle) that did not mount to the wall. The Besta shelf was the perfect fit for our pocket-sized entryway. After building the frame, we lowered all the shelves to the bottom to be used for shoes, bags, etc. The Antonius clothes rail was a bit long, so after chopping that to the appropriate length, we then attached it to the ceiling of the shelf used long screws drilled in from the top. We chose to leave the back off the shelf because we needed access to the light switches on that wall.

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Besta by the Door

Materials: Stuva Combination Description: I used Ikea’s children’s furniture for my kitchen pantry. Perhaps not a “hack” but it’s a combination that I haven’t seen anywhere else and it is working very well for me.

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Stuva Pantry

Japanese designer Keiji Ashizawa ‘s minimalist furnishings are as simple and functional as they are unique. Slybox A minimalist inspired chest of drawers with a metal frame.

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Keiji Ashizawa Design

Materials: Ikea Hemnes buffet, 4 Branas, a wood bottle holders to assemble Description: My husband love wine, but we don’t have any bottle holders in our kitchen, so we decide to transform our Hemnes buffet. 1- We buy a cheap wood bottle holders and I paint the parts of the furniture as white as the Ikea buffet 2- I was lucky to find the exact dimension of the buffet, instead you can easly cut the wood. 3- Then I put the back and the front parts of the wood bottle holders into the Hemnes buffet…

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Hemnes buffet with bottle holders

Happy Thanksgiving from Six Different Ways!

Hope that you all have a wonderful holiday and are either enjoying or getting ready to enjoy a major food coma!

[Delicious Turkey Image via Sweet Paul]

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Golden Opportunity by Sebastian Bergne

Materials: Expedit + dice (a lot of them) Description: Recently we decided to beef up our bland Ikea furniture a bit. The victim was an Expedit rack that we use as a hi-fi rack in our living room. I am a huge fan of pixel art and would cover my whole apartment in 8-bit if I could. Anyhow, as we wanted it to be something that is functional and nice to look at, we decided the only reasonable thing to do is to cover the whole rack with a curtain of dice

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Expedit + dice

Although today’s Etsy Roundup looks like it’s one for the ladies, it works doubly as a gift guide for the guys out there in search of the perfect gift for the women in their lives.

The way I see it is that you can never have too many clutches in your wardrobe. I love clutches so much that I keep one in my purse at all times in case of emergencies. And by emergency I mean when I don’t feel like lugging my purse around. The best part about clutches is that the more you have, the more you can coordinate. Plus, most clutches are quite affordable so you won’t feel guilty about having too many!

Do you love clutches? How many do you own?

Find those bad boys shown above:
#1 / #2 / #3 / #4 / #5 / #6

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