Believe it or not, these jaunty, no handle Contrast Mugs are from the classic Danish china company, Royal Copenhagen . Designed by H.C. Giedde, the porcelain pieces, which have pleasing ridges like a ramekin, come sheathed in a brightly colored silicone sleeve that helps prevents slippage and protects fingers from the heat. The company actually gifted one to us (forest green, thank you very much) on Design Milk’s recent press trip to Copenhagen, and we’ve been using it daily. The verdict

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Contrast Mug by Royal Copenhagen

The Oink Piggy Bank by APR Design Studio is made of porcelain with an oversized snout – the perfect place for putting your pennies (and big enough for bills, too). I’m seriously considering one of these for Little Milk’s nursery .

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Oink! Piggy Bank

Materials: Ikea (name?) kitchen skimmer Description: We have 2 round vessel sinks in our master bath. Small Ikea bowls mimicking the shape of the vessels held our soaps next to the sinks. Every time we reached with wet hands for the soap or return it to the dish, soapy water splashed on the counter, very messy. What we needed was an in-sink soap dish! We looked at Ikea’s Lillangen line of bathroom furniture but none of their in-sink accessories would fit our rounded vessel sinks

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Soap dish from kitchen skimmer

French designer Émilie Voirin presented some hairy new work at the London Design Festival . The Bun Boxes are made from porcelain with a lid made of hair. The whips and the shaving brushes — which are normally sharp or blunt objects — have been softened with the addition of hair.

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Hairy Objects by Emilie Voirin

Ilse Crawford designed this lamp for Wästberg, which I found while perusing Magazin . It is made of wood, porcelain, and iron, an odd combo. According to the website, materials impact our emotional psyche and project a variety of feelings (do you think that they do?)

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Ilse Crawford Lamp