French design brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed a collection of flatware for Alessi called Ovale that goes along with an earlier set of tableware they created with the same name. Slight curves and a balanced weight were worked out through a lot of trial-and-error prototypes to get to the finished product. Made of 18/10 stainless steel, the cutlery is made with a simple and modern aesthetic, basically a no frills approach to flatware that is the perfect complement to their original Ovale tableware collection . 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 | No comments

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Ovale Flatware by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Alessi

Daniele Fratarcangeli is both a sculptor of glass and a teacher teaching his mad glass skills to others in San Diego, California. Each piece is hand-blown glass that is then mirrored on the interior to give it that reflective quality. Between the mirroring and the shape of the glass, the pieces create shiny optical illusions that are quite mesmerizing. The pieces have an organic shape to them and some are made from clear glass while others have color. The mirroring is what ties them all together and when grouped, they really pop

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Glass Prototypes by Daniele Fratarcangeli

What happens when you take ten designers based in London and you leave them for one week inside an empty factory in the Dutch countryside? This is what… Having successfully carried out a similar project in 2005, Arco invited ten Okay Studio designers (a collective of RCA graduates) to experiment with their state-of-the-art machinery and see what they could come up with – this time based from the factory, and in just a week. They were challenged to make something from wood that was completely different from anything in the current Arco catalog. The resulting prototypes are displayed in “The Garage” just off Brompton Road from September 17-25th for the London Design Festival

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LDF 2011: Okay Studio / Arco

Hidden Art is giving five independent UK designers the opportunity to launch new products and prototypes during the Milan Furniture Fair. Their stand at SaloneSatellite will feature this beautiful Patternity Phase Bureau, which I am currently wishing was also going to be on display at ICFF. This is just the rendering, but isn’t it ravishing?

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Phase Bureau by Patternity

Randall , a furniture designer, does his thing on the Grono lamps. He says, ” So many times I tell people – I look at Ikea as a “hardware store” as much as I do a Furniture retailer…No offense – I think Ikea’s awesome….just that many items they sell are so