Bored of music? So why don’t you try some new speakers? American designer Joey Roth makes it easy for you: he has created some of the most amazing speakers ever, having managed to avoid all clichés and be really original. No pseudo futurist looks then, no plastic stuff and no predictability. Joey used materials like porcelain, cork, and Baltic birch wood -raw materials that show their natural be..
Lukas Peet, a recent graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, now living and working in Canada, has designed the Surface Tension writing desk. The desk features leather stretched over a wood frame creating a hard/soft writing and working surface, allowing a pen to easily glide on a single piece of paper, as well as being comfortable on your hands, wrists, and elbows. Concept:..
Forget the Peugeot S2 Vogue MC and all similar scooters that remind you of bitter sweet school times and the crazy seventies, just because they have a pedal to occasionally maybe push. The true beauty is a rare Derringer Cycle. Damn, it would have been nice to owe one back then! They call them the new Bentleys. Who are "they"? "They" are either ecologists, or luxists. Either way, the Derringer C..
French designer Victor Boëda has created the Lilium sofa and chair for the Paris based furniture manufacturer Steiner. From the designer: Lilium is a soft couch with a floral line. An assemblage of three sheets, one per function: seat, kidney-level support & back-rest. from contemporist
Dutch designers Daphna Isaacs and Laurens Manders have designed a collection of lamps made of porcelain and oak. Called Tafelstukken (Centrepieces), the project was on show at Dutch Invertuals as part of Dutch Design Week last month. Photographs are by Raw Color. Isaacs and Manders also designed the exhibition for Design Invertuals. Here’s a little information from Daphna Isaacs: – Centerpieces ..
British designers Dan Ziglam and Elliot Brook have created the Capsule Collection of seating for their furniture brand Deadgood. This fully upholstered collection of seating utilises off cuts of fabric to create a graduated run of colour tones and textures that cover an arrangement of irregular sized buttons. The forms themselves are derived from a simple three-dimensional capsule shape which cr..
British designer Toby Howes has sent us the Escher coffee table. Description of the Escher Coffee Table by Toby Howes: As the name suggests, the design was inspired by one of Escher’s bird & fish tessellation sketches & proved every bit as difficult as it looks to perfect all the angles! I wanted to create a modern design piece that combined my usual simplicity of style with a real edge & this i..
Irish designer Joseph Walsh has created the Formations collection of furniture. Joseph says: In this new work I will create a series of pieces that, while continuing to possess many of the values of my work to date, go on to explore form in a sensitive way. Through this work, I am seeking to emulate nature’s forms with a timeless presence as though they have evolved like a formation or erosion. ..
Netherlands-based designer Han Koning has designed a series of lighting made of randomly-formed plastic. Called Static Plastic, each lamp is stretched to a different height, stamped and numbered. The two halves are joined by a rubber strip. The range includes a pendent lamp that houses two bulbs and a smaller table lamp with one bulb. More Dezeen stories about lighting in our special category. P..
Bleu Nature, a France based manufacturer who’s products always have a distinctive natural feeling through their frequent use of unconventional organic materials, have created wall panels called “Pixels Of Driftwood In Relief.” The panels consist of a collection of wood pieces that have been glued vertically to particle board, making them ready to be mounted on a wall. from contemporist
