Yoh Komiyama has designed NEKO, a modern cat tree that offers a natural wood home for the family pet that also fits in with a contemporary interior.Designed in partnership with Japanese pet product company RINN, the NEKO Cat Tree has a circular design that looks more like a shelving unit or a sculpture than pet furniture.
Italian designer Mario Milana has created the ASANA Ground Chair, a floor seat whose aim is to bring those who sit on it closer to earth and allow them to have physical and mental balance. In eastern traditions asana means “the posture that brings comfort and steadiness”. Manufactured by Les Atelier Courbet and crafted from from Khadi cotton, natural toulipie wood and solid copper, the design of..
Ukrainian based MZPA design, have created ‘The Planet’, a piece of furniture that enables someone to have a private space in an open office, hotels, airports, or anywhere where someone needs a little time to themselves. The ergonomic design includes a couple of features, like a USB charging port, led-lamp or tablet holder (seen below), that allows the user to curl up inside and watch a movie, do..
recipients of the liliane bettencourt prize david de gourcuff and creators aki & arnaud cooren have fashioned a unique low chair design using aluminum plates with the footprint of the fabric on both sides, finished with sewn edges. the combination of the rigidity of metal with the poetry of the fabric, ’tiss-tiss’ is an aesthetic vision realised by a feat in manufacturing. the tiss tiss chair is..
holon institute of technology graduate chen zalkind has created his own studio, ‘ZALKIND’, specializing in furniture and consumer products made using a wide range of materials and technologies. having grown up on a kibbutz, zalkind was surrounded by many industrial factories and small workshops teaching him about the various uses of materials. n his latest collection, ‘internal pressure’, zalkin..
designer and director mikiya kobayashi has designed a walnut furniture collection for japanese manufacturing giant, masterwal. ‘yu’, meaning thoughtful in japanese, is thought to be masterwal’s brand concept. although the company has never had experience manufacturing chairs with complex structures, kobayashi led the team to create an elegant walnut-based armchair collection, as well as some ent..
Design firm Mili Mlodzi Ludzie have recently completed the interiors for this apartment in Poznan, Poland, and as part of the design of the living room and dining area, they created a wall of cabinets that have geometric cut-outs in the doors. Some of the cut-outs allow for direct access to whatever is stored within the cabinets, and other cut-outs have a mesh protecting the items. from contempo..
London designer Rio Kobayashi has reinterpreted the colourful markings found on Mikado pick-up sticks as a pattern for his new East West furniture collection. Kobayashi, a London-based Japanese-Austrian designer, presented his East West collection during this year's London Design Festival. Inspired by his experience of both far-eastern and western countries, the designer wanted to bring the both..
트리플 아파트는 높이가 2층 구조로 최상층에 위치해 있다. 맞춤형 오크패널 구조가 주 침실 옆에 위치해 있고 배럴 천장 아래에 꼭 맞게 설치되어 있다. 침실에는 일련의 셔터가 있어 아래에 있는 다른 침실을 향해 열리게 되어 있고, 오크 패널과 바닥의 흰색 판넬로 늘어서 있는 계단과 침실 옷장 사이에 설계된 욕실에는 여분의 수납 공간과 맞춤형 샤워 트레이가 있다. Francisco Sutherland Architects has slotted a timber structure containing a bathroom, mezzanine and wardrobes into a triplex apartment in London's brutalist Barbican Estate. Located on the apart..
When Atelier 111 were renovating an apartment located in Prague, Czech Republic, they decided to build the couch and shelving into a niche that protrudes from the facade of the building.Instead of buying furniture separately and having an odd space in the living and kitchen area, they created a dedicated space for lounging by using a light wood to build a frame that houses a couch and open shelv..
Schiavello just launched a new series of furniture designed in collaboration with designer Gavin Harris. The Toku Collection aims to bring people together through interaction and communication by creating environments that encourage talking and collaborating. Toku, which is ‘talk’ in Japanese, includes benches, ottomans, tables, stools, and screens that can easily be moved around to design workp..
The new collection, designed by Patrick Norguet, is based on the perfect combination of ash wood, steel and polypropylene. Fully using the potential coming from the union of different materials to increase the aesthetic appeal, functionality and comfort of the furniture. That’s the idea conceived by Pedrali and applied to the collections of the Italian company: among these Fox, designed by Patri..
