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Elegant No-Glue, No-Screw Kile Furniture by Yukari Hotta

Elegant No-Glue, No-Screw Kile Furniture by Yukari Hotta

Stay away from complicated assembly instructions, messy adhesives, and tools with this straightforward and easy-to-build furniture system that requires neither screws nor glue. Born in Japan and based in

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Ikea Launches New Solvinden Wind and Solar-Powered Outdoor Lights

Ikea Launches New Solvinden Wind and Solar-Powered Outdoor Lights

We’ve covered Ikea‘s solar powered lamps in the past, however the Swedish purveyor of affordable design just launched a brand new line of Solvinden lights that are powered by the wind as well

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MDC Interiors’ Glow Table Is a Cool Recycled Pallet Wood Creation

MDC Interiors’ Glow Table Is a Cool Recycled Pallet Wood Creation

MDC Interiors created this uber-cool Glow Table from recycled pallet wood, concrete, glass, pine, and steel. The concrete combined with a narrow pallet strip provides an industrial feel along with a warm

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LMNOQ’s Awesome Stormy Weather Lamps Are Made from Recycled Vegetable Cans

LMNOQ’s Awesome Stormy Weather Lamps Are Made from Recycled Vegetable Cans

Recently featured at Design Miami, the Stormy Weather lamp collection by LMNOQ is an experiment in frugality and sustainability. Made entirely from recycled tin vegetable cans collected from local

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Paul Coudamy’s ‘F-Light’ Ceiling Lamps Are Made from Recycled Airplane Panels

Paul Coudamy’s ‘F-Light’ Ceiling Lamps Are Made from Recycled Airplane Panels

If you can’t help but dream about jetting off to a tropical paradise when you’re in an office board meeting, then don’t look up at these overhanging F-Light Lamps by Paul Coudamy. Made

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Matthias Pliessnig Steam Bends Strips of Wood into Stunning Sculptural Seats

Matthias Pliessnig Steam Bends Strips of Wood into Stunning Sculptural Seats

Matthias Pliessnig‘s beautiful organic benches strike a perfect balance between the the subjects he studied: sculpture, furniture design, and wood & art. The Philadelphia-based designer creates

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Mineheart’s Eco-Friendly Wall Paper Will Transform Your Dull Space Into an Extravagant Room Full of Books

Mineheart’s Eco-Friendly Wall Paper Will Transform Your Dull Space Into an Extravagant Room Full of Books

Young & Battaglia‘s latest creation for Mineheart is a cool new collection featuring wallpaper designed to transform your dull walls into everything from book-lined shelves to a stone interior

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High Flying F-Light Lamps Made From Recycled Airbus A300 Jets

High Flying F-Light Lamps Made From Recycled Airbus A300 Jets

We’ve seen old airplanes recycled into hotels, homes, and restaurants, but Paul Coudamy is taking things piece by piece with his incredible F-light. The designer has transformed the walls of an old

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Toshiba’s New LED Lineup Offers Up a Huge Selection of Lighting Solutions

Toshiba’s New LED Lineup Offers Up a Huge Selection of Lighting Solutions

Toshiba has just announced that they are rolling out two more lines of LED lighting products in order to bolster their growing selection for the residential and commercial markets. The new series is

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Tomas Alonso’s A Side Table Saves Space by Collapsing in a Snap

Tomas Alonso’s A Side Table Saves Space by Collapsing in a Snap

Designed for small spaces and easy portability, designer Tomas Alonso‘s A Side Tables can be folded flat in just seconds. Made from powder coated steel, ash and laminated plywood, these collapsible

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Stylish Wine Rack and Magazine Table Built from Repurposed Coat Hangers

Stylish Wine Rack and Magazine Table Built from Repurposed Coat Hangers

Designer Natalie Sampson seemed to have more than her fair share of hangers on hand, but instead of letting them sit in her closet or trashing them wastefully, she decided to repurpose them into a cool

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Kiev’s Twister Restaurant Serves Molecular Food & Cocktails In an Earthy Atmosphere

Kiev’s Twister Restaurant Serves Molecular Food & Cocktails In an Earthy Atmosphere

Ukraine’s capital Kiev has a new restaurant where you can feel like a bird while drinking a cocktail or eating molecular style food. Designed by local architects Serghii Makhno and Vasiliy Butenko,

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Wandschappen’s Curious FeltPlants Cast a Familiar Shadow

Wandschappen’s Curious FeltPlants Cast a Familiar Shadow

Sculptural and certainly peculiar, Wandschappen‘s Feltplants were obviously not designed to replace our oxygen-supplying friends. Instead, they give a little hope for those less than green thumbs

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Groopti’s Recycled Cardboard ECO Blocks Can be Stacked to Form Tables, Chairs, and Benches

Groopti’s Recycled Cardboard ECO Blocks Can be Stacked to Form Tables, Chairs, and Benches

Groopti – the website that combines crowdsourcing with bespoke manufacturing – just unveiled its latest cardboard creation, this time from designer Svetlana Kozhenova. Simply called

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Dodo Lab’s Prototype Series Turns Unwanted Furniture Into Modern Interior Treasures

Dodo Lab’s Prototype Series Turns Unwanted Furniture Into Modern Interior Treasures

Dodo Lab is a research project set up by Michaela Robinson and Karen Smart that experiments with different ways of regenerating old and unwanted pieces of furniture anew. In a series they dub simply as

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The Lolilla Chair Takes Inspiration from the Beautiful Flamenco Dresses of Spain

The Lolilla Chair Takes Inspiration from the Beautiful Flamenco Dresses of Spain

Ahsayane Studio may be Brussels-based, but their Lolilla Chair takes inspiration from the beautiful and bold flamenco dresses of southern Spain. To make the chair, the designers fashioned ruffles and

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Pyschedelic CMYK Lamp Draws Colorful Strokes of Light Using LEDs

Pyschedelic CMYK Lamp Draws Colorful Strokes of Light Using LEDs

Denis Parren‘s conceptual CMYK lamp questions how we percieve colors and light by casting multicolored strokes on walls. Unveiled at the latest edition of the Dutch Design Week, the lamp’s

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Bunaco Creates Striking Eco-Friendly Housewares From Strips of Beechwood

Bunaco Creates Striking Eco-Friendly Housewares From Strips of Beechwood

Japanese brand Bunaco uses environmentally friendly techniques to produce finely designed home products from ribbons of beechwood. Founded in 1956 in the Aomori region of Japan, Bunaco uses an innovative

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See-Saw Uses Salvaged Japanese Wood to Create Fun Modern Furnishings

See-Saw Uses Salvaged Japanese Wood to Create Fun Modern Furnishings

Furniture label See-Saw reclaims discarded wood and uses it to create colorful, joyful, and appealing furnishings. They recently released their first collection at DESIGNTIDE Tokyo, where they presented 4

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LED Virtual Sky Promises to Make Office Spaces More Pleasant

LED Virtual Sky Promises to Make Office Spaces More Pleasant

Stacking people into windowless offices may be a cheap way to run a business, but it certainly takes a bite out of productivity. As most of us can testify, we would prefer the

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Impressive Magistral Cabinet Facade Constructed with 80,000 Bamboo Skewers

Impressive Magistral Cabinet Facade Constructed with 80,000 Bamboo Skewers

Encasing Sebastian Errazuriz’s ‘Magistral Cabinet’ is a protective facade constructed from 80,000 bamboo skewers. Painstakingly hand-crafted by 12 carpenters, the cabinet is built to be

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