FLUTTERING BUTTERFLY LAMP

Lauren Moriarty has developed a beautiful lamp based on the optical illusions that are created from layering multiple images in front of a light source. This pseudo-moir? effect comes to life when viewed

BETTER WALL: Recycling Art Posters

In almost any cosmopolitan city in the world, you can look up at the tops of street lights and telephone polls to sneak a peak at what's happening inside the great museums of the region. Vinyl banners

WOODEN LED CLOCK

Minimalist wood block + high-tech LEDs = one fabulous combination. We love the simplicity of this Japanese clock design: when the clock is turned off it resembles little more than a wood block. When

KIREI MOD COFFEE TABLE

By now you may have heard of Kirei, the eco-friendly fiber board that comes from the discarded remains of sorghum stalks after harvesting. Generally used as a finishing material, Kirei functions in much

STICK SCREEN ROOM DIVIDER

If this isn’t the cleverest idea for a room divider, I don’t know what is. Instead of a boring old shoji screen in your house, you can have Globalhaus’s Stick Screen and be instantly

RECYCLED GEAR CLOCK

Who would ever guess that a flat bicycle tire could lead to design innovation? After getting a flat tire on the way to his recycling job, designer took the deflated inner tube and used it to hang

MERIDA MERIDIAN CARPETS

If you're one of the growing number of consumers concerned about the effects of VOC's on indoor air quality, you may already know that carpet is a prime suspect. The synthetic fibers and adhesives used

JAMES CUTLER / REVEAL DESIGNS

Reveal Designs has brought to market a new line of furnishings and hardware designed by Washington architect James Cutler (of Cutler Anderson Architects.) These elegantly designed chairs, tables, and door

LOYAL LOOT: Canadian Design

“Canadian design” may not have the same cache of “Danish design” or “Dutch design”, but an up-and-coming design collective by the name of Loyal Loot seems determined to

AROMATHERAPY ALARM CLOCK

A stroke of genius led designers at AbioGenesis to create an alarm clock that can produce any number of different scents, activated through an essential oil diffuser that operates on a timer in your

ELASTIC CO.

Of all of the materials I wouldn't want to wear, rubber is right up at the top. It doesn't breathe, it catches the little hairs on your arms...but creating dancers' costumes out of rubber bands led

NEXT GENERATION WALLPAPER

Though there is certain kitsch appeal in moving into a house full of super-retro and vintage wallpapers, it doesn't always work unless you really intend to play up the dated quality of the colors and

STUDIOBILITY’s INNER BEAUTY

We love the clever use of negative space in Studiobility's gorgeous Inner Beauty tables. While the outsides of these pieces have a generic, rounded-rectangle look common to a lot of modern furniture, the

READYMADE: How To Make {Almost} Everything

The best gift I received this year for Xmas was the ReadyMade book: How to Make {Almost} Everything: A Do-It-Yourself Primer. Thanks to my generous sister, I now hold the secrets to creating chandeliers

NANIMARQUINA

A rug can pull disparate parts of a room into one cohesive space. The Barcelona-based rug company, Nanimarquina knows this, and they make a rug for almost every kind of interior. Each of their two dozen

RECYCLED STEEL PIPE MENORAH

The third piece in today's tryptic from Grand Idea Studio is the seasonally-appropriate Recycled Steel Pipe Menorah (or Candelabra if you want to be secular about it). Made from recycled galvanized steel

TURBO WALL ART

If you ever made model airplanes or cars when you were a kid (and you are over 30 now) - then you might remember Revell kits, the quintessential 50's-era modeling kits where the pieces all came attached

FULL/FILL VASES

Here's a great gift for the holidays (hint hint family and friends). I love this clever re-appropriation of the ubiquitous plastic water bottle. The Full/Fill series, designed by Luis Royal and Damaso,

ESBY SARAH CLOCK

As the chill of winter settles in, some of us can?t help but look forward to spring, when flowers burst into bloom and the air holds a certain hopeful anticipation of warm days to come. The blossoming of

BODYFORM CHAIR – Danko Persing Collection

Bent plywood has made a huge impact on contemporary furniture. From the original Eames chair which introduced us to the concept of using molding plywood, designers have since been inventing new ways to

ELEEK – SUSTAINABLE METAL WORK

Eleek Inc. brings an environmentally friendly approach to hand crafted, high quality metal work. With a diverse portfolio from large scale architectural lighting to intricately detailed hardware, founder

GARDEN SINK

If you read inhabitat frequently, you may have noticed that we have a little thing for furnishings that grow grass. That's why we were so excited to discover Gau Design's Zen Garden Sink. This is

RECYCLABLE 3D WALLPAPER

Our friends over at MioCulture, whose Bendant light recently rocked several design blogs, have brought the world recyclable 3-dimensional modular wallpaper. Their V2 wallpaper ? which stretches the

MIOCULTURE BENDANT LAMP

When it comes to style, we value individuality. There's no novelty in mass production any more; instead, a product is desireable when it looks like it was the only one ever made. The BENDANT lamp, by

PHILIPS AIR TREE

Trees are great for many reasons. They help moderate climate, they provide shelter from sun, wind and rain, and they shelter wildlife. Most importantly, they act as air purifiers, removing nasty carbon

ECO-BOUDOIR

We're always saying, in order for sustainability to be successful, it's got to be sexy. A lot of good examples have passed across our radar, but Eco-Boudoir takes the cake. The London-based brand is not

PIECELILLY BAGS & ACCESSORIES

Employing a similar design techniques as our favorite Scrapile - only with fabric - fashion label Piecelilly makes bags, purses and other unique accessories from recycled clothing scraps, fabrics and

FARM21

While “modern” & “rural” are rarely used descriptively in the same sentence, Sasha Sykes has found a way to merge these two design ideals. The contemporary furniture and art

SIERRA CLUB TABLEWARE

Branching out to mainstream consumers, the Sierra Club has teamed up with the Parsons Design Lab to develop collections of dinnerware and glassware. The Parsons students were inspired by the Sierra Club's

LUMEN TREE

Here is a good idea made just right. The Lumen Tree by Adam Frank is an oil lamp that projects the shadow of a tree onto your wall. The tree and the body of the lamp are made of acid-etched stainless

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