Contemporary coat racks have gotten fanciful lately (see some recent examples here, here, and here), but the Munich design studio Schellmann Furniture isn’t having any of it. Their exceedingly reductive Coatrack sticks to the basics: a linear vertical rectangle supporting a single horizontal bar. This tubular steel construction, offered in — Continue reading
Why bother with symmetry when asymmetry can look this nifty? Calling it a “poetic approach to the workspace,” French designer Thibault Desombre created this slightly off-kilter Litho desk for Ligne Roset, introduced last week at IMM Cologne. Litho’s oak veneer and tapered legs are stylish enough, but it’s the angled — Continue reading
One of the lesser known chair designs by Dutch architect Gerritt Rietveld is being issued on the occasion of its 50th anniversary by Dutch brand Rietveld Originals. Rietveld’s most famous chair design remains the highly stylized and primary colored Red Blue Chair, created in 1918, and one of the lasting — Continue reading
Japanese company Metaphys has created a tape cutter comprised of two connecting arcs which form a graceful S shape. The super minimal, linear profile of the Obi tape dispenser is made possible via a design that securely holds the roll of tape on one arc, while the tape cutter defines — Continue reading
Why pay for matches when they can easily be had for free? Because matchboxes this pretty don’t come for free. Strike matches by Danish brand HAY—which feature repeat patterns of phosphorous on the whole surface area of each matchbox—are striking little jewels, made as much for display as for use. — Continue reading
Danish brand And Tradition has a new addition to its range of Nordic lighting designs—and it’s been introduced at IMM Cologne this week. Copenhagen Pendant, a suspended lamp distinguished by a large, gently curving lacquered metal shade, is the latest piece from Space Copenhagen, the prolific Danish product and interior design — Continue reading
In a few weeks, Brooklyn’s Juniper studio will release the M Lamp, an irresistibly glossy portable lamp created by British designer David Irwin. A hit on the 2013 design fair circuit, and already an award winner, M Lamp takes its form from 19th Century miners’ lanterns, standing erect, and equipped — Continue reading
Danish architect Mikkel Frost doesn’t believe in resting on his laurels. In the aftermath of a completed project, Frost, who heads the architectural firm CEBRA, has created a post-project ritual which itself has turned into a project. “Sometimes when we’ve finished a project I sit down and draw a cartoonish — Continue reading
This international furniture fair known as IMM Cologne (Internationale Möbelmesse) is in full swing, and Artek’s new offerings will include two fresh colors for their Rocket Stool, a solid oak 1995 design by the venerable Finnish designer Eero Arnio. Aarnio’s bar-height, three-legged Rocket Stool and its diminutive companion, Baby Rocket — Continue reading
We can’t vouch for their art collection, but the contemporary art museum Kalmar Kunstmuseum, located in Kalmar, Sweden, certainly has graphic signage that’s fittingly inventive. Creative agency Sweden Graphics was tasked with creating the museum’s visual identity back in 2008, and created a logo comprised of a bespoke typeface, Kalmar — Continue reading
“The idea behind this project is to bring the magic of a campfire into the home,” says the French designer Félicie Eymard Ericsdóttir of her design for a set of fireplace tools. Called Oksa—the Finnish name for branch—the black, tubular steel set consists of a poker, bellows, and log holder, — Continue reading
For a dose of architectural Surrealism, one need go no further than the image manipulations of Barcelona-born photographer Victor Enrich. Here, Enrich, who has a wickedly sharp mind for visual trickery, turns his camera on the NH Deutscher Kaiser Hotel in Munich, a relatively ordinary-looking hotel, which, via Enrich’s brand — Continue reading
Anyone accustomed to absently keeping water running whilst brushing teeth can count on a daily scolding from STOP THE WATER WHILE USING ME!, a German brand of personal care cosmetics that aims to keep the issue of water conservation front and center. Organic ingredients and (pseudo) generic black-and-white packaging reinforce — Continue reading
It’s one thing to be the contemporary-minded occupants of a home replete with ornate period details—who doesn’t enjoy a study in contrasts?—but imagine having hit the jackpot? The owners of this Malmo, Sweden, apartment most definitely can—having found a jaw-dropping apartment chock-full of scene-stealing ornamentation. Talk about getting the floor-to-ceiling — Continue reading
We can only hope that this handsome magazine holder from leather goods company Makr, will merit another production round. Currently sold out, but evoking Mid-Century grace, its elegant design, comprised of saddle tan Horween leather, gracefully supported by a pale grey powder coated steel frame, is simply too beautiful to — Continue reading
Argentinian designer Cristián Mohaded is responsible for this arty table lamp that’s part of a multi-designer furniture and lighting collection, created in collaboration with Paris’ Serge Bensimon Gallery. Straddling the line between functional object and art piece, the lamp’s sculptural shape is anchored by a black metal base and a — Continue reading
Thanks to Instagram, famous people can offer their fans and the general public a carefully curated view into their personal and professional lives—a window that allows the rest of us mere mortals to live vicariously through artfully filtered vignettes. The fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg has an Instagram feed that — Continue reading
The next time we go rummaging around in a purse for those all-important keys, we’ll be thinking about this Key Hole Key Chain from interior designer Kelly Wearstler. A substantial 4.5 inches in length, its clever, linear shape is plated in 18k gold to give it luxury credentials, but we — Continue reading
Anyone seeking relief from winter’s chill should warm up to the exuberant textile designs of Josef Frank, the great architect, artist and designer who blithely dispels any notions of Nordic design as all geometry and restraint. Frank was Austrian by birth, but Swedish by choice, and, well, lucky Sweden, we — Continue reading
How does an artist address the grandeur of the Château de Versailles? By keeping it simple, it turns out. Designing brothers Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec have created a permanent installation at the 18th Century French palace, comprised of 800 Swarovski crystal modules threaded over a stainless steel, LED-studded skeleton—a design — Continue reading
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