Tag: furniture

These fascinating-looking designs are the work of Aljoud Lootah, a Dubai-based product designer, and are inspired by the folding process of origami. The Oru Series, as it is called, takes its name from the Japanese word “Oru”, meaning “to fold”,...

Swedish furniture giant IKEA has partnered with Qi to produce the “Home Smart” collection – a series of desks, tables, and lamps featuring an integrated pad which can charge smartphones and tablets wirelessly. By simply placing your phone on top...

Jenny Nordberg‘s rapid handmade furniture is just that – furniture made by hand but produced at a mass production-type speed. The 3 to 5 Minutes – Rapid Handmade Furniture project shows the designer making each item in 3-5 minutes. The...

Broken is a collection by Jalmari Laihinen, a Finnish designer also known as byJalmari. The furniture is playful and interesting, with visible splinters of wood where the connecting parts of the furniture have been snapped. The designer wanted to embrace...

IKEA is famous for always thinking up clever ways to make its customers love the Swedish brand even more (Bedroom cinema, anyone?), and has now come up with a whole dictionary of emoticons featuring its products, which is not only...

Meccano is one of those things that everyone played with as a child, and now you could even add a touch of nostalgic fun to your interior design through these fun pieces of Meccano furniture. Meccano Home came about thanks to...

Space in modern houses is often scarce, and Jason van der Burg has designed the Leaning Loop to be a solution for just that. The Leaning Loop is a piece of furniture somewhere between coat rack, mirror/noticeboard, shelf, shoe rack,...

Ontwerpduo, now an established name in Dutch design, even before graduation made a pact complete with a mission statement: to translate fairy-tale ideas into functional designs and surprise the world with them.   A magical light source with a graceful...

Polsino by Alessandro Damin is an amusing but also useful piece of furniture which resembles a shirt cuff. The design pouf is not only comfy but also has space to hold your favourite magazines. The playful design features two wooden...

Theresa Arns, graduate of The Royal Danish Academy of Arts, is a Copenhagen-based architect and furniture designer. Although she now lives and works in Denmark, her upbringing in Germany led her towards a very “German way” of designing, combining pragmatism...