New York-based design studio Yucca Stuff recently launched their debut collection of furniture, featuring eight pieces inspired by Texas, the designer’s home state. With a nod to architecture and sculpture, the collection is designed to become heirloom pieces to complement the home, passed down from generation to generation. The collection has everything from a modern...
Scandinavian Furniture With Giant Bold Cross-Stitches
Copenhagen-based designer Ellinor Ericsson designed a series of furniture featuring giant cross-stitch patterns, and each piece looks very eye-catching, I just love them! Comparing Nordic furnishings to those of rococo, Ellinor tried to achieve a balance between the two styles using Nordic materials and rococo shapes. The cross-stitches are made in wool and woven into...
Hybreed Chair Collection Mixing Vintage And Modern
Designer Charlotte Kingsnorth presented a unique furniture collection called Hybreed, and its name explains its essence. It continues to evolve from the mixture of vintage furniture frames and fleshy biomorphic forms. A mixture of instinct and the character of the original chair informs the shape of the cushioning that makes up its body. The chairs...
Playful And Aesthetic Volk Furniture Collection
Handmade in Brooklyn, VOLK Furniture has a distinctive playfulness that showcases hard materials yielding to various attempts at aesthetic softening. Brian Volk-Zimmerman, the company’s founder and designer, has a thing for unexpected details, such as a nice fabric-lined drawer, an intentional shadow reflecting the physical shape of a mirror, or a cutout from one furniture...
Functional And Stylish 2015 Lighting And Table Collections By Apparatus
Design studio Apparatus have introduced two new lighting series, ‘Cylinder’, ‘Link Porcelain’ and ‘Portal’ tables. The Cylinder Series is a system of fixtures that elevate the experience of functional lighting. Directional light emanates from recessed points within the simple metal forms. Their streamlined structure and hefty scale allow these pieces to stand-alone or be grouped...
Sustainable And Eye-Catching Japanese Furniture: New Standard Collection
What’s special about Japanese designers – I think that no one knows better how to make eye-catching, functional and ergonomic furniture. Japanese company Karimoku launched the New Standard Collection, which owns such properties. The line of furniture is made from hardwood harvested from low-diameter trees, an underutilized set of trees that are most often used...
De Natura Fossilium Furniture Collection Of Cooled Lava
If you’ve been following us lately, then you have seen Monti Silvestri Clock by Formafantasma made of materials derived from the lava from the 2013 eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily. Here’s a furniture collection that continues this theme. Here Formafantasma used basalt, an igneous rock that forms when basaltic lava cools quickly, and paired...
Puzzle-Inspired Flat-Pack Furniture Without Screws Or Glue
Throw yourself back a few years and you may remember Konstantin Achkov’s flat-packed plywood furniture made without glue or screws. He continues his original designs with the Electron Chair and Lese collection made with the same “puzzle principle”. Electron is made out of beech plywood cut with a CNC router. There isn’t a single screw...
Fun Anthropomorphic Furniture Collection By DAM
If you look at this furniture, you’ll immediately understand that it reminds you of … humans! From mustachioed wall clocks to hatted lamps and grinning nightstands, DAM & Friends’ collection of home furnishings includes pieces with personality each their own! I’d say that to me these pieces remind of different smiles. Crafted using traditional Portuguese...
Industrial Erutna Collection – Furniture With Vintage Charm
The Erutna collection by Portobello is inspired by the aesthetics of New York lofts, with elements of industrial aesthetics trend born in New York during the early 50s. The Erutna collection includes a selection of pieces in wood, metal and aluminum industrial aesthetic but with bohemian charm and pastel colors that look especially extraordinary as...