This is a rather unique sort of table and drawers situation if you ask me. This is a project whipped up by designer Nenad Kostadinov and what it consists of is a curved table with rotating drawers. Rotating! No more silly pulling and shoving for you, nay! Now there’s lots of swooshing. This is a low height wooden living room table with four of these unique drawers made for storing magazines, knick-knacks, and all manner of small objects.

Basically this object is constructed of a single “bendywood” piece that’s supported by two cylinders, each of these cylinders being also the axis of rotation for each of the drawers.

Designer: Nenad Kostadinov

The Snakkes wall lamp is shaped like a speech bubble and also functions as a white board. Multiple functions and tongue-in-cheek design — what’s not to love? Oh, and Snakkes means “talk to you later” in Norwegian.

Lo-Fi Sofa by Christiane Högner. Made me smile and want to take a nap.

Secret Stash Project by Yi-Ting Cheng, filmed and edited by Juriaan Booij

This project is about concealing valuables, secrets, bad habits and personal information in our workplaces. Here, hidden spaces/ messages were created within 8 general objects such as wood boards, lamps and disposable coffee cups.

Why doing this?
We all have the need of hiding.

We hide our valuables from being stolen, we conceal our past from our loved ones, we never show our real side to colleagues, we all have secrets. Or, sometimes we just want to keep something only for ourselves.

How?
Utilize stereotypes and visual camouflage.

We make judgments based mainly on our experiences and what we see. This dependency on visual information can create large blind spots. Thus, usual stereotypes of how we perceive solid, transparency and lighting are employed in this project to play with notions of ‘solid and void’, and ‘true and false’.

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would like to introduce you to an old friend that kept trying to take over earth but retired and became a couch ; – )

The Space Invader Couch is basically a space invader turned in to a couch, a very fashionable and hard to pass by couch. The couch is all leather, with two glass surfaces. Although it might look uncomfortable it’s actually really soft, mainly lined and made with memory foam. Plus this is something different from a conventional couch.

via Igor Chak

This month, legendary French chef Pierre Koffmann returns to London with his new restaurant, Koffmanʼs, at The Berkeley hotel in Knightsbridge.

London design studio Construct has created the identity and branding.

The identity and branding take their inspiration from two sources: French bistro vernacular and a ʻsignaturesʼ theme. The bistro influence can be seen in the use of a curved logotype, a condensed typeface and the dominance of red. The ʻsignatureʼ elements are literal and symbolic: Koffmannʼs own handwritten signature sits across the full range of design applications, from exterior awnings to menus, whilst a little pig, separated from his feet at the top of the menu, references Koffmannʼs best known signature dish, pigʼs trotters.

Let me introduce you to this lovely, organic chair. I say organic because of the aesthetic of the whole thing. Look at it! Or rather, look at them, there’s more than one. This is the “Zeren Chair” designed by Njegos Lakic of Belgrade. The Zeren Chair is characterized by it’s low weight, thin structure, and high hardness. Each of these chairs is made of magnesium and wood and magic. It reminds me rather of something the master surrealist artist H.R. Giger would make.

A lot less scary, though, thank goodness.

These chairs would look severely amazing in something like a modern art gallery, modern collectable toy store, design office, anything like that. Probably not for your living room…

An all-around wicked and beautiful looking chair, I must say.

Designer: Njegos Lakic

like the contemporary style of the waterhouse, designed by shanghai-based neri + hu design and research office.

Fifty years ago, Verner Panton designed the first single mold plastic chair with a curvaceous profile called the Panton chair. Since then it has become one of the most recognizable and classic designs to date. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic design, Vitra UKheld a design competition among its clients to customize a Panton chair. The only criteria was that the finished product must be movable by one man.

Judging the competition were Terence Conran, Kevin McCloud and Charles Saatchi. The 31 entrants produced unique and diverse results ranging from the understated to the dramatic, making it difficult to decide on a winner. However, ultimately the judges awarded the first place to Jump Studios, an architecture and design company based in London. Their design (above) was a cat’s cradle that takes on the curvy shape of the original.

Taking second place was Ben Adams Architects, who created holes on the surface, creating a delicate, lace-like pattern.

Maris Interiors LLP took third. They sliced up the Panton chair to make a sculptural structure that resembles a skeleton.

The winners were announced at an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery on July 1, 2010 and sold in an auction in aid of Shelter.

See all 31 chairs on Vitra’s Facebook page.

Photos by  Nicole Bachmann.

Students of Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University have designed a solar powered house responsive to both user needs and environmental conditions. The open plan house called the LUMENHAUS combines flexible architectural design with passive energy systems and smart appliances to balance comfort with energy efficiency.