Home Furnishings

It's party season and I'm totally obsessed with Built's Origami Wine Tote. We bring wine with us when we go out to dinner, but now that we're going out a lot more often to holiday parties and events, we've always got a bottle in tow. Santa, please bring me one (or two!) of these.

The NYC design community comes together to help raise money to help those affected by Superstorm Sandy in an exhibition and charity auction called Reclaim NYC. Designers created furniture and decor from materials reclaimed or salvaged after the storm and of pieces inspired by the flooding.

Designer Paul Nederend has turned his fascination for traditional woodworking into a beautiful new seat called Chair Pole.

One of the highlights of last month's trip to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was The Vignelli Center for Design Studies.

Beloved designer and ceramicist Eva Zeisel passed away in 2011 at the age of 105, and the last project she worked on was her one and only lighting collection and it has just hit the market. The Eva Zeisel Collection for Leucos is a line of hand-blown Venetian glass fixtures that come in two styles named Summer and Spring, each available as a pendant, wall sconce, or table lamp.

Martin Yeeles, a graphic designer, is this week's Friday Five subject, and the co-founder and creative director of Boston-based stationery and gift company, Bob’s Your Uncle. He created all of the Bob’s Your Uncle line, which includes boldly contemporary greeting cards, gift wrap, place mats, file folders, dish towels, and more. In 1993, he and his wife, company co-founder and former shoe designer Michele Yeeles, moved to the States from their native England “just for a year or two,” and never left. In case you're not familiar with the saying, “Bob’s your uncle” is a British expression used to indicate that a given task is very simple. It was possibly inspired by Victorian Prime Minister, Robert Cecil, who appointed his nephew to a ministerial post. Translation: having Bob as your uncle was a guarantee of success. Let's see where Bob, I mean, Martin, finds inspiration.

When design is not just good but also clever, I get really excited and that's just what the No Stereotype Series is. Created by furniture design grad student Dong-yeop Han of South Korea, this collection of furniture has the ability to store your stuff both inside and outside with its elastic bands.

Pig on the Wings is a stool that has animal-like feet. They look like webbed duck feet to me, but - hey - pigs will work, too.

Wanmokku is a minimal design created by Japan-based Torafu Architects. The initial inspiration for the design came from an informal encounte

Doll is the new table lamp by French designer Ionna Vautrin for Foscarini where the shape looks like a cross between old oil lamps and those wooden Japanese kokeshi dolls that have skinny bodies and big faces. The bulging shades are made from glass while the narrow bases come in four colors - red, gray, green, and ivory.

Sometimes a living space just isn't big enough to fit a desk in it but, boy, it sure is handy to have a workstation sometimes. The Flatmate aims to give you just such a spot without taking up the valuable floor space that most desks do. Designed by Michael Hilgers for Müller Möbelwerkstätten, the slim design barely sticks out from its spot against the wall but gives you plenty of room to attend to all of your desk duties when opened up.

Presented last week at Design Miami, Front Design's new Surface Tension Lamp designed for Booo is pretty darn awesome. Essentially it's a light that constantly blows bubbles.