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Benjamin Hubert created the Bow series of furniture in collaboration with Portuguese manufacturer De La Espada. Consisting of a bench and table, the collection was launched at the London Design Festival.

It's been a while since we checked in with Underfull Table Cloth designer Kristine Bjaadal. She recently exhibited numerous objects related to food and eating at Food Work, an independent project initiated by Torbjørn Anderssen and Espen Voll. The exhibit, which features 21 designs by eight Norwegian designers is being shown at Tokyo Midtown Hall this week during Designtide Tokyo 2012.

Sarah Pease is a student designer, maker, and researcher. Through her work in all mediums, Pease strives to create products that challenge notions of value and function. Her appreciation for straightforward thinking and efficient construction manifests in minimal aesthetics and intuitive interfaces. A Rhode Island native, Pease is currently completing her senior year in the Department of Furniture Design at RISD. She was recently noted in Dwell magazine as one of the “youngest and most promising designing minds at work today,” and has been highlighted by Core77 and Lifehacker for her work as a visiting student at the MIT Media Lab. Let's see what she puts forth as her Friday Five.

Italian firm Novae Architecture churns out of a variety of design including both architecture and furniture, with their latest being the FOLDONE Table. The table appears to be a series of folds from one continuous piece of iron, which creates functional areas capable of storing your things.

Something I can always get down with is a nap, and when something comes out to make my naps better, I'm jumping for joy (actually I'm curlin

Another Ceramic Candlestick designed by Marie Dessuant for the British furniture brand Another Country was launched during the London Design Festival. Each candlestick, which is made of a ceramic lid on a turned oak base, sits atop a box that can be used for storage or keeping belongings safe.

With its simple house-shaped lines, the PICTO birdhouse references a pictogram of a three-dimensional home making it the perfect shelter for small birds. Designed by birds for design for the French company Qui est Paul?, it comes in a hanging version or on a pole to plant in the yard. It also comes in 17 super fun colors!

Sean Yu and Yi-ting Cheng began 22™ in 2005 with a desire to create items in both metal and concrete. Inspired by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the duo set out to rethink ways to use such an industrial material like concrete to make everyday items like clocks and pens.

Based on a childhood love of model glider planes, Daniel Hulsbergen created the Vederlicht (Featherlight) out of the same materials as the planes and using the same technique. Not being able to afford the costly hobby as a kid fueled his fascination with it to this day, so turning it into lighting only seemed natural.

PROOFF recently launched the #006 SideSeat that was designed by the Netherlands-based duo Studio Makkink & Bey. It's the latest item they've released that begs its users to be "flexible with their working space." The multifunctional design is not just a chair, it also features a desk and storage.

I was thrilled when I heard that urbancase had released a new piece of furniture. The Alvo stool was designed by Brian Beck and he also hand-makes every single stool himself using vintage German block planes and a simple bench lathe; no computers necessary - just good, old fashioned muscle.

After years of making lamps and separately making textiles and patterns, jefdesigns has married these two in a series of new drum pendant lights.