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If you're looking for minimalist tabletop and functional accessories, then look no further than FTF Design Studio.

"Crazy cut" (i.e. individually cut by hand) pieces of stainless steel cover each piece in a puzzle-like fashion in the Crazycut series by Phillips Collection.

I just love a good, solid modern planter. And when I spotted Canadian designer Kevin Wood's planters, I was in minimalist heaven.

We all seem to covet our time in nature so it's only natural that these outdoor furnishings will make our lives not only easier, but more enjoyable. Even though it's winter now for most, take a swing back through the best of our outdoor finds that will make summer seem not that far off in the future.

Designed by Alessandro Di Prisco for the Italian urban furniture company Urbo, Air is a modular outdoor bench system that can be mixed up and customized for any space's needs.

Italian designer Vito Nesta was inspired by a sewing thimble when he created his latest product entitled inDITO. The now oversized object becomes a vase or planter to house your greenery indoors.

Italian company Benetti Stone has decided to bring a bit of the outdoors in with their MOSSframe idea. They take natural stabilized lichen and contain it in a white lacquered frame that comes in seven different sizes for your walls. The collection requires zero maintenance due to the fact that it's treated. So you get a little bit of nature, without the cleanup or care that most plants and living things require.

Well known for their soft-sided vertical garden wall pockets, Woolly Pocket is back with their latest design, Living Wall Planter. The indoor/outdoor planter is made of a sturdy hard shell with its own self-watering tank with holes to distribute water to the roots when necessary.

French design collective Y'A PAS LE FEU AU LAC began as a collaboration between designer FX Balléry and "tabletiers turners" Marie and Gregory Bodel where both sides brought their expertise to the table (quite literally). The resulting wood-based collection designed by a select group of handpicked designers around the world, is full of contemporary objects and housewares that are not only fun, they are completely useful.

As soon as I hear the word 'tumbleweed' I immediately conjure up an image of a desert with those dry clusters rolling across the landscape and that's exactly the inspiration that h2o architectes had in mind when they developed their Tumbleweed project. Each cardboard component comes as a tetrahedron that you fold and connect together to form a three-dimensional volume. You can then connect as many volumes together based on how you want to use them.

The two Italian designers, Francesca Bonfrate and Alessandra Bove, that make up Bubble Design created an at-home gardening collection called Green Kit. The kit is made up of four separate components that include miniature greenhouses, climbing plant supports, and a folding surface to collect loose soil.

Terrariums are made for people with black thumbs (i.e., me). Not only are they easy to take care of, they are beautiful to look at. They're like little worlds contained in a miniature glass greenhouse. Luckily they don't have to be just a glass globe or a jar anymore with options like these from æther.