Caroline Williamson

The design of the Curl table lamp combines both the light source and the light's reflector into one curvy piece. Designed by Sebastian Bergne for Luceplan Spa, the unconventional lamp uses what's known as "tuneable" LED lighting to adjust the white light temperature from 2400? to 3500? kelvin.

Do you ever think about all the paper you use to wrap those Christmas and birthday gifts? It's a lot of waste! Graphic designer Amy Lewis decided to change that with her ecoChici reusable cloth gift wrap kits she conceived with the help of her husband.

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.

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.

MINI's latest campaign "NOT NORMAL" launched in October 2012 (or as they call it, Motor-Tober) and their latest mission was so far away from normal that it landed them (and me!) in the Arctic Circle with one goal - to set a Guinness World Records by bringing the most number of wishes to none other than Santa Claus himself in a project called MINI Goes To Santa Claus.

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.

Located close to the sea in Lavra, Matosinhos, Portugal, the Agudela House is full of sunlight despite being a large black structure. Designed by Rui Cerqueira Barros, the smooth, dark volume is broken up with windows and openings that help fill the home with light and ocean breezes.

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.

Looking to bring a hint of nature to daily life, industrial designer Lorenzo Buffa designed a collection of watches called Analog Wooden Wat

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.

Modourbano recently partnered with Japanese artist Takane Ezoe to complete this live/work loft in the center of Milan called T House. Situated near Sant'Ambrogio Basilica, the space is prime location and had great bones to make an artist feel right at home.

Have you seen the unusual temporary carpets we've featured before that the team of We Make Carpets create? They are modern day versions of traditional woven carpets of centuries past made out of everyday items like pasta, cotton balls, plastic forks, candy bars, and now sponges and old plastic bottles. The three-dimensional patterns look labor-intensive, much like the carpets they are meant to reflect.