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Evan Clabots, who studied at RISD and the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland, not only won awards as a student, but designed a licensed a product with IKEA before graduating. In 2004, he joined Dror Benshetrit's studio as Benshetrit's first hire, where he headed both the Product Design and Interior Design departments. In 2004, Clabots founded Nonlinear Studio, a multidisciplinary business that offers aproduct design, furniture design, interior design, brand identity, and art direction. For Clabots, design is a process of developing a complete story. He seeks the interconnected play between what something looks like, how it works, and how it interacts with someone’s life. Let's see what he chooses for inspiration for this week's Friday Five.

Swedish furniture and product designer Ola Giertz created the Thread Bench, which looks like metal easily bent and twisted into the finished shape. In actuality, the bars of metal are manually bent by both cold and warm forging, a much more labor-intensive process.

Benchchair from German designer Thomas Schnur for Outdoorz Gallery takes its inspiration from the famous Monobloc Chair but puts a new spin on it.

Pli Folding Chair is a minimal design created by Switzerland-based designer Florian Hauswirth. He started his career as a model builder for Vitra in Switzerland. He was able to construct models for some of the most renowned designers in the industry, such as Jasper Morrison, Philippe Stark, and Antonio Citterio to name a few.

Interior designer and architect by training Grégoire de Lafforest created this lamp that looks like a balloon and lights up when a bulb-like pump is squeezed.

Design Store(y) heads to the East Village this holiday season to tour Still House, owned by Pratt graduate Urte Tylaite. The 300-square-foot sliver of a space was designed by Brooklyn-based firm Silva/Bradshaw, and features wood plank floors, a dropped wood plank ceiling, narrow wood plank shelving along the walls, and plywood display cases down the middle. Tylaite features items from local designers, plus pieces from Scandinavia and Japan. Still House opened its doors a bit over 18 months ago; we've been dying to get inside.

Remember when we featured the Curl Tables by Constanze Schweda earlier this year? They're back with three new pieces that were also inspired by Kirigami (a type of Japanese origami) and have a similar feel to the Curl Tables.

Remember when your desk accessories consisted of sticking your pens and pencils in an old coffee mug? Thank goodness those days are over and designers like Héctor Serrano have come out with great desk-worthy options like Desktructure for Seletti.

Handcrafted from locally-sourced beech wood, Leis aims to revive a Slovenian woodcraft tradition called "suha roba."

Be ready for the new year! It's that time again - time for a whole new year. A fresh start. A new beginning. Or just more of the same old, same old. Any way you slice it, it's time for a new calendar. For 2013, we've rounded up 25 of our favorite 2013 modern calendars. Which one will grace your wall or desk this coming year?

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.

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.