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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.

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.