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Furniture Covered in Elastic Bands Holds All Your Stuff
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.
Doll Table Lamp by Foscarini
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.
Flatmate Desk by Michael Hilgers for Müller Möbelwerkstätten
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.
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A Day in the Life of Blu Dot
December's Designer Dailies focuses on a well-known favorite, contemporary furniture design company, Blu Dot. Its founders, John Christakos, Maurice Blanks, and Charles Lazor (who has since left), were college buddies who all appreciated architecture, art, and design, and all of whom were less than thrilled with the furnishings they could afford once they graduated. Rather than simply complaining, in 1997 they formed Blu Dot, with the goal of bringing good design to as many people as possible. Here's a slice of how they get that accomplished.
