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This week's installment of Friday Five highlights Antoine Roset, the great-great-grandson of the founder of French furniture house Ligne Roset (whose name was also Antoine Roset). Roset, who grew up in Lyon, now lives in New York, and as the Executive VP of Roset USA, oversees the company's North American division. As a lifelong witness to and key player in this long-standing family business (his father and uncle are the co-owners), Roset has spent more time than most absorbing good design. Let's see what he admires, shall we?

This week's The Design Milk Dairy focuses on some really great and unique holiday cards. I bet you forgot that Society6 artists can make their artworks into stationery, too! Here are a few of our favorite holiday card picks to warm the cockles...

UK-based designer Finn Magee designed these two pieces for Areaware that just launched this week.

A bar in a cave? Have you ever heard of such a thing? Juan Manzanares Suárez and Cristian Santandreu Utermark of A2 Arquitectos made it happen when they designed this bar located at the entrance to the Caves of Hams in Mallorca, Spain.

I'm OBSESSED with these trays by Clara von Zweigbergk for HAY.

Artist Michelle Weinberg's paintings are pretty darn awesome, but it's her rug designs that made me do a double take.

The Bichos lamp series comes from Portuguese architect Martinho Pita, who creates the handmade lamps from pruned Portuguese Holly Oak trees. Bichos, which roughly translates to "creatures", is meant to reflect just that - some type of wild creature that's frozen while in motion.

Rolu is a minimal design created by Osaka-based designer Chiaki Murata of hers for Metaphys. Rolu functions as an on-the-go memo holder with a single brass bar holding down the paper.

While I try (I said try) really hard be on the side where the glass is half full (it doesn't always happen), sometimes it's easy to go to the dark side. You know, that dark, "woe is me" kind of mood that we have to go to from time to time it get it out of our systems. Written by Nick Asbury, designed by Hat-trick Design, and published by Asbury & Asbury, the Disappointments Diary 2013 is perfect for the inner pessimist in all of us.

Casa HS Quinta Da Baroneza is a gorgeous golf course home located in São Paulo, Brazil, and designed by Studio Arthur Casas. Made up of about 1,000 square meters of living space and divided between guest/children quarters and main living space/master bedroom, the home consists of a cube and rectangle, both completely open to the landscape and views.

At first glance, these angular rings seem fairly unassuming - plain even. However, when you find out how they are made, you might want to take a second look.

You might have seen the Um Tote that was designed back in 2005 that took a single piece of industrial felt and zipped its way into a bag. Actual, led by Josh Jakus, has released their latest design, the UM Pack, which is larger than the Tote and comes complete with a shoulder strap and side pockets.