Simple and clean are the two words that come through my mind when I discovered the furniture collection of Dutch photographer Fien Muller and artist Hannes Van Severen. The two creatives created Mueller Van Severen and their furniture collections are build from need and function – Simple tubes become light sculptures, minimal lines become tables or shelves. A direct reflection on the splendor of art deco and the directness of modernism…

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Italian furniture brand Kristalia is well-known for its challenges in the materials field. The Boiacca table, produced as a result of the company’s partnership with the creative couple LucidiPevere, stands out for its material, typically used for modern architecture, which has been taken to the limit and is also increasingly used in the design field: cement with a(...) Read More about Kristalia’s Boiacca Table by LucidiPevere (291 words)

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Stacking Vessels is a series of functional sculptures for the home by German industrial designer Pia Wustenberg. Each Vessel consists of three individual containers made of wood, studio glass, and ceramic. Each material uses a different craft processes. The hot glass is the connecting part between the ceramic and wood.(...) Read More about Pia Wustenberg’s Stacking Vessels (1 words)

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Chinese industrial designer Leo Yui designed a multi-purpose stackable vase meant to have a life after the flowers have wilted. This is a beautiful object that can be used in many different ways. I would love to also see a version with some color.

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Israeli product designer Shmuel Linski has a passion for working with raw, rough materials. This love brought him to using concrete as the main material in unexpected consumer products. Here are two products of his latest design: speakers and coffee machine.
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A beautifully crafted and designed collection of furniture by Swedish industrial designer David Ericsson, called “Carl Malmsten Made Me Do It”. Carl Malmsten was the university Ericsson attended and this was his thesis project.

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This strikingly beautiful furniture designed by french industrial designer Elise Gabriel uses a material called zelfo that creates the unique and distinctive look throughout her “Embrace” collection, shown here. Zelfo is a resistant material. 100% cellulose fibres when solid and 95% water when liquid. I love the contrasts in these pieces of furniture, they shapes feel really organic.

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Recent design school graduate Marte Haverkamp has some fascinating obsession with shadows. For her thesis project Marte decided to look deeper into her obsession with this abstract idea and realized what made them so special. “I found out that shadows do something no other product, human or animal can. It easily follows floors, corners, products. It seems fluid as

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Brooklyn based industrial designer Chen Chen has a very interesting point of view. I have a selected a few of his works here which all touch on deconstruction, though in a very abstract form. I was first drawn to his work when I saw his Cold Cut Coasters (featured above and below). In this project Chen Chen collaborated with Kai Tsien-Williams using various materials made into a log form, which they cut into unique cross sections. Pretty Stunning result (and process)!
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