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BoConcept Ottawa Collection by Karim Rashid

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From BoConcept: The Ottawa Collection includes a complete dining room set with table, chairs, sideboard and cabinet. A light-hearted line of accessories complements the set, creating an entire environment for urbanites.

The minimalist but never ordinary style offers unique features and precise detailing that make each piece hard to resist. The dining table features a soft slanting under-skirting and leg clusters that make it welcoming. Inspired by nature, the dining chair celebrates the welcome simplicity of the leaf that creates an elegant cross-table profile when pushed in, and like the table, sits on a forest of legs, perfect for tucking in your feet. The sideboard has sensual and intuitive handles that are really functional eye candy. Colorful inserts can be used to customize the handles and ends of the sideboard piece.

The cabinet has large graphic easy-to-use handles that add a whimsical element and come in two colors, oak or green. Together, the pieces create an urban environment that is smart and savvy.

Accessories that complete the line include a bold black and white fingerprint rug created to speak about the “new global uniqueness where we are all empowered to express our individuality”, suggests Rashid.

A cheerful color palette of puzzle shaped vases, a futuristic bright orange pendant lamp, a coordinating glass touch lamp with the same bright orange cord, a hand-made aluminum bowl designed to form a pattern, and a set of originally designed cups, espresso cups and rimmed saucers that celebrate Rashid’s art.


Creative collaboration between fashion and design: 62.04 Furniture Collection

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Launched during the Budapest design week 2011, the 62.04 Furniture Collection impresses through a selected unification of vintage and modern design lines. Ideas and concepts behind this modern furniture collection were designed by POS1T1ON Kollektíva, a Hungarian design studio offering creative services ranging from branding to interior design. Collaborating with USE UNUSED – a fashion brand from the new Hungarian fashion design industry -  they designed the collection by allowing each designer to contribute their own design philosophy to the project.

Not only this collaborating idea brought a new wind to the project, but it also helped the designers see how it feels to work together with fellow creative persons. High quality minimalism of the 50s, 60s and 70s was introduced to the collection, creating modern pieces influenced by each of the designer’s experience and vision. The result, as you can see, is an elegant, minimalist collection of furniture items that express Hungarian culture, fashion and 1960s architecture.


Christian Lacroix Furniture Collection for Sici

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To watch the company that bears your name warp into a shadow of its’ former haute couture glory would be, for many men, unbearable. For Christian Lacroix, however, it provided the impetus to launch into a career costuming ballets and operas across Europe, to act as an artistic advisor to the French mint and to jump into…furniture design. This may not seem like a natural extension for someone as visionary and exuberant as Lacroix, but to Maurizio Leo Placuzzi, president of mosaic manufacturer Sici, he was the obvious choice.

Drawing from Gallo-Roman ruins that were discovered underneath his great-grandparents’ house, Byzantine Empress Theodora and the bold, lavish trappings he imagined she would surround herself with, Lacroix’s furniture collaboration is a study in bright colors and sumptuous textures with a whimsical hints of lace, studs, braiding and embroidery. The pieces, ranging from capricious wing-back chairs and tables to poufs and fringed ottomans, seem to be meant to mismatch rather than match perfectly, evoking the sense that the pieces were collected over time rather than assembled all at once.

Not for the meek decorator, Lacroix for Sici captures perfectly his flamboyant design aesthetic in pieces that will be sure to add a theatrical pop to any room.


Sleek Modern Furniture Collection by LAMP Living

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The fantastic furniture collection from LAMP Living brings exquisite surfaces and fascinating shapes to the modern furniture market. Each piece displays a specific aesthetic – some are bold and powerful, others are elegant and modest. The colors and materials used play a big part in the final result – the designers perpetuate a modern style [...]

Pierre Favresse Perch Collection

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The Perch Collection, from the Paris design studio Pierre Favresse, consists of several pieces based on the same construction: a reading chair, coat rack, rocking chair, chair and desk with integrated light. With this collection, the design studio wanted to show a large family of functionalities working off the same principle. Colour scheme harmony is [...]

Forming History Furniture Concept by Tino Seubert

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German designer Tino Seubert developed a furniture concept called ‘Forming History’. The pieces of the collection draw upon famous historic events, for example, the Nuremberg Trials. It’s an interesting concept, yielding some fascinating pieces. From medesignmag.com Related Posts:March 25, 2011 -- Mabeo Furniture from Botswana, AfricaNovember 3, 2010 -- The IVY Seating Collection by Paola [...]

Mabeo Furniture from Botswana, Africa

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Mabeo is a furniture brand from Botswana, Africa. Mabeo focuses on good design, high levels of craftsmanship, and carefully selected sustainable raw materials and people. They collaborate with select international designers, including Patricia Urquiola and Claesson Koivisto Rune, and are committed to the production of high quality contemporary furniture in Botswana, Africa. Mabeo promotes sustainable [...]