Posts by Lana

The Artichoke lamp is an invention of 1958 year and now it is a true design classic. It was designed by Poul Henningsen and manufactured by Louis Poulsen. The PH Artichokes were produced by a number of companies, but not always the desired characteristics were achieved. The modern production technology allows to produce perfect and very beautiful lamps. The leaves are made of laser-cut steel, the stainless steel aircraft cables are used to hold a very heavy weight of the lamp construction. The whole construction, including the shape of the leaves, light and shadows, looks very impressive.

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Avatar movie has acquired a lot of fans all around the world not only because of its philosophy, but also because of fantastic beautiful animate nature. Every living thing is mesmerizing with its charming and unusually bright color palette. There is a good opportunity to bring something of the Avatar design into your life. This wonderful Avatar Bedside Lamp is the same one as we could watch in the movie, a sacred tree seed. The LED-lamp is energy saving and voice activated. If you are a little bit admirer of Avatar movie so you must have this magical light in your home.

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This site in Sungmam, Gyeounggi-do, (Korea) is not suitable for house bulding because of inclined and irregular form of the land. But architects (IROJE KHM Architects) have found a way to build here a wonderful beautiful house. They have adjusted the shape of the architecture to the shape of the site. The complex use of the house as an working place from the one hand and a living place - from the other have predetermined its construction: the building was separated into upper layer and underground layer. Inside there is a skip floor system which produces the visual and spatial continuity. There is one more wonderful decision - to build on the open space in each level the floating bamboo garden which provides an unusual impression.

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Children are great fantasists who have their peculiar and unique inner world. Today children are very different from us when we were in our childhood years. They need an opportunity to have a private space, just as adults have, where they organize their living space in their own way. So let the child develop harmoniously without disturbing his worldview. Playhouses by Smart Playhouses will help your child to feel himself the rightful owner of his small Kingdom. These miniature homes were inspired by Danish design, which is modest, functional and simple. They look just as the summer homes which many Scandinavians have. And only a greater range of colors and a little bit playful design shows their natural purpose.

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According to the medical requirements reading while lying on the back is not recommended, but if one has to resort to doing it there have to be directed powerful light on the subject of reading. That is the light should come from behind the reading person. The best solution for such situations is a pillowcase with integrated LED lights, designed by Takanori Matsukobo, which provides ambient light. There is one more useful opportunity of ‘Luminube’ – it is an alarm clock, which is programmed with smartphone. This invention is also very good for those children who are afraid of the dark.

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Once upon a time residents of one small apartment located in the building complex in Menuires (France) have decided to renovate their living space. The designers’ task was almost impossible: they had to maximize the space without modifying the supporting framework of the structure, to make two bathrooms instead of existing one and to place eight beds within the apartments 55m2 giving opportunity of separate access for each. It was a corner apartment with views in three cardinal directions therefore another task was to retain the possibility to enjoy the panoramas. The architects (h20 Architectes) have made the best decision: to make the wooden ‘furniture-wall’ inside the apartment. It solves the main problem – a lack of space, and serves an additional function of opening up the panoramic views in all directions. This furniture-wall provides access to all items of the construction. There are beds, storage, reading corner attached to a window, kitchen and bathroom. Sleeping nooks are divided with curtains and supplied with reading lamps. The whole furniture-wall is made of different types of high quality woods.

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Designer Wouter Scheublin studied at the Technical University of Delft and Design Academy Eindhoven and now he has his own design studio. Technical education and love for beauty of mechanics affects his present works as we can see it by the example of "Walking Table", one of his last works. As a unit of furniture, it is a usual table, but as a mechanical product of a designer's genius idea - it is a walking mechanism. When pushed, the table starts moving simulating the natural walking motion. Whether it was made for convenience or for fun only designer can answer. But in any case, this table may have caused the admiration of the most famous genius of mechanics - Leonadro Da Vinci.

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If your life is very mobile and you must relocate often, have to pack your bags, transporting them and unpack them so you just have to purchase a Bojaki collection. Funny from the first sight the idea of the collection has a grain of common sense and it is a practical solution for easing on transportation and production costs. Designer Jy Yeon Suh has tried to simplify packing process and has proposed to use inflatable, foldable, flat-pack housewares and furniture. The collection is made of very rigid and sturdy fabric and it is very compact also. Look at the pictures of the collection to find out what items are included.

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