Posts by Lana

Duffy London company has presented its new product for a collection Summer 2012. This assembly is worth to be called work of art rather than just furniture. It produces illusion of an endless surface, when the object becomes a unit; all parts of it are like an integral continuation of each other. ‘Surf-ace Table and Bench’ is the name of this assembly. It is a hand made from a solid wood by talented artisan craftsmen, and it took a very long time and great efforts to make it. ‘Surf-ace Table and Bench’ is a limited edition because of rather big price and labor intensive.

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'Woody' is a collection of three types of lamps with different designs, but the basis of each - is using of hornbeam wood. This nice collection is created by French manufacturing company of contemporary lamps - goodbye edison that investigates the capacity of the LEDs to spread a softer indirect light. The names of the lamps are W01, W02 and W03 in order of increasing their heights. The smallest one is a 'W01' resembles a mushroom or a small lit table in its appearance. It has an LED light source of 24V and can be placed on a desk or a table. 'W02' and 'W03' have more complicated construction with a hornbeam dowel that reflects the light from a round-shaped white matte steel backdrop with a lighting element embedded into it. The lamps produce enjoyable soft glow.

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This ensemble was created by British design group duffy london to make a dinner time a little bit funny and bright. Eight chairs float around the table under the central GEO lampshade that mysteriously illuminats everything happening underneath. It is very comfortable to sit on a swinging chair, drinking tea and talking with nice people and incidentally doing helpful exercises for a posture. Construction is made of a steel frame and wooden table top. Placed in the garden or courtyard or even in the big kitchen it will be suitable for a big house with a large family and numerous companies.

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This excellent idea to create the Garden Rug came to the mind of London-based designer Pia Wustenberg. For people who live in an apartment of a big city and has no possibility to enjoy the nature this rug would be very helpful solution. The rug is made from an organic material that favors the germination of green plants. It is very soft and pleasant to the touch. When one lie on the rug one feels like he is sinking into a grass pillow. Moreover it is very beautiful due to the natural patterns formed by plants. There is one more great advantage of the rug – it can be watered.

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This house is located in the south of Jakarta, Indonesia. The name of the house is ‘Distort house’, because of its unusual form. Nature of the surroundings - it is a lush and tropical forest. There are some old big tropical trees just in the front part of the place where house is located. To leave vast green area, the house was built close to the back part of the place and twisted in 15 degree. So this design features is not the idea to attract attention by the extraordinary appearance, it's an interesting designers’ (TWS & Partners) decision to open a more huge front space striking back as view and beautiful view. [caption id="attachment_22839" align="aligncenter" width="620"] photo © Fernando Gomulya [/caption]

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This extraordinary house designed by Spanish architect Victor Lusquiños is situated in the most appropriate place for the house of such design - on the beach. The levels of the house smoothly flowing into each other and reminding the rapids of the waves, very naturally fit the surroundings sea. The frontal part and the interior of the 'Olas!'-house overlook the beautifulness of the endless sea and sky. The curving forms of the main construction became possible due to the using the ceramic tiles as a material. In the front of the house there is a pool that makes the transition from construction to nature more natural and unconstrained. The house accommodates many rooms and much space inside. The level 0 has swimming pool, kitchen, porch, entry foyer, bathroom, living room and stairs. Level 1 has bedroom and bedroom terrace and there is a solarium in the level 2. [caption id="attachment_22832" align="aligncenter" width="620"]image © victor lusquiños[/caption]

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AnLstudio has just completed its extraordinary project - "house WING" in Seoul (Korea). It is a renovated for an artist apartment, but the building is so unique that it would be better to consider it as individual work of art. The apartment is situated on the tenth floor of a historical landmark building. The space was visually divided by white framework into two clusters. This white construction has a form of airplane wing with strip light fixtures embedded into it. Lamps illuminate the entry, living room, library and study. The bedroom, kitchen and bathroom are located away from the public zone. [caption id="attachment_22812" align="aligncenter" width="620"] house wing[/caption]

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It's great when designers try to worry not only about aesthetics and beauty of the products, but also about its functionality and usability. This pillow of Hoodiepillow is a wonderful confirmation of it. Innovation and main usefulness of this pillow is in its hood. First of all the hood can be used as neck support or back support, and of course, it will shield from distracting light and noise. The pillow is very comfortable for reading, TV watching, resting, sleeping and relaxing. There are many different colors of the pillows to everybody's taste.

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