This clever piece by much acclaimed Japanese designer Naoki Hirakoso has been recently revealed at the Tokyo Designers Week. The Yata Stool, a seemingly simple three-legged item, can do so much more than providing a place to sit. Thanks to the special grooves on the bottom of each leg, Yata can be stacked to create sturdy and elegant storage. It can also be arranged into […]
Stool with Lego Features
Floppy Coasters
As a retrospective throwback to the days of blue-screens and MS-DOS, Floppy Disk Coasters by Vectorcloud are a novel way to embrace one’s inner geek while protecting a table from glass ring marks. Made out of engraved birch ply, the old-school techcessory has the look and feel of those thin disks that were, at one time, the be-all and end-all […]
Space Exploited Effectively
Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture has designed the East Village live work studio in New York. With such a small amount of space to work with, they managed to excel in the organization and layout of this cool NYC condo. A sculpted wood-paneled central service core holds the kitchen, bath, closets, and sleeping loft. “A bedroom loft creates space for a […]
FishHotel for Your Beloved Fishes
Built to give your small fish a modern, stylish home, the Umbra FishHotel is a beautiful aquarium that lets you stack others on top of it to maximize space. Stack several FishHotels to create a great-looking fish condominium in your office or home. Winner of Canada’s Build A Better competition and designed by Teddy Luong, the FishHotel features a square […]
Multifunctional Geometric Frame
Designer David Hanauer had a very cool idea. He created a multifunctional geometric frame that can be transformed into a wall-mounted structure, capable to perform many different roles. It can be used as a home office, bar, shelving piece, dining table, media unit, and more. ”The object can either be placed on the floor or mounted to a wall, can exist visually as […]
Marshall Amp Fridge
If premium fabrication and innovation is design and technology wasn’t just enough, the Marshall Amp Fridge comes a perfect package for those, who really wish to listen to cool high-end audio. Combining the diverse functionalities an amplifier and a mini-cooler, the Marshall Amp fridge has taken a new turn in being cooler. Ideal for one’s music room or party hall, […]
Keeping Your Bath Warm
When you are in for a long soak, the cycle of water turning from comfortably warm to tepid to cold is frustrating. On rare occasions I indulge in draining out some cold and refilling with the warm water. But my eco-conscious mind chides me for it! Anyways, Warm On pebbles look to resolve this problem innovatively. The pebbles are sensor-fitted […]
White Stylish Clock
For those of us who still appreciate design with our function, telling time around our home will be much more pleasant with the White & White Digital LED Clock. Sporting the clean style of an Apple product, the White & White Digital LED Clock is the result of the initial interest in Vadim Kibardin’s White & Black clock. The unit […]
Reserve Toilet Rolls Holder
kkPappenhalter is a paper holder combined with toilet paper storage. A magazine hides the two reserve rolls behind. You can remove the mag to read or to refill the kk. It is mounted to the wall by two skrews zhat you can drill in the space between the tiles. kkPappenhalter [DesignSpray]
Shoe Box Apartment
Patrick Kennedy is a housing developer and a moving force behind the SmartSpaces development company. His vision is to built urban dwellings that would resemble his 78-square-foot Airstream travel trailer in efficiency and small space creativity. In this interview, shot by wonderful Kirsten Dirksen of Fair Companies, he shows a 160-square-foot test home (the smallest legal-sized apartment for California) inside a Berkeley […]