Sebastian Maluska Nest Tent - a lightweight pop-top roof top tent inspired by sailing materials. The ladder is stored in a fabric pocket under the sleeping surface.

Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, known for his use of gun powder to create art, recently used a whole lot of it pay tribute to his grandmother’s 100th birthday with a stunning art piece, “Sky Ladder”.

Light and Ladder - great little shop of simple geometric planters, vessels, hooks, lights and more in porcelain, wood, leather, and brass.

New website for Light + Ladder, fine objects inspired by the vivid simplicity of the natural world and the geometric lines of the modern city.

FEATUREDNOTFZJ80 Project: our ARB Simpson III Roof Top Tent. Cantilevering off our roof rack, you climb up the aluminum ladder to a nearly queen sized foam mattress and fun views. I'm still amazed it sets up in minutes.

ARB Simpson III Rooftop Tent and Annex (a zip on 3 walled room against your car that you can climb down the ladder into protect from the elements!) - and there's nearly a queen sized mattress inside.

As we explore the world of Overlanding for the NOTFZJ80 Project: Poler just launched their LeTent Rooftop Tent. Made of a heavy duty waterproof canvas with aluminum poles and ladder, a queen size foam mattress and plenty of ventilation.

'Contemporary Chinese Collections' Exhibit by designer Mike Mak, includes the Moon Reach Ladder, for the Hong Kong School of Design's 50th Exhibition.

The Hatch is a kinetic light sculpture half buried in the ground. Afar, it looks like an illuminated ladder. Above, one sees an endless tunnel to the bottom of the earth. By Liat Segal and Hagar Elazari, is showing at the Amsterdam Light Festival.

The Tenzing ladder designed by Fritz Specht takes it to the next level, literally. It’s soft birch wood finish makes it eligible for both the fix it jobs around the apartment and as a stylish furnishing.

Plant Bondage is a minimalist design created by York-based designer Light + Ladder.

Beautiful ladder by Charlie Styrbjörn Nilsson.

FEATUREDVerso Shelf by Mikko Halonen for One Nordic Furniture Company - these beautiful ladder-esque shelves are perfect for displaying books either spine out or cover first with the addition of shelves... (our NY Design Week Favorite so far!)

Charlie Styrbjörn's Ladder ~ made of bent ash wood

Smart Bookcase features a built-in ladder, an integral part of the design, where the rungs line up with shelves. Makes it easy to reach items on top shelf.

VIDEOCo&Co's The Corner Ladder, a ladder that can fit in any corner.

L'Albina by Gaia Bottari, a handmade birch ladder with calfskin tool bag promoted by Zanotta and Bosch for International Salone del Mobile 2012, in Milan.

VIDEOLed Zeppelin Ladder by Arthur Analts.

No need for a 25′ ladder when you can walk onto your rooftop! Take a look at A-Cero's Concrete House II.

Stacking Heavy Duty Tomato Ladders in red or green!

Ladder in the library is the most important tool and needs to take or put a book on high ground on a bookshelf.

Carbon fiber ladder by Marc Newson which weighs just 2.2 and holds up to 220 pounds of weight.

VIDEOInside the Ladder Shop at the San Francisco Fire Department

New ladder by Christopher Mark Johnson is a new look at the traditional step ladder. Made of beech and stainless steel, this ladder is super compact!

Karl Malmvall designed this sleak ladder for Design House Stockholm. It's part of the 2010 product range of DHS and will be released very soon.

Designer Casimir was inspired by the ladder’s original form and function – a movable stairway – and an immovable shelving unit have now been merged one, by extending the ladder’s rungs into shelves and cases of different sizes.

The Moon Reach is a beautiful ladder uses the charactor of chinese calligraphy 「月」as a concept.

Doc, a modern sofa with a removable cover, from resource furniture converts into bunk beds with a built-in ladder. What a great space saver!

To advertise the wide variety of options available to cut hair in the salon JuiceHair in India, a picture of a man to his forehead, was pasted on the base of the escalator of a shopping and several different cuts in each of the steps of the ladder.

Awesome traditional looking chair that transforms into a step ladder

Cima Ladder by Sergio Mahler and George Papadogiannis

Sid and Nancy making a comeback, be it one step down the evolutionary ladder. Punk's not dead!

Soviet Playgrounds by Zupagrafika "documents the mass-produced, yet diverse play equipment installed in the communal spaces of socialist-era housing estates, such as rocket slides and earth-shaped climbers, spaceships and animal-themed ladders"

Life in advertising as a shoots and ladders game. Funny. By Munna on the Run (Hemant Anant Jain).

Holler Design's LadderBackStudies are inspired by traditional furniture of rural America. They investigate traditional furniture forms through the contemporary lens of digital fabrication, reinterpreting functional typologies and manufacturing techniques.

Amphibian Dynamic Scuba Fin by Designcraft. Allows divers to walk and climb boat ladders without removing their fins.

WOW!! Ladders in your tights, caused by your ripped nails… and an important date? With the fantastic Rasp Ring these situations will be a thing of the past, because you’ll have your rasp always with you!