The 8 finalists out of over 900 entries of the 2009 Electrolux Designlab competition have been announced. Here they are, the designers and a video, too.

Foosballl Coffee Table. Manufactured from Solid Oak with a Stainless Steel frame and a glass top to protect the mirrored football pitch underneath.Designed and handcrafted by Howard Bushell

The See Saw bookshelf. Designed By BCXSY.
By playing with balance, the See-Saw bookshelf visualizes the breadth of our home libraries. Walnut wood with powder coated steel parts.

The leather covered wood trunk by Pinel & Pinel delivered with a folding bike by Brompton type M6R available in about 10 colors!

Atelier Bow Wow of japan has come up with a collection of Dog Chairs. That's right, chairs for dogs, designed in several sizes to fit Chihuahuas to Borzois, they were recently exhibited at Design Tide In Tokyo.

Austrian ceramicist Renate Hattinger unveiled her series of porcelain hearts and brains at Blikfang 2007 in Zurich last month. In Biscuit or Gold, you can order them at www. Pureaustriandesign.com. But look at her other work as well.

Woofy is a cable container dog designed by Gabriel Nigro for Normann Copenhagen. Woofy is your new friend and a personalised way to conceal cables. Launch party for Woofy in black is now!

The famous RED BLUE chair by Gerrit Rietveld Chair made entirely of legos and available in a limited edition of 5. 6% larger than the original chair and designed by Mario Minale - Droog!

Sitting Comfortably? wallpaper by mini moderns can be enjoyed alone or colored in like an adult coloring book. With nice line art, it even includes the Eames Elephant Chair!

Reiko Kaneko's Drip Candlestick is made entirely of china and gives the appearance of a melting candle. Available in glossy white or black.

The Vroom Divider. Constructed from cad-cut "rubber" vinyl, backed with black mesh so it hangs perfectly. Clip sets for hanging included.

Now you can own an action figure of Brussels artist Wim Delvoye, the guy known for tattooing live pigs and the Cloaca machine. Limited edition.

Les Atelier Ruby, french makers of luxurious crash helmets , have a signature edition designed by French graffiti artist, honet. Great way to keep your brains in your skull.

Thelermont Hupton's Blow-Up lights are beautiful blown glass sculptures of things like balloon dogs and hand grenades. All seem to be available for purchase.

Sculptural Working See-saw is a functional, decorative outdoor furniture piece sure to inspire conversation. Designed for two and sized for adults.

The Secjo vanity is a wild combination of a full length leaning mirror, with working sink (faucet and basin) as well as electrical lamp. Not yet available but in production. By Alta Marea of Italy.

Moore And Moore's "hotties" are luxury FAUX fur hot water bottles. The ultimate gift for the sore and crampy. From mink to artic fox and even fun colors are available.

David Tomb's Art Exhibit, Birds Of The Sierra Madre, may not open until Spring 2008, but these amazing paintings are already selling fast. A nice departure from all the bird silhouette art!

Fun sushi snackplates with photographic sushi preprinted upon them. Comes in a set of four.

These are porcelain vases made exquisitely to look like supple leather. Imagine how unusual with flowers in them. Leather Vase $295.oo a piece.
Designer: Madieke Fleuren

designer:Giuseppe Canevese for Ennezero, Italy.
Graphics printed on white polished MDF, sealed with lacquertop and back in black lacquered MDFlacquered aluminum feet. $7,680.00 USD

Tiny little stags head pushpins!

These amazing photos of silvered nudes from his SILVEREYE series by Guido Argentini are available now as limited edition prints!

Cake Designer April Reed has made this year's hippest (and most expensive at $4,320) gingerbread house based on the mid century modern masterpiece, The Farnsworth House, by Meis van der Rohe.

Theo is a modern piggy bank in several different editions designed by Morphorm's Martin Schatz, in cooperation with Lee Kmji. Theo is produced in Thuringia by Wallendorfer Porzellanmanufaktur. Check 'em out!

Woody Wood by Yvette Laduk (YL design) is a round carpet with a print of cross-section of a tree. The rug’s border is cut, burned and sprayed.

This fun open teeth bank is limited to a production of 400. It was designed by artist KAWS for Original Fake and made by medicom. Soft vinyl and measures 5" tall.

Birds In Flight by Alena Hennessey are large beautiful sculptures (the wingspan is 17" across) and available in 4 colors. From $180-$210 USD

Erica Wakerly's House wallpaper, just one of her very cool wallpapers and fabrics. Check them out-her illustrations too!

LG teams up with Designers Guild in the UK to create these stunning designer washing machines!

Invicta's wood burning stoves and fireplaces are the perfect touch for any home.They have just introduced a new and more modern line.

The Chair-air by Zo Designs takes a classic silhouette and adds a PVC inflatable cushion on the seat and seat back. An inflatable classic, if you will...

Christofle now has real diamond studded sterling silver flatware! Talk about a formal table setting!
Service for one? $18,600 smackeroos.

Vipp and Helena Christensen have solicited designers to create trash cans for a charity auction to benefit Food Bank NY and CCPI. Here's a sneak peek at some of the offerings. Auction takes place Sept. 18th

No shortage of amazing rugs out there and newcomers Reuber Henning has some fabulous ones! This is fairy-tale. All silk and wool, hand knotted.

E. V. Day’s ‘‘Mummified Barbie’’ series is a wry commentary on society’s obsession with preserving female beauty. This one is $3,000 at Deitch Projects, 76 Grand Street.

Carpet made to resemble Roy Lichtenstein's work! Fabulous and available at artware editions!

It's Mondrian Madness! Everything from Nike's SB low dunks to a wall mounted fireplace, Naef blocks to Christian Louboutin's wedges. These items are all based on dutch painter Piet Mondrian's compositions in red, yellow and blue.

Tord Boontje has come out with new table lamps made of gauze streched over wire. Available in garden green or white, they come out in October.

A Rocking Horse for grown-ups made of bamboo by Celery Furniture!! Of course they make one for kids too and call it a Rocking Pony. How fun is that?

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has created two collections of carpets for Colorline of the Netherlands. The World Carpets and Tartan play off of layered patterns and multiple colors. Unlike any flooring out there.

This year Lladro hired British design team Committee to hip up their products in their latest Re-Cyclos collection. Not yet available for purchase, it also includes new Bodo Sperlein and Jaime Hayon pieces.

Ross Lovegrove & Repucci have created this wonderful dinnerware set that is a Gritty New York Graffitti Version of classic Blue Delft Porcelain Dinnerware. Sold in sets.

30 limited edition hand-painted and adorned 'nestkeepers' by artist Blaine Fontana. After 3 years, he has just completed the collection and they each are now available for sale.

Samsonite's Black Label Collection by Alexander McQueen Goes silver. The hardside "rib cage' case and the travel case in croc texture are both launched in a special silver finish this month. Wild.

The Powerblock is a modern sculptural hidden powerstrip or recharging station. It kinda looks like a mouse made a Geodesic dome for his entrance.. Designed by Jérôme LOPÉ & Johann AUMAITRE