From the inspired Brazilian collective TOUCH, the handcrafted work of Patricio Lix Klett and his La Feliz Collection.

Witches' kitchen utensils from Tord Boontje

Using planilum technology, these plates are the world’s first active light-emitting glass. Incorporated into shelves and tables, the technology provides beautiful, understated lighting for homes and offices.

Modern, classic pottery from the Japanese company with the short name J. (J-period). My favorite is probably the Yokei tea pot made out of yakishime (unglazed natural clay).

The bulthaup b2 is a new way to live the kitchen. Discover this collaboration between Bulthaup and EOOS !

Windwheel stool concept by Choi Seoghwan. A multi-functional furniture that consist a stool, table and book container. Calling it the “Pinwheel Whirling In The Wind” because its resemble a shape of windwheel.

The "Antigravity Chandelier" an exquisite object from japanese designer Jun Tase. Is a lamp and a coat hanger at the same time.

Lovely wooden furniture by award winning Matthew Hilton for Case Furniture. I really enjoy his tables and the bed in the Valentine series.

Spout lamp by Eric Holzer just another lamp that show a simplicity in design. The Spout lamp build in flexible - where the flexible connection between the lamp allow for many custom setups from user.

The Snow Stool by Baek-Ki Kim was inspired by a scene of ‘ Korean traditional food jars on a terrace covered in snow. It is a dual functional stool can be used both as a stool and a storage container if you want.

Lovegrove and Repucci have just released their follow up to their New York Delft Dinnerware with this set of London Delft Dinnerware. 5 piece porcelain place setting is 100$. And totally cool.

In 1957 the Norwegian designer, Hans Brattrud, designed the chair collection Scandia. Now the classic chairs are back, manufactured by Fjordfiesta furniture.

BKLYN Designs features some incredible local designers that use locally-sourced materials, sustainable production methods, and high-quality hand-craftsmanship.

Opal is a portable ceramic light that can be used wirelessly in any room of the house. It can be sat on the table, held in the hand or suspended on the string provided. The translucent bone China shell emits a warm glow similar to that of a candle.

Curly-Sue is a distinctive and innovative desk lamp designed by Wendy Tytherleigh. The lamp has a collapsible and spiral shade which allows the user to achieve varying light levels without the use of a conventional dimmer switch.

Norm 03 steel. New lamp from Normann Copenhagen

Nice ceramic creations from Argentinean artist Lola Goldstein. I especially like the practical stuff like the egg cups and tea pot.

Trilight is a multi-functional lamp by Dutch designer Dave Keune. The lamp is made out of molded from semi-transparent polyethylene plastics and can both hang and/or stand.

Ceramica Flaminia’s new Leggera Bathtub

Kitchen Workstation by Schulte Design - Ooooh a giant woody rolling kitchen island, with built in sockets and an ideal laptop hiding space!

"Melting Thonet", part of the series "Thoneteando" by Argentinian designer and sculptor Pablo Reinoso.

Flore de Crombrugghe is responsible for this design, the transparent bath. Flore has added measurements on a transparent bath, allowing you to see how many bottles of drinkable water you are actually wasting.

Coffin Couches sells sofas made from actual recycled 18 gauge steel coffins. With options in leather colors and styles, they cost $3,500.00 each. They even have a pony hide coffin couch and a Dodger Blue one!

Coarse Toys turned now one of Vans's most classic models, the Sk8 Hi, into a chair. Really nice decorative piece and extra chair when you have people over!

The Castlight by David Weeks looks like a candlestick and it is, but it's also an LED flashlight.Pick it up by it's rubberized grip, twist the handle, and you're holding a powerful LED flashlight. It can be used simultaneously for an ambient effect.

The Wall Cleat is designer Karl Zahn's answer to the question, "What use is an electrical plug when your not plugged in?" A truly innovative blessing for the neat-freaks and cord-tangle haters out there.

Milk Gone Bad is a series of 8 illustrated lamps by Bombo shaped like milk cartons. The light turns on to show the product’s real contents, a startling imaginary world of mold. In conjunction with AnAtomic factory.

Shade, Sketched pieces of furniture, hand drawn by Front Design of Stockholm become 3d pieces like materialized illustrations. Great pieces, presently exhibited at SPAZIO ROSSANA ORLANDI.

Stack is a floating drawer unit designed by Shay Alkalay and produced by Established & Sons. A colorful and new way to think about something as boring as storage.

Trays can be tricky to carry. Danish designer Klaus Rath has for Stelton designed a very nice tray that could solve that problem.

Yet another cool piece of animal shaped furniture. This one is the Sultan Dog Stool from Ibride. Available in red or black.

Swedish designer Monica Förster brings a bunch of new creations to Milan this year. Her furniture has a clean, modern Scandinavian style that reminds me a bit of Norways Says.

Ron Arad's bath for Teuco is wall mounted, and can be rotated to become a standing shower. And i guess the drain is just somewhere on your bathroom floor???

Swedish Proudly are showing at the Salone Satellite in Milan for the first time. With them they got two nice lamps, Wallop and Void.

A review with a selection of interior photographs for Phaidon’s newly released AREA_2.

Tord Boontje's latest project involves kitchenware produce by South American artisan communities. A great execution of design intent, and working with their traditional techniques!

Dekast by Michael Doyen Furniture is a new modular shelving system that is customizable with Kvadrat textiles. Produced in conjunction with TuttoBeNe, it's premiering at Milan's Furniture Fair this month.

Let 31 industrial design students work together but isolated - on the same project? Inspired by the folded sketch, a child’s game where you draw one part of a character not knowing how the previous or next person will draw theirs.

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.

No design studio is complete without one: the history of the Herman Miller Aeron chair

Another great twist on traditional looking toile or damask wallpaper is Dan Funderburgh's City park with it's parking meters and fire hydrant design. For flavor Paper. Available in 4 combinations.

Iris by Michaël Bihain is a coffee table that you can pile. It is made from a single sheet of steel and comes in black or white. [Editor's Note: looks like a lesser version of Ross Lovegrove's in #9166]

Stefan Borselius chair Boo is designed to be stackable and easy to store. Boo is chair in molded felt and textile, with the material in the seat rim pressed to it limit and a stand of chrome-plated steel.

Conceptual textiles by Julie Krakowski - Coffee & Cigarettes explore the traces and stains left on linens.

Intriguing Pro-Kitchen - "the affordable, all-in-one, professional kitchen set for everyday cooks. 36-piece set has every must-have item for a well equipped kitchen" from commercial restaurant suppliers

Art Lebedev's Defendius Door Chain lock is absolutely beautiful. But don't try making a quick and dramatic exit with it or you'll look hilarious!

ZIG is the new bookcase designed by Ryan Frank which will be presented at next design week in Milan. It's fully made by bamboo.

Jeannie Choe and Steve Tomlinson's latest mirror for Areaware, The Deathwish Mirror, is a great combination of a Victorian Silhouette, Kaws-like cartoon "dead eyes" and a wall mirror that doubles as art. I must have one!

The latest in Harry Allen's Reality series is the cast resin white rollerskate to be used as a book end or doorstop. The "Roller stop" is also available in green. $105.00USD

FEATUREDOle Jensen has scaled up his iconic Washbowl and Brush to make a rubber bath tub! Will be shown in this years salone in milan at the MINDCRAFT Exhibition

Red Dot Design Winners for 2008 have been announced. Record entries this year, plus the jury selection criteria and the observed trends from each category.

Like an hyperactive 3 year old, the little Yellow Drum Machine Robot wanders around the house looking for objects to drum on. [Editor's Note: Clocky could learn a thing or two from this guy]

The Adacto collection of wall mounted radiators are modular and customizable with colors and various finishes, so they look like wall art or wall panels and function as a radiator (and heated towel rack).

The well known garland by Tord Boontje is now available as a table lamp in either a polished steel or polished brass finish.

Rollout of Vancouver sells a series of unusual artist series wallpaper as well as creating custom wallpapers from your art designed to fit your space. Fabulous selection. Check them out.

Firewinder is a wind-powered led light which works with the smallest breeze.

Swedish Sassabrassa has made something different with egg cups out of Sigvard Bernadotte classic Virrvarr-pattern. The cup also doubles as a napkin ring.

"Gro", by Swedish designer Caroline Wetterling, is a totally self-contained mini-greenhouse large enough for one very well-displayed little plant.

Roundup of Pantone and Pantone inspired products available globally. Some are on sale and some are yet to come! From toys and mugs, to paintings and clothing... all things Pantone.

I would love to have a blind with a tree silhouette printed on it even if it wasn't a giant piece of ASCII art. By dutch designer Nienke Sybrandy

Clip Alphabetical | Designer Stephen Reed, created such interesting clips where each has a letter, thus serving to organize more easily, for example, documents that are required separated by alphabetical order!

Bathman, designed by italian Massimiliano De Falco, is public toilet made using steel. It looks like a paper-folding .

Sheer is an amazing kitchen which can be closed to appear like a sphere.
Designed and produced in Italy.

These fabulous mirrors by Jean-Marie Masaud for Glass Italia slowly fade from reflective to transparent.

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!

Matroshka must be the compact living lovers wet dream. It can become as small as 4 square meters and houses a book self, double bed, sofa, dinner table, four stools, desk, wardrobe and a bunch of storage. Cool concept from four Swedish design students.

Alaska is a nice and light chair design from Tanya Aguiñiga.

Finally a dutch company is selling stickers to take the edge off that ugly satellite dish! Initially a design contest, the winning entries include a sunflower, a cat, canadian maple leaf, the Turkish design shown above and more.

usTogether have some very slick and stylish bathroom designs. almost futuristic stuff

Tent Husky, be Design-Brothers - This tent design is inspired by nature and see the other images and sketches of how it resembles a large covered fallen tree branch.

FEATURED"Split wood" vases from the Laminated Bamboo Lumber Project by Japanese design collective Teori. Yum.

Beautiful/Decay teamed up with Montreal based design company Furni to create a custom-built, hand-made magazine rack. Came out really nice!

The idea to design a bare light bulb hanging down from the ceiling sometimes will create a special atmosphere. But, if I wanted to place some bulb hanging on my ceiling sure I will go with this design, The Tin Lamp by Yar Rassadin.

A corian table embedded with 2400 LED lights and 2 trackpads turns it into a modern version of the 1972 Atari Pong game. Designed by Moritz Waldemeyer, it's part of MoMA's Design & the Elastic Mind Exhibit.

Designer Fevzi Karaman's space-saving concept kitchen.

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.

"Floorplan Plates, why rent when you can own?" available at Fishs Eddy

The UFO lamp part of the Nuno Texeira project, This design had a strong visual impact through high-gloss colors and sculptural body.

FEATUREDThe Fruit-Template - part of nendo's collection of 1% projects - where only 100 pieces of each product were made - "to give owners the chance to experience the joy of owning 1%"!

Finally, someone has designed nice looking wood or metal diningroom tables that easily convert to a pool or gaming table. Fusion Tables are available in several sizes and finishes and they are all very nicely designed!

The AWARE Lifestyle Collection is a collection of thoughtfully designed energy aware products that fit into people’s everyday life, their personal needs and their different lifestyles.

Hi-Can project by Italian designer Edoardo Carlino, this concept is a bed that smartly integrates with great sound system and screen to watch movies, play games and surf the internet - all in one place.

Hansen Living introduces three new eco-friendly solid wood kitchen designs by architect Knut Knapper. Handcrafted, warm, all-natural modernism at its best.

FEATURED"How can we be creative when there is so much red tape in Singapore?" - Innovative products from Singaporean designer &Larry.

I like these angel and demon salt and pepper shakers from Russian designer Yar Rassadin for Koziol

Aquala Bath Caddy designed by Luciano Lorenzatti for Umbra. Made from totally sustainable Bamboo, and has an ingenious slide-in tray to hold a glass of wine or champers while you take a bath.

if like us, you're on the search for the perfect mix of minimalism and functionality in your kitchen, then perhaps you need look no further than boffi...

A bear skin rug made out of urethane rubber. Designed by London based designer Eelko Moorer.

Authentics' Inside Out Cabinet is wall-mounted and painted bright yellow with fun illustrations of bottles and items that would go INSIDE a typical medicine- only they are on the OUTSIDE. Art that is functional!

Gran Turismo by Swedish Mårten Claesson is a nice and clean line of furniture. Available as easy chair, stool, bench, 2 and 3 seat sofa and table.

FEATUREDInnovative products by Thai designer Anon Pairot ~ from vase/ashtray combos, to chairs, and more!

tPod is a tea bag concept by Elisabeth Soós. They are small paper boats attached to tea bags. Sort of a anchor made out of tea.

Diagram by Swedish Nola is a bench for the public spaces. With its soft almost surreal shape I can easily see it outside a modern art museum.

FEATUREDSexy stacking chairs by Four Design!

The collaboration between children's modern furniture manufacturer, Argington and ODA have yielded a new bassinet and easel for children which use earth-friendly materials and look awesome! Debuted last week.

Designed by Satina Turner for Umbra.
Solid wood coffee table with slots in the surface for magazines.
39 x 19 x 13" (99 x 48 x 33 cm)

Can Sayinli & Jørgen Evil Ekvoll silk rugs are amazing. This is their 'drug' rug, but take a look at the sex rug, the rock and roll rug and the war rug --which sold at Art Basel Miami for $60, 000. USD

I find Thorunn Arnadottir's clock design very interesting. The mechanism slowly ticks the beads every 5 minutes, with a red bead for every hour and a gold one for noon/midnight

Ceci n'est pas une lampe by Sander Mulder is a lamp (even if the name says otherwise) made up by hand blown glass. Lamp becomes shade, shade becomes lamp.

The Versailles Fluo is a collection of traditional looking porcelain tableware but with a modern twist. One handle, base or element of each piece is glazed in a bright color. Formal and fun at the same time.

Great handmade wooden tables and sideboards by the small Finnish company Fiskarsin Puusepät Oy.

A very cool black out curtain called Better View gives the illusion of a city scape outside your window . Designed by Elina Aalto for SAUMA. Available in black or grey and from 2 different images.

The knuckle duster mug by Thabto LTD. Their website states that the handle will "ensure nobody steals your biscuits." I want.

FEATUREDWant not, waste not - some amazing work by Studio Lo.

I don't know why I'm just discovering this, but I love. Akemi Tenaka's Tagei eco-friendly, convertible coffee table/bench.

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.

I spent a bit of time on Seletti's website, thanks to e-cool's post #8098. Their World Dinnerware series includes some of my favorites: New York, Tokyo, Venice, Rome, Paris and London.

Davone unveiled Rithm at CES, yet another designer loudspeaker. This one uses danish design and lovely woods to emulate furniture more than tech audio. Available in various woods.

A luxury leather fly swatter from Bill Amberg and designed by Sebastian Bergne. Cost? $108.00 USD.
Are your flies worthy?

With inspiration from nature Emogayu creates ceramics vases and pots. The series is called Volcano.

The Multi Culti by Bas van der Veer allows you to plant four herbs or plants in one communal vase. Available in black or white.

Diamonds in Glass (DIG) has come up with a new use for bling. They suspend real diamonds in the stems of glasses, keyrings, napkin rings, perfume bottles, ashtrays and of course, jewelry. They also have a video of the process on their site.

Design*Sponge highlights this incredible bathroom. I now need a matte black classic bathtub with that shiny white spilling out of it someday... only mine would have crazy claws/feet not wood blocks.

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

Nameeks bathrooms are the epitome of simple luxury and escapist relaxation.

Straight from the less-is-more department, these bird bowls by Coe & Waito of Toronto. Simple, sweet.

Glänta is a lamp designed by Johan Carpner. It's 1 meter and diameter and weighs in at 20 kg. It makes me want a bigger apartment so I had room to hang it.

Matteo Thun's Pluviae : The shower head at the end of the shower curtain rail.......simple and ingenious.

These Book "shelves" are wall mounted picture frames. 3 different styles, all beautiful. Produced by Presse Citron and designed by Clotilde de GRAVE and Didier CHAUDANSON. size: 40x32x8.5cm

Tile Tattoos! A nice variation to the wall stickers ~ cute way to spruce up tile bathrooms, kitchens, etc? by mibo

Vivid Audio will unveil this new bizarre shaped loudspeaker sound sytem, the G1 GIYA at next week's CES in Las Vegas. Suggested price? A measly $54,000. USD.

The light-emitting plastic that make up the airLUCE lamps gives the lamps a interesting shape and almost eerie glow.

The Nimbus Cloud suspension light comes in blue or white and would not only look adorable in a child's room, but think of many of them hanging at different heights from a high ceiling! Propylene.

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

Joshua Ben Longo's cuddly but curious creations are a must-see. With felt wool monster rugs , furry monsters that have anatomically correct bums & more. The above pic is of the Longoland booth at Brooklyn Design 07

Bloom's fresco loft baby chair wouldn't look out of place next to Eero Aarnio's bubble chairs for mom and dad.

Nick Foley's Pear Light tree even lets you pick the magnetized fruits off their charging branches for portable lighting. The only thing missing is a robot partridge.

Tub tattoos (stickers) for your bathtub. Reenact Herman Melville's classic book Moby Dick in the comfort of your own bathtub!

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.

Air-sickness bags were the inspiration for a series of vases and dishes designed by Hedwig Rotter and produced by mano designs of Vienna. They have air india and air thai as well.

What is the value of energy? A mindful play of extensions in objects and their use.

Vujj is a small furniture manufacturer from Malmö, Sweden. If you ask me, their furniture is innovative and timeless.

Studio Job's newest work was unveiled at Design Miami. This table is a patinated bronze “factory”, whose four chimneys produce a “polluted cloud” of polished bronze, which becomes the open-work tabletop.

Vatne Hawk, by designer Olav Eldøy, is a modern version of Charles Eames classic lounge chair and ottoman

Woof Love! 12 Artists have each decorated a Magis Puppy for an auction whose partial proceeds go to Action for Singapore Dogs. Auction ends January 6th and you can download bids forms here.

The Cortina electric kettle (by Metaphys) was presented at 100% Design Tokyo Week last month.

Bel-Air is a plant based air filtering system designed by Mathieu Lehanneur. Great design, even if I'm sure the plants would do just as well without the little glass bubble.

Supratherm is a radiant glass heater, but the slick design is raised to the next level by the amazing fire image printed on the panel.

I wish +D had a non-japanese shop, so I could get some of their brilliant designs, like the PhotoHangers, which are paperclip sized hanger for pictures and more.

These new Tea Code cups by Gazin Create have a silicone button -available in three colors-- to which to attach your tea bag. The mugs are double walled too, keeping the tea hot and not your hands.

Called SOUND, Visionaire 53 has five 12 inch vinyl picture discs packaged inside a dome case. Each issue includes a MINI clubman vinyl killer record player: A battery operated toy car that acts as a portable record player. 4,000 made.

Wood bath mats feel so nice when you step out of the shower ~ here's a great teak/steel one - 23"L x 15.5"W x 1"H

Magnetique is any cupboard you want it to be. Designed by Swen Krause, it's a magnetic sheet mounted on the wall and you can choose from various magnetic boxes to put on it, so there is a new shelf everytime you change it.

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!