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Global Warming Polar Bear Rug
Nanimarquina, the Spanish textiles company recently launched this global warming rug for the Valencia International Furniture Fair. The striking design created by the Mexican collective NEL depicts a polar bear stranded on an ice floe in the vast expanse of the Arctic sea. Polar bears as we know are at risk for global warming will melt much of the sea ice they need to get to their hunting areas.
The NEL collective consists of designers Ricardo Casas, Alejandro Castro, Héctor Esrawe, Emiliano Godoy and Cecilia León de la Barra who focus on innovative and thoughtful designs. Rugs have long been used as a cultural record so their polar bear rug sends an important message for our time. Their polar bear rug definitely fits perfectly with Nanimarquina’s new catalogue theme, global warming. - Via
Compact Desk for Apartments with a Limited Amount of Space
At a first glance this piece of furniture looks like a simple cabinet, but if you take a closer look you’ll see that this cabinet can be coverted into a 55″ full-size desk, making it a clever solution for studio apartments and multipurpose rooms. This innovative compact desk is an awesome piece of furniture that can be very useful in tight spaces. When open, the top of the cabinet reveals generous storage space for a laptop, plus cubbies with removable dividers to stow paper clips, rubber bands and other smalls. Below are a storage drawer and one letter and legal-size file. Integrated wood handles run the length of the drawers, which slide smoothly on ball-bearing glides. You can buy this piece of furniture from here for $499.00
Down Low Seating
Down Low is designed by Upwell and is a low seating unit designed to accommodate those living-room sessions, casual meetings, tv dining and especially gaming - whatever your thing may be …keep it on the Down Low. The Down Low is flexible Living Room seating created to engage low, or typical seating height scenarios. In these days consoles like Play Station, Xbox, Wii are more and more popular so these pieces of furniture would be an excellent choice for a good gaming party at the end of the weekend.
volant sofatags: livingroom
IT LOOKS LIKE INSIDE-OUT UPHOLSTERY TO US but Patricia Urquiola’s flowery Volant is actually supposed to be halfway between a couture dress and a shogun armor. We agree in theory, as the ruffled fabric does appear somewhat like a hiked skirt; the juxtaposition with skinny, trapezoidal legs seems a bit strange, however. We definitely prefer the sofa variant, which opts for a prudish full-length dress as some legs are best left d furniture
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Book House - Casa De Retiro Spiritual
There comes a time in our lives, when we need some time alone. And where can we do that better than in the middle of the nature. Architect Emilio Ambasz knew all these and in 1975 he designed the House of Spiritual Retreat (Casa De Retiro Spiritual).
Built on a 1,000 ha estate, the Book House is located just 25 miles (40km) north of Seville in Spain. Surrounded by the beautiful Sierra Morena mountains, in a Spanish countryside scenery, with a man-made lake, olive trees, evergreen oaks and wild flowers, the picture is close to perfection.
Two steep cantilevered staircases climb on the two tall white walls that rise like sails from the lush green ground, only to meet at the right place, a window that offers a great view of the whole area and especially over the lake. The most interesting thing is the mysteriously sunken courtyard.That’s where the actual house is. It has large rooms with hidden arrangements and light coming in through serpentine openings that will blow your mind.
That’s quite an artistic vision and Ambasz materialized it greatly. Check out the video below. - via UltimateHouse
Ikea Giftcard - Discount 20%
This giftcard from Ikea comes as a response to one of my readers that told me in the “Asking the Readers” post to post cheap things that people can buy. Ok today I’ve found tha Ikea has an offer between September 30, 2007 and December 22, 2007 and you’ll get an IKEA Gift Card worth 20% of this upholstery purchase price to spend the next time you visit IKEA! In order to get this gift card you have to buy any in-stock EKTORP, KLIPPAN, KARLSTAD, KRAMFORS or STOCKHOLM upholstry (that means any in-stock sofa, loveseat, chair, chaise, footstool or combination of any of these). - Via - Ikea
Awesome Sculptural Home in Somosaguas : Spain
Most of us, really appreciate when seeing a new design, but this awesome sculptural home in Somosaguas, Spain, is more than just a modern design and managed to get me drooling. Designed by A-cero Architects on the water’s Beverly Hills: Edge / Leather Sofa Sets, it’s a stratified building with texturized dark concrete facades, that promotes open space and will sure get you a wow when looking at the pictures. The most amazing things are the rooftop swimming pool that will get all the neighbors to die of envy and the fact that it has some breathtaking lights at night. Now that’s a place I’d love to live for the rest of my life, if I were to choose.
Modern Front Door Storage
I love modern furniture, and modern products. That’s why I also love this modern front door storage. With a sleek design this modern front door storage is equipped to store everything a person may be carrying when out side can be stored on when entering the home. This smart design has a place for everything as you can see. The door storage has four differently shaped polypropylene hooks, that can be arranged in any order, therefore suiting different people’s routines. - Via - YankoDesign
Dedalo Bookcase
Dedalo Bookcase is designed by Marconato & Zappa and is manufactured by Porada. The Dedalo Bookcase has a modern design and it can be used as a room divider or center against the wall. This uniquely designed bookcase features five round combined squares with round corners, that allows you to store a lot of things, in various ways.
Super Modern Sofas : "Pebbles" from Cappellini of Italy
Here is one of the most interesting modern sofas I have seen in a while from the Swedish design team of Martin Claesson, Eero Kolvisto, and Ola Rune. The eye-catching Pebbles Sofa release from Cappellini of Italy, lives up to their tradition of cutting Beverly Hills: Edge / Leather Sofa Sets ultra modern furniture that manages to defy trends. The Pebbles Sofa features an optional backrest that floats and swivels above the base of metal padded in multi-density polyurethane foam, covered in a bi-elastic fabric with feet and swivel mechanism in chromed metal. PB/6 Sofa $4628 94 1/2x63 x14 1/2 h PB/3 Back Rest $1552 59 3/4x29 1/2x11 h
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