Vic

Viña del Mar based design studio Elemento Diseño (Jaime Zuñiga and Emmanuel Gonzalez) have created Vic – a minimal coffee table for Quattria– a Barcelona based design company of contemporary furniture, who’s focus is developing the ideas of young designers.

Made from plywood and lacquered in white, the Vic coffee table, comprising of just three pieces, is assembled without any tools and would literally take seconds for one to do so. Vic measures 1150 x 700 x 402 mm.

Contemporary Moroccan tiles

Swedish design and architecture studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has created reinterpretations of traditional Moroccan cement tiles for company Marrakech Design.

Using traditional materials and an old artisanal production process, the studio created three clean patterns – Stone, Dandelion and Casa– that are obviously inspired by classical Arabic geometry as well as Japanese aesthetics, with a Scandinavian twist to them.

Available in several colors, the three tile designs can be arranged in various ways, offering several different macro-patterns for each. There is also the possibility to dispose the tiles in random ways, providing non-repetitive formations.

Dancing Living House

Designer Junichi Sampei (A.L.X. (Architect Label Xain) came up with a new house that can combine the needs of a home with those of a dancing studio. Located in Yokohama, Japan, this Dancing Living House had put other houses in the neighborhood hide to humiliation. The three stories reinforced concrete building has a big glass corner that invites sunlight in and features white styled futuristic exterior to enhance the dynamic mood and to bring in fresh energies all day long.
Photo © Kouichi Torimura

TMA-1

Designed by Danish design firm KIBISI, the AIAIAI's TMA-1′s headphones cut a stripped-down physical profile with no joints to weaken their structural durability. Their solid construction is backed by a detailed headstage that makes them an excellent candidate for any DJ shopping for a stylish headset and neutral tonality for mixing music. The matte black finish is beautiful, made of a durable nylon material with an adjustable headband, using a “notch” like system.

The TMA-1 appropriately apes its name from Arthur C. Clark's "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Le Marche Villa

Converted into a vacation home with a guest house, Casa Olivi is located on a hill in Treia and is a result of a 4-year renovation process by Swiss architects Markus Wespi and Jerome de Meuron. The 300-year old villa was destroyed by fire in 1995 but the architects revived it with modern lines while being respectful of the original footprint.

Haerfest Bag Collection

Brothers Tim and Dan Joo of fashion brand Haerfest, based in New York, have developed the B Collection of bags for Spring/Summer 2012 as well as the Capsule Collection. The bags follow a reducible aesthetic, aiming for an understated and urban sensibility.

Influenced by 1960s minimalism, the SS12 B Collection includes four bags – two backpacks, duffel and tote – in a range of four colours – black, grey, red and navy. The Capsule Collection includes a backpack, two duffels, and a two handle tote in black and creme, designed exclusively for the LN-CC brand in London.

7 Chairs

German Jan von Borstel, based in Hamburg and London, is a designer, artist and consultant. Exhibiting graceful forms and simplicity with efficiency, von Borstel’s installations and products are examples of modernism in art and design. One such example is the evolution of 7 Chairs – a feature of his Snow White installation in London.

Made from laser-cut sheet metal, which is then bent and dipped in glossy white PVC, the chairs together represent the smooth metamorphosis from a relaxed lounge chair to an upright kitchen chair, which includes changes in seating height and backrest angle.

Boiacca

Paolo Lucidi and Luca Pevere of LucidiPevere Design Studio have created Boiacca, a beautiful dining table for Kristalia. Made entirely of cement, the piece carries a strong architectural identity. Designers took the material to its absolute limit, striving to sustain a minimal form and back it up with superior structural integrity due to the contrast between the slick and elegant form of the table and the roughness of the material. The piece is element-resistant and can be used both indoors and outdoors.

Mountain Lamp

Paris based designer Leonard Kadid designed this delicate looking Mountain lamp.

This lamp with sharp lines is made of 0.7mm steel pieces, and is of course shaped like a mountain as its name suggests. It is illuminated by pulling on its thin blue wire.

Bookmark Lamp

The Bookmark lamp, created by Paris based designer Léonard Kadid, is actually only half a lamp, because it uses your book as a base. This piece is made of ultra thin plywood and fitted with a simple LED stripe. The details are seamlessly merged together, creating one fluid shape. The lamp is light, flexible and personal. Your choice of a book becomes part of the design statement.

Miya Ando

Multi award-winning American post-minimalist artist Miya Ando has recently produced this contemporary Steel canvas collection.

Influenced by the redwoods in Santa Cruz and the simple, reductivist and minimalist setting of the Buddhist temple in Japan, where she was raised, Ando’s paintings typically consist of steel, patina, pigment, and automotive lacquer. The result is unique and refined.

Special Edition Coca-Cola Light

Coca-Cola Light is the sponsor of ARCO, the International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, and for celebrating it they have made a special edition of their classic bottle.
It is made of aluminium with a pearl white background and has two of the most representative icons in Arco: a red circle that indicates when a work has been acquired and a label that describes the work, including the tittle, measures and the technique used.

Iceland by Michael Schlegel

Iceland’s landscape in black and white. Fierce, stark and ethereal. This is how German photographer Michael Schlegel sees Iceland. An empty, primitive land where the only inhabitants are the elements of nature. The combination of simple frames and high contrasts with the wise choice of shutter speed captures the landscape, the wind, the fog and the running waters.

Be my Valentine

Airport Runway Screen Prints

Chicago based architect and designer Jermome Daksiewicz of Nomo is the mind behind this unusual series of screen prints of airport runways.

The continually growing series in which new suggestions can be made, include such runways as John F. Kennedy International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, and London Heathrow Airport and measure 18″ x 24″ in size.

Aesop Nolita

NYC-based architecture firm Tacklebox is behind the design and concept for skincare brand Aesop‘s store in Elizabeth Street.

Succintly filled with oak shelves stocked with products aligned with spartan precision, the main feature of this space, however – and nearly unseen due to its very subtle texture - is the the concept of newsprint walls (stacked strips of newspapers held within a continuous oak wrapper), covering nearly every surface of the shop. Like paper, they will age over time, in this way, the history of Aesop North America will be recorded within the very walls of this first store.

Photography by Gianluca Fellini and Tacklebox.

Sharing Watch

Sharing Watch is a work of Cho, Eun Whan and Shin, Tai Ho of studio MAEZM. They have equipped this unusual timepiece with something more than a reliable mechanism and an air of elegant simplicity. They gave it a communal spirit! Instead of the traditional arrangement of numbers on the dial, there is a slight shift, allowing you to see the time from the side. By simply extending your hand forward or raising it, you can share the time with others.

The faded numbers make the dial look minimal and uncluttered. They are also quite readable, which is essential for a piece designed to be looked at from a distance.

Kinetic Lights

These lamps were created by London based designer Michael Anastassiades. The configuration of each chandelier changes as its various parts move at the joints. Each piece has a different span, depending on the amplitude of the moving segments. Made from black patinated plated brass and mouth blown glass, these objects balance between fine art and design.

Anastassiades’ work is featured in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. These particular lamps were spotted at the Moss gallery, New York’s design mecca, which closes its doors later this month.

Kopiad

Kopiad is a collection of office accessories designed by Swedish studio Note for Boxit Design and recently unveiled at the Stockholm Furniture Fair. These white paper-thin objects with softly coloured inserts. The line includes a bin in two sizes (with an optional recycling compartment), a magazine holder, a postbox, a business card holder, and a pen holder. All objects are ergonomically designed to accomodate your movements.

The collection comes in three refreshing colours: bright orange, light green and smooth yellow.

Photography by Mathias Nero. 

Paper Pot

Japanese company Ai collection created the Paper Pot, a shaped holder for tissue or toilet paper. It was awarded with a 2008 Japan Good Design Award and comes in a multitude of bright colours.

It is available at MollaSpace.

T-723-X1

Switzerland based furniture manufacturer Colin SA created a plain desk, named T-723-X1, which is easy to move and simple to assemble. No tools or screws are needed to assemble the desk of FSC certified multiplex plywood.

The T-723-X1 is available in a raw version, natural planed and grinded plywood, and a lino version, desktops covered with black linoleum.

There is also a brother: the T-723-X3. The cross-beams of this version go through the table top and are visible on the desk top, whereas with the T-723-X1 they end right under the table top.

Kaico Series

Tokyo based Japanese designer Makoto Koizumi has created this award-winning cookware series – Kaico. The series includes a tea pot, coffee pot, pasta pot with a steel strainer insert, as well as various sauce pans.

Created in white enamel coated steel with maple wood handles, the Kaico series certainly has a classic yet rudimentary aesthetic to its pieces, as well as being durable and thermal-efficient. Because of the smooth, semi-gloss finish, the cookware is also easy to clean..

Lowboard

The Lowboard cabinet, was designed by Ennio Arosio for MDF Italia.

The Lowboard is actually a modular system, composed of units containing 2, 3 or 4 compartments for drawers.  This modular setup allows you to create a cabinet that exactly fits your living room.

It is available in two finishes: natural anodized aluminium, and lacquered in matt white.

Horizontals

These cabinets named Horizontals by Dutch manufacturer Pastoe are obtainable in two height sizes and are suitable for storing such items as CDs and DVDs.

In Horizontals, coloured metal sliding doors are mounted on a warm wooden or aluminium base. The extended cabinets may be joined to create a clear geometric object invisibly attached to the wall, functioning much like a painting. The sliding doors, which may be opened on both sides, can be used to highlight the horizontal play of lines. The bodies are divided in the middle by a partition.

Horizontals are designed by Japanese Shigeru Uchida who has cooperated with several leading clients, including Issey Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto.

Shift by Scholten & Baijings

Product designers Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings have created this contemporary and sophisticated storage unit, Shift, for Dutch furniture brand Pastoe.

Introduced during the IMM Cologne at Design Post Keulen from 15-22 January 2012, Shift offers a blend of simplistic form with an expressive and carefully considered use of colours. Due to the translucent acrylate sliding doors of the cabinet, the colours create a play of reveal, conceal with tinted overlays when the cabinet is opened and closed. It is available in two widths and can be either frame or wall-mounted.