If you are a book lover and you want to keep your books close, then check out these great chairs!

Italian design duo Nobody&co made their debut on the Salone del Mobile 2006 in Milan, where they showed this gorgeous chair. The Bibliochaise is an armchair-library that can store up to five meters of your favorite [...]

Paola Navone is the exception on the Italian design scene. For the past thirty years she has been a welcome feature of the otherwise male-dominated Italian design elite. Navone works as an interior designer and consultant to furniture and material manufacturers. In her designs she always tries to combine modern design with traditional handicraft. For [...]

After studying ceramics in the heart of the English ceramic world Stoke-on-Trent, English designer Polly George began to work for the Conran shops. Polly now designs and makes her beautiful handcrafted collections at her studio in Kent, England.

Her ceramics combine all white simplicity with a whimsical edge that makes each piece truly covetable. Using [...]

I earlier posted about Tord Boontje’s fabric collection for Kvadrat. For Italian company Moroso, Tord recently designed “The Other Side Ceramics”, a collection of vases, bowls and containers. This range of simple, classical forms is decorated with contrasting imagery. The pieces, all made in Italy, are created by a photographic printing technique that allow through [...]

If you, like me, have problems storing (and finding..) shoes in your closet and you don’t like conventional shoe racks? Then the stylish Shoe Wheel by Rakku is THE thing for you. The Shoe Wheel is a ingeniously designed mobile storage unit with twenty expandable pockets that can hold up to thirty pairs of shoes. [...]

Dutch designer Ruth Lodder grew up on a farm in The Netherlands. At an early age it was already obvious that she had affection with designing things and solving problems in a creative way. In 2005 she graduated from the Eindhoven Design Accademy.

Ruth’s aim is to design recognisable products with a creative twist. This [...]

I love this! The Wattson is a device that gives you an understanding of how much energy you are using. It basically turns electricity into something visible and tangible. The people at DIY KYOTO, which stands for Do It Yourself Kyoto, didn’t want to wait for government initiatives to add to the Kyoto protocol, [...]

Tord Boontje, born in The Netherlands in 1968, is well known for his beautiful designs. Boontje’s design philosophy is that modernism does not mean minimalism, that contemporary does not forsake tradition, and that technology does not abandon people and senses.

Boontje: “When design becomes dominated by the glossy, the slick and the perfect, I become attracted [...]

Amsterdam based illustrator & designer ATTI is big in Japan. Her clothing & product line that she designed for Japanese brand Rope Picnic was an instant hit. ATTI’s, mostly pink coloured, designs can best be described as cute. No wonder the Japanese love her.

Multitalented ATTI has also created illustrations and mural paintings for various hotels [...]

Are you wondering how our homes will look in the future? Trend guru Li Edelkoort is one of the world’s most important trend setters of this moment and her trend predictions are followed by design companies and major brands world wide. With the exposition ‘Museum House, a choice of Lidewij Edelkoort’ in the Art Pavilion [...]

Maarten Baas’ designs are smoking hot! This young Dutch designer graduated from the Eindhoven Design Academy in 2002. His graduation project, a series of burnt furniture called Smoke, caused a sensation and Baas’ career immediately took off.

Recently the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York has ordered some 200 Smoke Chairs. And at the Design Miami [...]

Dutch designer Wieki Somers has created this special bath by turning a small boat inside out. In this boatbath, made of oak and red ceder wood, you can let your mind drift away after a long day at work. Contact Wieki for more information at info@wiekisomers.com.

Kirsty Anne Powell is the Founder and Design Director of Oromono. After graduating in 2000 with a first class honours degree in textile design from Loughborough University, England, she began her career as a freelance textile designer and stylist in London. After styling within the industry for a year, she moved to Amsterdam. Inspired by [...]

Dutch design duo Meester & Van der Park are always searching for possibilities to combine traditional crafts with technological and industrial production methods. This vision, combined with their eye for detail, results in the most beautiful and unique designs.

One of my favourites is their gorgeous carpet ’secret garden’. This carpet is made of discarded woolen [...]

Hella Jongerius is one of the hottest designers working today. This Dutch talent studied industrial design at the Eindhoven Design Academy and has since combined elements of that discipline with those of traditional craftsmanship in products, textiles and ceramics.

She recently created the ceramics collection Beads & Pieces, which is part of the Design With [...]

Are you looking for a stylish place to stay in Milan, Italy? Then 3Rooms Hotel might be the place for you. This small boutique hotel is attached to the famous 10 Corso Como, Carla Sozzani’s trendsetting style emporium with a restaurant, bar, café, boutique and art gallery.

All three suites have been decorated in Ms Sozzani’s [...]

The studio of MV% Ceramics Design is definitely worth a visit if you happen to be in Milan, Italy. I recently came across Mariavera Chiari’s designs in a magazine and was immediately drawn to her colourful and unique ceramics pieces.

My favourites are the coffee cups ‘espresso’ with spoon and saucer, and the ‘gelatine’ ice [...]

This pigeon light is so cute, don’t you think? Ed Carpenter originally designed it when he was studying product design at London’s Royal College of Art and it was exhibited at his degree show in summer 2001. Now the lamp has gone into production in a selection of bright colours with contrasting electrical flexes.

The pigeon, [...]

Another great find at this year’s Dutch Design Week , is this coffee table designed by J.P. Meulendijks. This multipurpose table can hold wine bottles or other things like magazines. Against the wall (on its side on standing up), the table turns into a console.

The ‘shots’ table, made from hard poly vinyl, is available in [...]

Ever since graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2002, Dutch designer Froukje Kuiper has been playing around with geometric shapes. Her desire to create a three-dimensional design with just two-dimensional ingredients resulted in the Flower Shade lamp. The flowers are more than just decoration: they form the lamp itself, creating soft layers of light, [...]