Not Your Dad’s Boardroom: 10 Awesome Meeting Tables

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Nearly every single one of us has spent hours — or perhaps collectively, days, weeks or even months — of our lives sitting around meeting tables, arguably wasting time that we can never retrieve again once it’s gone. And it’s a universal truth that conference rooms can be some of the most snooze-inducing places on earth; ironic, considering the fact that meetings are supposed to be held to catalyze, inspire and spur employees into action

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10 Traditional Furniture Pieces Made from Upcycled Materials

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It’s nice to be nice. More specifically, it’s nice to be nice to the earth, and today’s roundup of traditional furniture made from upcycled materials is a testament to the fact that there’s always a new way to be thoughtful when you apply a little creativity to a problem that needs solving. This collection is beyond resourceful; it’s inspiring. Although a few of today’s entries are things we could never make ourselves — does anyone

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Fire It Up: 10 Ultramodern Vent Hoods

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Generally speaking, there’s nothing sexy about vent hoods. Today’s roundup, though, might change that just a smidge. Led by a brand named Elica, of which four vent hood designs made it into today’s series, there’s an aesthetic movement happening among kitchen appliance designers. The bulky, overwhelming monstrosities of yesteryear are being replaced by sleek discs, curved sculptural plates and even glimmering chandeliers all serving the same purpose: to eliminate excess heat and steam from a

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10 Eye-catching Decorative Rugs

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Even if every item in a room is bland and unexciting, or perhaps completely mismatched and discombobulated, sometimes all it takes is the perfect decorative rug to pull it all together and make it look intentional. Today’s roundup is quietly inventive, from interlocking jigsaw and runner pieces (courtesy of Contraforma and Now Carpets) to faux stones and leaves by 2form and YLDesign bringing a sense of the outdoors inside. We’ve pulled some playful elements, too,

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Ooh Baby: 10 High-Fashion High Chair Designs

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Who says parenthood means giving up on style? There’s nothing cutesy or aesthetically tragic about today’s roundup of high chair designs — in fact, they’re almost enough to make us want to revert to childhood ourselves and hang out in one of these uber-cool concoctions. Come to think of it, having other people cater to our every whim and calling them to attention simply by crying… that actually doesn’t sound like such a bad deal.

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