Ah, the simplicity of childhood. Remember when the worst part of your day was the moment when you had to put your toys away for the evening, tidy up your room after a day of play and get ready for bed? It’s been an awfully long time for most of us, but we still remember that sinking feeling that “funtime” was over and that cleanliness was generally something worth loathing. A piece of whimsical design
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Just when we thought we’d seen every which way a bookshelf could be made, Daniele Lago had to go and show us something we’d never laid eyes on before, even though she first designed it a decade ago. The Tangram shelf system is, in Lago’s words, “a square in seven pieces combined with imagination to make new shapes come to life.” Named after a popular, classic Chinese game in which players slide seven captive wooden
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There’s modern design that’s organic in form and pleasing to the eye, there’s modern design that provokes and ignites with its progressive stance, and there’s modern design that’s kind of an eyesore serving no real purpose whatsoever. Being fans of the former two and not so much the latter, we’re admitted fans of Marco Sousa Santos’ work with the Portuguese furniture brand, Branca Lisboa. His most recent collection, featured now in the company’s 2013 catalogue,
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Although bookshelves are, sadly, becoming something of a nostalgia piece in the increasingly digital world in which we live, among furniture enthusiasts, they’ll always be as much a vehicle for artistic expression as a furnishing with a particular function. We’ve featured some outlandish shelving concepts over the years, so we’re even more delighted when we run across a design that somehow blends subtlety with outrageousness in equal measure. When images of funky 3D shelves like
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For some, the act of getting organized is a dreaded chore, while for others, it’s an exercise in achieving a zenlike state of peace. Wherever you fall along that long, vast continuum, you’re sure to be entranced by either the visual allure or the absolute tidiness of Urbio’s chic organization system, which uses an unending series of magnetic cubby options on a collection of wall plates. Presented in a cool, crisp white-on-white palette, Urbio offers
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