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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Ever have one of those moments where you fully realize the power of technology as it affects your daily life and think to yourself, “This is the future!”? Well, if so, you’re about to have another one, and if not, you’re about to have your first. It seems Electrolux has been doing its part to keep it green — both literally and figuratively — by experimenting with energy-efficient alternatives for kitchen appliances, including a gel
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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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Sometimes, the simplest solutions are the best ones. Case in point: turning up the volume. For decades, audio geeks have been perfecting the art of noise, connecting wires to one another and figuring out that sweet spot where bass, treble and midrange coalesce perfectly together and volume control becomes completely intuitive. But all it took to make the coolest speaker ever was a bit of glass and simple physics. Paul Cocksedge, a British designer who
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When was the last time you awoke to the perfect smell of bacon frying in the kitchen, lifted even higher by the aroma of a fresh pot of coffee brewing at the hands of someone you adore? While the notions surrounding breakfast in bed are largely cuddly and romantic, there still exists a certain peril: getting breakfast all over the sheets, or worse still, the floor when, between the kitchen and bedroom, everything comes crashing
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