If you stare at the low-riding wooden Plank Lounger long enough, you might feel like you’re on vacation, basking in the sun beneath some beautiful mountain. That is if you have a really vivid imagination and extreme focus. But even if you don’t have those things, you can probably agree that it appears to be just about the perfect lounge chair.
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There’s an easy solution to your lawn chair equation: making those suckers out of pure math. Well, math and plastic. More »
These Corniche Shelves are quite nice. They’re like little pieces of nature that you can slap on the wall. More »
In Greek mythology, Ariadne is known as the mistress of labyrinths. She’s also associated with weaving and in some traditions, she hanged herself. This jointed lamp—Baldessari’s Arianna—was inspired the goddess. More »
Need to stash a few extra seats in your place? You could opt for folding chairs like a rube, or you could hang that spare seating on your wall. More »
A floor lamp isn’t typically a place you’d expect to find a lot of personality, but this one showcased at the Milan furniture fair has plenty of it. You’d half expect to see it prancing around on screen before a Pixar movie. More »
If you’re not living inside some kind of Beauty and the Beast nightmare, all your furniture is mercifully inanimate, but the Walking Cabinet gets you halfway there. It won’t actually stroll across your living room, but it looks like it wants to. More »
These lamps are made from string, and yet somehow they don’t look like they were glued together by a second grader. They’re elegant and modern, though the materials they’re made from are so simple. They’re part of a collection by Miguel Herranz called Casiopea, which is actually a misspelled version of the constellation Cassiopeia. That’s fitting considering their forms resemble lines of streaked stars. [Design-Milk] More »
The New York Times has an awesome retrospective graphic that shows how al fresco seating has evolved all the way from 1889 to the present. Can you tell we’re excited for spring? More »
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