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Swingers Bench

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Rest on a bench and play seesaw. The “Swingers” chair, an awesome piece of furniture designed for two people, allows people to move and play while they’re taking a break. By doing that, the designer aims to make people smile more and get closer to each other as much as possible. So will that really work? We believe it would. Still, if you meet such a bench one day, we hope you could sit down and play it with the others.

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Wood Rings Tables

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We humans are not consistent with ourselves, as on one hand we try to live in a place different from the nature, while on the other hand we’re pursuing designs that seem natural or made of natural materials. But never mind, because self-contradiction is also a source of inspiration, which may bring us with awesome creations like these Wood Rings Tables. The designer start with sections of trees ranging from 60 to 600 years old, combining them with resin plates so as to keep the beautiful rings in wood and endow them with a stylish aesthetics as well.

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Klaffi Shelf

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Klaffi Shelf is an ideal shelving device for small apartment. Designed by Finnish Eeva Lithovius, the shelf takes up space only when open; when not in use, you can simply fold it up and lay it flat against the wall.

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Alphabet Furniture

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Use as you read, these Alphabet Furniture sets all come with several individual modules but can combine to create a chair, a lamp and a table as well, just as the words you’ve already seen.  So what do you think? Isn’t it funny to surprise your guests with the Alphabet Furniture?

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SSCC Sofa

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Sofa is not merely furniture, because it actually has a free soul too, with which the furniture not only creates different configurations, but also offers your room a stylish look. Each piece is built with a giant zipper, which allows several modules to be connected together and then to meet your various needs.

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Carbon Fiber Furniture Set

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Wood, stone, steel… Forget those traditional materials used to build furniture, and have a look at these carbon fiver furniture set. They all have merely thin surface plate that measures 1 cm, but can actually bear great strength and work for a long time. As an additional bonus, the carbon fiber furniture is very lightweight, so you can conveniently move it in or out of rooms according to your needs.

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Nature Chair

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“Life within Objects” is a design that provides us a new way to interact with animals and plants. Put forward by Spanish-based designer Martín Azúa, the chair integrates a plant pot and an animal shelter with a seating device. Made of recyclable polyethylene with the rotomolding technique, the chair is ideal for both indoors and outdoors use, therefore allowing you to live a harmony life with your turtle, rabbit and your plants.

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Elastic Chair

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What will you do with 40 elastic bands, to play a game, to handcraft an artwork, or to do something else? Designer Velichko Velikov would love to make a chair with the 40 vibrant elastic bands and did so. The piece was shown during Budapest Design Week 2011, known to the visitors for its rich colors and elegant styles. With such a beautiful chair in your house, wow, your building may become part of art too.

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The Safest Writing Desk

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“My Writing Desk” is a workplace put forward by Inesa Malafej, and honestly that’s something I’m looking for. It features a storage tough around three sides of the table top, thus keeps the writing surface clean while still makes the user’s things close at hand. Moreover, the high edges can protect your cellphones, cups or tablets form falling onto the ground, and that’s why it is deemed as “the safest writing table”.

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Compact Café Table

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The Compact Café Table by Sigurd Larsen is no doubt the best furniture you can ever find if you’re someone concerning both a stylish design and strong functions. Made from recycled paper and resin, the table and benches set is suitable for either interior or exterior use, according to your different needs. When viewing from the front, these four pieces of furniture are rightly displaying their nice thin lines… So cute!

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Desk Convertible to Bed

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Offices will soon become a place that you can both work at and live in, with this convertible piece of furniture serving as a desk and a bed as well. If there’s one in my office, wow, I’ll definitely love my boss more!

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Tablecloth? Table!

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This white “tablecloth” is a new piece of furniture launched by German architectural studio Graft Architects. It breaks out the tradition that tables should come with several legs, and instead utilizes a tablecloth to reimage the table. The result turns to be really good, as the new table not only features the sense of beauty, but also solid and stable to ensure a long-term use.

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Tail Stool

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Cute designs are always popular. This stool, put forward by Y Zin Chang, is rightly something we would shout out “so cute”. It looks quite like a dragon tail, especially when there’s someone sitting on its flat surface. Would you like to have a try?

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Hug Chair

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Hug Chair, just as implied by its name, is an innovative piece of furniture especially designed for clingy lovers to hug. Obviously men would love this chair quite much, because it saves their legs from the weight of their girlfriends. Besides, the chair can also serve as a personal workstation, allowing the users to conveniently place their tablets or speakers on its “extra chair”.

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“Just Fold It” Flexible Room Divider

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“Just Fold It” is a flexible and portable room divider that fits in different locations. Its unique design allows the room divider to be adjusted by adding some extra modules. The product is wind-resistant too, as there’re some perforations built on the surface. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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