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Lazy Football Chair

20120507001

Can you sit to play football? I can, as long as I have this “Lazy Football” chair designed by Emanuele Magini for Italian furniture manufacturer campeggi. Combining a football net with a chair frame, the designer cleverly turned common furniture into an interesting entertainment piece: users can leisurely participate in a football game simply by sitting there and moving their feet…Neither boring nor tiring at all!

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SkyDeck Table

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Wherever you go, wherever you stay, this SkyDeck designed by Japanese firm Torafu Architects can always support you, allowing you to place your cellphone, cups, wallets or other items on it. That means, no matter there’s a table or not, you would easily build one with this portable design.

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Hold Chair

20120421001

Hey, chairs, have you successfully held the tables? … To make cleaning floor an easy work, Malaysia-based designer Poh Liang Hock has come up with this Hold Chair concept, which is a winner of the prestigious Red Dot Design Award. It features a sliding design, meaning that the chair can slide onto the table.

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SCRW Stool

20120401004

Easy to assemble and easy to adjust its height, the SCRW Stool designed by Manuel Welsky is a clever combination of a solid cork stool and a steel base and it can change the heights via simple turning, just as its name implies.

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PortiqueArmchair

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Inspired by life but also serves life, the PortiqueArmchair designed by Florent Coirier is a clever combination of arm chair and garden swing, which allows us to enjoy the big fun of playing on the swing while we’re spend the time indoors.

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Multifunctional Little Frog

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Made with earth-friendly wood materials, these little frogs can serve in three different ways, acting as an arm chair, a rocking chair or a table. This 3-in-1 design is highly praised by many people, who believe that the Little Frog not only saves their space in room, but saves their money in pocket.

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M² bench

20120301001

Why M²? It’s really an interesting but impressive name for the bench designed by Studio Segers, but why? What’s the reason do you think possible for that? Personally, I believe that the name comes from its endless possibility to combine and use the bench. The M² is available in two different versions, each of which allows you to build out needed types of seats and tables in either the meeting rooms or outside in the open air.

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“Paszcza” Armchair

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You’re the most special one! For people who would like to behave in distinctive ways, Poland-based design studio WAMHOUSE has recently created the armchair “Paszcza”. It is a cushioned seat featuring tongue shape, with circle-shaped frame wiring around.

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Innovative Assembling Furniture

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Forget the bothersome problem that your apartment is too small, because you can still enjoy a convenient and colorful life with the creative assembling furniture. Put forward by Robert van Embricqs, the table and chair each features some unique structure in the center, which allows them to stay flat when not in use or keep steady enough to hold you or your items.

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Mobile Tree Bench

20120207004

Surely if there’s a tree, there will be a bench, because we may simply convert a tree into a bench with an axe… Or we can choose another simpler way: tying a board with some binders onto the tree. Designed by Rogier Martens, the clever and practical urban furniture piece is especially made as a temporary sitting unit for a public park.

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Shoe Tree Tulips

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Before the Shoe Tree Tulips came to us, we merely know that a shoe rack is something to store and keep shoes, however we now realize that a shoe rack should also be something to display our shoes, especially those beautiful and delicate ones.

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Check Bookshelf

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Your favorite books, your favorite designs, your favorite furniture…Any of your paper books can be sorted by this Check Bookshelf designed by Jongho Park.

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Earthquake-proof Table

20120116016

The effective measures to fight against earthquake continued to improve, and here comes the Earthquake-proof Table, a collaborative work by Arthur Brutter and Ido Bruno. Though seems very common, the table actually could successfully protect people from possible injuries during the earthquake, which has been approved by a series of rigorous vertical impact tests. As an additional bonus, the earthquake-proof table also takes into account the financial limitations of people who may need it, and thus it will be produced with cost effective, yet responsible production methods and durable inexpensive materials.

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Fjarill Drawers

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Danish designer Jakob Joergensen has created the Fjarill Drawers, a distinctive piece of furniture with drawers opened in different directions, to bring some new inspirations to the boring world composed of traditional pull-out drawers. Apparently the Fjarill has a diagonal slot channeled beneath each drawer, but we still couldn’t figure out its exact mechanism because there’s no specific explanation for that. Anyhow, the end effect is undeniably amazing, especially when all the drawers are pulled out.

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X Hanger

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Made from powder-coated, bent steel, the X Hanger designed by Kfir Schwalb is merely a single piece while can function to hang your hats, coats, scarves and other items. When not in use, the X Hanger can serve as a unique decoration on the wall too, refreshing your room with a new look.

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Biker Chair

20120106012

With no wind, no road, or speed, to ride on the Biker Chair may seem bit of boring to someone, but who cares? At least, it’s the safest and the greatest laborsaving way to ride on a bike… That’s enough to me!

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Sensei Chair/Table Set

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For small-apartment owners, the space-saving and multifunctional furniture sets are always welcomed, and on their lists there’s Claudio Sibille’s Sensei. The furniture set includes two chairs that could be used separately; but when you flip the chairs on their sides and piece them together, they would then serve as a table.

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Manual Stools

20111228012

Can you sit on water? Of course you can, but merely in science fictions or in your dreams… However, it’s really an interesting idea to make water serve as a stool, and thus comes these Manual Stools by ALLT that utilize buckets and elastic foams to build the furniture.

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Scribe Bed Desk

20111227013

In cold cold winter, we’re likely to do almost everything in bed, including studying, working, playing and of course sleeping. But before that perfect plan for the winter holiday, we firstly need to find a best bed desk that is both practical and comfortable, and my choice? It’s undoubtedly the Scribe! The modular desk can hang anywhere when not in use, while holds books or laptops steadily to prevent them from rolling. Apart from its outstanding functions, the desk features a sleek appearance too, making it quite ideal as either a personal possession or gifts to others.

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3D Cabinet

20111224004

3D Cabinet created by cleverly arranging bright yellow color and plain black color… Quite simple concept, but really amazing art.

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Transformer Furniture

20111223005

Anything full of connotation is always appreciated. Just as a man with rich connotation attracts us much more, a cabinet with unique connotation is highly welcomed to our home too. Put forward by Uruguayan designer Claudio Sibille, the “Ludovico” chest is made from eucalyptus wood, featuring one table on the surface and one or two chairs inside it. So simply move and pull, you can transform one single piece of furniture into a complete set immediately, really fabulous!

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Sod-Covered picNYC Table

20111218006

Welcome to my personal lawn rightly inside my apartment! Never doubt your own eyes, and I’m not kidding, my lawn is really inside the room rather than outside of it. Why? You need to ask Haiko Cornelissen Architecten, who created the sod-covered aluminum table to bring the outdoorsy experience into city apartments.

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Swingers Bench

20111218003

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

20111207003

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

20111208028

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

20111112008

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

20111109007

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

20111023002

“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

20111023029

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

20111015018

“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

20111010001

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!

20111006022

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

20111004001

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

20111001031

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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Creative Chairs

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No doubt we all need a chair. But which is your ideal one, a chair with interesting shape or one that features a full function? Whatever, you would like these creative chairs shown here. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Rose Chairs

20110823401

Like any sweet and fragrant roses, the “Tenderly” chair designed by Carla Tolomeo are blooming in your room, to add beauty, to add freshness. It is available in a range of colors, while produced with a limited edition of only 300 pieces. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Closet Lamp

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Question marks seem to appear everywhere in our life and now they even come as furniture. Designed by Tembolat Gugkaev, the new closet not only decorates your room but also brings light to it since it is built with a lamp on one side. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Stitching Concrete

20110811101

Basically it’s not that difficult to make a stool but very difficult to design one. However, these Stitching Concrete stools here cost the designer’s much energy and time in both its design and production process. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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