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Wanna to be pulled out of bed in a natural and mild way instead of the annoying digital alarm clocks? If so, Vera Wiedermann’s Water-powered Alarm Clock is rightly a good choice to you. The Dreamtime clock is made based on old tradition of balancing with water, and it offers a gentle chiming in the morning to make waking up an enjoyable thing. According to the time you’d like to sleep through, you can pour some amount of water into the glass bowl (something like setting the alarm time), which will then let water drip silently to another bowl during the night. As the top bowl gets lighter, it then rises and finally lets a hammer fall to create a smooth, singing chime – it’s the very time for you to get up!

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Ever miss the blue sky and white clouds when you’re actually working within your offices? Well for all nature lovers here is the Dynamic Luminous Ceiling Sky. It is composed of regular LCD TVs and LEDs, to simulating the natural cloudy sky and light conditions as accurately as possible. The ceiling consists of 19.6 x 19.6 inch square tiles that each holds 288 LEDs, and 11.8 inches below these lights there’s a diffuser film to create homogenous lighting that illuminates the room throughout.

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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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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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Christmas is coming, are you planning a trip for your family? If so, we strongly recommend you a trip to the natural reserve of Huilo Huilo in Chile, where there’s also a beautifully constructed hotel named as “Magic Mountain Lodge”. Built with a unique shape of a volcano, the lodge is actually surfaced with waterfall, which makes the building quite refreshing both indoors and outdoors. As the hotel is the best in Chile, its price may be bit of expensive: one night there will cost you $250 to $400.

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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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Leaf bench and leaf table set, crafted of steel and finished in green, is beautifully designed anti-oxidation furniture for your gardens. [Read the rest of this entry...]

One rarely mentioned reason why we prefer wood floors is that we love the nature and we believe wood floors are natural. But quite ironically, common floor’s straight edges have undermined their beauty of nature. Instead, natural floors are expected to be like Bolefloor- with beautifully natural edges while still ensures a good durability. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Javier Senosiain’s Shell House must have been the envy of all their neighbors, friends, and you guys in front of the screen. The building is designed with a shell shape, decorated with colorful glass, equipped with pleasant light and filled with green plants. So whenever you view it from the outside or walk through the interior, you’ll always find a wonderful combination of nature beauty and architecture art. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With such interesting leaf shirts on, can we humans become Adam and Eve again and then live in a new Garden of Eden? But that’s just what I thought as I saw these shirts. And designer Dave Rittinger actually aimed to embrace ecological consciousness with these “zero footprint shirts”. So do you have in mind? Share them with us. [Read the rest of this entry...]

There’re large varieties of flowers growing in nature but only the white elegant calla lily blooms inside your bathroom. Designed by architect Oriano Favaretto, the new bathroom suite not only shows the graceful lines of the flower but features a drop shaped faucet, and all those have successfully kept us in good touch with the beautiful nature. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Showcased at Milan Design Week, the Bright Woods’ Collection of Illuminated Chairs and Tables have drawn the visitors’ much attention, with its smart shapes and unique glow. [Read the rest of this entry...]

I cannot think of a rational reason why I want the magic straws, and the only reason may be that’s really cool. Made from 100% natural strawberry, vanilla and cocoa powder, the straws will release flavor and dissolve as the milk goes through them, offering you a definitely different way to enjoy the milk. So you like them? Only pay $3.99, you can get one flavor pack that includes 6 straws. [Read the rest of this entry...]