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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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Sleepbox is a mini building that allows you to sleep comfortably and conveniently. It was originally a conceptualized design put forward in 2009 and now has been installed at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, for travelers to rent and sleep for hours during their transfers at airports. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Creativity is everywhere, and it even appears in your messy kitchen. So here we’d like to share some creative cutting boards with you guys, and hopefully they would add some fun to your dull cooking hours. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Anyone with a unique personal style or planning to attract other’s attention should have a look at these wooden neckties. They’re made from redwood beams, with remarkable natural grain and color. The redwood beams are claimed to come from salvage yards in the San Francisco area, but we cannot make sure about that. What we’re sure about is you would show a good sense of humor when wearing such a tie. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Foosball, ping pong, backgammon, chess and pool – you can play all those five games with merely one game kit. It is constructed of a wooden box with wood and plastic pieces and measures 20″ X 12″ X 6″. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Wieki Somers’s wooden bathtub has finally come into my life. Whenever we’re bathing with it, we’ll feel that we’re just boating along a river and relaxing ourselves with fresh air and clean water. I love that. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Things will be totally different if without Fabian Bernhard and Thomas Burkard: before the item is merely a stretcher but soon after it becomes a chair leaning against the wall to keep its steadibility. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Jack Smith’s folding stool is a three-leg one that can collapse for an easy transportation when its seat is lifted. Especially, the three hinged legs that fit into a Y-shaped hole will stand more steadily when weight is added. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Tomm Velthius has successfully blurred the line between furniture and toys. He built many railway lines in a wooden table, let small electric trains run through them and therefore changed tables into toys. Great work! [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...]

A best combination of simplicity and functionality is the main goal of modern designs. Among numerous works created by designers all around the world, we find these LZF Lamps really deserve our introduction because they’ve achieved simple but incredible aesthetic effects with utilization of wood veneer shades. Awesome. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The Hacoa Play Mouse is definitely quite perfect for girls, as it not only has an ecological cuteness, but features a lovely smiling face that is made up of the wheel button and two little round left and right buttons. It is available in light maple and darker walnut, each for $189 on Japan Trend Shop. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Hey lovely green plants, how I wish you could know what I’m saying, because these ‘Potences’ by Gregory Marion would be the best houses you can ever found. They supply a powerful support for you to climb on while never ruining the aesthetic feeling; they offer some clips too, in order to prevent the vines falling onto the ground. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Unlike common wooden furniture that features a solid design, the Restless Legs by Carolien Laro will change its shape when you sit onto it. Even though seems rather simple on the pictures, the chair actually costs the designer hundreds of hours. Really a tough work. [Read the rest of this entry...]

We’ll all live in a different world, in a neurotic fairy-tale world full of mini-sized furniture and items as those Alice has seen in Wonderland. Because designer Robert Therrien has already created some really huge tables, chairs and dishes that are about three times as big as usual ones. So do you like them? [Read the rest of this entry...]