candle holder series without threads by paul menand
three different aluminum hexagons assemble with their wooden base

the series of three candle light holders by french designer paul menand has been conceived around a simple principle: the superimposition
between reflection, light source and material. ‘without thread’, intensifies the illumination output in three different scenarios with a torch,
bedside holder and table lamp. a collective of aluminum hexagon shapes – which depending on their size, opening and the placement of source
of light – offer different kind of luminescence.

all images courtesy paul menand

(found on Designboom)

It is located at the gateway to the Olympic borough, on Greenwich Industrial Estate, currently being redeveloped by the Cathedral Group. The Café was designed by British designer and artist Morag Myerscough and he collaborated with poet and tweeter Len Sissay.

(found on Coolhunter)

The Hälssen & Lyon tea calendar is the first calendar in the world to feature calendar days made from tea leaves. Finely flavoured and pressed until wafer-thin, the 365 calendar days can be individually detached and brewed directly in the cup with hot water. The tea calendar was sent exclusively to selected business partners.

The Hälssen & Lyon tea calendar was developed at Kolle Rebbe, Hamburg, by executive creative director Sascha Hanke, creative directors Heiko Schmidt and Kay Eichner, art director Patrick Schroeder, copywriter Julia Meissner, production manager Martin Luehe, producer Julia Rudloff, account executive Kira Middendorf, art buyer Karen Blome.

The calendar was printed at Inch Design Service, Hamburg.

(found on the Inspirationroom)

Are you eating right ?
The wheel of nutrition is a dining plate that reminds us of the fundamental values of healthy eating. The plate comes in three types: Diet, Extra ordinary and Supersize. These plates have different proportions for people with different needs. The archetype of the ceramic plate is enhanced with explanatory graphics and distinctive colors.

This product was developed with Hafsteinn Juliusson for HAF, in collaboration with Joana Pais

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(found on Rui Pereira website)

Windworks, the latest project of Merel Karhof, just opened last week on the Dutch National Mill Day at the well-known and typical area of the Zaanse Schans, in the north-west of the Netherlands.

Unique to this project is that the materials (dyes, fabrics and wood) are all created at the Zaanse Schans and all use a free and inexhaustible energy source; the wind.

Windworks can be seen as an urban factory, using wind as its main source of energy. According to Merel Karhof there is an important element missing in the discussion around free sources of energy as she explains the idea behind her project as follows: Everyone is talking about green energy, but nobody knows what that means, how much wind energy do you need to make a scarf? In this project I have visualised the wind, and what it can produce.
A variety of little colourfull pillows form the upholstery of the stools, chairs and benches. Each size of the pillow represents the amount of time needed by the wind to make it, thus giving insight into length of the production process.

The pillows are made from the knitted wool created by the Wind Knitting Factory (designed by Merel Karhof herself), and are then felted and stuffed to make solid and comfortable upholstery.

Fotografie: Merel Karhof

(found on Cubeme)

This wall-mounted desk pad has a built in penholder, bookend, and enough room for a power strip to meet the demands of a modern workplace.

Desk pad is a design by Eric Degenhardt for Böwer.

For the second year, COS took part in the annual furniture fair in iIlan last month.Teaming up with design studio Bonsoir Paris, COS created a pop up store concept that underlined their pure and natural look in an interior space.

The design consist of modular system based on a multisided metal “star” from which up to 14 metal or wood rods can be joined and continue on to yet another metal “star”. From this a spatial structure was built from where COS’ items could be exhibited in the space.

Materials used were natural and included white painted metal, brass, string and light wood.

Bonsoir Paris is a creative duo founded in early 2010 by Rémy Clémente and Morgan Maccari.

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(found on Sofiliumm)

Experimentation with gravity joints. The chair is made of four wooden bars, plywood panel,
two screws and neoprene cord. Formlanguage recalls old windsor chairs, being extremely
reduced version of its “ancestors”.

Purist chair won first prize in the ‘Object’ category at Interieur Design Awards,
Biennale Interieur 2012, Kortrijk, Belgium.

Dimensions: 49 x 45 x h80,5cm
Project presented during Milan Design Week, April 2012.

(found on La Revue du Design)

The Instant Table by Why the friday is as the name shows, a table that can be set up very easily.  Just attach the legs to the table with the use of the clamping wedges.

Different sizes of table top is possible with this construction.

London design duo Raw Edges came up with a bookcase shaped like a weaving loom to display novels by young British writers.

The Bloom bookcase was commissioned by the British Council to hold works of fiction by literary magazine Granta’s pick of young British novelists.

Raw Edges came up with a wooden frame resembling a loom – hence its name – that allows books to be slotted over the red threads and held at varying heights by sliding black stoppers.

The bookcase holds one novel by each of the writers chosen by Granta in its once-a-decade list, which was first published in 1983.

(found on Dezeen)