Designer Farrah Sit’s Hanging Gardens

June 28, 2015

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Remember those Isosceles and Scalene triangles you learned about in school? Brooklyn designer Farrah Sit would make Euclid proud. She creates objects, like her Tetra, Graphite, and Ballast planters using these geometric shapes. 

FarrahSit-NicoleFranzen_614Ballast collection of matte stoneware planters.

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Artist’s Luxury Digs For Fish and Birds

June 25, 2015

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There are more practical and less costly designs for fish tanks and bird cages, but these luxury digs offer the fish a bird’s-eye view of the world outside, and their bird neighbors a view through the fish-eye lens of the Read More...

12 Indoor-Outdoor Wire Furniture and Home Decor Pieces

June 23, 2015

wire-fluxchair-magisFlux Chair by Jerszy Seymour for Magis.

Metal wire furniture design is not a modernist concept. Two centuries ago people were already enjoying wire furniture when, during the industrial revolution, wire became inexpensive and accessible.  The design aesthetic has evolved Read More...

A Back Forty Fort

June 22, 2015

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Designer/architect Matt Gagnon’s undulating Knit Fort makes me want to camp out anywhere I can hunker down inside this beautiful design.

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It’s a bespoke flexible hardwood structure made to fit the needs, size, and shape of one’s particular fantasy space.Read More...

Herb Planter and Cutting Board Duo

June 19, 2015

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Wake up and smell the rosemary. Grow Pot is a utilitarian union between a traditional clay pot for growing herbs and a cutting board: just snip and serve.

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Designer Hallgeir Homstvedt’s herb planter for Danish brand Menu is attached to

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