When ID:SR designed the BBC North office in Salford, England, they included an increasingly popular office interior element, semi-private booths. These meeting pods effectively make use of the dead spaces often found at the edges of the office floor, as well as providing spaces for intimate collaboration opportunities among co-workers.
Toronto-based Storyboard Furniture have designed the Plane Cloud, a pendant light inspired by the shaving curls made from a woodworkers well tuned plane.
Possibly the most unusual combination of home furnishings, can be found in the bedroom of an apartment in Luxembourg, designed by Metaform Architects. In this bedroom, there is a bed attached to a bathtub and two sinks. In case that is not surprising enough, there also appears to be a toilet and shower in full view, contained within a glass enclosure next to the previously mentioned bed/bath/sink combo.
Designer Ineke Hans has created the Drawer Table, which features hidden storage, for manufacturer Arco.
WOW Architects/Warner Wong Design included this very large custom designed rug in the lobby of the Vivanta Hotel in Bangalore, India.
Unlike typical rugs, this one is not a square, rectangle or circle……maybe it’s an amoeba?
Nikita Bukoros, of the Ukrainian design bureau ODESD2, has designed the E1 bar stool. Made of steel and wood, the bar stool is inspired by Nikita’s admiration for a variety of Japanese cultural arts, such as calligraphy, tea drinking, bonsai, and the art of making weapons.
