Swiss designer Virginia Maissen presented for Baurwerk Parquet flooring collection Old News Parquet Flooring, unusual collection with vintage touch. It looks like old newspapers scattered across a cutting room floor, faded, overlapping, in the midst of an inspired explosion. The flooring is eco-friendly: each board is made of natural oak strips and features a different...
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Surrealistic And Unusual Fish Lamps
Designers continue to surprise us with the pieces they create, and today it’s Fish Lamps by architect Frank Gehry. His first Fish Lamps were produced between 1984 and 1986 using the then-new plastic laminate ColorCore. Now the designer decided to use the broken shards as fish scales by gluing them onto wire armatures. These lamps...
Unusual Magazine Rack And Chair In One
Asian designers are good at creating practical furniture, and this chair is no exception. Korean designer Seung Han Lee created an unusual chair that’s also a magazine rack. The piece is made of stainless steel with a striped wooden feet complement. It’s a perfect piece for any living room, especially for the apartments or houses...
Unusual Furniture Covered With Elastic Bands
Sometimes the works of graduates surprise more than of grown-up designers – surprise by their reasoning and originality. No Stereotype Series was created by Dong-yeop Han of South Korea, this unusual furniture is covered in woven elastic bands that stretch around objects to hold and store them in place. Who could imagine elastic bands? We...
Masculine Porcelain Desk Organizers In Unusual Shapes
We have told you of some desk organizers made of wood, concrete, and now here’s one more organizer made of a more unusual material – fine white porcelain. Héctor Serrano created this Desktructure modular desk organizer to personalize your working place due to the special shapes of organizers: an industrial warehouse, a ship and a...
Unique Oak Branch Lamps Reminding Unusual Creatures
This lamp is one of the best examples of natural and minimalist design. The Bichos lamp series comes from Portuguese architect Martinho Pita, in Portuguese it means ‘creatures’. And these lamps really remind of creatures, they look like some crazy animals frozen in motion. The Bichos are handmade from pruned Portuguese Holly Oak trees. The...
Unusual Furniture Collection Of Discarded Materials
This furniture resembles of some crazy steampunk objects – this is a furniture collection by artist Donald Fodness. The furniture combines handcrafted wood working and metal fabricating techniques with ready-made found objects, that why it looks rather strange. The pieces are functional; they are made of re-purpose common or discarded materials. For example, the designer...
Unusual Eco-Friendly Christmas Tabletop Tree
We’ve recently told of some awesome Christmas tree alternatives, and here’s one more idea. One Two Tree was created by a couple in Australia. It’s an ideal piece for those who think about the ecology of their house – it’s eco-friendly because made of untreated high-grade Australian hoop pine plywood. It can be styled to...
Unusual Liquid Light As A Still Life Reinterpretation
Kristine Five Melvær reinterprets a classic still life theme in Liquid Light, a unique lamp inspired by the Cobbler’s Lamp from the 17th Century. The lamp consists of a birch wood plate holding a glass carafe and a brass socket for a candle. When the carafe is filled with liquid and the light is lit,...
Polish Residence With Unusual Architectural Features
This interesting from all points of view residence is located in Warsaw, Poland, and was designed by Polish architect Dagmara Obluska. The owner of the house wanted to minimize the roof space and all those framings, that’s why the architect added dormer windows and broadened the usual ones; this is not only a functional solution...