Handmade in Brooklyn, VOLK Furniture has a distinctive playfulness that showcases hard materials yielding to various attempts at aesthetic softening. Brian Volk-Zimmerman, the company’s founder and designer, has a thing for unexpected details, such as a nice fabric-lined drawer, an intentional shadow reflecting the physical shape of a mirror, or a cutout from one furniture...
Functional And Stylish 2015 Lighting And Table Collections By Apparatus
Design studio Apparatus have introduced two new lighting series, ‘Cylinder’, ‘Link Porcelain’ and ‘Portal’ tables. The Cylinder Series is a system of fixtures that elevate the experience of functional lighting. Directional light emanates from recessed points within the simple metal forms. Their streamlined structure and hefty scale allow these pieces to stand-alone or be grouped...
Playful Furniture Collection With Unexpected Elements
Brooklyn-based Evan Z. Crane just recently launched a new collection of heirloom-quality furniture that’s complete with playful details, like fur, that will make you take notice. Crane’s work stands out with hints of unexpected elements on each piece. Partially covered in Icelandic sheep hide on the two doors and drawer pulls, the Creature Credenza is...
The Latest Décor Trend: 20 Striking Two-Toned Wooden Furniture Pieces
Dark and light wood combined in one piece is a new hot trend in décor, and they look very unusual and eye-catching! Dark and light or stained and natural woods are skillfully fused together to create bold surface decoration on these contemporary wood furniture pieces. Such modern items are awesome for any modern, minimalist and...
Chic Geometric Y Furniture Collection
What makes furniture especially chic is simplicity with a couple of eye-catching details and no excessive touches. And that’s exactly what comes to mind when you see the new Y furniture collection by Kutarq! The collection consists of three products: Y Side Table, Console Y and Bedside Cube, and in every piece geometric steel rods...
Whimsy Unbutton Furniture Collection Inspired By Pin Up Models
Cristina Bulat has designed The Unbutton Collection, a sideboard and two bedside tables, that were inspired by the clothes of Pin-Up models. The Unbutton Collection represents the harmonious meeting between the Scandinavian Design, characterized by clear forms and natural finishes, with the influences of the Pin-Up culture. The drawers are made of solid oak wood...
Broken Furniture Collection With Cracks And Breaks
The natural properties of wood are part of the design in Jalmari Laihinen’s Broken collection. Wood cracks, breaks and has defects, and Broken is an ongoing investigation into breaking wood. Often pieces with imperfections are discarded as unwanted, but their value should be embraced as unique. That’s why the connecting parts, the legs of stools...
The Latest Decor Trend: 28 Exciting Half-Painted Furniture Pieces
Half painting is a cool trend in décor today, easy to realize yourself. We’ve already told you of half painting walls and now let’s look at half painted furniture. These are mostly not upholstered pieces but look how impressive they are! Make a bright accent with a half-painted table; create a romantic mood with half-painted...
Puzzle-Inspired Flat-Pack Furniture Without Screws Or Glue
Throw yourself back a few years and you may remember Konstantin Achkov’s flat-packed plywood furniture made without glue or screws. He continues his original designs with the Electron Chair and Lese collection made with the same “puzzle principle”. Electron is made out of beech plywood cut with a CNC router. There isn’t a single screw...
Unconventional Chair Design: Frame By Ola Giertz
Designed by Ola Giertz and produced by Materia, Frame chair works like a three-dimensional picture in different rooms and environments, and frames the person who sits in it. Made of a molded wooden frame, which is covered with foam and fabric, the chair acts as a sound absorber. Its base consists of four wooden legs...