Design What

Design What

Design What featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Echape

In French Echape means escape, but also is a dynamic position in ballet dance. We have decided to combine the ethereal grace and lightness of a ballet dancer with the joy and happiness of a casual meeting at a bar between friends and acquaintances. The stools come in a variety of different standard heights and are manufacured using a combination of numerical control and traditional craft techniques, to realize a unique, ecologically sound and beautiful contemporary stools with high aesthetic, sculptural and tactile value.

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DARYA

In fact this chair has been inspired by a beautiful teen girl, a beautiful, playful girl who is descent, elegant and yetffffff relaxed! with long toned arm and legs. this is a chair I designed with love, and it is all hand carved. The name of that girl is "Darya."

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NI

The brand new NI Parasol redefines lighting in a way that it can be more than a luminous object. Innovatively combining a parasol and garden torch, NI looks smart standing beside sun loungers on the poolside or other outdoor areas, from morning to night. The proprietary finger-sensing OTC (one-touch dimmer) allows users to adjust to desired lighting levels of the 3-channel lighting system at ease. NI also adopts a low voltage 12V LED driver that generates very little heat, providing an energy-efficient power supply for the system with over 2000 pieces of 0.1W LEDs.

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Yazz

Yazz is a fun lighting fixture made of bendable semi rigid wires allowing user to bend into any shape or form that suits their mood. It also comes with an attached jack making it easy to combine more than one unit together. Yazz is also aesthetically appealing, user friendly and economical. The concept came from the idea of minimizing lighting to its most basic essentials as the ultimate expression of beauty without losing its aesthetic impact lighting since industrial minimalism is art by itself.

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Carrousel

the tables "Carrousel" & "Cathedral" are the continuation of my story "Triangles in (E)motion". I distill various forms that can both serve as designs for tables, but also be processed into abstract geometric entities which function as visual art. I try to create, from my own set of values and forms, beauty in a tradition that is related to Arte Povera and Minimalism.The question whether my creations are to be perceived as utensils or visual art is basically beside the point.

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Umea

The Umea is a very sexy, visually lightweight and elegant sofa bed for up to three people seating and two people in sleeping position. Though the hardware is the classical click clack system, the real innovation of this comes from the sexy lines and contours that make this quite an appealing piece of furniture.

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