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Design What

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

 

Sarma

Luxury Live edge table Sarma has a mix of rustic and chic elements. This table is highly functional, but it also gives the room a theme and a personality. This modern custom handmade dining table is from old oak with a fine copper inlay on top and finished with 3 coats of clear epoxy resin. This unique table is seated on trapezium legs with coat of fine, shining copper which eventually will age and change his color. With a geometrical design, the dining table is both intriguing and holds a designer feel. Great style can respect the environment and look luxurious in the same time!

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Simplicity

This set of furniture design gets inspiration from China's traditional educational toys, Kong Ming Lock, which is also called The Eight Diagrams Lock or Lu Ban Lock. It is the manifestation of the Chinese people's great wisdom. Opening it seems like solving a puzzle, which emphasizes the interaction between the user and the furniture, also enhancing the fun of using furniture. Combined with the modular design of modern design, the whole design's style looks simple and modern.

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ET Lamp by Bianca

This lamp as the name indicated is modeled after the look of an extra- terrestrial creature giving the lamp its unique look. The lamp has LED light bulbs as its eyes and the light direction is very focused on the desk. It is a new approach on lamp design away from the standard looks of the lightings with shades and stem. Such approach is new and fun giving lightings a new design direction.

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lichtzeitraum, biennale vennice

Our entire world is structured by light and shade, time and rhythm, emotion and perception. In lichtzeitraum by Ueberholz it is precisely this spatial perception that is made tangible through light, music and rhythm. Different lighting phases create wide spaces making the vastness tangible or other narrow, close spaces that enclose and restrict you. A window arrangement along the back of the room, which matches the changing spatial suggestion perfectly, serves as a striking design element. The aim of projects by Ueberholz is to give the architecture a feeling of permanence and stability.

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Bolina

Bolina was designed to solve some of the problems of modern urban house:dividing open spaces to improve comfort and cosiness and creating vertical gardens with little encumbrance,if there is no space to keep plants.Sailing boat inspired,Bolina has a metal structure that recalls to old wrought-iron garden furniture.Coverage is made repeatedly stretching a sailing rope from the base to the top plane,creating a curved coloured surface.Bolina can be used as a stand alone object or as part of a modular system:base shape allows to pull togheter one module to another,to create a sinuous colored wall

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Kala

Kala, a stool made in laminated bamboo with a retractable mechanism in the central axis. Taking oil-paper umbrella structure as its inspiration, laminated bamboo strip was heat baked and clamp fixture in the wood mold that bended into shape, showing its simplicity and oriental charming. Interestingly the elasticity of laminated bamboo structure designed and the retractable mechanism in the central axis, one’s will find interaction when sitting on Kala stool, it will descend lightly and smoothly, and when one’s stood up from Kala stool, it will ascend back to its position.

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