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Design What

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

 

1x3

1x3 is inspired by interlocking burr puzzles. It is both - a piece of furniture and a brain teaser. All parts stay together without the need of any fixtures. The interlocking principle involves only sliding movements giving a very fast assembly process and making 1x3 appropriate for frequent change of place. The level of difficulty depends not on dexterity but mostly on spatial vision. Instructions are provided in case the user needs help. The name - 1x3 is a mathematical expression that represents the logic of the wooden structure - one element type, three pieces of it.

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Twins

The Twins coffee table concept is simple. A hollow coffee table stores two full wooden seats inside. The right and left surfaces of the table, are actually lids that can be pulled out of the main body of the table in order to allow the extraction of the seats. The seats have foldable legs that have to be rotated so to get the chair in the right position. Once the chair, or both chairs are out, the lids go back at the table. When the chairs are out, the table also works as a huge storing compartment.

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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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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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Louvre

Louvre light is an interactive table lamp inspired by the greek summer sunlight that passes easily from closed shutters through louvres. It is Consisted of 20 rings, 6 of cork and 14 of plexiglass, which change order with a playful way so as to transform diffusion, volume and the final aesthetic of the light according to users' preferences and needs. Light passes through the material and causes diffusion, so no shadows appear on itself neither on the surfaces around it. Rings with different heights give the opporunity of endless combinations, safe customisation and total light control.

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Stratas.07

With high-standard processing and excellence in every detail we strive to create a simple, clean and timeless design. Especially the Stratas.07, with its perfectly symmetric shape is absolutely following the rules of this specification. The built-in Xicato XSM Artist Series LED module has got a Colour Rendering Index >/= 95, a luminosity of 880lm, a power of 17W, a colour temperature of 3000 K - warm white (2700 K/ 4000 K available on request). The LED modules life is stated by the producer with 50,000 hrs - L70/B50 and the colour is consistent over lifetime (1x2 step MacAdams over life).

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