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Inspiring Interactive Candlestick

Inspiring

Inspiring is an interactive candlestick designed for indoor and outdoor use. Two single candle holders are held on a U-shaped iron frame by small magnets, so each holder can be placed at any position along the frame. Users arrange the composition freely and change it at will. When the candles are not in use, the holders are stored inside the base, which protects the candles from evaporation and staining. The frame and the base are joined by friction and can be separated, so the candlestick packs into two compact pieces for camping. The base can also serve alone as a candle platform.

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Flower Vase Decorative Stand

Flower Vase

Just like a flower - a wooden stem and a colorful coating of your choice. Whether on its own, with a single bloom or in a bunch, the new and refreshing flower vase will bring the blossom into your home. The minimal designed vase, inspired by the "Math Of Design" methodology, comes in several materials and sizes and it can also be customized by picking colors, materials and even different producing technologies.

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Ruumy Multifunctional Furniture

Ruumy

Ruumy was designed to be a multifunctional textile, furniture that can be transformed from an architectural wall into a wardrobe, into home decorative items, or even in garments, handbags, accessories, by dismantling parts and fitting the desired accessories. Ruumy is made of recycled materials and has the shape of a textile puzzle without edges. The design of this object helps contemporary nomads, to transport and pack their ambulatory universe easily and quickly, adapts spaces in which it cannot intervene constructively and combines elements of home decoration.

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Liquid Table

Liquid

Liquid is a light and strong modern table design inspired by the dynamic and fluid structures found in nature. There are already plenty of table designs, creating a meaningful one is challenging. But Liquid is not your ordinary table, by choosing high-quality Epoxy fortified with E-fiber Glass, not only does the table look lightweight, it only weighs 14 kilos. As a result of this and its timeless design, you can easily move it around in every space.

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Exocet Multifunctional Chair

Exocet

Exocet is a multifunctional chair made of Baltic birch and aluminium. The chair is built from a series of identical curved slats assembled around a central cylinder. The use of one basic slat shape supports an efficient fabrication process. Exocet can be set in several configurations, including a standard chair, a rocking long chair and a folded form. To change the shape, the user releases the pressure with the handle, moves the sections around the cylinder and tightens the handle again. The result is a chair with many positions and very few parts.

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Chairry Pouf

Chairry

Chairry is a modular pouf system designed for shared and public interiors. Each pouf has a pie shape, so several units can be joined to form squares, circles and many other patterns. A single pouf offers a private seat, while a circular arrangement supports group interaction. Each seat is made from a three-dimensional machine-cut polystyrene core, strengthened with plywood and covered with foam and fleece. Each unit measures 650 mm in width, 650 mm in depth and 450 mm in height. When not in use, the poufs can be stacked and stored in a small area.

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Xray Chair

Xray

Fujimura designed X-Ray Chair that the backside is erased as if it is looked at X-rays image, and the translucent lightness in it is felt. He used wood for the seat and leg parts which are needed structural strength, but he reduced successfully the whole weight by making other parts frame which is needed a few burdens. The X-Ray Chair adapting itself to the interior space naturally by the light chair's image can be seen.

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Static Movement Kitchen Sideboard

Static Movement

This product manifests an essential design, which connects function and idea through precise craftsmanship. The project wants to describe the moments spent today in the kitchen, often lived in a frenetic way. The legs of the sideboard simulate a fast movement, like a run. The main feature of this product is the material: it is made entirely of centenary olive tree. The Designer says that the timber was obtained from some specimens felled due to a land deficit, which brought these trees to the end of their life cycle. This project was made entirely by hand.

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Mix and Match Seat

Mix and Match

Mix and Match is a bench seating collection designed for hotels, entrances and commercial buildings. Each bench has a wood veneer surface in oak, walnut or tineo, with openings that hold chairs in place. The chairs have their legs removed and receive a mechanism that secures them to the bench and lets them rotate freely. Three bench sizes hold two, three or four chairs, and six chair models are offered. A small table and USB charging sockets can be added, so many combinations are possible.

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TPH Tissue Paper Holder

TPH

TPH Leather is a compact design with paper sandwiched between two leather trays and taken out from above. The material and weight of the upper and lower tray cores are changed so that the paper can be taken out smoothly. The top is made of aluminum, which is in addition to there are a variety of leather variations, and take advantage of the characteristics of the leather to change sewing.

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Kala Laminated Bamboo Retractable Stool

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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Zig Stool

Zig

The design is inspired by the desire to showcase the unique properties of wood in the context of the technical challenges that require both beauty and functionality. To Jules S. Jaffe, this is the challenge of furniture design. The stool employs a unique triple mitered joint that did not exist before. The challenge here was to provide stability and strength to accommodate a feeling of lightness and tension in the final design. The resultant stool has exemplary strength but also has a feeling of lightness and peacefulness that the geometry, dating back to the Pythagoreans from whom the designer takes inspiration.

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