While buying a house may be the more common housing choice, building your home from scratch will always have a special allure. The design customizations you can make when building your home can’t be compared with the ones you can make on an old home. When you’re buying a house, you’re largely at the mercy […]

The Yellow Brick Chair by Sivak+Partners kind of looks like it defies gravity with its abstract look-and-feel. It deconstructs the elements of seating and experiments with new ways to design a chair.

Based in Italia, Moreno Ratti is an architect and designer who attempts to incorporate ecological thinking in his work. He recently designed a series of flowerpots that include travertine marble that acts as a sponge in the pot. It works as follows: the marble that contains the plants absorbs the water to distribute it to […]

Remember the time when you moved into your house for the first time? Those empty walls, the carpet that smelled more of shampoo which the cleaner used to wash it, and all other things were throwing off a feel of promising happy times. You decided that you will start working on creating an interior of […]

Precht is an architecture, interior design, and product design studio based in the mountains of Austria, the perfect place to build and sell their conceptual modular treehouse. Shaped like a tree trunk with round windows, this project was named Bert and is sold by Baumbau, which literally translates to “tree construction”. Their slogan is “Homes […]

Although the use of bamboo and the yoga poses on the photo give this temple an Asian look-and-feel, it is actually located in Tulum, Mexico. It was built in the jungle and offers a unique natural environment for meditation. It was designed by a local architecture office: CO-LAB. The imagined the pavilion with parametric software […]

The dining room may be one of the most overlooked spaces in the home – but then again, most apartment dwellers are lucky to have room for a kitchen table, never mind a formal dining room. For those lucky enough to have a dining room for entertaining, though, how do you make the move from […]

Located in Chongqing, China, the Zhongshuge Bookstore is truly out of the ordinary. It was inspired by the movie Inception, that became famous for its mind-bending visual effects. Based in Shanghai, interior design company X+Living used gigantic optical illusions to mess with the bookstore’s visitors shopping experience. The worked with mirrors on the roof to […]

Emanuele Magini is an Italian designer who regularly creates slick furniture. In this piece named “Maracana” after the famous Brazilian stadium, this furniture can act as a small domestic stadium, a bed for visitors, or as a more traditional sofa.

Designed by Matteo Ugolini, these wall lamps were recently launched by Karman, an Italian lighting company. Designed to look like a bulldog spotted by the designer in the streets of Amsterdam in Holland, it was built with a matte ceramic (in white or grey) and three bare bulbs hanging from the mouth of the bulldog.

When working as a designer, there are many fields in which you can use your talents. From graphic design to web design, there are lots of opportunities in certain sectors for you to enjoy a successful career. One such industry is interior design where professional designers use their skills to improve the ambience and aesthetic […]

Due to its position in the room, hovering above eye level, ceiling light design has traditionally been overlooked in favour of lamps, the purpose of ceiling lights being primarily functional. But while some lights – indirect wall lights, pendant lights – are merely there to give a space nuance and texture, a ceiling light is essential […]

When you take a look at Simon Morasi Piperčić’s online portfolio, you can quickly see that the Zagreb-based designer loves minimalism. His most recent clothes rack, name Ugao, is no exception. This simple geometric furniture is designed to take little space in your home. Even better, it uses the space that is often under-used: the […]

When you think of exciting design, incense burners are not the first product that comes to mind. With these designs inspired by the brutalist movement, the designers at Kin Objects demonstrate once more that we should look for inspiration in unusual places. The designs come from a couple of first-generation immigrants who landed to USA […]

“Depressed lamp is depressed”. That was my first thought upon seeing the HAITRAL table lamp. Fortunatly, this lamps is not just depressed, it just has a personality. With its very simple design, the lamp gains in expressivity with the simple mechanisms that let you set it up in various ways that all look quite human-like.