Space-Saving Furniture: Home Office Desk & Storage Idea. Cuddling Chairs: Cute Seating + Anthropomorphic Meaning. Much of the language we humans use goes unspoken – a hand gesture here and a facial expression there.
Cute and quaint, this seating series uses recognizable gestures to evoke simple emotions, making us ‘feel’ as if the furniture is somehow abstractly alive. Jeroen van Laarhoven (images by Isabel Rottiers)? Created these conjoined LAT chairs of out simple light wooden members, using their bare look to emphasize the small design choices that make them different. In turn, our minds quickly recognize and humanize the details. One front leg slides in front of the other, the back rests tilt toward one another and criss-crossing supports wrap across the backs before tilting forward again. Instant Office: Snap-Together Custom Desk + Shelving Unit.
Office storage is often lacking in style and hardly ever interesting, but the Strates System from Mathieu Lehanneur solves both of these problems while creating a scalable, modular, ultra-modern system of office furniture.
Strates incorporates nesting modules that form slick desks + shelving in whatever size and configuration best fits your particular working space. Building the perfect office furniture suite is as simple as stacking the elements to the perfect height and width. From a modest one-person desk to a whole-team pod, the Strates system can be scaled to fit the needs of just about any office. Bed Overboard! Kids Bedroom Features Floating Pirate Ship. What six-year-old children don’t dream of something this spectacular?
A space ship theme was considered, as were race cars and medieval castles … but with pirates you can never go wrong, right? Argh!!! “The rope bridge is connected to the top of the jail cell, built to accommodate evil doers, thieves and little sisters.” At the end of the bridge, across from the crow’s-nested-and-steering-wheeled vessel, sits the faux-stone prison turret with a theme-fitting wood ladder. Curved wooden ribs support plywood planking (sorry, no actual plank!) Convertible Outdoor Furniture: Wooden Bench-to-Chair. Extending Bench/Table Inspired by Antique Roll-Top Desks. Wooden roll-top desks are clever classics that depend on segmented wood slats to close and open without sacrificing classy curves.
Though it owes a lot to this now-traditional (if not downright antique) desk design idea, this extendable bench-or-table piece (suited to suit on and with space to set things in between you and another person) is definitely contemporary in every other way. A secret seam in the center of the horizontal metal supports conceals a hidden set of wood beams, revealed fully only when the furniture is expanded. The slats slide up the side and become the surface for additional bench-style seating or coffee-table space.
Treated wood, aluminum and plastic make it a flexible, elegant and minimalist candidate for entry halls, porches, decks and gardens alike. Branching Out: Organic Wood Tables Features Tree Fractals. You may remember these bold bookshelves by Olivier Dolle - taking the art of organic abstraction to the next level, here are a series of black tables with natural wood inclusions likewise shaped like trees.
From a distance, they look continuous – up close, the grain reveals cuts between pieces, sanded smooth and finished to avoid any gaps. The wooded corner also takes on a different shape and angle, further setting it apart from the coffee and side tables in his series. “Originating in the Alps and trained in the Ecole Boulle in Paris in traditional and contemporary cabinet,” Olivier seeks out simple truths via quality craftsmanship coupled with conceptual design.
Legible Bookcases Let You Spell Out Anything with Shelving. The effect is subtle, at first – one could almost miss the writing on the wall, particularly once it is piled with stacks and rows of colorful books.
Still, lingering in the background, a nearly subliminal message that you can spell out in modular do-it-yourself shapes. Eva Alessandrini and Roberto Saporiti co-designed this cleverly readable series of stackable shelving units featured on Saporiti.net. Each letter of the alphabet is to be available, as well as numbers (0 through 9, which can of course be assembled into part of any alphanumeric string as well). Black and white are one set of options, but colors are possible as well. Rows and columns present endless creative possibilities. Elegant Convertible Wood Coffee & End Table Design. Love it or hate it, transforming furniture is a trend that is increasingly difficult to ignore.
While many recent convertible designs are more fun than functional, this particular piece by Alex Suvajac looks dynamic and use-driven as both a side (or end) as well as a coffee table. As an end table this piece has a flat top surface, recessed storage shelf and magazine nook. Cool Interior Tree Home: Best Kids Bedroom Design Ever?
There are a lot of ways to make a nice bedroom, but for kids there is an element of excitement that is just as important as bedroom size and style.
As these pictures illustrate, a cool bedroom for children can be a virtual fantasy world in itself – in this case by making the outdoors the driving interior design idea and central concept of the bedroom space. Complete with climbing ropes, ladders, swings and all kinds of hidden storage spaces, this bedroom brings all of the elements of an outdoor play space inside and makes the room feel like a self-sufficient home at the same time. The best part, of course, is the tree house in the center of the room – who would not have enjoyed that as a kid growing up?