We could spend hours snuggling into a comfy womb-like bean bag. Sure you sacrifice your dignity when trying to get in and out of them-most unflattering, but the squishy seat can’t be beat in the cozy department. Once a staple of 1970’s apartment living, the bean bag’s popularity has diminished over the years. Swedish designers, Form Us With Love, have tried to change that, by giving the simple bag a much needed face lift.
Inspired by animals, plants, Ernst Haeckel, Odilon Redon, and mythology, designer Jennifer Maestre’s sea urchin sculptures look like intricate wood sculptures and in a way, they are. These unique pieces are created using 100’s colored pencils.
To make each pencil sculptures, she takes hundreds of pencils, cuts them to size , drills a hole in each one so she can sew them together. She takes care to sharpen each pencil before she beads the pencils into shape.
Love being outdoors in the winter but want to keep warm and toasty? Design group AK47 have designed an outdoor circular fire pit aptly named, Zero, that will give you and your friends a cozy place to gather and relax.
Despite a close call with the Fred Campfire Candle, (it created a towering inferno but still love the effect just got to keep a close eye on it) we still love candles in the winter. A little flickering candle light makes us feel all warm and cozy . Full Story »
Remember when you were a kid and your mom made goofy little pancaked shaped animals to bribe you to eat your breakfast? Same concept here except we’re betting if someone made you a Gun Egg you’d be sure to gobble it all down. ‘Eggs Benedict Arnold’ Anyone? Full Story »
Who says urban dwellers can’t have gardens?Vertical gardens are not a new concept but designer Xavier Calluaud’s Urb Garden is the first one we’ve seen that actually composts as well. Vertical gardens are a space saving way to farm your own fresh herb and veg.
We get it. Hair as a design resource, groovy. We dated a Heavy Metal dude once with really long hair. Kinda skeeved us out. We broke up with him because of it. Shallow we know, but there’s just something creepy about constantly picking your boyfriend’s hair off you. The designer of these coiffed creations Dejano Kabiljo of Kabiljo Inc., designed the PRETTYPRETTY Collection to ‘regulate the erotic allure that surrounds us’. If your ‘erotic allure’ is dating a dude with long hair these chairs may be for you. But as for us, we feel the same way about these chairs as we did about that guy. We think they’re cool but we don’t want to date them.
This chair has a Dolly Parton circa 1970’s vibe we dig. Definitely Dolly. There’s a busty blond with a touch of sass coming from this chair. If a chair were a spunky girlfriend this would be the one you’d want in your corner. Just like 9 to 5.
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