No one like to weigh themselves but wouldn’t this cool Footprint Digital Scale make the experience a little more pleasant? Looking more at home in an art gallery than your bathroom, the scale’s shiny silver surface and understated foot impressions give the illusion of stepping on water.
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The Handstand Glove Vase we found on online store What on Earth? had to be inspired by the most valuable member of the Adams Family. Creepy? A little. Imagine being home alone late one night, watching reruns of The Twilight Zone and wondering if, maybe just maybe, you saw something move out of the corner of your eye?
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Design group Stolen Wood’s Catching the Wild coat rack appears to be floating in air. It’s actually a polyester rope wrapped around steel but we love the illusion and super retro look! The rope looks like it could have been frozen mid dogie slingin’. And we love the circular lasso design. It makes it easy for your guest to find their coat [...]
Hamilton Designs gives us their interpretation of the Seven Deadly Sins using wine glasses. We think some of them would be down right impossible to drink out of but very entertaining to have on hand for your next cocktail party. And don’t you think they would go nicely with Etienne’s Strange Decanters? Our favorite is Wrath shown below. Featured [...]
Whether or not decanters can improve the taste of wine is controversial amongst wine experts however none can debate the aesthetic value of presenting wine in an elegantly designed vessel. Most carafes have a bulbous bottom and a slender top but French artist Etienne Menueau’s Strange Decanters challenge that notion taking inspiration from the roots of the [...]
While perusing greenUPGRADER today we found this super colorful ottoman by DWR. It’s unique, fun and would you believe made out of recycled flip-flops?! The Miss Rio Ottoman designed by Karin Wittman uses industrial leftovers from flip-flop factories (try saying that 10 times) to make this fanciful footrest. The design is manufactured by social organizations [...]
Design Group Rock and Royal are well known for their custom chandeliers and mosaics. Grand in scale and outlandish in design, Artist Hans van Bentem makes these sparkling beauties for some of his wealthiest and dare we say, eccentric clients. Who do we know that could possibly pull off an enormous prick in their entrance?
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Re-Surface, the folks who brought us Solo: the microphone light, have put their own tag on the boring lamp shade. The More- Light collection brings the color of the streets indoors with these five urban inspired lights. A photographic print on transparency gives the pendant light shade an inner-city makeover. Check out all five pieces in the collection on Re-surface’s website.
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We normally like to keep our vices hidden but The Sofa Garden’s mischievous pillows are so tempting it makes us want to tie one on!
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Although this little “vase” seems simple and sweet, we can’t help but think it looks like something one would make while serving time in prison. Hey, maybe that could be a new niche? Prison goods! With all that time on their hands they must come up with lots of clever items, don’t you think? We’re [...]
The Plamp from designer Piotr Woronkowicz utilizes vertical space by providing a hanging lamp which is also a vase. The ”roots” on the Plamp are a very sweet touch and we like it’s slim design. Your flowers do double duty as they cast shadows on the wall when the Plamp is lit.
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With rising energy costs, we may all have to switch to efficient LED lighting in the future. Already way ahead of the curve is designer Billy May, his Torn Light concept brings a soft glow to your interiors using integrated LED lights. We love it because it looks as if you have torn back the [...]
Here at MUL we love two things -multi tasking and recycled products. OK so maybe we love more than just that but it’s especially marvelous when we find a product that does both! Check out these Recycled Paper Baskets we found on Brite and Bold. You can lay it flat for use as a place-mat [...]
Thinking of tossing out that old Ikea bookcase for something a bit more minimalistic? The Salkim book hanger by design group ünal & böler was designed to bring a lightness to your heavy tomes.
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Sure they’re way weirder than traditional soap bars but if you’d like to add some eccentricity to your guest bath, the baby Hand Soaps by Marie Gardeski maybe just what your looking for. The tiny “hand” soaps come in an ethnically diverse set of ten and each one is unique in both shape and size. They’re kind of sweet individually [...]
