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WantedDesign Outshines ICFF in New York Design Week

It wasn't exactly counterculture, but Wanted Design was just a bit edgier.
Owl Smartlight Lets You Adjust Everything From Intensity to Color Temperature

Fishtnk designs a lamp that you control with your smartphone or tablet.
Architects at ICFF: Building furniture instead of Buildings

In these tough times, more and more architects are turning to furniture design. Here are a few we saw at ICFF
A Growing Trend: Vertical Gardens For Your Home

They vary from the very clever but simple, like the Urbio, to hydroponic systems like the Live Screen
Beach Sofa Folds Into A Steamer Trunk

Lounge in style in transformer furniture designed in 1879.
Perennial Wood Lasts At Least 25 Years Without Toxic Chemical Treatment

The answer to the problem of pressure treated lumber is vinegar.
Blueair Makes The Usually Utilitarian Air Purifier Beautiful

These kinds of things don't have to be ugly.
It's Palletpalooza at New York Design Week and ICFF

Goodbye shipping containers, hello pallets as the design meme of the moment.
I'm Keen on Focal Upright Furniture

Shoe designer Martin Keen develops a new form of seating that lets you rock the day job in a posture halfway between standing and seating.
Mass customization is The Trend of the Year, As Customers Get To Decide What They Want

More and more designers and companies are letting the end user decide what they want their furniture to look like.
There is ICFF, There is Wanted Design, and Then There Was the Salon des Refusés

These designers didn't make it into the big show, but that didn't stop them from doing a great bit of guerrilla design theatre
Prefabricated Cantilevered Stairs Are "The Maximum In Minimalism"

Now anyone can have those gorgeous cantilevered stairs that break every building code.
Pratt Institute's Exhibit Shows How Furniture Can Balance Body and Mind

In collaboration with Herman Miller, students design furniture that promotes physical and mental well-being.
Amazing Folditure Chair Flattens In A Second, Hangs In Closet

It's funny looking, but this chair folds to less than an inch in thickness in no time flat.
Universal Kinetic Furniture Is A Transformer with Ulterior Motives

I thought it was just a great transformer idea, but in fact it is designed to be a revolution in furniture for home care.
Designboom Shops: The Best From New Designers On Show

Everything from iPhone holders to 3D printing to snack foods that you write on: Designers from all over the world show their stuff.
Jake Dyson's LED Desk Lamp WIll Light Up Longer Than You Will

Heat kills LEDs. The CSYS light has a heat pipe system to carry it away, and is estimated to burn for 37 years.
Maker Faire 2012: The Ninja Standing Desk

An adjustable standing desk you can hang from any wall or door... I. Want. This.