Need some colour in your space? Look no further.
By enlarging a photograph, graphic designer Cristian Zuzanaga played up its pixels’ 26 brillian hues to create this hand-knotted wool rug for Spanish rug company Nanimarquina.
Consider it a digital cornucopia of colour.
www.nanimarquina.com
Nothing rhymes with orange. And nothing quite sticks out like the colour orange when it comes to the world of design.
Our faves this season? From left: Butt stool, Est by Established & Sons; 130, by Naoto Fukasawa for Thonet; Magic Hole, by Philippe Starck for Kartell; Pipe Chair, by Tom Dixon for Conran Shop.
Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek has created a range of containers for Fair Trade Originals in Holland.
The baskets are made from scraps of palm wood in a Vietnamese workshop, and are held together with nylon thread.
It’s a solution that Eek came up with to allow the wood to expand and contract while adjusting to European climate and humidity.
www.pietheineek.nl
Front is a Swedish design team that has previously brought us such delights as lamps and coffee tables in the shapes of life-size horses and pigs.
The threesome’s new design for the Italian house Moroso is equally enchanting, and seems to take its inspiration from 1970s car seat covers.
This lounge chair is covered in thousands of wood beads that rotate with your shifting bodyweight to give an all-over massage.
www.moroso.it
The shape of traditional Moraccan metal lamps have been reinvented in the form of contemporary polyethylene lighting.
Designed by Javier Mariscal for Vondom and available in floor and table formats, the lights can be hung under a tree for added effect.
Perfect for boutique hotels, spas or a really fabulous barbeque.
www.vondom.com
Hairdryers have remained boringly static over the years when it comes to design — until now!
Industrial Facility has looked at how the object fits into a room or cupboard, the practice focused on added functionality and the storage of the cable.
The Dryerhair incorporates a translucent cavity into which the cable neatly coils when not in use, with the cable doubling as a lid.
As for the switch? It’s tucked out of sight in the base of the handle.
www.industrialfacility.co.uk
