The Mayfair steamer trunk has a secret - it hides a complete office!  Furniture maker Timothy Oulton of London redesigned this antique steamer into a secretary - displaying a desk, file cabinets, bookshelves, and cubbyholes.  And when you’re tired of looking at your office, roll one of the sides and close it, and voila! it [...]

If you’re like many homemakers, you love to decorate your space but you can’t afford to buy all the furniture you want.  Blik has come up with a novel way to stick to your budget and still come up with great decor.  By introducing the graphic headboard decal, Blik created an instant headboard for your [...]

Here’s an idea we like: a blog called Ikea Hacker. Not high-concept, but great-concept: take a piece of furniture—anything at all—you bought at Ikea, and re-purpose it. Make it over into something of your own, or find a new use for it. It’s a great idea for up-cycling, and it’s quite a good time-waster—er, I [...]

MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, has recently opened their Architecture and Design Galleries, and is currently showing the exhibit, Shaping Modernity, 1880-1990.
The exhibit examines the iconic objects that helped shape the modern age starting with the Art Nouveau age in 1880s up to 1990.  On our cover is a 1964 [...]

Las Vegas definitely wants to show the world that it’s not only about gambling.  They opened the Las Vegas Design Center (LVDC) a few years ago and added another showroom building.  The design center, when completed, will be the largest trade show complex in the world.
Many familiar vendors are there, including Ethan Allen, Kreiss, and [...]

Anyone who loves the great outdoors may want to bring some of it indoors.  Tucker Robbins introduced his very organic furniture to the delight of many nature lovers.  Robbins traveled around the world, choosing from native cultures the best sustainable materials to create his furniture.
On our cover, is the tongue-in-cheek Human chair, also made from [...]

They come in different names, materials, and colors but these tables have one thing in common - they’re very convenient. Many people multi-task in their living room, from working on a laptop to eating to paying bills. Unfortunately, one can’t always bring a desk or a dining table into the living room. [...]

Clean lines, natural and organic shapes, a muted earth-tone color palette, and an abundant use of woods such as teak, walnut, and oak are the hallmarks of mid-century modern design.  Peaking in the 1950s with great influence from Denmark and other parts of Scandinavia, this design movement has real staying power: furniture and accessories from [...]

Are you wacky for modernism? And you’re in New York, or will be coming during the holiday season? If so, you must plan a visit to MOMA to see their new exhibit, Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity. Until it was shut down by the Nazis, Bauhaus was a hotbed of creative thinking, re-examining all the [...]

Got a little time on your hands? Then you, too, could spend a week attaching 20,000 Lego pieces to a kitchen island to create an playful look for your kitchen.
That’s what the Parisian design team Munchausen—Simon Pillard and Phillipe Rosetti— did, working with an IKEA base in their own kitchen.
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