The Mano Bedside Lamp From Fontana Arte Might Just Give You Nightmares.

Talk about a creepy bedside lamp. This Mano lamp from Fontana Arte was originally designed in 1932 by the late Italian art deco designer Pietro Chiesa and has been reissued from the Italian company. It's a bit like having Thing from the Addams family share your bedroom with you.




The soft black matte lamp with a fabric shade has a white human hand cast in marble powder and resin reaching up the stem.

The Mano Table lamp is equipped with a dimmer with a base of marble powder and resin and square section stem in metal, both painted "soft" black matte. The hand is cast in white marble powder and resin and it has a diffused shade in black fabric lined with white PVC.







Price available on request from the manufacturer

The Eigen Coat Stand. Stunning In Its Simplicity and Formidable In Its Functionality.

This elegant Eigen Coat Stand by designer Leonhard Pfeifer (shown above with his creation) was just awarded a 2012 Design Guild Mark from the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers in London which recognises excellence in design, use of materials, manufacture and function.



As functional as it is beautiful, the wood coat stand looks great empty or laden with coats, hats, umbrellas or canes.




Leonhard describes his Eigen Coat Stand:

While many “designer” coat stands are available to the contract market, there is a limited selection of affordable contemporary coat stands for the domestic market. I was drawn to the geometrical strength of the design and to the practicality of the vertical elements with horizontal joining members, both of which act functionally to provide areas to hang coats, scarves, bags and the like, but which also form strong design elements. The proportions minimise the footprint for compact entry halls, while ensuring a sufficient base to maintain stability.

The brief required a wooden coat stand with a sculptural appearance made from wood - the finger jointed solid oak is certified FSC and is sourced from sustainably managed forestry resources. The Eigen Coat Stand has already launched with John Lewis in the UK and will be available shortly in France, Switzerland and Italy. The home assembly aspects of the coat stand are an important consideration and we have clear step-by-step instructions. The design also flat-packs very economically, producing a compact package that can be carried home by car or public transport.

The Eigen Coat Stand is manufactured by European furniture brand Woodman. Designer Leonhard Pfeifer was born in New Zealand and established his studio in London in 2003 from where he works with furniture manufacturers internationally.

See more of Leonhard's work at his site.

Throw Pillows Handmade From Your Instagram Photos - Stitchtagram.

Instagram, the free photo sharing app that lets you transform your images with various filters, has been all over the news lately given Facebook has purchased the popular app for $1 billion dollars.

That said, it's no wonder various creative folks will be coming up with ways to turn those images into keepsakes and products. Stitchtagram is one of the first of those concepts.




With Stitchtagram, your Instagram photos are digitally printed on a 15" square linen-cotton canvas pillow, hand sewn in Washington, DC.




The 15 inch pillows come complete with a soft and fluffy removable insert and a dark navy back with an envelope-style closure.




You can design your own layout using as many or as few images as you wish on their site, but beware, they are very pricey. (note: Those with computer and design skills could simply make their own montage on Photoshop and upload their images to Zazzle, Cafe Press or many other sites that offer pillows for a far lower price - only they won't be bleed images and the colors of the backing fabric are usually limited to black.)




Whose behind Stitchagram?
Stitchtagram is the brainchild of brother/sister team Doug and Rachel Pfeffer.

Doug Pfeffer makes stuff on the internet, including this. Find him on Twitter at @pfeffunit, or see more of his work here.

Rachel is the jeweler behind Rachel Pfeffer Designs. When she's not designing/packing/shipping/carting around pillows and fabric, she's soldering in her DC apartment.

All of Stitchtagram's products are sewn and assembled in Washington, DC and the internet bits have been hand crafted in Boston, MA.

For the next 20 hours, discounted coupons for either two or one Stitchtagram pillow are available from Fab with my invite link: http://fab.com/y06r4g


Start designing your pillows at Stitchtagram here.

Melissa Borrell's Glass-Etched Shadow Bulbs Are On Sale. Finally.

I usually don't start my posts with a cheesy retail ad-like line, but I've been waiting for these etched light bulbs to be reasonably priced for years. Really. I blogged about Designer Melissa Borrell's Shadow Bulbs way back in 2007 and have been waiting for the expensive bulbs to be within a price range I could justify.



At the time of my posting, five years ago - told you I was a trend-setter ;) - the 5.5" 60 watt glass etched bulbs were $90 a piece. For the past few years they have been priced at $75 a piece. Now, for only three days, the bulbs are on sale at Fab for only $39 a piece.



The glass bulbs, which cast beautiful shadows, are 5.5-inch, 60-watt incandescent globes that fits into standard light sockets.

You can get them at the reduced price by using my Fab link, but only for the next 3 days.

http://fab.com/y06r4g

From Rashid to Hadid, 12 Top Designers Create Laminate Flooring for Parador.

World-renowned designers Ross Lovegrove, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Jean-Marie Massaud, Karim Rashid, Jean Nouvel, Konstantin Grcic, Ben van Berkel, Matteo Thun, ORA ITO, Piero Lissoni, Werner Aisslinger and Zaha Hadid have all designed exclusive indoor laminate flooring for manufacturer Parador.

The Parador Laminate Flooring Edition Series 1 takes individual flooring design to a completely new level with twelve international top designers who were given creative free reign exclusively by Parador. The result is remarkably beautiful floors in art print quality with ultimate color, brilliance and intensity. Below is the entire collection.

The Laminate Edition 1 Series

Ben van Berkel - Driftwood:


Ben van Berkel - Silk Squares:


Jean Nouvel - Cedre:


Jean Nouvel - Cloud:


Jean-Marie Massaud AGTC1:


Jean-Marie Massaud - Aleph:


Konstantin Grcic - Sunray:


Konstantin Grcic - Monocrom:


ORA ITO - Popline:


ORA ITO - Capsules:


Piero Lissoni - Optical:


Piero Lissoni Domino:


Karim Rashid -Senses:


Karim Rashid - Orgo:


Matteo Thun - Memory1:


Matteo Thun - Memory2:


Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec - Fine Line:


Ronan and Erwan Bourellec - Flou:


Ross Lovegrove - Bone Structure:


Ross Lovegrove - Circuit Board:


Werner Aisslinger - Gel:


Werner Aisslinger - Mesh:


Zaha Hadid - Crystal:


Zaha Hadid - Wave:



Parador