This is a great lounging sofa if you know what I mean! It ’s the famous + Edra Boa and the design is based on the Boa snake. I like the model better though.

Softly woven, it resembles a large nest that also holds many people - lying down, sitting or curled up - who can also crawl inside the weave to feel even more protected. With no frame it consists of 90 meters (100 yards) of tubular velvet with flexible and breathable polyurethane chips, knotted with extreme manual expertise to form a large irregular weave!

This is one of my favorite chairs, it the Egg Chair an all time classic by Arne Jacobsen, which still looks as contemporary as when it was first designed some 50 years ago! As you can see my favorite color is the red one.

What is so unique about the + Egg Chair is that you can swivel it around to have an conversation facing the person, or just turn it away from other if you want privacy! It has a tilt system for relaxed lounging and the high back and curving elements are reminiscent of a traditional wing chair. Together they cocoon the sitter in a single-piece molded shell that appears to hover over the floor. Almost 50 years after its design, the Egg Chair is still used in advertising, film and television as a symbol of sophisticated urbanism. The wool version comes in black, chartreuse and red and is US$5398, or if you prefer the black leather one, that will set you back a cool US$10,680.

What a wonderful idea this is, a lamp within a lamp, let’s call it an ‘object of art’. Designed by famous Studio Italia Design, a Pio and Tito Toso design, the + blow table lamp is a surely a table lamp, that will be subject to a lot of interesting discussions.

It has a low-voltage lamp in a chrome and brushed aluminum finish encased in an outer, clear-crystal globe.

Lamp direction is controlled by a matching decorative magnet located on the outside of the clear globe. Place it almost anywhere on the globe and the inside lamp will follow. The Blow Table Lamp is a studio quality work of art that is fun to maneuver.

A great lamp to have fun with at a cool price of US$1,363.00.

This great looking, and you could almost call it an “object of art’, is the world’s first “free standing cutlery”. It was invented by Dutch chef & designer Helfred van Malkenhorst. Apparently research did show that this was indeed a totally new invention, and that nothing of the sort existed anywhere in the world.

As the idea was so unique, Helfred quickly applied for a design patent before launching Free Hands Cutlery into the market, so don’t even think about copying it!

This process took almost a year and the prototypes of Free Hands were closely kept under wraps from the world. There are 4 lines available and for details about this product contact + Blenheim

Unto This Last is a miniature Ikea, situated on Brick Lane in London’s East End. Like Ikea, prices are low and many products are sold as flat-packs (pre-assembly optional). Unlike Ikea, everything is manufactured uber-locally, and the designs aren’t overly familiar.

This great looking coffee table is made out of more than 120 individual parts, assembled with internal stiffeners for an uninterupted fluid shape. W110.H37.D53 -Price at UKP580 or US$1,100.

The workshop uses the latest 3D modelling software to design and produce innovative and inexpensive furniture, which it sells directly to the public. Orders are manufactured to measure, within a week, at mass-production prices. Most of Unto This Last’s chairs, shelves, tables, storage units and beds are made from birch plywood, chosen for its lightness and sustainability — all of the timber comes from cultivated forests in Latvia and Finland. And since pieces are made to order, customers can choose from various finishes and sizes, like adapting chairs to fit specific seat height requirements.

We love the micro-manufacturing concept: less stock, no warehousing, less transportation and less packaging, equates more choice and lower prices for consumers. Cutting back transportation also means less air pollution, and the ’still made here’ production pumps consumer spending back into local economies.