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The idea of making your own lamp or fruit bowl, is tempting perhaps, but impossible for most. But the designer maker Andreu Carulla, working just outside of Barcelona, has conceived a design that can be adopted to suit your own purposes. Read more

Daniel Capela Duarte.

Daniel Capela Duarte is the man behind Atelier Mutant, a practice working out of Portugal. The Shelf House is considered by the architect as a mutation from an existing house dating back to the1960. The owners wanted a comprehensive refurbishment that would give new functional purpose to the property as well as a contemporary image. Read more

Photo credits: Serge Brison.

It might look like somebody has left an Airstream in a loft, but this design for a loft apartment in Liege, Belgium, by Deithier Architectures is rather more sophisticated than that. Read more

It seems at last that the the Bauhaus styled fitted kitchen is being challenged.

For the best part of 80 years, a smart kitchen meant a modular, clean-lined row of cupboards. Behind the smartest ones hid dishwashers, fridges and washing machines camouflaged by a fitted door to look like a cupboard. Even sink tops are routinely hidden beneath work surfaces subjugated to the notion that utilitarian equipment should be used but not seen.

In parts of South America Whirlpool have released this limited edition refrigerator with a 1950 theme to its styling. Read more

Photos: YOXIMOVIC design studio.

Like JLo, this chair makes a virtue of its bottom.

Ever so slightly larger perhaps , than the bottom of an average chair, it flaunts its firm, beautiful, flowing curves to produce something of great depth, set of course, on slim, elegant legs!

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