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Derek Chen is a furniture designer, with experience as an engineer and management consultant, who founded Council as a way to add an American spin on contemporary design. Working with a host of international designers, Council manufactures a massive collection of American design while making sustainable choices whenever possible during the manufacturing process. San Francisco-based Chen continues to design for and head the company, always using his keen engineer’s eye to put out a blend of designs with a handcrafted feel and a modern aesthetic. Let’s see what keeps this multifaceted designer inspired in this week’s Friday Five .

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Friday Five with Derek Chen of Council

Swiss architects Studioforma are no stranger to the furniture and product design world . They have quite a bit of furniture designs, but their new Arachnide chair took me by surprise. With its long insect-like legs, I knew it was spider-inspired before I even knew its name. Besides the spider-like silhouette, the contrast in materials—smoked oak and aluminium—were also a major inspiration in its design and achieving the desired effect

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Arachnide Chair by Studioforma

Hansgrohe’s designer brand of bath fixtures, Axor , has always been ahead of the game when it comes to visionary designs for the bathroom. Continuing their relationships with top designers, Axor partnered with the Swedish design trio Front , and Japanese design studio Nendo , to create their very own Axor WaterDream  installations. Having previously presented bathroom visions from Ronan & Erwan  Bouroullec, Jean-Marie Massaud, and Patricia Urquiola, their latest partnerships are right on par with unexpected and unconventional answers to bathroom concepts. From Philippe Grohe, the head of the Axor brand, about re-thinking the shower: Within our overall understanding of the use of space, the interaction with water, and the multifaceted individual needs of people, we focused specifically on the shower this time, interpreting it anew with Front and Nendo.

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Re-imagined Bath Fixtures by Front and Nendo

Hamburg, Germany-based designer Dahm Lee designed this stool that he calls Dami Und Damaki . Made of steel bars wrapped with rubber straps, it’s flexible, which makes the seat comfortable. Not only that, but the rubber straps allow the lower portion to be used to store items like your purse or a jacket

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Dami Und Damaki Stool With Storage by Dahm Lee

The Glint lamp is a nifty little two-part design that joins a single lighting component with an angular metal storage holder. The light, designed by Filipa Mendes and Gustavo Macedo for Galula Studio , features a cork covered socket with super strong magnets embedded in the surface that let it adhere to any iron surface, like the storage holder it comes with. The metal contraption holds your spot in your book, acts as a magazine rack, or a storage space for your files. The magnets allow you to adjust the light in any direction you want on the metal surface to aid your reading or whatever your lighting needs are.

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Glint Lamp by Galula Studio

California-based company MotoArt designs striking furniture pieces made from iconic aircraft. More sculpture than industrial design, MotoArt brings function, history, and a sense of eclecticism to their pieces. On top of that, their commitment and love for aviation radiates through their work. C-119 Rudder Desk All of the company’s desks are made from parts they have salvaged from vintage airplanes

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Desks Made from Salvaged Airplane Parts by MotoArt

Swedish-Chilean designer, who happens to be based in London and Stockholm, Anton Alvarez has developed a line, and technique, that wraps various materials with thread to form objects. The line of furniture consists of wood components that are joined together with only a glue-coated thread, no nails or screws. Along the way he built the Thread Wrapping Machine , which helps produce the line while still relying on a hands-on technique that results in this new craft, the Craft of Thread Wrapping . Using this building method on materials like wood, plastic, or steel, new objects can be formed and constructed, all without relying on traditional joinery methods

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The Craft of Thread Wrapping by Anton Alvarez

I don’t have a jewelry box. It’s not because I don’t want or need one, but I’ve had a very hard time finding one. Right now, all my jewelry is sadly and messily dumped inside a drawer. I discovered Balsabox a few weeks ago and I am utterly in love

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Balsabox Modern Jewelry Box by Nomess Copenhagen

German design studio Supergrau , which has three designers at the helm, has launched a series of lighting designs that continue their tradition of sustainability and their desire for people “to love, to buy, to preserve” good design. All of their retro/futuristic designs are handcrafted in Germany and the collection is now being carried by design showroom Mondo Collection . The Furore Table Lamp is crafted from recovered marble, blown glass, and copper.

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Modern Lighting from Supergrau

High & Tight is a new stool from Curtis Micklish that was inspired by the teeth of a hair comb. Its cantilevered look is actually a well-designed and structurally sound seating design. Seven individual steel plates make up the floating seat, which are then folded back to create legs. Solid black walnut then meets these steel members to complete the piece.

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The High & Tight Stool by Curtis Micklish