Berlin-based product designer Dewa Bleisinger ‘s QUAD Trivet adjusts to a handful of sizes and patterns to accommodate any size pot you place on it. It unfolds from a simple square to a large circle, making it the only trivet you’ll ever need. It’s made from 16 wooden cubes that are connected with a silicone strip that’s hidden on the underside of the cubes. Besides being flexible, the silicone is also heat-resistant making it a safe place for your hot food. The chunky cubes are substantial and form a variety of geometric designs to not only do its job but to also look good on the table

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QUAD Trivet by Dewa Bleisinger

Design studio Gabriel Scott creates contemporary furniture & lighting pieces. With backgrounds in architecture, industrial design, and fashion design, Gabriel Kakon and Scott Richler have offered pieces to the  to-the-trade furniture market in the U.S.

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Friday Five with Gabriel Scott

The kerFchair is a flat pack furniture designed by Boris Goldberg made from CNC-machined birch wood. Instead of bending laminated wood, he applied a different technique to achieve the same effect. By using the kerfing technique, he avoided the laborious process of pressing the sheets of wood on a bending mold and clamping the together. Instead, the structure of the chair (the legs) are used as a bending tool. You can contact Boris at goldberg.boris@gmail.com

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kerFchair by Boris Goldberg

Leave it to Thabto to come up with a quirky name like Jpegs for these J-hooks. Inspired by the classic wooden clothes peg, these hooks can manage just about anything from your keys to coats and bags and also wrangle your mail at the same time. Or, stick a love note in the clothes pin. Or lunch money! Pop a photo of the hook’s owner to help keep your family’s things organized and separated. Each Jpeg also come with powerful magnets so you can put them on your fridge to use for kids’ drawings or notes, and also hang a potholder or apron.

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JPEGS: J Hooks with Handy Pegs

Artek ‘s abc Collection is made up of small, colorful household items that are easily incorporated into your home and mix right alongside the rest of Artek’s furniture collection. The name was inspired by “the alphabet of living” and the graphically-patterned series features 20 items ranging from curtains, a soft blanket, a kitchen towel, trays, along with coasters and trivets. Featuring Alvar Aalto’s iconic Siena fabric that was designed in 1954, it marks the first time the fabric will be used for items such as this. Also launched at the same time were products featuring the H55 fabric that was designed by architect Elissa Aalto in 1955. The products, which include an apron, bag, pillow covers, napkins, etc., are available in the grey and white or the black and white versions

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Graphic Textiles: abc Collection by Artek

We partnered with  Crane.tv  to bring you some fantastic videos that feature some of this year’s biggest names in Milan. Philippe Malouin talks about his studio’s design philosophy and output from interior design to products to art installations. He says, “We need to do what makes us happy

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Philippe Malouin | Complex Simplicity VIDEO

We partnered with  Crane.tv  to bring you some fantastic videos that feature some of this year’s biggest names in Milan. Part of two exhibitions in Milan this year, British designer Dominic Wilcox seeks to reveal surprises which are embedded within the banal, creating products such as his Dorothy-inspired GPS shoes .

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Dominic Wilcox | Milan 2013 VIDEO

Remember Nicole Tomazi ‘s Fractal Collection ? Well, the Brazilian designer is back with an ocean-inspired series she calls the Jangada Collection.

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Jangada Collection by Nicole Tomazi

Eric Chang is the creative and conceptual designer behind the high-end furniture brand,  Hellman-Chang , which he co-founded with his lifelong friend, Daniel Hellman, in 2006. Completely self-taught in design and woodworking, Chang designs artisanal-crafted pieces that beg to be touched. The company has created designs for the residences of celebrities and the social elite, and their furniture has been used in the interiors of high-end hotels such as The Setai, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, The Waldorf Astoria, The Ritz Carlton, The Four Seasons, and The Intercontinental, as well as featured in entertainment productions ranging from Sex and the City 2 to “Gossip Girl.” Chang is certainly at the forefront of Brooklyn’s design renaissance

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Friday Five with Eric Chang

Marble! It’s not going anywhere this year. I can’t wait to see how people will use it in the coming months. This dining table called KST , designed by Berlin-based Livius Härer and Ada Ihmels, is a nice juxtaposition of the marble top and bright yellow-painted steel base that’s bent in all kinds of fun directions. It’s kind of pipe-like, no?

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KST Dining Table by Livius Härer and Ada Ihmels