Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana created an innovative design that will make you re-think the kitchen. Shaping Silestone® by Campanas is a modular unit for the kitchen that mimics the way a Swiss Army knife works. It has three main elements, or wings, that each incorporate a function for the kitchen – a worktop, a stove, and a sink and table. So instead of having many components being brought into a kitchen, you have one single piece that houses much of what you need

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Swiss Army-Style Kitchen: Shaping Silestone by Campanas

Dutch designer Dennis Parren created the CMYK Lamp for his graduation show from Design Academy Eindhoven. The innovative design uses LED technology to project cyan, magenta, and yellow onto the ceiling and walls. The lamp is shaped like a graphic outline and casts 3D shadows which he discovered only by accident. The experimental lamp sets out to display the mystery of  light and what it can be. Currently on display in the Transversality Exhibition at Galerie BSL in Paris through February 11, 2012.

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CMYK Lamp By Dennis Parren

Ten architecture students from Columbia University GSAPP have recently completed Polymorphic , a kinetic installation in the form of a bench. Utilizing an innovative design and engineering solution inspired by the kinetic action of a see-saw and the reverberating motion of a slinky, the double-sided bench is made of a series of 119 interconnected sections and an interactive balance board. The sections are connected via an inventive pivot and bolt system, allowing the vertical movement of one section to be picked up by others down the line.

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Polymorphic Kinetic Bench

Twin brothers Richard and Antony Joseph founded their London-based brand Joseph Joseph in 2003 and have been busy bringing sex appeal to kitchen utensils ever since. Specializing in contemporary kitchenware, Joseph Joseph is now internationally recognized for producing some of the most stylish and technically innovative products available, and has become one of the fastest growing companies in the worldwide housewares market. The brothers’ main aim is to “tie up the loose ends” that a simple utensil has neglected by only partially solving a problem. Richard and Antony spend hours in the office kitchen looking for these loose ends and –- through testing complete sets of kitchen utensils and appliances -– have generated fresh problem-solving ideas and created new products that always fit their four rules of thumb: innovation, functionality, long life and good looks

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Friday Five with Joseph Joseph

Portable fireplaces seem to be becoming really popular. Perhaps it has something to do with snow in Northern NJ in October (ridiculous).  I know I’ve mentioned portable fireplaces before, but today I bring you one that is REALLY portable. Designed by Camillo Vanacore and made by Electrolux, this has to be the most portable of them all. Wouldn’t you love to put this on the coffee table, while you relax on the couch and watch a movie on a cold winter night?

There’s more to this fireplace’s design though than its conveniently small size. The Electrolux Fireplace actually starts out as opaque ceramic that slowly turns to translucent and then transparent as the flames flare up. When you are done with it and it begins to cool done, the column turns back to white. I would have no idea this second image was even a fireplace – pretty innovative design I must say.

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Just what you wanted: a high chair named CLUB. CLUB is the highchair created for babies who are ready to join the family mealtime.

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CLUB High Chair