Plate Tissue is a minimal design created by New York-based designer Liu Kejia . Liu Kejia is a recent graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Masters Industrial Design program. She is mainly passionate about furniture and product design, and has already manufactured a number of pieces

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Plate Tissue by Liu Kejia

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

Since the weather isn’t doing much to satisfy our warm weather cravings, we’ll have to rely on these fun and festive Beach Ball Shades from TOBYhouse. Aren’t they bright and cool?

Each modern pendant light is made from a real inflatable beach ball that has been rendered solid on the inside to be a hard surface with a smooth white finish. Each lamp is made to order.

I can see them in a sleek modern beach house with a whimsical vibe, or in a funky restaurant by the shore. A chic hair salon or retail could definitely rock these lamps in their decor.

What do you think of these Beach Ball Shades – where do you see them?

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Happy Friday!

This week’s Weekly Six is an interesting one – several of the items pair up with each other. Do you find yourself drawn to similar things all at once??

1 – Flannel + sequins = a great match!

2 – More sequins – this time in a DIY for elbow patches.

3 – Lots of color in this unique modern dining table.

4 – The sofa, the artwork – everything about this room is fantastic.

5 – It’s always great to find healthy ways to make some favorites. First we have healthy gummy bears….

6 – Then we have pizzas with portobello mushrooms instead of carb-filled crust!

Have a great weekend!

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Swedish furniture and product designer Ola Giertz ‘s latest project is called Bordus , a coffee table with some seriously aerodynamic lines. Inspired by angular Stealth fighter jets, the complex angles give the table a twisted look.

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Bordus Table by Ola Giertz

Lately I’ve got the urge to paint some walls a subtle pale pink. I don’t know what room it would be for, although I am longing for an office space of my own. But it would be of my own because I’m not sure my fiance would go for a pale pink bedroom, living room or kitchen.

Taking a look at the three images above, each room is painted a pale pink, but none of them are bedrooms or nurseries or offices that might belong to a little girl or a woman. There are two living rooms and a kitchen. Maybe it’s a single woman’s house – or maybe the men don’t care about the pale pink.

Trust me when I saw that I’m not trying to be sexist by any means, but light pink is a very feminine color. I never really had the pale pink urge until now, now that my house is entirely painted, but if I did, I don’t know how my fiance would react. I can’t imagine he would mind too much – he did let me have the ruffly shower curtain I wanted!

What are your thoughts on pale pink? What about pale pink and the man/men in your life?

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Who says a chair has to have legs? Even a rocker doesn’t need them thanks to two narrow skids that allow for rocking back and forth, right on the ground. The FEDRO Floor Rocker, by Lorenza Bozzoli for DEDON , sports the skids that make it rock while keeping it super lightweight, portable and stackable. Colibri The Milanese Bozzoli brings her fashion and textile background to the design with its woven bands of colors that were inspired by the chair’s bird-like form

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FEDRO Floor Rocker by Lorenza Bozzoli for DEDON

Gallery walls are pretty much perfect anywhere you put them – but how about leading you up the stairs as in these images above?

Putting these arrangements together likely takes a decent amount of patience, but I’d say it is worth the effort! The first two picture galleries have a climbing effect as the stairs escalate, while the third image just has the frames arranged over the entire wall. And they’re all green, while the others are all black and a mixture of black, white, silver.

There’s a lot you can do with the details of this look – but as far as stairwells and picture frames go – what do you think of it? Do you love this look?

Ross Lovegrove has designed a new collection for VONDOM called Biophilia. The collection channels the pioneering organic design of Sagrada Famila by Antonio Gaudi and is created using VONDOM’s expertise in advanced roto-moulded technology. The design seems to have sprouted from nature, and appears to open up like a flat-packed party decoration. Its beautiful fluid movement, which is a consistent trait present in Lovegrove’s contemporary designs, is unwavered

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Biophilia Chair by Ross Lovegrove for VONDOM

Happy Monday! Can you believe it’s April already? Hopefully you’ve got some good pranks going on for April Fool’s Day!

Today, I’m sharing the instructions how to make the chocolate covered pretzels above. I made them this past weekend to take with me for Easter brunch and then dinner. They weren’t hard to make, just a bit time consuming.

To get started, I went to Michael’s and picked up some Wilton’s melting chocolates in dark chocolate and light chocolate and then a bag of pink and green for the drizzle. I also grabbed a pair of plastic bottles, like these here, to apply the drizzle to the pretzels. You can use the bottles, decorating bags or even a Ziploc bag with the corner cut off! You could also use chocolate from the grocery store, including white chocolate with food coloring for whatever colors you need. You’ll also need pretzels of your choice, of course!

Once I had all of my supplies, I made a psuedo double boiler by putting an inch of water in a saucepan and a glass bowl on top, so that the water was not touching the bowl. I let the water warm up and placed the chocolate in the bowl, stirring until melted. As the chocolate is melting, lay out wax paper for the pretzels to dry on, either on your countertops or on top of cookie sheets for mobility.

Once the chocolate was melted, I brought the pan off of the burner and closer to my wax paper. Next, I put the pretzels in the melted chocolate and covered them completely using a regular fork, which I then used to fish the pretzel out and place on the wax paper to dry. Repeat this step until the pretzels are covered, or you need to melt more chocolate. Occasionally I put three pretzels in at once to speed up the process.

After all of the pretzels were covered and sitting to dry, I melted the colored chocolates and poured them into the bottles. Then I went back and forth over the pretzels to create the drizzle. In the morning, once the pretzels had sat over night, I removed the excess chocolate and packaged the pretzels up to take.

Simple to do, nice to look at and delicious to eat!

Have you made chocolate covered pretzels before? What’s your method?

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