Daniel García & María José Vargas designed a series of lamps for Spanish company Woodendot called Ka. The collection, which consists of three versions: XL, M, and S, which each have different uses: ambient, reading and table. S table lamp Made from natural materials with careful attention to detail, they’re minimal and yet you can tell their design was anything but

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Ka Lamp Collection by Daniel García & María José Vargas for Woodendot

We hope you all had a wonderful holiday yesterday, whether you were celebrating or not!

Today we’re back to the grind with this simple yet fabulous product pick – 3 Stories Up. You can probably guess from the photos where the name comes from – this piece can be used as one solid storage unit or up to three separate units. It is made of walnut veneered boards with sleek brass inlays.

Designed by Jon Mitchell Furniture, the 3 Stories Up is super stylish and super functional. What do you think of this week’s product pick?

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Merry Christmas Eve, to those of you celebrating.

What are your plans for the holidays? Whether you’re hosting or going to a friend or family member’s, today we’ve got a few festive Christmas Cocktails for you to serve or take with you. I’m always travelling for the holidays, and I can’t wait for the day when I’m hosting so I can put out fun garnishes and glasses to extend the holiday spirit to the bar menu. Anyway, here’s what we’ve got for you to serve this holiday season!

First up is the Santa Hat, which is a combination of cranberry juice, coconut rum and grenadine. Then we have the Sugar Cookie, which is brown sugar and tequila. Finally, there is the Candy Cane Martini, which is vodka, white creme de cacao and peppermint schnapps. Click through for the exact measurements.

Do you have any festive cocktail recipes to share??

Handcrafted from locally-sourced beech wood,  Leis  aims to revive a Slovenian woodcraft tradition called “suha roba.” A lovely minimalist design combining contemporary lines and long-established hand-crafted skills, the Leis set consists of a fork, spoon and spatula.  Gigodesign , who designed the products and packaging, worked with a manufacturing company called Rimarket, and are planning a future series of nature-friendly Christmas ornaments and office accessories. I’m pretty excited to see more from this team! Photos courtesy of Gigodesign. Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook . © 2012 Design Milk | Posted by Jaime Derringer in Home Furnishings | Permalink | No comments

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Leis Wood Cooking and Serving Utensils by Gigodesign

Pli Folding Chair is a minimal design created by Switzerland-based designer Florian Hauswirth . He started his career as a model builder for Vitra in Switzerland. He was able to construct models for some of the most renowned designers in the industry, such as Jasper Morrison, Philippe Stark, and Antonio Citterio to name a few.  When the chair is folded, it only measures eight centimeters in width

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Skim Milk: Pli Folding Chair by Florian Hauswirth

Evan Clabots, who studied at RISD and the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland, not only won awards as a student, but designed a licensed a product with IKEA before graduating. In 2004, he joined Dror Benshetrit’s studio  as Benshetrit’s first hire, where he headed both the Product Design and Interior Design departments. In 2004, Clabots founded Nonlinear Studio , a multidisciplinary business that offers aproduct design, furniture design, interior design, brand identity, and art direction. For Clabots, design is a process of developing a complete story. He seeks the interconnected play between what something looks like, how it works, and how it interacts with someone’s life. Let’s see what he chooses for inspiration for this week’s Friday Five . 1.  Hotel Basic This hotel in Playa del Carmen, Mexico is beautifully constructed of repurposed materials.

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Friday Five with Evan Clabots of Nonlinear Studio

Remember when your desk accessories consisted of sticking your pens and pencils in an old coffee mug (guilty!)? Thank goodness those days are over and designers like Héctor Serrano have come out with great desk-worthy options like Desktructure for Seletti . The modular pieces, made out of fine white porcelain, include pen and pencil cups, open containers, and little boxes that are perfect for office supplies and other trinkets you need on the fly. You can use the pieces separately or push them together to become an industrial warehouse (gray), a ship (blue), or a city (red), each containing a band of color at the bottom. Desktructure will be launching at Home 2013 from January 13th – 15th at Earls Court 2 in London

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Desktructure by Hector Serrano for Seletti

The design of the Curl table lamp combines both the light source and the light’s reflector into one curvy piece. Designed by Sebastian Bergne for Luceplan Spa , the unconventional lamp uses what’s known as “tuneable” LED lighting to adjust the white light temperature from 2400˚ to 3500˚ kelvin.

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Curl Table Lamp by Sebastian Bergne for Luceplan Spa

Wanmokku is a minimal design created by Japan-based  Torafu Architects . The initial inspiration for the design came from an informal encounter with a Jack Russell Terrier. Through careful observation, the designers noticed that the dog would always come into close proximity to the clothes of the owner – most likely due to the reassuring scent and pleasant touch of the fabric. Torafu decided to take this interesting observation a step further by creating a furniture piece which would use the owner’s old clothes as a foundation for where a dog could play and rest. The elastic nature of the clothes forms a hammock like surface when attached to the frame.

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Skim Milk: Wanmokku by Torafu Architects

Happy Friday! Hope you have a great weekend ahead.

Here’s this week’s Weekly Six:

1 – An easy make-ahead recipe for holiday entertaining.

2 – Cute ways to spice up your holiday wrapping.

3 – Love this wooden bow tie – a great gift idea!

4 – Can’t get enough of art arrangements such as this.

5 – A fun yellow accented dining room – would you do something like this in your own home?

6 – I’ve drooled over the paintings of Caitlin McGauley for a long time – and now she has adorable trays!

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