Metaproject , the student challenge created by designer and Rochester Institute of Technology professor Josh Owen, is back again for another round. Last year’s focus was on using glass in partnership  with the  Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) , but this year, Owen partnered up with hip New York-based company Areaware to present the students with the challenge of working primarily with wood and creating contemporary wooden toys geared toward adults. Areaware, who distributes some of Owen’s own designs , has had great success with its wooden products, like David Weeks’ jointed toys . Throughout the semester, students researched wood and examples of culturally specific historical and contemporary toys to define the meaning of Universal Toy.

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Metaproject 03: Areaware Wooden Toys

Portugual-based designer Daniel Duarte’s Time Machine seems appropriately named as I could imagine getting mesmerized and transfixed watching the layered bars rotate around as time passes. The abstract clock will hypnotize you as the constantly shifting geometric patterns change and evolve as the minutes tick away. The yellow-tipped bar represents the hour, while the orange-tipped one signifies the minutes.

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Time Machine Clock by Daniel Duarte

Pietro Russo is an Italian designer who recently exhibited a large body of work in Milan during Milan Design Week. We couldn’t pick favorites, so we decided to just share all of it! Piuma Table (also pictured in top photo) Yps Lamp Scintilla Lamps Otto Lamp Voliera Shelving I also had to share this 2012 design: Romboidale Bookshelf divider – love it!

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Modern Furnishings by Pietro Russo

Happy Friday! What’s your plan for the weekend? Something fun and outdoorsy? Or relaxing and low-key? Whatever it may be, have a great weekend!

Here’s this week’s Weekly Six:

1 – An interesting vase based on folding architecture.

2 – Would you match your headboard to your walls?

3 – A gorgeous, glamorous mirror that opens up for storage.

4 – DIY painted AND frosted glasses – love the combination.

5 – Obsessed with this sofa. Need it NOW!

6 – Can’t get enough of caesar salads lately – and this recipe looks delicious!

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Last week, a friend and I went to a local furniture store that was holding a bridal event. We were given a bundle of free gifts and a tour of the store. When we got to the part with memory foam mattresses, I expressed my apprehension for these mattresses. Are they too soft? Isn’t it strange to have a mattress that’s so foamy?

Well, my friend has one in her bedroom and she was quick to correct my uncertainty. She said her memory foam mattress is by far the most comfortable mattress she’s ever had and her nights of sleep have been noticeably improved. Still feeling a bit unconvinced, I walked around the store and tested out some of these mattresses.

Needless to say, I’m now hooked. All I have to do is convince my fiance that we absolutely need one of these mattresses and I’m golden. But which one will I choose? I’m thinking one of these double memory foam mattresses is my future – double is always better!

What do you think about memory foam mattresses? Do you have one?

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Gabriel Scott , newcomers at  last year’s ICFF , will introduce some new products this year including a fantastic modular light fixture called Welles. The modular light can be designed as a single pendant or an enormous chandelier, with an interior finish of nickel, copper or brass. You can stop by their booth during ICFF and make your own Welles using paper models.

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Welles and Dean by Gabriel Scott

If there was ever a piece of furniture that could get you in the mood for summer fun, it would be Juicy. Usually it’s a tropical smell or drink or food or piece of clothing, but today it’s Juicy.

Designed by Angelo Tomaiuolo Design, the product description states that “JUICY is a comfortable stackable colourful chair inspired by the freshly squeezing of fruit juice. It’s conceived in a great range of colours and finishing versions, gloss bicoloured recyclable polycarbonate, transparent coloured and mat, suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.”

The model with the white exterior and orange interior reminds me of a creamsicle. I can just see myself lounging in one of these bright modern chairs by the pool sipping on a tropical and fruity drink of the same color scheme.

Can’t you see it? What do you think of these awesome chairs?

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Diamonds is a series of hanging pendants designed by Sylvie Meuffels for JSPR that cross industrial with a bit of classy elegance. Much like the stones they’re named after, these eye-catching lights will shine from the ceiling they hang from. There are three geometric, diamond-shaped variations to choose from and the metal cage frames are made from powder-coated steel in either black or gold. Photos by Lisa Klappe.

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Hanging Light Gems: Diamonds by JSPR

Kobe Design University’s design collective   Design Soil presented a collection of new works in Milan called “Lagrangian Point”. The overarching theme of the collection comes from a 1772 essay by Joseph Louis Lagrange called “Essay on the Three-Body Problem.” From the designers: In 1772, in the “Essay on the Three-Body Problem,” Joseph Louis Lagrange indicated the Lagrangian Point, a point exists in the space between the revolving two bodies that gravity and centrifugal force are balanced. A material put on this point keeps balancing and revolving without changing a relative position. A calm stability is found in throughout the various forces crossing.

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Lagrangian Point by Design Soil

First presented in Milan , these six works by Paris-based American designer Phillip Euell will make their way to Clerkenwell at the end of May. The end result of a process of abstraction, rule-making, re-combination, and re-edification, banal objects of domestic life are reconstituted by way of an evolutionary framework, arriving new and whole on the design landscape.

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Phillip Euell Furniture