Italian company Benetti Stone has decided to bring a bit of the outdoors in with their MOSSframe idea. They take natural stabilized lichen and contain it in a white lacquered frame that comes in seven different sizes for your walls.

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Clever Wall Planter Idea: MOSSframe by Benetti Stone

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday! I’m traveling this week for the holiday, so instead of a Weekly Six, I’m bringing you some book picks. I have to admit, I’m a sucker for a good chick lit novel, but I do love a good memoir as well. What about you – what type of books do you gravitate towards?

Whether you’re also traveling or just enjoying a lazy day this holiday weekend, these are some books that have been on my Kindle wish list most recently.

1 – Gone Girl
2 – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
3 – Where We Belong
4 – Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
5 – Just Kids

What books are on your wish list or what have you read that you can recommend??

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Holly Wick opened her eponymous shop, Holly’s House  exactly one year ago, motivated by the desire to bring fresh, new design to West London. Wick, who also runs an interior design consultancy, stocks heaps of fantastic items from established brands, including Moooi and Diamantini & Dominiconi, alongside indie talent from the likes of Phoebe Richardson and Andy Macgregor. Let’s celebrate Wick’s first year of success with a  Design Store(y)  so we can learn (and see) more. What motivated you to open the store? In recent years there has been a surge of exciting design shops opening in East London.

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Design Store(y): Holly’s House

Dutch designer Ka-Lai Chan ‘s latest work, the Gradient cabinet, holds things you want to display while also being a piece of art in itself. Cords made from polyester-covered natural latex are wound around the metal frame and become closer together the higher they go, making the objects that are on display partially hidden.

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Gradient Cabinet by Ka-Lai Chan

Partnerships happen everyday in the design world and when it’s between a brilliant housewares company and one innovative designer, you have yourself a match made in design heaven. This happens to be the case when the New York-based Icelandic designer Hlynur Atlason recently teamed up with Umbra to create two new kitchen designs – Bento and Tricon . Bento is more than just a cutting board – It’s a cutting board plus measuring cup/storage system. The board acts as a lid to the set of five measuring cups that settle in underneath. Perfect for prepping early and cooking later

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Modern Kitchen Accessories by Hlynur Atlason for Umbra

Artist Michelle Weinberg’s paintings are pretty darn awesome, but it’s her rug designs that made me do a double take. Here are some of her recent paintings: Courtyard Folded Kiosk In The Planetarium Prefab 2 And some rugs: Photo:  Stephan Goettlicher Photo: Teodora Dakova And she even makes tiles: Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook . © 2012 Design Milk | Posted by Jaime Derringer in Art , Home Furnishings | Permalink | No comments

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Art and Rugs by Michelle Weinberg

This Extension Table  by Vidame Creation  is a pretty cool concept. It looks like an ordinary table, but it’s made of small slats of wood (or Corian) that open up and close through a mechanism that turns the individual pieces on their sides to expand the tabletop – like pushing over a row of dominoes.

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Extendable Table by Vidame Creation

Inspired by the simple slip-on wooden clothes pin (or “peg”), Canadian designer William McDonald designed a lamp that functions in the same way. Called Peg Lamp , the lamp uses minimal materials like aluminum, wood and felt to create a simple sliding mechanism so the user can adjust the light as needed. Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook .

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Peg Lamp Inspired by a Clothespin by William McDonald

For this week’s installment of  CMYLK , we’ve done something a little different. Instead of artwork and rooms, we’ve created  Colourlovers  palettes for four rugs from Spartanburg, South Carolina-based floor covering company  Milliken . These abstract designs are works of art in and of themselves. Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook . © 2012 Design Milk | Posted by Marni in Home Furnishings | Permalink | No comments

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CMYLK: Milliken Flooring

French designer Caroline Gomez is well known for her simple yet functional objects that focus on natural materials. Pöl is the latest collection that consists of two desktop organizers that serve different purposes. The overall organic shape is meant to reflect a puddle, which is the English word for Pöl. The first is Tablette, which has slots to hold papers, notebooks, and pencils and then Plateau is a storage tray with two separate compartments to keep your small desk accessories. Tablette Plateau Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook

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Pöl Collection by Caroline Gomez