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Mensa Dining Table by Lazerian

We would love to entertain on this gorgeous Mensa table from Manchester, England based Lazerian — it's like a hybrid of a classic Platner table and a Koura pendant lamp from designer David Tru...

DIY: Shelf Brackets Made From IKEA Stools

Inspired from similar-looking shelves that appeared in a home featured in Dwell Magazine, Mike used the legs from five IKEA FROSTA stools as shelving brackets. Paired with solid oak planks from Home...

Good Questions: Who Designed These Upholstered Chairs?

Dear ATNY, I'm looking to replace my dining room chairs and have come across these ones several times — most recently on Feelmorehuman.com website. However, they do not sell them. They look li...

Studiomama's Tiny Beach Retreat

It's Friday afternoon (on a super-hot day) and we're dreaming of a beach retreat like Nina Tolstrup's 388-square-foot home on the shore in the northeast of Kent, England. The space is sparsely furni...

Plywood: The Best Cheap Kitchen Countertop

We've debated the merits of various stones, laboratory-grade finishes and butcher blocks but we're loving the cheap and practical solution of plywood! This is especially an inexpensive and attractiv...

Pretzel Chair by George Nelson

To celebrate designer George Nelson's 100th birthday, Vitra is re-issuing a special edition of George Nelson's Laminated Plywood Chair — commonly known as the "Pretzel Chair." Designed in 1952, t...

BKLYN Designs: Pratt Institute Designs

One of the booths at BKLYN Designs featured a juried selection of designs from Pratt Institute's Industrial Design undergraduate and graduate programs. While there wasn't a lot of information about...

BKLYN Designs: Takeshi Miyakawa Design

The work of Williamsburg-based designer Takeshi Miyakawa bridges that area between functional furniture and furniture-as-artwork. His Fractal 23 cabinet was recently a web-sensation and seeing it i...

Inspiration: Small Parisian Garden Shed Apartment

This dwelling was created in a backyard shed for use by a teenager. The structure, divided into four stories, is both extremely small and undeniably cool. Made entirely of birch plywood, the interio...

Big Bend Table by Jeff Miller

Last week, we posted Jeff Miller's LittleBig Chairs (also pictured above) that use bent plywood to beautiful affect. When researching the design, we became enamored with the designer's Big Bend Tabl...

LittleBig Chair Family by Jeff Miller

We've featured some work from New York City-based designer Jeff Miller before - his Obo Modular Shelving and Clipt chair. The original LittleBig Chair (above, left) has recently been joined by a spi...

NYT: Red Brick Antebellum
House & Home Roundup 1.17.08

How does a former New Yorker make a home in Virginia? At Home With James Collins: A Storybook Life in Red Brick describes the author's move to Merriewood in Somerset, Virginia. The red brick antebel...

Creative Re-use: Kitchen Cabinets

These unique cabinet fronts are made from plywood punching plates discarded from the industrial process of creating cardboard boxes. The Belgian firm Rotor promotes the re-use of interesting indust...

Plywood Christmas Tree from Buro North

Australian designers from Buro North Studio created their Green X-Mas Tree by optimizing production, manufacturing, sourcing and shipping for an ecologically-friendly design. The resulting modern t...