Travelling with the imagination is certainly less expensive than doing it in reality. There is no need to leave at all times and will avoid disappointment compared to expectations too high. Travel remained inside the house, after all, is infinitely safer.

That’s why the young Robert Bo Ek, Konstfack still a student at Stockholm, has designed the Map Cabinet, which, irony aside, it is a particular a cabinet whose doors are carved with beautiful views, as were many windows on worlds to be explored .

Layers of different colored wood essences and contribute to forming squares idyllic forests or waterfalls, lunar landscapes and endless prairies: behind the two doors, shelves and an endless series of drawers could perhaps, contain memorabilia of the real trip. Map Cabinet has been exposed to the Greenhouse during the Stockholm Furniture Fair.

The drawers are off the ground by a vertical metal support which acts as a supporting structure, and can then scroll around this central pivot, with total freedom and without a cabinet that contains them. Structurally, we are faced with a very modern subject, which can perfectly melts form and function, by eliminating all that is superfluous.

The top of our robot is equipped with a flap 619, and with a simple gesture turns into a small room or desk for the studio, to be used in places where you do not have immediately available a surface.

Kudos for the liquid suspension – signed by Frans Schrofer for XAL – which boasts beautiful organic forms, whose design is inspired by the action of the tides. Dutch designer Frans Schrofer presents his latest fixture, a superb suspension titled LIQUID, he signed for the publisher Austrian XAL. He told us he was inspired by the play of the tides to create organic forms that evoke the liquid immediately.

The liquid suspension features a polished aluminum body, through a complex manufacturing process at high pressure. It is suspended from two steel cables gossamer, and contains high performance LEDs that are housed under acrylic cover and integrated almost seamlessly into the metal body.

Frans Schrofer made his first appearance on Deco-Design, a talented designer who comes straight from the Netherlands – a country where simplicity, functionality, modest elegance, fun, candor, modernity, social awareness and resourcefulness are traits of culture. The designer’s drawings are rooted in those values and his vision has steadily increased since the Netherlands to Europe and worldwide, now encompassing the Far East, Americas, North and South, and in the Pacific

Her name is Bijoux and the new collection of kitchen accessories and tableware designed by Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk for Secondome, a prestigious gallery in Rome. This is a very particular set of objects that look great and refined at the same time able to intrigue and amaze even the most skeptical viewer. Designed to decorate the table, the Bijoux collection of accessories includes various elements including container, backsplashes and brings food.

Kiki Van Eijk and Roman gallery Secondome we had already discussed some time during the presentation of Cut & Past, a collection of furniture from the decidedly eccentric and out of town!

Today I want instead to show the latest signed Kiki Van Eijk which is presented just recently at the important meeting with the Paris Maison et Objet Fair 2010.

Charles, the sofa system conceived and designed by internationally acclaimed Italian designer Antonio Citterio for B & B brand in Italy. This is a real cult product design joined the prestigious collection of thirteen years ago and is now being offered in a new specially designed to furnish with style terraces and gardens: Charles-Outdoor. His name is Charles-Outdoor and is the new version of the famous outdoor sofa system designed by Antonio Citterio Charles for the Italian company B & B Italy.

This is a collection of seating that maintains rigorous and timeless aesthetics of the initial project to which there is now an extraordinary lightness achieved through a structure made of aluminum with an outer surface made of a woven open, regular and orthogonal, polyester tape.

Are preserved but the features that have made this meeting a classic decidedly modern taste: the fine structure, flexibility of the system and the essential design of the legs in inverted L-shaped aluminum.

The range of sofas, terminals, chaise longue made up of nine different elements, joined now a bed with the possibility of back angle and a chair. Fantastic is the wide range of colors available for upholstery seat cushions and back cushions!

Cosy lamp is signed by Harri Koskinen Muuto, a table lamp character recognizably Nordic: formal purity, simplicity and rigor of the lines, but of a simple silhouette, but that goes with ease both classic and contemporary furnishings, finding a easy to place in both the living area into the bedroom. Cosy is made of glass, available in two versions, large and small, in white opal or transparent gray, a little ‘higher harmonic and the previous ones.

Muuto, famous for the simple lamp E27, about the concept of Cosy contains the words of its designer: “The basic idea was to create a series of lamps thinking of space and atmosphere. I am a great believer in the glass as a material, with its beauty and its changing reflections. This series consists of two lamps, one in gray and white, and both in their own way, enhance the beauty of the electric light. Late in the evening you can enjoy the most intimate atmosphere created by these lamps. ”

Harri Koskinen has established his own design studio, Friends of Industry Ltd., in Helsinki in 1998. It ‘s a designer whose value is to focus primarily on the design and aesthetic appearance of the product without exaggeration, although his study also covers the design concept and design of exhibition spaces that have more to do with fashion than with design. The list of clients includes companies such as Alessi (think eco design of Fat), Artek, Design House Stockholm, Iittala, Magis, Montina, Muji, Panasonic, Swarovski and Venini.

Dog House is a proposal signed by designer Michael Young Magis: This is a cozy nest for man’s best friend. On top of the kennel door a brass plate in the written standard Latin “amicus fidelis PROTECTIO fortis”, that faithful friend strong protection or personal brass plate “If you talk to me My name is …” (named after the dog). The nest is made of a stainless steel frame, floor and roof are easy to assemble, is made of polyethylene by the method of rotational molding Chair Air Chair by Jasper Morrison, and has an internal cavity that provides thermal comfort to your dog.

The cap on the back of the kennel gives you the possibility of a ‘suitable ventilation. Magis has thought of everything and the only indication that it is possible to fill the bottom with sand and do not forget a bowl for water.

The idea of a kennel is not placed on the ground to avoid the entry of water during rain and to allow for the dog during the hottest days, but not to go inside to relax in the shade and in direct contact with the soil. The lineup, including the purchase, and has easy access to the puppies or small dogs.

Among the most successful designers of his generation, Michael Young was born in England in 1966 and graduated in Furniture & Product Design in 1992. While still a student, he began working with Tom Dixon and in 1994 he presented his first collection of furniture in Paris and Tokyo. He now works between London and Iceland for top-level companies, including Cappellini, and Magis.

Chocolate is a table lamp designed for Nemo, Cassina lighting division, the design really unusual and appealing at first glance it might be misleading: its ingredients are a chocolate praline as a diffuser and a dense flow of chocolate as a pedestal. The Chocolate has been targeted at a multi-disciplinary exhibition organized by the lighting division of Cassina, on the theme of chocolate because, you know, food design and a design that is attracting even more chocolate. The speaker of Chocolate, brown matt, rests on the cast as a praline revisiting the traditional lampshade new key and culinary arts.

It is distinguished by the shapes and the bright finish and mirrored surfaces reminiscent of the consistency of cocoa butter. It ‘made of synthetic resin with a glossy lacquer finish, which is laid in contrasting diffuser in matt aluminum. Since little is available in all white, like white chocolate. The two versions are only available in miniature, as if they were sweets.

When the source of inspiration in the design becomes the culinary world, it happens very rarely that the result is awkward and stumbling into objects for irreparably “strong palates, but the Japanese designers have succeeded in this difficult task of creating a light-looking greedy not to mention the class and style, it is Chocolate characterized by soft and elegant lines that fit with irony in any environment.