It's Great Design

It's Great Design

It's Great Design featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Twins

The Twins coffee table concept is simple. A hollow coffee table stores two full wooden seats inside. The right and left surfaces of the table, are actually lids that can be pulled out of the main body of the table in order to allow the extraction of the seats. The seats have foldable legs that have to be rotated so to get the chair in the right position. Once the chair, or both chairs are out, the lids go back at the table. When the chairs are out, the table also works as a huge storing compartment.

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Umea

The Umea is a very sexy, visually lightweight and elegant sofa bed for up to three people seating and two people in sleeping position. Though the hardware is the classical click clack system, the real innovation of this comes from the sexy lines and contours that make this quite an appealing piece of furniture.

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Phone Box

Designed to have a transparent enclosure, PhoneBox is a modern phone-booth almost blending in with the city thanks to its elegant look. Unlikely to generate a solid body incoherent with the concept, PhoneBox perfectly fits the urban environment where the space is aimed to be brought to the fore. Emphasizing an easy access both to communication and information, optionally illuminated closed roof also serving as a canopy assures the people by offering a safe yet not isolated place among the crowd.

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NI

NI, the innovative combination of parasol and garden torch, is a brand new design embodying the adaptability of modern furniture. Integrating a classic parasol with versatile lighting system, NI Parasol is expected to play a pioneering role in enhancing the quality of street environment from morning to night. The proprietary finger-sensing OTC (one-touch dimmer) allows people to adjust the brightness of the 3-channel lighting system at ease. Its low-voltage 12V LED driver provides an energy-efficient power supply for the system with over 2000pcs of 0.1W LEDs, which generates very little heat.

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TIND End Table

The TIND End Table is a small, eco-friendly table with a strong visual presence. The recycled steel top has been waterjet-cut with an intricate pattern that creates vivid light and shadow patterns. The shapes of the bamboo legs are determined by the patterning in the steel top, and each of the fourteen legs passes through the steel top and then is cut flush. Seen from above, the carbonized bamboo creates an arresting pattern, juxtaposed against the perforated steel. Bamboo is a rapidly renewable raw material, since bamboo is a rapidly-growing grass, not a wood product.

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Echape

In French Echape means escape, but also is a dynamic position in ballet dance. We have decided to combine the ethereal grace and lightness of a ballet dancer with the joy and happiness of a casual meeting at a bar between friends and acquaintances. The stools come in a variety of different standard heights and are manufacured using a combination of numerical control and traditional craft techniques, to realize a unique, ecologically sound and beautiful contemporary stools with high aesthetic, sculptural and tactile value.

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