Daniel Becker’s Hunting Lines Two-Seater connects to bring seemingly endless seating to any large setting. It would fit perfect for a public area. The bad thing is that two-seater is just a concept right now, but a good news is that designer is searching for a manufacturer for his design.
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It is a green design. Sculptor Osian Batyka-Williams did a great example of using reclaimed material. He created the Tube Chair which was made from stainless steel tubes sourced from reclaimation yards in his studio about 5 miles from the London bridge. This piece is a combination of sculpture, furniture, and design rolled into one product. This chair is available for around $4000.
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Designers at Burton Snowboards took idea from The Aeron Chair which is the most famous office seat of all time, and created their latest snowboard bindings. The binding borrows the chair’s signature webbing and strong Y support core, creating a lightweight and flexible structure that will run interested snowboarders $390. It’s especially cool design, and you can check out Fast Company it has a killer analysis of how an iconic chair inspired a breakthrough snowboard binding.   [via..]

Who would have thought that your old cassette tapes could be used to bulid a storage closet? Well, young dutch designer Patrick Schuur did. He used a total of 918 tapes to build a cassette tape closet. Each cassette tape is individually screwed onto a wooden frame. It can be used for both an office space divider and storage closet. The closet has three doors which provide access to the huge storage space inside. It also features a mosaic tiles countertop! The Cassette Tape Closet is currently for sale on eBay, but we recommend creating your own as a DIY project. Dimensions are 275×57,5×136 cm.
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The UK-based design firm Freshwest showed this table at Tent London, the international creative design event. Designers Freshwest successfully combine narrative and humour in their conceptual design - “Pool Table“. “Pool Table is made from 50mm acrylic with miniature diving board, reflected and refracted light in such a way that it resembled the depth and hue of an actual swimming [pool].” It even features a miniature diving board on one end to complete the effect. The bad thing is that the “Pool Table” is just a concept right now, but I’m sure that this design has a lot of potential.
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This shelf looks great on its own or holding your favorite books. Cast entirely in bone china, the working  f-clamp can open and close allowing for multiple configurations.  Each shelving unit is individually assembled - stay tuned for variations on the theme…  [via..]

Movement Bookcase   from the website: A rusty and bent nail doesn’t have any reason for being. But the nails begin to inform me about their valuable being widely as soon as the book is laid on the useless nails. When they’ve met their trunk called the book, they were able to get a significant life force as arms and legs of our body after all.

Look this designer Lotty Lindeman’s moving wall/door. It is a concept that “would allow users to swing walls around to customize their living space.” I think people who want to a secret room in their home would also love it’s hidden aspect makes the wall a door.
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‘punished, to the corner!‘ by cristina toledo is a small storage space that can be mounted in any corner of your room and has been shown at the exhibition ‘the inhabitable space’ in valencia, spain. This piece questioned how designer utilize and create personal space, presenting some tangible solutions for those living in tight spaces. The top image shows how to store objects in ‘punished, to the corner!’
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Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka grew natural crystals to form a chair. Called Venus - Natural Crystal Chair, it will be shown at Second Nature, an exhibition designer is directing at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo later this month. The chair is “grown” in a tank as crystals form on a sponge-like substrate. The above image shows the process of making a prototype version of the chair in a smaller tank before he advanced to the full scale model. The pictures below show the making of a full-size chair.
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