Look under the table or chair and you will probably see four tidy straight legs, but increasingly designers have been playing with this convention. You can change the height of your table, use other materials for legs or if you ...Read More

There's an inherent honesty in the creation of these group of products. Pieces of wood held together with simple joinery; you can see exactly where one piece links with another, nothing hidden or disguised.  The use of traditional joinery skills ...Read More

Here are 4 designs that allow you to divide your life into neat little sections. Well not that neatly, that would be rather ordinary and dull. Instead designers have created irregular abstract patterns out of tidy little compartments - organised ...Read More

I'm a little late in posting this due to travelling - about a week late and with little chance of winning but what the heck! The blog has been nominated for the Mydeco Design Democracy awards; and as part of the competition ...Read More

Hopefully we'll be popping a few corks over the holiday season but as the wine industry swaps cork for screw tops the vast forests of cork tree are under serious risk of being ripped up and converted to other agricultural ...Read More

                            Do we have too much....stuff? Are our wardrobes bursting at the seams, all manner of clothing bits and bobs tumbling out? I have to confess, I would love to say I have everything neat and ordered, shoes boxed and labelled, but ...Read More

 Knitting along with other traditional crafts has enjoyed a revival in the past few years. We've rediscovered the art of making and experimented with materials old and new to create a whole different product From a childhood spent in part in the ...Read More

                Here are some beautiful products that give the illusion of floating. Perhaps the weight of the worlds problems feel a little too much, we'd like to float off or at least rise above them. Blown by Nendo Looking like bubbles about to ...Read More