WILD IDEA – A CORNER LADDER! Barcelona based design studio, Company and Company have created a unique ladder that can fold into any corner – making it perfect for small spaces.
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Coffee with a Difference
Are you a coffee addict? This video by Green Renaissance features Woolworth’s 100% African-grown organic Fairtrade coffee. Fairtrade is a globally recognised and trusted ethical certification system that ensures decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers who produce the coffee… now that’s a truly good cuppa coffee.
Wearable Planters
Fancy taking your plants out for a walk or a ride. These cool wearable planters by Colleen Jordan can either be clipped onto your bicycle or worn as jewelry.
Eco Box
South African architects, Wolf and Melanie of Wolf and Wolf Architects are creating unique pre-fab homes that demonstrate compact living that maximises space and minimises environmental impact. Their multifunctional work and living spaces employ some very clever solutions e.g. bunks that transform into a seating area. These allow for working, sleeping and cooking spaces as well as a bathroom to fit within a small footprint (3.6m x 6m in this prototype in Onrus).
Trick
Imagine a bookcase that could transform into a table and two chairs…”Trick” designed by Japanese designer Sakura Adachi does just this and turns our ideas of how furniture should function on its head!
Bookseat
To kick off our week celebrating the design solutions for small spaces, have a look at the Bookseat, a simple multi-functional bookcase that playfully curves and becomes a seat. This gorgeous design by Elie and Mani of Fishbol was developed as “a response to the advent of multifunctional spaces in today’s urban living.”
Hemp House
Watch this Top Billing insert that features a green home made entirely from Hemp!
The Hemp House in Noordhoek, is built by Hemporium’s Tony Budden and Duncan Parker. Amidst the all-purpose, entirely eco-friendly material is stylish sleek and modern home that is a healthy, re-cyclable alternative to modern building.
Small Demons
This groundbreaking project looks to take books and reading to an exciting new place by dissolving the boundaries between literature and reality. and freeing the details from their paper binding…
Refresh the Ride!
Fancy taking a can of cooldrink (or beer, or juice) along for a ride? This beautifully handcrafted bicycle can cage created by Walnut Studios in Portland, Oregon, ensures that you are never without your favourite thirst quencher. Featured in Bicycling Magazine.
Living Chandelier
The ’38′ series is a new chandelier concept by Canadian designer Omer Arbel that dramatically combines lighting and planting. The globes are made out of blown glass and have cavaties that can hold lights or earth for small plants or cacti.
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