The Alfred Sofa by Italian manufacturer Baxter is the perfect example of masculine chic. The subtle variations in the leathers colour enhance the natural beauty of this sofa.

Baxter is available locally here.

Award winning designer Greg Natale has designed some very geometrically driven rugs for a new Designer Rugs collection. He sites travel and appreciation for different cultures as his inspirations behind this collection.

Photographer Fred Lebain visited New York last spring taking photographs of various locations around the city. Then he printed out some large detail shots of the locations and took them back to where they were taken to take new shots of the gigantic prints perfectly aligned in their location. The execution is fantastic.

Reminscent in structure of a windmill from the Netherlands, this private Japanese home by architects Ryoko & Keisuke Masuda is certainly unique. Covering three floors the building houses sleeping, eating a bathing areas within the outter walls of the cylindrical structure. Constructed around a circular steel frame and clad entirely in wood the building lets in natural light through various irregular breaks in the exterior wall.

Add a little humorous chic to the nasty old business of garbage bags with these Pet Goldfish Bin Bags.

Available here.

For his first large-scale solo presentation in an American museum, Urs Fischer has taken over all three of the New Museum in New York's gallery floors to create a series of immersive installations and hallucinatory environments. Working in a range of mediums, it's his surrealist piano - which appears to be melting under an invisible force and deconstructed street lamp that catch our attention.

To read more about this exhibition go here.

Designer Jung Hwa Jin has created the Polaroid Flower Vase, a small planter that recalls the nostalgic form of polaroid, with the plant becoming the focus of the "picture." The planter is suspended with a clothespin on the end of a cord, with a small embedded lamp illuminating its subject.

Typically we're not fans of red ants - unless of course they're designed by Arne Jacobsen and manufactured by Fritz Hansen. The Ant Chair, a classic, was designed to be light, stable and easy to stack. Initially made with only three legs, they became so popular that this version - with four legs was also made.

Available locally from here.

Arguably more influential to the Bond aesthetic than any of the great actors who played the lead role, Academy Award winning set designer Ken Adam  has created some of the most visually impressive back drops ever in film design. Adam was responsible for the some of the most elaborate and memorable Bond sets from the 1960s and 1970s. I found these inspiring examples of both renderings and completed sets over at our friends at Wallpaper.

These stunning images of Mies van der Rohe's iconic Farnsworth House, built in 1946, are in fact 3D renderings created using aspects of the somewhat limited photography that was originally taken of the building.

Check out more images from the creator of these  - Peter Guthrie here.