Tom Price, meltdown series from Victor Hunt on Vimeo.

First spotted on a new design-art documentary site called Tales of the Hunt, this video documents the process of how Londoner Tom Price constructs his Meltdown chair. Comprised of a beach ball and mountains of rope, watch as he weaves his magic literally resulting in this futuristic chair. 

As other design manufacturers lean towards a subtler and more refined aesthetic, you can always count on Edra to head decisively in the other direction. With disco-popping sparkly chairs, their offering at the Milan Fair back in April was anything but subtle or classically refined. But, we're not alarmed. After all, the reason we like Edra, and their ongoing collaboration with the Campana Brothers and other designers of the like, is for their extreme choice in materials and wack execution. Take the Alice chair by Jacopo Foggini that graduates between dark and light, where Alice's journey to Wonderland feels possible, or the Paglia wardrobe unit by Campana Studio that's comprised of a cascade of raffia transforming an ordinary piece into something archaic with an organic tribute to Cousin It. There's no better furniture line for a person who likes to actively cast the net out in search of the extraordinary.

Edra is available locally from here.

At first glance, this lamp seems rather unconsidered - a jumble of sticks that houses one lone light bulb. But like its name, the Cubist Lamp by British designers Freshwest, is in fact a deconstructed version of a wooden lamp, that when viewed from a specific angle draws direct reference from the classic Anglepoise. The delicacy of the sticks, which look as though they could fall down at any point, are reminiscent of Pick-Up-Sticks, poised in careful but momentary perfection. Commissioned by Geneva-based art gallery Mitterrand+Cramer for Design Miami/Basel, it's one of the few pieces we've seen that takes its lead from Cubism.

Launched earlier this year in Milan, Roberto Lazzeroni's Pedro chair celebrates the beauty of imperfection as part of the overall Open Air collection for Baxter. As part of a new family of in/out chairs, it has a strong visual impact that recalls the organicism of pure Brazilian inspiration found in the likes of architecture by Oscar Niemeyer and designs by Sergio Rodriquez. With a high back, and made from materials that are already worn and oxidised, it's designed to age gracefully and improve with time; much like the rest of Baxter's pieces.

Baxter is available locally from here.

Swedish design duo, Mattias Rask and Tor Palm of Glimpt have continued to explore and reflect the culture and craftsmanship of other countries in the ‘superheroes’ stools. This time they have drawn from Vietnamese influences drawing on the artisans’ craftman method to create small bowls by fixing paper thread around rolls of seagrass. The designers have translated this technique into these small furniture pieces. Rolls of dried seagrass have been wrapped around the internal metal frame to create the structural form of the stools, whilst the outside uses colourful threads wrapped around the seagrass. The result are these strikingly bold and vibrant stools that demonstrate the merge between Vietnamese craftsmanship and Scandinavian design.

Story by Sarah McKenzie

In an homage to Jean Prouvé, Vitra has collaborated with Dutch jeans manufacturer G-Star Raw, to reinterpret classic pieces the company is renown for. The development department of both companies spent two years reinterpreting designs from the designer who died in 1984. Without distorting the original designs too much, instead the focus is on new materials, colours and fabrics - which gives new life to these beautiful existing pieces.

The objects in the Prouvé RAW collection can be viewed daily at 12:00 and 2:00 p.m. at the Fire Station by Zaha Hadid on the Vitra Campus in Weil, as part of a guided architecture tour in English.

Vitra is available locally from here.

Car and design enthusiasts worldwide will be pleased to learn that Aston Martin is set to enter the world of interior design with an exclusive brand of furniture that channels the ergonomic and slick aesthetic the company is renown for. Previewed earlier this year at the Milan Furniture Fair, the furniture firmly aligns itself with the brand values of Aston Martin. The pieces are sleek and contemporary in form, and comprise bespoke frames incorporating wood, steel and carbon fibre combined with leathers and wools to create timeless pieces. All pieces will also be made in Italy.

Our friends at Indice are counteracting the onset of the winter blues by having a winter sale. With savings of 20 percent store wide, now is your chance to own any number of coveted pieces from one of our favourite Italian manufacturers Driade.

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Here's one smile inducing piece of furniture design (aided somewhat along by the little Japanese boy in the styling). Designed by Japanese studio h2200430, the balloon bench gives the impression of a bench floating, when in fact, it is suspended from the ceiling by four concealed anchor points. Inspired by Albert Lamorisse's fantasy short film, The Red Balloon produced in 1956, it brings out the child in all of us. Available here.

Plug is a collection of products that transform the image of a cork bottle stopper. Designer Tomas Kral wanted to examine the principle of a plug - the connection between the glass and cork. The resulting collection includes beautiful lights, lamps, side tables and containers, that embrace techniques such as glass blowing and building 3d objects by milling them from sheets of agglomerated cork. It's a simple collection that's very refined in its approach.