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Researching noise in a preschool must be like inventions, modifi ed tennis balls covering the In developing Silent Whisper, Strömgren studying feathers on a chicken farm, but for feet of chairs. “Lots of creative, but not always tested more than 50 material combinations six months, that was Swedish designer Sigrid beautiful or functional, solutions,” she says. for their sound-absorption properties, as well Strömgren’s day job. In Sweden, it seems, Two years later, for a master’s project as for their durability, fl exibility, and ease of hearing well has become a matter of intense at the University of Gothenburg’s School of cleaning. “Soft materials are very quiet, but not concern: Studies show that up to 15 percent Design and Crafts, Strömgren funneled that so functional as tabletops,” she explains. “A of the population suffers from tinnitus, and research into generating ideas for grown-up cotton table would be very bad to spill coffee researchers believe such injuries can start as furniture with “integrated noise reduction,” in- on.” Eventually she settled on a high-pressure early as preschool. tended to stop sound at its source without any laminate top containing a shock-absorbing In 2005, after fi nishing her bachelor’s awkward felt appliqué. The result was a line of core. But as for exactly what those elements degree in design, Strömgren worked with noise laminate tables and stools called Silent Whis- comprise, Strömgren is rather, well, hush-hush researchers at Sahlgrenska University Hospi- per, which have since been put into production about the matter: Materia is now seeking a pat- tal in Gothenburg, who assigned her to map by the Swedish company Materia. The table ent for the design; $625–$995. noise sources in a preschool and to look at the cuts the clatter of knives, forks, and china in — bradford mckee provisional ideas teachers had come up with to half (by about 10 dB) compared to what you’d try and muffl e them. She found, among other expect from ordinary laminated surfaces.

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The Israeli-born, - Chroma Key is Minale-Maeda’s based Shay Alkalay rightfully second fabric-covered noted that dresser drawers furniture collection to be look sexier when hanging picked up by , but slightly ajar. So for the -based duo has Established & Sons, the traded the faux wood grain designer created Stack, of last year’s Survival a modular, multicolored Furniture for a bizarre blue- system of floating units that and-white moiré meant to open from either side. Two frustrate computer monitors sizes (eight or thirteen and camera lenses. Weirder drawers) can be shuffled and still are the forms of shifted like blocks, making the collection’s chair, for a never-ending game of cabinet, table, bench, and Jenga with your belongings. lamp: Standard frames seem Available at Matter. From to have been chopped up and $3,750. reassembled improperly, and www.mattermatters.com or items that look nested are www.establishedandsons.com actually inseparable. Contact manufacturer for prices. www.droogdesign.nl

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Lladró’s surreal As stylish to store as Naturofantastic collection it is to show off, Nils imagines what it might look Frederking’s F2 folding like if plants, animals, table for Ligne Roset has and bacteria could survive three articulated panels a group hug. Candles emerge and a chromed-steel base from clamshells snuggled with that collapse into a neat barnacles and amoebas, while 3¼-inch-thick stack. The an Art Deco–style vase is surface can be finished in topped with a tight bouquet white lacquer ($2,720) or of geometric flora that look walnut veneer ($2,975). plucked from another planet. www.ligne-roset-usa.com From $750. www.lladro.com

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For those embarrassed by clutter—or by their addiction to trashy romance novels— the Bar Code bookshelf system by Italian company Bross is essentially a secret library. Vertical units slide along a horizontal brace, creating access points to interior storage. Because only the profile of each case is visible from the outside, Bross has begun using that space for artistic purposes, including this new map-like graphic pattern by Enzo Berti (left). Contact manufacturer for price. www.bross-italy.com

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As young Swedish designers often do, Beckmans grad Katarina Häll based her Save collection on a personal story: a memory of her grandfather prying up a floorboard in his bathroom to reveal a stash of letters and trinkets. The colorful pine planks that crisscross the front of Häll’s bureau, closet, desk, and stool double as compartments for your own hidden treasures. Contact designer for price. www.katarinahall.se

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The boulder-shaped cubbies The Australian skincare line that make up Roche Bobois’ Aesop’s retail designs are Fossile storage system inspired by everything from stack without any bolts or old New Yorkers to Louis brackets, but this is no Poulsen lights, cubism, egg- house of cards—the modules custard tarts, and good red are rough, extruded terra- wine. This year, the brand cotta cut with grooves on debuted three new interiors: the outside, so they lock in Melbourne (its temporary together naturally and are fit-out constructed entirely virtually tumble-proof. of recycled cardboard); Designed by Mostapha El Adelaide (boasting a waveform Oulhani, Jérôme Garzon, and ceiling in recycled glass); Fred Sionis, Fossile won and London (pictured, a a 2008 Project Assistance Victorian-era restoration by grant from VIA before being Studio Ilse Crawford that picked up by the French adds warmth with a mix of manufacturer. From $225 bronze, ceramic, iron, and per unit. tweed). 91 Mount Street, www.roche-bobois.com London +44 (0) 207 409 2358 www.aesop.net.au or www.studioilse.com

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Milan’s Galleria Post Philippe Nigro’s Cross Unit Of all the designs unearthed Design not only distributes is a cloud of delicate white- in the recent revivals craze, Memphis furniture still wire cubes whose corners slot none is more historically in production, it also together to form any number transcendent than the late commissions fittingly cartoony of configurations (tiny clips Shiro Kuramata’s 1980s new editions, like Markus keep them in place). - furniture, newly reissued by Benesch’s resin and wood based Gruppo Sintesi snatched Living Divani. Chair 01 has Cut sideboard. With two up the shelves after last a chrome-plated steel frame display slots atop some year’s VIA showcase of young with a cantilevered back, well-concealed drawers French talent; Nigro has and its curved, looping arms and shelving, Cut debuted since gone on to work with are echoed in the spaghetti this year with matching ENO and Ligne Roset. legs of Kuramata’s steel-and- marble tables and a silk- Contact manufacturer glass Table 01. Chair 01 from screened mirror; $17,105. for price. $2,610; Table 01 is $2,700. www.memphis-milano.it www.gruppo-sintesi.com www.livingdivani.it

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François Azambourg’s three- Facets may be trendy, Alexander Taylor’s Styx legged PO/0803 vase for but newcomers Voonwong & coffee table for Classicon Cappellini has a cartoonish Bensonsaw have pushed the has a tougher look than style similar to Jaime motif beyond mere aesthetics: most. Its industrial-chic Hayón’s work, but while the Inside the smoked-glass base has exposed bolts and Spaniard is inspired by frame of their retro- a heavy form evocative of fellow countryman Antoni futuristic Kopitable for a moon lander; an optional Gaudí, Azambourg credits DecodeLondon, a series smoked-glass top also harks his vase’s aesthetic to a of overlapping mirrored back to the era of Neil movement a bit further afield: planes not only manipulate Armstrong. From $1,770. Japanese Manga; $3,387. light in an intriguing way, www.classicon.com www.cappellini.it they also create pockets of storage; $3,600. www.decodelondon.com louis girardi (kopitable)

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Patricia Urquiola’s Sardinian Philip Edis’s Authority Brussels-based designer Alain carpet collection for System cabinet, chest of Gilles’s Tectonic side tables Moroso adapts folk motifs drawers, and matching carpet for Bonaldo are perfect for (flowers, peacocks, horses, take their design from compulsive rearrangers: Their griffins) in asymmetrical bombproof high-security slotted wire tops create patterns and bold colors architecture. The furniture’s crosshatched patterns as you derived from natural dyes. dark gray, slightly faceted twist, turn, and angle them The wool carpets, woven on doors look like they could around each other, although the Mediterranean island stop a bullet, but don’t try they do limit what the tables on traditional looms, it—they’re only MDF; $5,000 can actually be used for. are available in four for the chest of drawers. Books: OK. Your chopstick designs in both light and www.philipedis.com collection: Nope! From $214. dark palettes; $9,527. www.bonaldo.it www.morosousa.com LOUISE BILLGERT (AUTHORITY SYSTEM) (AUTHORITY BILLGERT LOUISE

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To create its Twine Table Though the parallelepipeds A third of Richard Hutten’s for Casamania, Sweden’s of Piero Lissoni’s Wireframe Play With Tradition limited- Wis Design “sewed” painted tables for Glas Italia seem edition wool rug for the steel wire through button- unstable, rest assured that Milan-based I+I’s Strawberry like holes in an MDF top, the neon-tinted edges of Fields collection has a then looped the metal back on each tempered-glass sheet pattern familiar to any itself to form a structural are securely glued. After Nepalese weaver, while the base. From $570. a few drinks, they may even rest drifts off into fuzzy www.wisdesign.se or look unskewed. From $2,011. pinstripes. Hutten says www.casamania.it www.glasitalia.com he based the design on an antique Persian carpet, “almost the only non- contemporary object in my home”; $10,330. www.i-and-i.it

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Sydney, Australia–based While working on a previous No, that’s not the remnants Korban/Flaubert studied the project, Stockholm’s Matti of yesterday’s Trix, it’s the interference patterns of Klenell happened upon a Water Clock by Japan’s Kyouei rippling water to create cluster of variously sized Design. The little balls are Polar Screen, its latest hollow metal spheres and the hands, pulled around by a furniture piece inspired resolved to find a way to use neodymium magnet in the base. by naturally occurring them. The idea for his David Float the red ball in a glass geometries. The screen’s slim Design Orb coat rack followed and the white one in a dish metal rings are layered to naturally: “I see it as a and they’ll bob in circles, create semidynamic reflected- kind of abstract flower stem,” one telling the hour and the light patterns, so you get he says. “That the knobs are other ticking off minutes. the water without the wet. very gentle to your clothes Contact designers for price. Available in custom sizes. came as a plus.” Available www.kyouei-ltd.co.jp Contact designers for price. through Hightower; $795. www.korbanflaubert.com.au www.hightoweraccess.com or www.daviddesign.se

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Designed by the Mexican Swedish design house Blå collective NEL for Station molds, tints, and Nanimarquina, the Global stacks birch disks for its Warming carpet represents colorful toy-like Babel the devastating consequences tables, designed by Fredrik of climate change in three Mattson. Bases in standard dimensions: A felt polar or custom heights can have bear stands forlornly on monochrome, graded, or a shrinking ice floe in an rainbow combos underneath azure sea of hand-tufted New their smooth, lacquered tops. Zealand wool. From $1,420. From $712. www.nanimarquina.com www.blastation.se MARK WEISS (GLOBAL WARMING) MARK WEISS (GLOBAL

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Cappellini partnered with At the Turkish presentation Belgian designer and recent Tai Ping and a roster of in Milan this year, architect Eindhoven graduate Maarten star designers for its Magic Serhan Gürkan—a founding De Ceulaer has traveled Carpet collection. The group member of Istanbul’s GMG extensively in India, hence of 10 projects includes Fabio IN/EX—showed origami-style the Darjeeling Limited vibe Novembre’s Pure Italy—a rug- bent-metal furniture. But of his Pile of Suitcases size facsimile of a fabric- the little-known gem in his armoire for Casamania. care label, which unabashedly portfolio is Golden Ratio, Vintage-style leather trunks advertises its material: a system of wood shelves become cabinets for storing 100 percent silk; $4,448. with nested acrylic drawers all the things you might have www.cappellini.it that conform to the ancient taken with you in the days mathematical principle. before airline baggage fees. Contact designer for price. From $6,956. www.gmginex.com www.casamania.it

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As Atelier Blink, Belgian Rejoining forces with It looks like a door handle designers Emilie Lecouturier Authentics, the German and works like a light and Céline Poncelet restyle company that pioneered dimmer: Belgian innovator familiar products: an the use of translucent Alain Berteau’s Slide faucet octopus-like beanbag chair polypropylene more than 25 can be controlled with one made from recycled jeans, years ago, Constantin and finger by sliding the top for example, or their wool Laurene Boym have revitalized panel backwards (a little and polymide Brocante de the restructured company with for cold water, a lot for Salon rug, which presents a their new product, Track hot). Perfect for the iPhone photorealistic image of a Clock. Like a trusty plastic generation. From $559. street cluttered with flea- stopwatch blown up into www.rvb.be market crockery. While an stark, 18-inch wall graphics, unexpected sight in the it’s a striking reminder living room, it’s a common that time is a-wastin’. landscape in the firm’s Available at Vessel; $150. native Brussels. Available at www.vessel.com or D’Apostrophe; $1,395–$4,920. www.authentics-shop.de www.dapostrophe.net or www.atelierblink.com MARK WEISS (BROCANTE DE SALON) MARK WEISS (BROCANTE

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Spain’s Inbani Design The Scandinavian designer Touted as the quietest line puts a colorful spin on Swedish Ninja—whose secret of Miele dishwashers yet, sinks and storage with its identity is the mild- the G 2002 La Perla series newest collection: Tambo mannered Maria Gustavsson— may also be the smartest. by Sergio Rocas, which found inspiration in the The machines check room includes a Componibili- Erector Set–like cranes of temperature to calculate esque wall-mounted sink with defunct shipyards in Malmö, water temperature, rinse- an integrated storage unit Sweden, when creating her aid distribution, and drying lined in hot pink. Contact Xhibit magazine racks. The time, and their doors pop manufacturer for price. powder-coated steel units open at strategic moments www.inbani.com come in two sizes, for to aid in drying without displaying three or five wasting energy. A “turbo” periodicals; $170–$235. feature speeds up wash www.mitabprod.se times by 10 to 15 percent, and the brushed-metal surfaces resist scratches and smudges. Contact manufacturer for price. www.miele.com

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Pivoting, flexing, and Waffle grids are molded in MDF Like his famed radiator articulating its cylindrical for the wire-base collection for Droog, Dutch designer form into dozens of of Ajours (“openwork”) Joris Laarman’s WirePod for positions, Kohler’s Karbon coffee-and-end tables Normal Artecnica unfurls its gray faucet makes retractable Studio developed for ENO. limbs into a decorative sidespray hoses irrelevant, The tabletops keep their pattern. The four-outlet providing hands-free washing looks right through a party, power cord is the first in of plates and filling of since crumbs and spills fall a series of designs by the tall vases with no wasted straight through; $328–$398. –based company drops. Carbon-fiber section www.enostudio.net meant to transform electrical casings add corrosion-free products from necessary flash, while a recessed valve eyesores into covetable controls the type of spray; interior objects. Contact $990. manufacturer for price. www.us.kohler.com www.artecnicainc.com

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Patchwork might seem Interwoven lengths of solid Norayr Khachatryan’s counterintuitive to Ligne oak lend extra refinement to N-7 table for Casamania is Roset’s modern, streamlined the Foxtrot table designed aluminum origami—two hooked aesthetic, but the by U.K. cabinetmakers Sarah legs fold down from opposite company’s smartly pieced- Kay and Andrea Stemmer for corners of an angular top, together Courchevel rug SCP. The table has an oak- lending it an intriguingly is an exception. Square veneer top and is available awkward stance. (Khachatryan cowhide tiles, solid brown in its natural color or with says the backward-bending in the center and spotted a wenge-wood stain. From legs remind him of a deer’s.) on the periphery, unite $1,050. The N-7 comes in white to suggest a pixelated www.scp.co.uk and red, but for the full supernova, albeit in a more stealth-bomber vibe, opt for earthly material; $2,310. black; $5,275. www.ligne-roset-usa.com www.casamania.it

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Under the creative direction of Estudio Mariscal, Valencia’s Uno Design debuted at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair with collections by Emiliana Design, Lagranja, Enrique Martí, and U.K.-based El Último Grito, whose stand- out piece was Add Up, a kind of surface supercontinent that mashes together clear or opaque tops in rectangles, squares, or disks with protruding frames. Contact manufacturer for price. www.uno-design.com

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