Fantastic chair made out of piano keys.
So balanced, so delicate yet bold.
By Ninestoriesfurniture.
Via Ok Great.

So, so beautiful and, bizarrely, kind of "antique". Reminds me of places I've never been to but always wanted to go to.
By IVANKA.
Via The Best Part.

If you imagine yourself getting fitter through sport and drinking fruity smoothies, plus you are trying to waste less energy this may be for you.
Another great piece of madness by Dominic Wilcox.

For those of you who always have time to make everything just fit into your schedule: the doubly awesome givaways are going to finish tonight (european time)!
Don't miss it!

(Maarten Baas' Grandfather Clock: what you see on the clock sphere is an animation!)

So cool, su fun, so naive, so stylish. So damn awesome I'd cry.

This beautiful home swing reminds me a lot of a massive wooden necklace I have. Jewellery for the house, there's a thought... See more of her work here.

Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.

Mr M passed this article to me about the relationship between spending and happiness. Well, we all know that money does not make you happy, but I honestly thought that what you can do with money can. This is a recurring thing I find again and again, especially being a designer. I am meant to make stuff for people to want more stuff. But do i really want it to be like this? Of course I always try to make things that matter at another level (that's why rituals in living are so important to me), but at the end of the day you are producing more material bodies that will lay somewhere at somebody's place.

I showed you this two small apartments a while ago because I just moved into a small flat myself (39 square meters to share with Mr M). Whilst this has been an economic decision (in Europe you just cannot afford to live any bigger in a city without a very serious income or getting into loans and debt), it's interesting to see people taking a conscious step in this direction. Again a contradictory position to me, I like the idea but at the same time I'm pretty sure I'd go too big before too small if money wasn't the issue. That said, the tiny flat has definitely improved the way we live in some ways (even though we've never lived in massive spaces before): we need to be tidier and cleaner, more aware of what surrounds us, smarter, more essentialist. Everything has at least one function and a spot. I could say it's more flexible, in a way, because it needs to be.

This video appeared in RowdyKittens, a blog of a lady who did make the choice of living as small as possible.

What do you think about this? Could you downsize? Have you ever needed to?

Mr Smith's vintage floral wallpaper has "a strip of brail running through the middle at Dado rail height" that reads "Pink roses". This project was made for Wallpaper with help from the Royal National Institute of Blind People.

Teague Radioball from ben collette on Vimeo.

Young, soft, whimsical design.

Project by Editions in Craft (I think we are gonna hear more about these people...).

Delicious and sensitive.

... made my heart skip a beat. Even if my art books wouldn't fit.

Culdesac and Studio Marisol are holding a workshop on hair and product design @ Domain de Boisbuchet.

Somehow I missed this scenter when DesignMilk posted it. But now I've found it!

... or how else would you explain these?

When I was at CSM, it was uncool to like Hayon. Don't ask me why. It might have been only within my circle. It might have been that he's is a very "arty" designer. It might have been those pics of him in a bunny suit. It might have been his recurrent use of his own work for inspiration. I don't know. Thing is, lots of people seemed very uptight about his work.