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About Design Magazine featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

2 in 1

2 in 1 is an armchair with integrated storage and power access, designed for work and for lounging. The armchair combines a seat and a storage surface in one piece, so books and devices stay within reach. Power ports are available as standard outlets or in combination with USB. The wide storage surface can be placed on the left or on the right. High wood arms form a visual boundary that supports privacy and focus. The structure is made of solid oak with a powder coated steel frame and recycled polyester upholstery.

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Happy Aquarius

Happy Aquarius is a safe and good grip water bottle for all ages. It has a smooth smiling curvature shape designed and eye-catching double sided colors appearance, presenting a sense of young, energetic and fashionable. Made by 100 % recyclable food grade silicone, sustaining temperature range form 220 deg. C to -40 deg. C, no plasticizer leached out and is BPA free. The soft touch surface coating provides silky feel, nice in hold and grip. Springiness, elasticity and the hollow structure feature enable the bottle to work-out as hand gripper as well as light-weight dumbbell.

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Sestetto

An orchestral ensemble of speakers that play together like real musicians. Sestetto is a multi-channel audio system to play individual instrument tracks in separate loudspeakers of different technologies and materials dedicated to the specific sound case, among pure concrete, resonating wooden soundboards and ceramic horns. The mixing of tracks and parts comes back to be physically in the place of listening, like in a real concert. Sestetto is the chamber orchestra of the recorded music. Sestetto is directly self-produced by its designers Stefano Ivan Scarascia and Francesco Shyam Zonca.

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Hus

Hus is a coffee table that also works as a toy house for children. The table consists of two modules and a removable top. Each module represents a floor of a building, with windows, stairs, movable walls and miniature furniture. The modules can be shifted, turned or separated, and guide rails keep them stable. An empty module serves as storage. The bottom piece and legs are made of solid oak, and the upper piece and top are made of MDF. Children can explore the textures and weight of construction materials such as wood, concrete and clear panels.

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Turkish Coffe Cup

Turkish Coffe Cup is a porcelain coffee cup with a matching saucer. The form refers to Turkish cultural history: the geometric handle recalls the Seljuk period, the cloud motif recalls the Ottoman period, and the cylindrical body links both traditions. The shape was first made on a potter's wheel, then drawn on a computer. Production molds were made with a CNC lathe, and the pieces were cast in porcelain clay. The cup is 8 cm high and 6.5 cm wide. The saucer is 12.5 cm in diameter. The aim was to join the warmth of handwork with the precision of machine production.

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Wave

Wave is a coffee table made of ash wood. It combines opposites in many ways. The shape of the table resembles the stairs of the pyramids and the form of waves. So, it displays man-made and natural forms at the same time. The softness of the wave counterparts the angularity of the structure. Beside being a static object, it also gives the impression of dynamic motion by the fan-like rotation of the parts. Wave provides a new visual sight from every angle. By this it symbolizes the variety of nature. Wave does not contain any fittings or stiffeners. It holds itself.

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