magic carpets

Dutch designer Wendy Plomp put packing crates to use as dinner tables for restaurant de Witte Tafel. Hung on the walls and overlapped on the floors are her screenprinted cardboard carpets. Hobo chic!

fire string mountain

I came across this piece by Aili Schmeltz and was stunned. Something about that color and the way it richens at the base. It looks like the work of an eccentric arachnid and I wish I'd thought of it first.

timber hooks

These straight-out-of-the-woods wall hooks, made by Live Wire Farm, can be used as anything from towel slings to tissue racks, as the website demonstrates. My favorite example is the last photo, which looks like a prosthetic branch for the wooden porch post (do you think it had phantom limb syndrome? zing!).

recycling bags

Start off the New Year right and bright. DWR offers this set of four color coded bags, which are so much more handsome than those hard-plastic tubs that make me feel as if I'm living out of a shipping warehouse. Another great thing is that, after carrying out your earthly duties, you can stuff them under your sink (at least until you gulp down the last bit of that Smart Water).

rod shelf

I don't know how you screw them into the wall (and do they sag?), but the results are minimalist excellence. The book becomes its own bookend (like in clampology). No extra materials needed.

Designed by Max Lamb.