The New Zealand designer Rachel Young has applied the ancient technique dell’origami design, giving rise to beautiful objects and also functional.

Sheets of plastic and colored light are skillfully carved and then folded following the notions of the famous technical Eastern Europe.

So, can be born a nice portafrutta absolutely functional, but also beautiful show.

We have already talked about Matthias Zaeh aka Maz Zaeh, industrial designers Zurich realized that design projects freely inspired by mathematical models and geometric structures. After the chair Unfold, the Hilberts chair is the demonstration of how math can inspire, change and structure design.

The discovery curve by mathematician David Hilbert in 1891 suggested the prototype of an endless cycle of felt. The design of sitting is closely linked to the potential of material used and the technique used to define it. Maz Zaeh has shaped the felt, indurendolo in strategic points to give him stability and ammorbidendolo the more suitable to allow a sitting warm and comfortable. A prototype remarkable, sought in its simplicity and engaging in the structure.

The design presented at the International Furniture Fair 2008 again, enhanced and promoted its nature in all its changing forms and inspirations. The trees, those of paradise with their charm suggestive, are at the root of the Tree of Eero Aarnio. The Finnish designer has created for Martela, a colorful plastic tree, practical and versatile that lends itself to set up, entertain, entertain and decorate.

It can be a very useful and fun hanger, at least as we are able to turn into support for lumini and candles in the garden or on the terrace, is a design element to be exploited without prejudice at every opportunity, as unusual but pleasant separè or as your tree dell’Eden. The Tree will be available at Design Eero Aarnio starting from June 2008.

The price is not cheap but the purchase of each individual The Tree, promotes the donation of four fruit trees in the project development Worl Vision Finland, to stop the erosion and malnutrition of children in the Peruvian Andes.

Ask anyone. Most people define the coffee break as one of the most sacred and corroboranti the day. If you take the coffee, especially for us Italians is a pleasure, the design in more than one occasion has spoken with a gesture of true love towards our passion.

Antigone Acconci and Riccardo Bastiani from to-rstudio, have consecrated this moment with a set of cups capable of representing the Made in Italy “in its essence. The saucer is the silhouette of a man with open arms, which expects its cup red as the heart. Esposte during Week Mobile 2008, the Thimble Cup with their nostalgic irony and fun, have represented our love for the coffee and design in the host.