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Tri sgabello

Ascanio Zocchi sgabello Furniture Tuesday, 2 September 2025

Tri

stool in natural cedar solid worked with CNC machines and hand finished the particularity is that it is formed from a block of solid wood cedar untreated 50 x 50 surface is polished by hand with grits of sandpaper making matt surface and smooth to the touch and enhancing the forms and the color scheme of a particular cedar wood is to have a natural oil that protects it and makes it a functional object and practical in its maintenance a soft design that enhances the natural material with the addition its fragrance you can talk about design sensory touch, comfort, and fragrance.

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El_Masnad Lounge Carpet

Sana Lounge Carpet Furniture Monday, 1 September 2025

El_Masnad

El_Masnad is a floor seating carpet designed for living rooms. The design takes the armrest, a traditional focal point in Saudi homes, and uses it as the main element of the seating unit, while all other parts of a common seat are removed. El_Masnad keeps users close to the ground, so sitting feels playful and intuitive. The pieces have no fixed orientation and can be combined in many configurations. The foam core is shaped by five-axis hot wire milling and wrapped in stitched felt, like a rolled carpet.

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Ydin Stool

Franck Divay Stool Furniture Saturday, 30 August 2025

Ydin

Ydin stool can be mounted by yourself, without using special tools, thanks to a simple interlocking system. The 4 identical feet are placed in no particular order and the concrete seat, acting as the keystone, keeps everything in place. Feet are made with scrap wood coming from a stairs manufacturer, easily machined using traditional woodworking techniques and finally oiled. The seat is simply moulded in a lasting fiber-reinforced UHP Concrete. Only 5 dissociable parts to be flat packed and ready to be shipped to final customers, is another sustainability argument.

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5x5 Chair

Barbara Princic Chair Furniture Friday, 29 August 2025

5x5

The 5x5 chair is a typical design project where the limitation is recognised as a challenge. The chair's seat and the back are made of xilith which is very difficult to be shaped. Xilith is the raw material that can be found 300 meters under the ground's surface and is comined with a coal. Currently the majority of the raw material is thrown away. From environmental point of view this material generates waste on the earth's surface. Therefore the idea about the chair design seemed to be very provocative and challenging.

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Turf rug lounger Lounge chair

MASUO FUJIMURA Lounge chair Furniture Thursday, 28 August 2025

Turf rug lounger

The Rug Lounger is a new concept in furniture consisting of a Rug and a Lounger which works in harmony with one another. The round shaped Rug creates the smallest possible private space and gives you comfort and a relaxing time. A small table can be set on the big dots on the dotted Rug which creates a private space. Using an artificial grass rug achieves a low cost design which is available for various scenes from indoor to outdoor.

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