“...with all the chutzpah and brilliance of a well-performed magic trick... this project is a triumph over adversity.”  - Kevin McCloud, Grand DesignsIf you love the smell of horse poo in the morning, then get yourself to 'Nha

The RIBA award-winning Casa Kike in Costa Rica by Gianni Botsford Architects is not only one writer's paradise, but an architectural aphrodisiac for the eyes. Set in lush natural landscape, this shoreside home boasts the "coupling [of] in

 From the designer who brought us the fabulous Jeeves and Wooster pendant lights, comes this chair as gloriously imposing as its namesake. The Orson by Jake Phipps is an Oscar-worthy performer indeed, with it's devilishly dark mouldings a

If you're cravin' a haven, this little prefab sprout could be just what you need. Read-Nest (Need-Rest?) is a 10m-squared prefabricated structure created to be your own private mini-hideaway situated wherever you choose for a spot of sanct

Living in the city all too often means sacrificing nature's hand in our habitat, a decision which, for the less green-fingered among us, can be a gladly made and conscious one. However, two Yale professors are working to change this attitude,

Damian Barton is an America-based, Australian designer with an industrial and furniture design heritage who has garnered recognition through his form-friendly and functional pieces. Petal takes more than titular inspiration from nature, windi

French designer, Jean Marie Massaud, works with a contextual approach to industrial and furniture design. The Terminal 1 daybed is a single unit which forms part of his ethic for individualistic focus and creates, with its sweeping, flui

The design-conscious looking for a new angle can show their metal with this low table by J. Wade Beam. The Zephyr is a stainless steel cylinder set at a 45 degree angle and polished into a seamless single unit. Available in a choice of finishes, t

If you yearn to take your work global, then designer Michiel van der Kley can help you do just that. This personal mobile workstation for Gispen and Artifort can be used at the office or at home and, with it's rotating chair, offers flexibilit

Australian designer, Brodie Neill, takes a progressive approach to his work, and that is clearly evident here with the @ chair; a carbon fibre/chrome piece which is "a continuous morphing loop in the form of a single seating chair."