Spotlight on Areaware

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New York based Areaware is a manufacturer that brings to its customers a unique selection of well-designed products. Over 25 designers are connected to Areaware and its product range, in addition to being useful, is artful, eccentric, and often humorous. Part of Areaware’s mission is to create products which inspire an emotional response and which create dialogue between people and their everyday surroundings.

Harry Allen silicone keychain, $19

Harry Allen pill box, $12

Harry Allen bank in the form of a pig, $125

Paul Loebach candlestick, $24

Harry Allen candlestick, $50

Harry Allen peanut bowl, $35

Jonas Damon clock, $130

Areaware products are available in countries around the world. Check the store listings here.

Images courtesy of Areaware.

Collected: Issue 1

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Collected, the latest design magazine to hit the Internet, highlights the art of refined living. Co-founded by Los Angeles-based interior designers & bloggers Krista Schrock (of A Note on Design) and Jessica Comingore (of Destined to Design), Collected brings to its readers inspirational interiors, carefully curated products, mouth-watering recipes, ideas for travel and fashion, and even a design history lesson. Talk about a great Saturday morning read!

Click here to read issue one of Collected.

House ring

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by Johanne

I’m quite smitten with today’s house ring by Melbourne, Australia-based designer Michael Ong of Michael Ong Design Office (MODO).

I love that the house ring is internally 3-D and if you are a miniature person, you can now live on someone’s finger. It’s kind of like living in a motor home, right?

Images courtesy of Michael Ong Design Office (MODO).

Jayson Home & Garden: Spring 2011

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Chicago’s Jayson Home & Garden carries a sophisticated selection of furnishings, a variety of home accessories and plenty of flowers and plants to help you live beautifully.

The spring 2011 catalog arrived in my mailbox last week and it’s beyond gorgeous.

Emma feather pendant, $2295

The Theodore sofa, $4195

The Graydon sofa, $3295

The Penelope Chair, $1250

The Balmoral Chair, $1750

The Morgan chair, $1995

Casbah side table, $995

feathered shaped trays, $32-$52

Anchor tray, $28

marble bowls, $55-$110

rule pitchers, $15-$28

Right now Jayson Home & Garden is giving one lucky winner a chance to win $1000 shopping spree (enter here). How divine!

Jewelry network

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by Johanne

There’s something very cool about Nervous System‘s jewelry collection, “Hyphae.”

The design house does various household, jewelry, art and oh, you know, they like to grow rhizome-like 3D networks of nylon and enable them to interweave into beautiful jewelry that mimics human and plant circulatory systems. That’s all.

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Nylon being what it is, the Hyphae jewelry pieces are incredibly light and flexible, so these puppies will be comfortable despite looking structurally solid. Of course we’re fascinated by the branching networks that are easily identifiable in the Hyphae collection’s cuffs, necklaces, rings and earrings.

Nature is so beautiful, isn’t it?

Rhizome cuff grown from 4 root points intertwined into a unified network, $75

Vessel earrings, $32

Mini Hyphae cuff, $55

Hyphae ring, small size, $28

River bangle, $70

Check out Nervous System’s site to watch the video as to how the Hyphae collection is made.

Images courtesy of Nervous System.

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