The only table you'll ever wanna sit at

Formations by Joseph Walsh absolutely blew my mind, not only is the concept extrordinary, but the actual making of process, how do you even get wood to bend like that? The chair is almost insect-like, kind of reminds me of a praying mantis. Love.

Joseph Walsh founded his Studio in 1999 in Co Cork, Ireland. He is a self taught designer who travelled to other designers' workshops in order to gain experience. At the same time he visited various museums and galleries where he observed and explored art and design. His work is an expression of his deepest values, a sensitive approach to structure and form. His intention to evaluate the different issues of space and light helps to redefine things and translate them in a different unique way. Joseph Walsh manages to capture the substance of the form and uses his imagination in order to change things by giving new shapes and forms.

Go and check his website out, EVERYTHING is amazing!

Hair Chair

I suppose it's been a while now that designers have started to use hair as a material/fabric in their designs, such as Margiela's famous hair coat in his artisanal collection (which I'm still saving up for by the way!) and Mosslight's accessories from a couple years back. Never in a million years though would pea-brain me consider hair a material for furniture, luckily there's people out there like Vienna-based artist and designer Dejana Kabiljo with larger brains that are able to come up with the idea! I don't think I'd ever wanna sit on any of these PRETTYPRETTY chairs/barstools/poufs in fear of messing up these wonderful 'hair-do's' but I certainly wouldn't mind one of these sitting nicely in my pad!

Images via yatzer.com

Hope

The 'Hope' light is designed by Francisco Gomez Paz and Paolo Rizzatto, and in a world of sadness, it's exactly what we need right now. I was reading on the news about Polar bears having to eat their own young in order to survive and it's stuff like this that makes me realise how close we really are to destroying our own planet and it's these innocent animals that have to suffer from our selfishness...sob. I understand the difficulties of reverting back to the inconveniences of life before the world was in this state, but every little bit helps, and it's better to start now than never. Before I go on and on about global warming and get all upset about it, I'm gonna get back on the subject of the 'Hope' light (seriously though, love your planet before it's too late!).

The science behind the 'Hope' light relys on the fact that when light is combined with a series of reflecting and refractive shapes, it becomes amplified and is multiplied in an exponential manner; in a simpler sense, you need less energy to produce more light. So why not be environmently friendly and uber stylish at the same time? The bonus is, as fancy as it looks, it's also extremely practical, it's made from a series of thin, flat plastic Fresnel lenses, created using imprinted microprisms on polycarbonate film to achieve a dioptric effect similar to glass...yeah, that was also jibberish to me, but the point is, it's light in weight and can be easily dismantled to become highly compact in size. Go get it here.

Painfully Cool

For some reason, I have been wierdly attracted to stuff that is accident/pain/medical related recently, don't get me wrong, I'm not a sadist, but with people like London College of Fashion's Una Burke around, I'm starting to think that hurting myself might not be such a bad thing...only messing, but seriously, all these medical/trauma inspired fashion/art pieces are just too cool. It's slightly freaky, and kind of reminds me of Mason Verger in Hannibal, but in a nicer way. Una Burke's 'Re.treat' collection was based on the universal subject of human trauma, a number of pieces are reminiscent of medical braces used to heal broken bones and spinal injuries; signifying the potential for healing. There is a feeling of emptiness when the leather structures are removed from the model, almost as if something is missing and they belong on the body. I wouldn't say Burke's collection is practical as fashion really, but they are wonderful art pieces that definately deserve a mentioning, I'm really looking forward to what she'll be up to next!