What is a cheap alternative to the Herman Miller Eames lounge chair?
This is the furniture equivalent of buying a Chrysler 300 and pimping it out to look like a Bentley.
via Uncrate — Furniture

A New Perspective
A table by James Tooze of Batch. The graphic applied to the table's surface reveals its construction when viewed from certain angles. Sweet.
via Dwell — Furniture

Anatomy of an IKEA Product
"After building a lot of Ikea products, I decided to find out what's behind the Swedish company's design process."
via Crave — Furniture

Skate Study House
Now here's something I can truly appreciate: Classic pieces from Eames, Nelson, Le Corbusier and Noguchi all recreated with skate decks.
via Treehugger — Furniture

SCI-Arc's CHub
C-Hub that is... a new board table (conceived in a faculty-only-competition) designed by F-lab partners Ramiro Diaz-Granados and Heather Flood.
via Icon — Furniture

Aptly named "Bandit Chair"
They stole from Emeco, but they won't steal from you... a less pricey and "updated" take on the Navy Chair.
via Domino Mag — Furniture

Video: Eames Lounge Chair 1956 debut
Charles and Ray Eames introduce their brand new Lounge Chair on the Arlene Francis "Home" show, broadcast on NBC in 1956.
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Coolhunter
"Are you weary of the sight of a Barcelona chair? Does a friend’s Le Corbusier chaise make you want to chuck? And does the prospect of having to park your derrière on an Eames chair make you angry?"
via Times — Furniture

Quad
A groovy shelving unit of angled cubbies by Nauris Kalinauskas.
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Modern, inside-out
"Paul T. Frankl's sleek simplicity gave rise to a California look."
via LA Times — Furniture

IKEA: New Hotness 2008
"IKEA's catching on to color and pattern."
via Domino Mag — Furniture

Bordbar Recycled Airplane Trolleys
A great, albeit pricey, idea for reusing retired airplane trolleys.
via Inhabitat — Furniture

Fall Colors
DWR is showing off the new colors of their Eames Soft Pad Management Chair.
via DWR Design Notes — Furniture

Furniture Causes FedEx Fits
Looks like FedEx has their panties in a wad over some guy making furniture out of their boxes. Waaah.
via Wired — Furniture

ETTORE SOTTSASS EXHIBIT- New York
"Friedman Benda [NY] will inaugurate the opening of its gallery with an exhibition of new work by architect/designer Ettore Sottsass...The exhibition will be on view from September 19 to October 27 2007"
via Frame Magazine — Furniture

Interview: Brave Space Design
An old L+L fave, Brave Space talks about their work including their new Hollow Line, which is pretty darn groovy.
via Moco Loco — Furniture

Rubik's Cube Coffee Table Makes Your Apartment "Cool"
"If you can complete the Rubik's Cube legitimately and want to feel superior to others by decorating your home with the puzzle's motif, take a gander at this coffee table."
via Gizmodo — Furniture

The round bed comes full circle
"REMEMBER the revolving circular bed from which the Mike Meyers' character Austin Powers proclaimed his shag-ability? Laugh if you must, but the Lazy Susan sleeper — that semaphore of swinging bachelorhood — is no longer a joke to be found solely in Hollywood comedies and special-interest hotel suites."
via LA Times — Furniture

Fluted Cardboard Funiture
British designer Giles Miller creates pieces from recycled cardboard, and uses the internal corragations of the material to create patterns.
via Inhabitat — Furniture

LAX Wall Mounted Shelf
Digging the silplicity of the LAX wall-mounted shelf by Mash Studios - no visible hardware and simple materials. Available in birch veneer ply in clear or espresso stain, or solid walnut. Powder coated folded aluminum sliding doors.
via Apartment Therapy — Furniture

Radially expanding table
Now this is a very impressive concept... you've really got to see the video of this thing in action to appreciate the design behind this expandable table by DB Fletcher.
via Boing Boing — Furniture

Bertrand Clerc A01
The "Denari-esque" A01 bench designed by Betrand Clerc and Olivier Gregoire. Slick.
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Funky photo furniture
Pieces by OHIO Design which feature large-scale photo transfers.
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Foster & Partners design for Emeco
Norman Foster designs a stackable aluminum chair using 80% recycled material. Nice 'n simple.
via Reluct — Furniture

Interview: Brace Space Design
An interview with Nikki Frazier, Sam Kragiel, Jesse James Arnold of Brooklyn design firm Brave Space (twice featured on L+L). Yup, they are responsible for those Tetris shelves.
via Inhabitat — Furniture

sasan
"Thin like a rug, comfortable like an upholstery, mulitifunctional like a Swiss army knife." A cool multipurpose furnishing element by German designer Alexander Munk.
via swissmiss — Furniture

Pick Chair
It's a wall hanging - no, it's a chair - no, it's both! The construction consists of flat wood veneer panels fixed atop a hinged metal structure. Designed by Dror Benshetrit of Studio Dror.
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Zebra Chair
A very cool flat folding chair constructed of made with renewable beech wood and recyclable aluminum designed by Dieter Paul.
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regal_zzz
A cool hanging corner shelf designed by Adrian Lippmann.
via Moco Loco — Furniture

Nakashima lives again
Apparently George Nakashima's daughter has recently re-opened her father's house in New Hope, Pennsylvania for tours, and has also reopened the furniture workshop.
via Apartment Therapy — Furniture