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Match colors to create fantasy and enjoy playing games is the message that this furniture item wants to deliver. With a timeless design inspired by Mondrian style, “Hexa” is a very appealing coffee table conceived as a “furniture-game” for children of different ages, but its versatility makes it suitable for any modern interior that needs its colorful presence. The table is part of  the great collections of  “playful sculptures” of Italian brand Sculptures Jeux, collections that come to life from the French designer Bernard Vuarnesson’s modern vision.

The “Hexa” coffee table stands out thanks to the simplicity of the concept and the lively chromatism, a wonderful catchy furniture piece that kids will inevitably love it. Rectangles and clean lines intersect and form a colorful asymmetrical balance that give to this object a certain freedom of expression in any living environment. Its six reversible tops can be arranged in such a manner that the table would look each time differently, adapting to various needs.

This aesthetics game allows “Hexa” to be either a modern coffee table for your living rooms or home offices or a support for games and toys in your kids’ rooms. Resting on four legs, the table has a solid  wood structure and six reversible tops that feature laminated finishes. They can be customized with other Sculptures Jeux finishes and colors to create your own favourite design. It also has an inner part that can be utilized as a serving tray. A playful geometry that won’t go unoticed! Take a look!

Check out other amazing coffee table designs we’ve recently featured on Designlike.

Photos © Sculptures Jeux

Each year, worldwide interior designers come up with amazing, fresh furniture designs that inspire us to create wonderful and original looking homes. In this way, international furniture fairs are an extraordinary opportunity to see what’s new on the market and how trends evolve. Renowned British designer Benjamin Hubert for example launched at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in April 2013 at  in collaboration with Italian furniture brand Moroso a few great chairs designs, and one of them that we liked more we present it to you here, in this post.

It’s called “Cradle” and in our opinion is a fashionable furniture item dedicated to those who are looking for the comfort of a seat and the relaxation provided by a hammock. Ranking high in originality, this new lounge chair is practically a  unique mixture of two typologies of seating -a common upholstered lounge chair and a net structured hammock. Breaking the traditional rules of seating  styling and typology, the British designer took characteristics from both of them and create one original product with a very appealing architectural aesthetic.

“Cradle” features a hammock-like backrest designed using a custom-made cut pattern that allows a Kvadrat textile mesh to stretch in a controlled manner, in a three-dimensional way, in order to ensure correct support  and enough comfort for the body. This sharp rectilinear backrest is supported by a steel frame which embraces somehow the uphostered seating block. It creates a nice  visually contrast, making it interesting to observe in detail.

Photos © Benjamin Hubert

“Sofa Float” is one of the latest work of Spanish industrial designer Paul Llanquin, who has a proven experience with various products that are currently sold in different retail of his country. Striking simplicity and a modern-vintage look is what capture your attention at first sight making from it a fresh indoor furniture piece. The design is excellent and really eye-catching, not to mention that its body, which has a space to sit cosily 2 people, incorporates also a pair of side tables on one side and the other and it instantly transforms from an ergonomic seat into a comfortable bed for your moments of relaxation.

The side tables offer support for different stuff like a vase, a glass of water or reading books while store magazines inside them. It also allow you to lie using the backrest of the sofa as pillows. The wooden support creates a wonderful contrast making the “Sofa Float” a modern piece of decor that will change in one minute the entire ambience of your room through its simple presence. Here are some inspirational images with the product. Take a look!

Photos © Pablo Llanquin

Whether we have a big house with plenty of space available or we live in a small apartment, nowadays many of us are looking for all kind of smart solutions in terms of furniture design, products that are multifunctional and space-saving, incorporate eco-friendly materials or display innovative designs. Functionality and aesthetics of a furniture item go hand in hand, being two aspects very important these days in interior design industry, and our expectations are different now than ten years ago for example.

Here, in this post, we want to show you a great furniture concept for all modern homes and particularly for small space living. Envisioned by young German designer Emin Ayaz, “Slot” is an upholstered sofa with modern minimalist design and clever storage solutions. Simple and elegant, “Slot” is interesting to be observed from every stand point, because its creative design captivates you due to its appealing color combination, seamless blend of materials and unexpected curves.

Its originality comes from the empty surfaces that it has, which turn to be a wonderful storage for various stuff like laptop, books, magazines, newspapers, but also a retractable coffee table when you need it. Just pull out the middle space and you’ll have an appealing and modern coffee table right in front of you. In this way, you don’t have to purchase such a table anymore and have plenty of space for other things in your living room as well. Besides the comfort it provides, this sofa design makes a great focal point for any living area. Do you find it interesting? What do you think?

Photos © Emin Ayaz

Intriguing and unusual, these concrete occasional tables, envisioned by talented designers from Souda designs, are really something that grab your attention from the very first moment, and if you are a fan of industrial design, then you will certainly find the Kreten side tables original and attractive. Designed and manufactured in Brooklyn, New York, the Kreten tables are an interesting take on the regular wooden tables,  the details making it look particularly odd and fun.

The idea of creating such furniture pieces started as an exploration into the omnipresence of concrete in our built environment and its predominance in many industrial applications, fact that led to the perception that concret is a cold, lifeless material. The result is a surprising mixture of fluid design inspired by tree trunks that looks nice and fresh in home interior, being as uniquely expressive as they are well-crafted.

Thinking how was possible to achieve such forms? Well, trhough a  concrete molding process: each table was individually formed in a rubberized-fabric that is stretched over an armature, then filled with fiberglass reinforced concrete. Combining the weight of the concrete and the stretch of the fabric, it came out their organic shape, unique, simple yet strong, quite different from each other. Various finishes were given at the end of the design process.

Photos © Souda & Courtney Reagor