Mattson RGB Lighting Fixtures
The RGB line of lighting fixtures, designed by Fredrik Mattson and available through Zero, is playful, durable, and colorful. Available as a floor lamp, table lamp, or pendant fixture, the RGB line...
View ArticleDuPont Corian Illumination Series
Now you can have your cake and eat it too! Corian Illumination Series allows for varying degrees of translucency, so that reliable Corian has suddenly gone glitzy. Dupont states that the new surfaces...
View ArticleSay Novecento to Tubs
Our bodies nonverbally interact with objects daily and for no rhyme or reason, we feel preferences to the way certain cereal bowls and coffee cups fit inside our hands (for me it’s my precious Dean...
View ArticleZietta Clara’s Ice Knobs and Pulls
While we tend to focus on larger or “more substantial” products here at 3rings, we do permit ourselves the occasional indulgence, thus profiling smaller pieces that may cross the line from “product” to...
View ArticleIconic Wall Panels
The Iconic panels by B + N will transform any wall, flat or textured. These four foot by eight foot (approximately) formed laminate over carved wood panels are a great alternative to wallpaper or other...
View ArticleThe Unica Cooking Monoblock by Inoxpiú
Although I am all about preserving old systems – choosing a horseback ride and magazines to shiny fold-up bikes and video games – let’s face it: modernizing the kitchen is always a welcome exception....
View ArticlePowerbond by Tandus: “It Looks Like Carpet But It’s Not”
Tandus floorcoverings makes tufted and woven broadloom, including modular carpet tiles, and Powerbond VCTT (variable cushion tufted tile) under their three brand names, Monterey, C&A, and Crossley....
View ArticleEgg, Meet CUBE
A few weeks ago, 3ringer Joseph Starr went a little crazy with the egg, focusing on egg-shaped chairs both new and old, as well as an egg-shaped bed. His study in form made me wistful for my own...
View ArticleInkuku
You’ve probably noticed from past articles that I am an animal lover, and therefore it should be no surprise that I occasionally enjoy taking our focus to animal-themed products. On that note, I’d like...
View ArticleSerenissimo
The Acerbis Serenissimo Table, designed by David Law, debuted in 1985, and, admittedly, it retains a sort of Miami-Vice-Esque vibe, but I mean this in the best possible way. After returning from a...
View ArticleThe Rotating Sphere Lounger
Call me prejudiced but whenever someone mentions garden furniture, I tend to think about my grandparents and their numerous outdoor tea sojourns. While there is nothing wrong with that family oriented...
View ArticleAm I Dreaming?
Daniele Lago’s Air Bed may make you wonder if you, like Alice In Wonderland, have fallen into a dream world. Though the bed seems to float magically, the frame actually rests on four transparent,...
View ArticleAt Salone: Pinch
Pinch may be the perfect bed for those born under the Libra Zodiac—or for any person who simultaneously desires the seemingly contradictory. An ideal marriage of practicality and beauty, as well as of...
View ArticleEvening Breeze Cooling Bed Saves Money While You Sleep
Summer is coming in NYC, which means hot weather and the yearly christening of the air-conditioner. On those miserably hot days and hotter nights, the air-conditioner is a savior but not one without...
View ArticleLight Up with Shimmering Concrete: The PIXA by SensiTile
Not to be confused with Pixar Studios, the Pixels sofa by Cristian Zuzunaga by Moroso, or the leaning tower of Pisa, a new fabric for the home goes by the similar name of PIXA. It is as revolutionary...
View ArticleThe Bend into Bamboo Ceilings by MOSO
Just because pandas don’t munch on the high “Moso” bamboo – also known as Phyllostachys Pubescens - doesn’t mean we don’t eat it up in design. In fact, it makes it easier to appreciate a natural...
View ArticleLive at #NeoCon10: The Wing-It workstation by SurfaceWorks
At the NeoCon show this week a Gold status in the ‘Height-Adjustable Worksurfaces” category was awarded to Wing-It, a computer station created by SurfaceWorks. This year it was tough than ever to win...
View ArticleAt #NeoCon09: Mohawk’s New Commercial Carpet Collection
If you work in commercial development—whether as architect, builder, or designer—you might be familiar with esoteric terminology like “tufted construction,” “textured patterned loop,” or (my personal...
View ArticleDon’t Mess with the French: Inga Sempé Takes the Douche Outside
The world’s douches and their dirty pick up lines can officially get lost. There’s a new douche in town that stands outside patiently, is grounded in strong value, and desires to shower you with clean...
View ArticleLive Video at IIDEX, NeoCon Canada: The Sky Is The Limit
I finally understand the difference between magic and an illusion. An illusion can be packaged into an architectural and/or design product; regrettably, magic cannot. Retired 3ringer Lora Leonard...
View ArticleA Knotty Topic by Droog
With the first warm winds of an early spring upon us, perhaps it’s time to dust off October’s detritus and re-introduce that arresting arsenal of patio furniture back into the great outdoors. Even...
View ArticleAt #NeoCon10: Paul Brayton Designs
If you visit Showroom 8-1087, you’ll find Paul Brayton Designs, home to a slew of high-performance fabrics. While their contract collections, which include Almost®, Nano-Tex®, and Crypton® brands, have...
View ArticleWinter
Partners Marcel Sigel and Alana Di Giacomo founded their Melbourne-based studio Zuii in 2004, the same year their designs for light fixtures took first and second place respectively at the Sydney...
View ArticleGot a Happy Dance? FreeSCALE it on a Vorwerk
Vorwerk has recently come out with the FreeSCALE carpet-tile collection that comes in unconventional shapes and has no harsh right angles. That’s right people, it’s innovation for the floor that comes...
View ArticleGot a Happy Dance? FreeSCALE it on a Vorwerk
Vorwerk has recently come out with the FreeSCALE carpet-tile collection that comes in unconventional shapes and has no harsh right angles. That’s right people, it’s innovation for the floor that comes...
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