With showrooms in Germany and Poland, Unique Wood Design offers contemporary wooden bathtubs and basins that help bring nature into the bathroom. With a history deeply rooted in boat building, the Polish company uses a combination of traditional carpentry and specialist modern boat-building techniques to create truly unique, handmade bathrooms.
Bathroom
A shoe inspired bathtub
Italian mosiac manufacturer SICIS Art Mosaic Factory have introduced a fashion inspired bathtub for all those shoe obsessed fashionistas out there. The stiletto shoe luxury bathtubs will be the talking point of any bathroom they feature in and are the perfect tribute to footwear for those with a shoe fetish. The bathtubs are decorated in
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Furniture
Human furniture anyone?
Fusing a futuristic and retro vision of design, which he calls ‘New-Retro-Futurism’, Paris based Belarusian designer Dzmitry Samal has some interest designs in his portfolio. Speaking about his approach to design he says: “I think that the future of design is in our past experience and heritage combined with modern technologies. I’m a keeper of
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Appliances
Gorenje designed by Karim Rashid
So if you are looking for a funky oven to sit alongside your daring Gorenje Retro Collection fridge, look no further. The undisputed king of colour, Karim Rashid, had put his stamp on the kitchen. A minimal fusion of functionality, technology, interactivity, and purity, according to Gorenje, the new collection boasts a full length handle
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Appliances
Gorenje goes retro
The Old Timer fridges and fridge freezers by Slovenian manufacturer Gorenje has been around for over a decade. But they have been given a new lease of life through a bright new palette of colours and a funky new name – the Retro Collection. Aimed at consumers who demand a more individual, lively and daring
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Wallcoverings
Flock wallpapers by Barbara Hulanicki
Barbara Hulanicki has designed these wonderful flock wallpapers for Graham & Brown. The Skulls wallpaper above is a dark, yet mischievous wallpaper. Barbara says she particularly likes the shock effect that this wallpaper has, as people don’t necessarily see the skulls until they take a closer look. Antoinette captures the image of a young Marie
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Appliances
Mrs Dalloway for Gorenje
Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc wanted to transform the mundane role and duties of housewives and raise the expectations we have of kitchen appliances by giving this mini-hotplate a new haute-couture image. The world premiere of the Mrs. Dalloway mini hotplate from Gorenje, reminiscent more of a cult fashion accessory than of an actual cooking appliance, took
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Wallcoverings
Bond Collection
Bond is the new collection of tiles by Turkish manufacturer Canakkale Seramik & Kalebodur in collaboration with renowned Finnish designer Harri Koskinen. Bond is a collection comprised of concave and convex tiles used in conjunction to give a sense of movement to an otherwise flat surface. Koskinen says he took his inspiration from the natural
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Wallcoverings
Luminescent Wallpaper by Camilla Diedrich
Luminescent wallpaper by Camilla Diedrich incorporates fibre optics transforming the wallcovering into a beautiful light source
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Events
Polska! Year
Polska! Year started in Spring of this year and will continue through to 2010. It is a joint initiative of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The purpose of the Year is to bring the communities of Poland and Great Britain closer by strengthening cultural relations and