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Financial Crisis And Design

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Spread 10 y by Antonio Maria Privitera

There are so many ways to get inspired but financial crisis!?! Have you ever come across a product, a piece of furniture inspired by prevailing economic condition?

The inspiration for this magazine rack is financial crisis! Yes!

The financial crisis of Italy – 10 year Spread (bund 10y – related to government bond yield) comes to life in the form of this wooden magazine holder which involves the elements of news and now graph.

This is not just a magazine rack it’s a statement, makes you think.

A truly historical piece!

It is handmade by Zana Lab and designed by Antonio Maria Privitera @ Studio Inesistente.

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Will You Wait 30 Years For A Coffee Table

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30 year old coffee table

’30 years coffee table’

Designer: Ernesto Garcia

How much time you take to make a coffee table?

If your answer is  – a week or a month – it is wrong.

How old is your coffee table?

 And if you say something like – I bought it a year ago. Then again you are wrong.

Wait and think.

Think about time taken in a human process and time taken by a natural process!

Look at the tree rings used in this coffee table, count them and then answer.

You are right this coffee table is 30 years old! The tree was 30 years old!

The designer Ernesto Garcia raises these questions and wants to establish your lost connection to the nature via this ’30 years coffee table’.

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Nzela Table By Kayiwa

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Designer: Lincoln Kayiwa

Nzela is a sturdy modular table set made of birch plywood. It takes only 3 minutes to set up this no-tool setup table. You may seamlessly conjoin – in whichever direction – as many tables. This knockdown piece can be easily dismantled too. Use it for dining, as conference table, for a ping-pong match or just as a statement piece.

The designer Lincoln  Kayiwa is not new to DesignFlute but check all about him here.

Nzela table is inspired by the De Stijl movement and is homage to designer’s grandmother.

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Dance With Designs

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40 designs inspired by dance:

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Bharatnatyam dancer (wooden chair)

Designer:  Sabiha Mujtaba @ Chrysalis

Today is international dance day and I just thought how this art form has inspired our designers and artists. Let us celebrate dance through dance inspired designs.

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