Last night in Los Angeles, Interior Illusions threw a holiday party that doubled as an introduction to the collaboration between them and home wear designer Bandhini. Bandhini is a sustainable business, based in Australia. All the items are hand crafted with an eye towards the knowledge that all the materials will return to the Earth at some point. They have been partnered with the same group of talented crafts people in India for close to two decades. Each item has it’s own unique signature and you can really see the labor that goes into making each one of these one of a kind pieces.

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Intricate and astounding, this chair took six months to make. As stated by Kyouei Design:

This chair was handmade by Kouichi Okamoto himself, spent over 6 months for one chair. It was created by bending aluminium wire and crossing it one by one. No bolts or welding is used at all. The tools used for this design are only a jig and a pair of pliers.

That is some commitment. I wonder how comfortable it is. Detailed photos after the jump.

Do you sit at your desk and wish you were on your bike instead? Kickstand Furniture is here to help. They have designed a desk to allow you to ride all day at work without changing careers to become a messenger. More images after the fold.

Nothing like gorgeous design that serves a utilitarian purpose. Kristýna Pojerová of the Czech republic came up with, and executed the idea for a hanging lamp that doubles as a greenhouse,  in an attempt to create a more aesthetic method for growing herb gardens indoors. More looks after the jump.

Last week, West was on hand at Environment in Los Angeles to celebrate the launch of their Freedom Suite. We were on hand for the kickoff event to check out the work created for the event. Take a look, after the jump.

Photography: Matt Schow for Curated

The backyard BBQ just got a little more streamlined. The ExTempore barbeque by Extremis is a tableside grill equipped with a stainless steel lid and side rails on which to hang your grilling tools. The table accessory allows for the grill master to prepare a meal while interacting with his guests, which correlates with the Extremis, “tools for togetherness.”

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Austrian designer Robert Stadler presents “Shading,” a series of new work at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London for the London Design Festival. From the artist:

The Royèroid series reflects reverence to Jean Royère’s classic furniture design “Ours Polaire”. In his “Ours Polaire” series Royère sought to unify the various elements of a seat in order to form an abstract whole. This method has produced furniture with a sculptural quality. In creating the Royèroid series, Stadler continues on Royere’s ‘quest for abstraction’ up to a point in which the object turns monolithical, appearing as if it was a three-dimensional computer mesh, whilst maintaining an entirely handmade creation.

Shading is on show at 3 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4HE until 12 November.

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Designer Tomas Ekström, inspired by sheep, goat, and lamb, designed the Dolly Chair after the animals. Here’s the rather strange story from the designer himself:

Dolly, a not so regular chair, was born on July 5th, 2009, at the home of Kallbrand in Stockholm, Sweden. Her birth, not revealed to the public until August 30th, 2011, sparked controversy instantly, because Dolly was the world’s first chair to be cloned from an adult cell of a Sheep. Considered one of the most significant design breakthroughs ever, Dolly’s birth and subsequent survival proved that sheep cells can reprogram themselves into a new being. The man that created her, Tomas Ekström, hoped to create a chair whose design was genetically young forever, rather than prematurely out of style. However, when Dolly was reported to have been euthanized on February 14th, 2113, nearly 104 years after her birth, concern was raised that her classic design was caused because her cells were in fact timeless; she also had premature arthritis. Chairs can normally live to 11 or 12 years of age, and a classic design is not common in younger chairs. There was some speculation as to whether she caught her beautiful shape from the other furniture from Kallbrand that she was housed with, but that claim has been neither confirmed nor denied.

He goes on to personify each chair and table with characteristics like shyness, and rebelliousness.

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Showing at this years London Design Festival, Phillip Aduatz’s Melting Chair looks like a shape-shifting, melting mirror. The chair, made of glass fiber reinforced polymer, is coated in silver and scratch resistent lacquer.

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Melbourne-based furniture house Jardan recently debuted the Bandy range of stools, which are shown also as a base for small tables. The Bandy collection was inspired by the abstract silhouette of hand-crafted ceramics, with clean polished lines and meticulous timber craftsmanship.

The Bandy stools are available in either solid American oak or feature-grade Australian hardwood, and tables are available with a Corian or stained plywood top.