Werner Aisslinger, a designer based in Berlin, is responsible for the Hemp Chair. Lightweight, strong, easy to mold – the basis for the chair comes from the automotive industry, and the hook comes in the use of hard wearing sustainable materials. Hailed as the world’s first concept for a monobloc chair of natural fibers, the Hemp Chair was developed with the support of German chemical company BASF.

And with that, happy 420.

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Zaha Hadid’s big splash in Milan came in the form of the Z-Chair, designed for Sawaya & Moroni. Made of stainless steel, the chair is limited to just 24 pieces. It is classic Hadid too – a zigzagging form that sums up the essence of the architects practice.

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Dutch designer Aldo Bakker shared the TONUS stool at Salone del Mobile in Milan. The stool is carved from a single piece of oak by craftsman Rutger Graas. Loving the line.

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Nothing fancy here. Just a basic tubular chair. But wait… the crest rail screws off and becomes a reading light. Genius. Nothing fancy, but genius.

The Hidden Lights Chair is designed by Giha Woo. (via Yanko).

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Loving the lines of this carbon fiber chair designed by Mathias Bengtsson. Just a concept now. Fingers crossed it hits production someday. (via Industrial Design Served).

A+A Cooren Design is showing a number of novelties at Milano Design Week. Today, we’re highlighting the Yabané drawers . Inspired by a traditional Japanese graphic pattern, Yabané (arrow in Japanese) is a drawer that opens in two directions. It can easily be used in the middle of a room as a divider of space.

All A+A Cooren Design products are being shown at Nouvelle Vague exhibition, Centre culturel français, Corso Magenta 63.

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Celebrating 100 Years, Trussardi has relaunched Trussardi MY Design in collaboration with designer Michael Young. The chairs, tables, stools and more that make up the collection debuted on April 12, 2011 at the Salon del Mobile in Milan. It’s all about Italian excellence in the arts and design – but mixing traditional aesthetics with the new and inventive manufacturing potential of Asia.

Fitting given Young’s British training and new Hong Kong creative base.

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On view through May 8, 2011 Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement is the first major museum exploration of the life and work of Stickley. “The exhibition and accompanying catalogue will explore Stickley as a business leader and design proselytizer, whose body of work included furnishings, architectural and interior designs, and related imagery that became synonymous with the movement that was at its height between approximately 1880 and 1910. This exhibition will include over 100 works produced by Stickley’s designers and workshops, including furniture, metalwork, lighting, and textiles, along with drawings and related designs. Also featured in the exhibition is a re-creation of Stickley’s seminal model dining room from his 1903 Syracuse Arts & Crafts exhibition.”

Learn more at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Over the years, I’ve covered a considerable amount of furniture that creates private space in public environments. Loook Industries, a Finnish design firm, does just that with the Box Furniture series. Their boxes are soundproof, allegedly, and provide seating for groups ranging from one to a handful. The aesthetic doesn’t dissapoint, the white (0r black) shell of the box playing perfectly with brightly colored interior upholstery.

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The Miryeo comes from Korean designer Joongho Choi. His aim is to translate traditional notions of Korean elegance to seating, with a simple line given delicacy though subtle shifts in thickness and weight throughout the chair itself.

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