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MadeByGirl Coffee Tables

Filed under: Decor

Jennifer Ramos is the designer behind MadeByGirl Coffee Tables. The pieces start with old, high-quality Chippendale-style coffee tables and are dressed up with leather, bold prints and other decorative touches. The result is a piece that combines both old and new, traditional and, because of the use of leather, a little bit of a "western" look. The pictured table is the Red Hot, which is a mahogany table topped with smooth, distressed red leather, zebra-print hide and a variety of studs. Price: $1,400.

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Chair Wear

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Decor

I will come right out and say that I do not agree with Issey Miyake's decision to make dual-purpose furniture and clothing, but given that he is making it using A-POC, cloth made in a revolutionary new process that is entirely done by machine, it could conceivably be the wave of the future. Make that the ripple of the future, because his newest creation is based on the design of a chair called "Ripple" that he made last year with designer Ron Arad. The new product, known as Gemini, is "a streamlined, body-cushioning seat pillow made of A-POC fabric, which morphs into an elegant body-hugging jacket." Elegant is not the word that I would use, but there is no doubt that this is a fairly innovative use for seat cushioning, an object that's only significant accomplishment (aside from actually cushioning the seat) to date has been doubling as a flotation device on airplanes. The Gemini chair cushion debuted in Milan and will be available retail in Miyake shops later this year for $1,360.