Retro clock maker furni has announced the winner of their Show Us Your Skills contest – wherein designers were invited to hack their clock. The winning entry, Emily by Greg Wolos, is a wall clock with a twist, it looks like a tabletop set but it attaches to the wall and the display shows the time so that you can read it when your head is on a pillow. Another ergo feature, you grab the unit for snooze, the buttons are on the back edge of the unit. Wolos went all out to win, he even mocked up photos so that it would fit right into the furni catalog. furni is now planning to put Emily into production for their upcoming collection and share the profits with the winner. Check out the “making of” Flickr set. More designs after the jump.

We like the festive look of pinecones, but gave up collecting the natural kind a long time ago. As kiddies, we used to load the Suburban with sap-coated beauties from Tahoe (what a mess). Years later, we graduated to the store-bought kind (call it a twisted family tradition). We’ve since developed better taste and love [...]

Some times it’s the little things that are hard to find. A prime example is a coat hook. Seems like it should be easy to find an inexpensive nice looking coat hook right? Well not as easy as it sounds. David M from Seattle looked all over until he found this [...]

Crisp, clean and colorful: That’s how we like our stationery. We like our handwriting neat too, but that’s a different matter entirely. Darling Koi flat notes by Jack and Lulu can be personalized with your name or initials, as shown here. The set of 25 comes with matching envelopes. What are you waiting for? Get [...]

Another treat from Teroforma. As you prepare for your holiday feast, feast your eyes on this loom-woven table runner (the plain-stitch pattern is designed by Anna Hellman) and four large napkins. The natural linen is thermo-regulating, hypo-allergenic, and friendly to the environment. If you’re a throw-away napkin person, consider the fact that, in some parts [...]

When you’re in front of a glaring computer screen as much as our correspondents are, you come to appreciate all things printed. With the holiday season here, we’ll be sending out cards in mass quantities (we’re currently resting up our wrists, if you must know). If you’ll be doing the same this month, be sure [...]

Check out his new cool and contemporary Christmas Calendar, made of 25 Individual boxes of red cardboard. Diameter 28cm, height 136cm. Designed in Germany by Christian von Ahn.

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Nordic Light is a modern, still traditional shaped, turnable candlestick in wood with seven or four “arms”. Available in three colors. Perfect as Christmas or Thanksgiving decoration for your window or table. Design Jonas Grundell Design House Stockholm.

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Orrefors art glass is divided in two groups: Unique, of which only one copy is made, and Limited, which is made in limited editions. All art glass is signed with the size of the edition, and editions of 60 or less copies are personally signed by the designer.
Orrefors produces everything from functional art glass series [...]

The HELENA tea service is crafted in stainless steel and porcelain and consists of a tea pot with a volume of 1.3L. The tea pot also comes with a porcelain lid and a porcelain coaster for easy serving and protecting the surface on which it sits. The HELENA tea tin has a lid in white [...]