Plastic doesn’t always get the respect it deserves. Barbie Dolls, plastinated cadavers, and disposable water bottles have minimized the material’s worth.

Australian designer Simone LeAmon has won the 2009 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award for the Lepidoptera Chair. The award focuses on contemporary design in the Australian state of Victoria, and is organized by the National Gallery of Victoria. This year, the award was dedicated to contemporary seat furniture design.

DesignShell is almost one year old already….

It should be no surprise that everyone who used to make puzzles as a child would immediately like  the Puzzle Collection of art furniture produced by Patou Design.

Ryan Horsman and Jason Dembski, both students at the Taubman College of Architecture at the University of Michigan, have designed the Chopstick/Steamer Stool.