German designer Manuel Welsky has created the SCRW stool.

Inspiration for this two-piece furniture was an object from everyday life: The bottle corks. Simple and aesthetically it rotates out of the bottle, and simple and aesthetically should be the principle of “SCREW”.

Obvisiously, “Screw” is based on the principle of screwing. The new interpretation of the screw makes the height adjustment self-explanatory and easy. By the apparent leadership of the screw thread, the refined combination comes into focus. Made from a high-quality steel pipe, the frame is an exciting contrast to the cork material from which the body is made. The massive Korkzylinder is light in this combination and because of its unique features provides a comfortable seating experience.

Spanish designers Miguel Angel García Belmonte of POTT (The Pottery Project), have designed the ceramic SpongeUP lamps.

There is a new light. No dazzles, No marks. Not even corpuscles or lumens. It is a warm and porous light, coming from the hand made pottery piece skin.

Sponge consists on a clay sphere where the light slips through, thus becomes more than a lamp, as an unusual clay piece with an unique design that achieves a very particular look along its uneven surface.

EOOS have designed the BAO chair for german furniture manufacturer Walter Knoll.

Spacious and round. It’s the curves that make Bao appealing on first sight. A sumptuous sculpture with an artistic back. In the style of a leather ball, the leather patchwork forms the rear. Flowing lines – sweeping and elegant. The swivelling armchair combines the materials whilst keeping them distinct: leather on the back, fabric in the seat. Everything has its place. Bao – as familiar as a welcoming embrace.

Perfectly on trend for 2012, these modern upholstered armchairs by Miami-based furniture company KMP are transforming a simple seat into a veritable objet d’art with their vibrant colors and exotic patterns.

The One of a Kind collection takes popular modern armchair silhouettes – like the Abracci, Apollo, Ecko, Evita, Grand, Remi and Malia chairs – and turns them on their heads with splashy custom upholstery. The quality and attention to detail is impeccable – and no two chairs are alike, making them a real art piece. While the One of a Kind upholstered armchair collection look with draw you in, it’s their comfort that will keep you coming back for more. Prices are available on request.

The metallic trend is alive and well with this flashy furniture by Koket. Not for the bland of taste, the Intuition table and the Guilt mirror deliver a double dose of drama to your home.

Whet your appetite for the bold and the beautiful with this stunning dining table design. The base boasts a ribbon wound around, supporting the circular glass top, finished in dramatic black on the outside and glitzy gold peeking through from the interior.

Complement the look with this dramatic sunburst mirror, which simply screams “glamour!” with its edgy lines and glamorous gold-toned hammered finish framing a convex mirror. Talk about a “guilty” pleasure!

Peruvian artist, Grimanesa Amorós, has unveiled Uros, a temporary light-based installation at theTribeca Issey Miyake store in New York. Amorós will present Uros there on December 15th.

Tribeca ISSEY MIYAKE is proud to present Uros, a lighting sculpture installation from a recent series of works by Peruvian artist Grimanesa Amorós. Uros will be unveiled on Thursday, December 15 and running through January 14th, 2012.

When Amorós was a child living on the coast of Peru, she always loved the beauty of the ocean; everything from the tides to the colors, to the bubbles and the foam.

Off the coast of Puno, Peru are the Uros Islands. They are floating islets made of totora reeds grown in Lake Titicaca. The pre-Incan Uros, who live on these forty-two self-fashioned floating islands, build everything out of this material -from houses to boats to watch towers. From these two ideas, Amorós created Uros to reflect the natural elegance of sea foam and totora reeds. The sculpture will seemingly arise from the ground as if it were one with the earth.

Romantic, refined, luxurious – this elegant brass armoire by Koket is a real showpiece. The Madmoiselle armoire, part of Koket’s debut Guilty Pleasures collection, is sure to seduce you at first glance with its jewel-toned pink-silk doors overlaid with the shimmer of polished brass in an elaborate butterfly design.

As beautiful on the inside as out, behind its adorned doors there’s plenty of storage space with two adjustable shelves and eight drawers. Described as “jewelry for the home,” you can see that this handcrafted armoire was indeed a labor of love.

South Korea-based Doolight have introduced the Drop Light.

The ‘Drop Light’ is a brand new concept which brings us total freedom to create the interior mood via our lighting. The ‘Drop Light’ is cordless, heatless and limitless. It consists of rechargeable lights, or ‘drops’, which can be utilized as individual lamps; therefore, you can locate them anywhere in your home, adjust their intensity and create limitless moods.

It works in just the same way as ordinary lighting when the drops are on the leaf base. However, thanks to the highly efficient rechargeable battery inside the drops, the drops hanging from the leaf base charge irrespective of whether or not the light is in use, so you can separate them from the base and use them as portable lamps at any time.

The ‘Drop Light-mini’, which uses only a single ‘drop’, is an alternative for smaller and more intimate settings. This lovely little lamp can be located in doorways or on tables to enrich and enliven your home life.

The things to consider when selecting a mattress come under these categories: your price range, hard or soft, and your physical needs.

Before you start searching it is a good plan to have a rough idea of how much you are prepared to spend on a mattress. Mattresses come in a wide range of prices but you need to know how much you are willing to spend for the sake of comfort.

Once you have a budget set, you can start to consider what type of mattress you want. As a general rule you have the option of hard or soft mattresses. Some say that hard mattresses are better for you, but it is down to the individual and how comfortable they feel on the said mattress.

The density of the mattress depends on the type of mattress and how it is made. You have open or closed coil sprung mattresses these days, and the more closed they are the harder they are, therefore meaning the more open they are the softer they are. But the mattresses that are truly soft are the state of the art memory foam and latex mattresses.

These are designed to mould round your body and make you feel as if you are sleeping on a cloud. But some people it is too soft, and for others it is a medical requirement.

If you have a bad back they will always recommend a memory foam mattress. The reason is the soft nature relives any pressure on your joints or areas of pain whilst you sleep. This then gives you pain free nights and days. So if you have back or joint issues a memory foam, or latex, mattress is ideal.

Doimo produces objects for the home that they love, and i love these wool lampshade lamps aptly named Miss Wool from their Seasons 4 Collection. In this collection they curate four mini sub-collections which project home fashion for each season of the present year.

Miss Wool lamp belongs to this year’s Winter sub-collection which is all about the knitted effect.

The lampshade is covered in a tubular knitted wool accessory that can be conveniently removed and washed. The elegant little bow makes this Miss extra charming. The lamp itself is fun and cozily modern.