The Calligaris Orbital extending table designed by world famous design studio Pininfarina combines avant-garde design with cutting edge technology.

Pininfarina  is mostly known for designing iconic luxury cars for iconic car manufacturers such as Ferrari, Maserati and Rolls-Royce. This time the prolific Italian design studio showcases its exceptional sense of style by designing a unique extending table for Calligaris, a leader in the home design market. The Calligaris technical team invented the ingenious opening mechanism that allows the Orbital to open effortlessly with a fluid circular motion. Thanks to its fluid lines and the premium materials employed, the Orbital extending table is a striking presence in the domestic environment with unique styling, radical technology and unmistakable elegance.

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The Blob Desk Organizer by British brand Established & Sons is a stylish multifunctional desk accessory made entirely out of glass.

Its soft organic design is a celebration of the many qualities of glass. The shape was inspired by by the bulbous globules of waste material that are a by-product of the glass blowing process. The Blob is a heavy, round, and looks like seemingly molten mass of glossy material. While its shape looks random at first, I there are precise dents pressed into its surface that allow the blob to function as a holder for pens, pencils, erasers and a ruler. Finally the weight and mass of this exquisite desk organizer makes a natural paperweight. It comes in clear, grey, black or yellow color.

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The Sommelier Wine Glasses by designer Maxim Velcovsky combine the subtle and elegant grace of a tall wine glass with the relaxed and rebellious style of a plastic beer cup.

Somewhere between high school, college and career our drinking habits change and along the way the glasses we use reflect this adjustment. Plastic beer cups are being replaced by shot glasses, whiskey glasses and tall wine glasses. The Somelier Wine Glasses were designed by Maxim Velcovsky for Czech design studio Qubus and combine all those different phases of your lives in a stylish and inspired way. Resting on top of a delicate long stem is a cup that resembles a cheap plastic beer cup.

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The stunningly minimal looking Gost Lamp by Alessandro Marelli is a directional table lamp made of glass. This exceptional project aims to highlight the symbolic and ethereal quality of light through the transparency of glass.

The subject is the light not the lamp. He minimized the visual impact, while using a noble material such as glass to create an object between the emotional and the rational. The base of the Gost Lamp looks like a laboratory flask, while the linked tubular sections remind us of laboratory tubes. It is like scientific a experiment that aimed at producing the perfect desktop glow. The light source is a spot lamp with four LEDs. The LEDs conserve power and also complete the impeccable “laboratory style”.

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Inspired by the traditional Japanese art of paper folding the Innermost Origami table is a uniquely stylish proposition, elegant yet subtle.

Designed by Anthony Dickens for Innermost, the stylish Origami table relies upon interlocking angular legs that resemble folded paper. Dickens came up with a design of identical flat-pressed steel legs that slot together to assemble the tripod base. One beautiful detail are the uv-bonded metals pads, were the glass table rests. They come in pink, silver or orange color and they are visible beneath the glass, making a nice contradiction to the black or white legs. With its minimal form and its sturdy practical design this contemporary table is bound to be a design classic.

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The AZHAR lamp, designed by Sandro Santantonio Design for Italian brand Ca’ Belli Luce is light and elegant, just like a precious flower.

Nature has always been the starting point to draw on for many artists, be they poets painters, sculptors, photographers, architects or designers, the inspiration that sets them going on to create, to find a symbol in daily life: the sheer force of beauty in the universe. The research work for the collection AZHAR arises from this desire to capture the elegance, the freshness, the sinuosity of flowers, as exquisite works of Mother Nature, and transform them into suspension lamps, wall lamps, ceiling lamps and floor lamps.

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To celebrate the provenance of truly extraordinary wine and in the spirit of Penfolds innovation and experimentation, Australia’s fine wine maker Penfolds released the limited edition “Ampoule Project”, an exclusive wine that retails for AUD$168,000.

The Avant-garde “ampoule” bottle contains 2004 Kalimna Block 42 Cabernet Sauvignon. Block 42 Kalimna is made from Australia’s oldest vines, the 130-year-old vines at the edge of the Penfolds Kalimna property in the Moppa area of the Barossa Valley, about 60km north of Adelaide. This 10-acre block produces tiny quantities of highly sought after vines. The vessel that contains this special wine is a masterpiece itself…

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The Tupolev Table by Italian brand Colico Design combines modern with retro aesthetics and its peculiar design evokes memories of flight and travelling.

Designed by W. Colico and proposed in both coffee table and dining table versions the Tupolev Table has a very peculiar base made of four wooden props, whose shape resembles aircraft propellers. The wooden props are arranged in an interlocking manner, which retains the structure stabilized, while the crystal top highlights its sculptural essence. Despite the fact that the design is fresh and modern, the retro propellers add that nostalgic element, which gives the object a timeless, classic dimension.

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