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Furniture that folds and hides away is always a good idea. These two companies have taken completely different directions, borrowing on the same core principle of space saving.

Folditure just launched in June.

Folditure

Designed by New Jersey-based Alexander Gendell, Folditure’s Leaf chair packs flat When folded, it comes up to less than 3/4 of an inch thick and can be hung on a standard-depth 24-inch closet.

The chair flips open with surprising ease with a simple hinge on the backrest. Made to dining chair height, the folding chair isn’t simply meant for the living or outdoor, but even around the table. The outdoor mesh fabric on the seats comes is a variety of colors and can easily be swapped out. Colors on the backrest can also be painted depending on the customer’s preferences. Though the Leaf chair has a lot going for it, the chair does have a strong futuristic industrial look that make it hard to match in anything but the most contemporary homes.

Folditure’s Leaf chairs can be hung in a regular closet.

The junior seats come in a range of bright colors.

CoolKids

When it was first introduced to the market, the Flux chair for adults received multiple awards in London, Rotterdam and New York. At this year’s Dwell on Design, CoolKids Company introduces a junior line for even more active youngsters and harried moms looking to clean up after them.

Like its adult version these polypropylene, flat-packed seat is waterproof and 100 percent recyclable. it can be used indoors as well as outdoors and weights only five pounds. It takes a few pops along pre-determined grooves to fold everything flat, plus its range of bright colors are a fun addition to any playroom.

A quick demonstration of the seat’s ease of use.

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Packaging Design Team Manager
Unilever
Birkenhead, United Kingdom

Unilever is seeking a Packaging Design Team Manager for their Personal Care Design Group to shape the future development of packaging for a truly global FMCG business. The ideal candidate is a passionate designer with big ideas, solid management experience and boundless energy to bring us a healthy balance of strategic and fresh thinking, as part of their senior design management team. Using his or her creative brain and people skills, the designer will inspire the team—allowing their ideas to shine.

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Retour sur cette création originale du studio Kmkg intitulée iTree. Ce simple tronc d’arbre est en réalité une station d’accueil pour iPhone et iPod. Un design très simple et réussi donnant une très bonne qualité de son, grâce à une réalisation maîtrisée. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.

The entrance to Punchouse 234 features a sunken playspace. The lawn is made from synthetic turf that requires no water for maintenance.

On a quiet street in Santa Monica this past week, Marco DiMaccio Punchouse Design Group unveiled his latest architectural design, PUNCHouse 234, the new home of journalist Lisa Ling and her husband Dr. Paul Song. But as much as the home is distinguished by its celebrity owners, it also holds distinction under the more rigorous LEED Platinum rating it earned. What’s more, the studio tells Core77 that it’s Santa Monica’s first zero emissions home.

To meet these standards, DiMaccio and his team applied a number of strategies, starting quite literally from the ground up. They relied on “100% waste diversion,” namely, taking apart the previous structure and either recycling it, repurposing it for the new project or donating it—in this case, to Habitat for Humanity. Rainwater is collected to supply for irrigation, while synthetic turf eliminates the need for water entirely in large swaths of the space. Other strategies, such as solar panels, aim to provide for all the electricity needs—including for the electric BMW ActiveE parked in the back—while Angelenos’ beloved air conditioning has been discarded in favor of a design that uses air flow to passively cool the home.

The Punchouse team with the new homeowners.

“To deal with contractors to get this to happen a certain way is the most challenging,” noted DiMaccio, who had to maintain tight oversight on the entire process to ensure LEED compliance. “It takes an extra level of energy to monitor [contractors],” especially those drawn to the glamour of constructing a celebrity home. “The details are always a challenge.”

And the details are everything. Although low energy consumption was the primary design consideration, the home is also gorgeous to behold, and I saw visitors casually running their hands on the different features and trying to determine the materials. DiMaccio took time to show me the tracking system for the sliding glass door, which few guests paused to notice. We knelt down as he explained the particulars of what made it effective, with sealed bearings to keep out the elements (and keep in heat) and a precision frame from Switzerland.

The backyard space is perfectly suited for cocktails and entertaining.

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