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Furniture brand Blu Dot’s Method lounge chair, which has a playful silhouette with mismatched upholstery, is among 13 new products featured on Dezeen Showroom this week.

Method lounge chair by Blu Dot

US brand Blu Dot conceived the Method lounge chair as a “stellar medley of disparate elements” by imagining the main components of the chair as separate modules that are tied together by a skeletal frame.

The lounge chair is composed of an architectural powder-coated steel frame with thin armrests, a reclining backrest and a slim seat that comes in an array of upholstery options including leather and velvet.

Method was featured on Dezeen Showroom this week alongside products including a table lamp informed by the mountainous terrains of South Africa and a range of fabrics coloured using natural dyes from plants and minerals.

Read on to see the rest of this week’s new products:

Maximus easy chair by Johan Ansander for Blå Station

Maximus is an easy chair designed by recent graduate Johan Ansander, who was approached by Blå Station after the brand saw his design exhibited at his master’s graduation show in Stockholm.

The chair, which is characterised by its bulbous form, is carved entirely from solid ash wood using CNC routers and is available in both clear or coloured lacquer finishes.

Find out more about Maximus ›

Crown AW21 Trends collection by Crown Paints

UK paint company Crown Paints has released its AW21 Trends collection, with finishes that centre around three themes: Integrity, Crystal and Innovation.

Each of the colour palettes have a low-VOC Breatheasy formula, which is 99.9 per cent solvent-free, meaning harmful fumes won’t be emitted while the paint is drying.

Find out more about Crown AW21 Trends ›

Occo lounge chair by Jehs + Laub for Wilkhahn

Occo is a lounge chair intended for both residential and office spaces, created by design duo Jehs + Laub for German brand Wilkhahn.

The chair is composed of an upholstered shell seat that is angled at eight degrees onto the base with a tilted cutout backrest, which comes in two heights.

Find out more about Occo ›

Escape Kelim rug by Space Copenhagen for Massimo Copenhagen

Escape Kelim is a contemporary take on traditional kelim rugs, created by design studio Space Copenhagen for Danish manufacturer Massimo Copenhagen.

The rug, which is made from 100 per cent undyed natural wool, is handmade using an ancient flat-weaving technique that sees the weft and warp threads interweave to create a flat finish.

Find out more about Escape Kelim ›

Womb Lamp series by Jan Ernst via Galerie Revel

Womb Lamp is a series of table lamps informed by South African landscapes, created by designer Jan Ernst and sold via Galerie Revel.

The design of the lamps, which are characterised by their sculptural forms and come in white stoneware and red terracotta, was informed by the rock formations found in the mountainous terrains located near Cape Town.

Find out more about Womb Lomp ›

Sumi fabric collection by Camira

Sumi is a family of worsted woollen fabric finishes created by UK textile manufacturer Camira, which has expanded the range with 21 colour finishes.

The new colour palette includes an array of vibrant hues including pastels and dark tones, in addition to the original six neutral shades, which are all made using natural dyes from plants and minerals.

Find out more about Sumi ›

UF Select textiles by Ultrafabrics

UF Select is a range of upholstery fabrics created by US brand Ultrafabrics in collaboration with a local manufacturing team in Mexico.

The collection, which pays homage to traditional Mexican handicrafts, comprises two different styles of the synthetic fabric, which come in various colourways including neutral shades and warm reddish hues.

Find out more about UF Select ›

Dudet chair by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina

Dudet is a dining chair informed by playful 1970s aesthetics created by Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola for Italian furniture brand Cassina.

The chair is composed of a padded seat with two legs that form both the backrest and armrests. Each component of the chair can be recycled and reused to minimise waste.

Find out more about Dudet ›

Sengu table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina

Also designed by Urquiola for Cassina is the Sengu table, which takes cues from the mix of materials typically found in Japanese shrines.

The table is distinguished by the mismatch of oblong and cylindrical wooden legs and marble columns that support the tabletop, which is available in a round or oval shape.

Find out more about Sengu ›

Volage EX-S Night bed by Philippe Starck for Cassina

Volage EX-S Night is a bed with a large quilted headboard and integrated bedside tables, created by French industrial designer Philippe Starck for Cassina.

The highly-customisable bed is available with a number of interchangeable features, including nightlights, a sofa or armchair, a chest of drawers and bedside tables.

Find out more about Volage EX-S Night ›

Paravent Ambassade screen by Charlotte Perriand for Cassina

Paravent Ambassade is a partition screen originally conceived by Charlotte Perriand for the residence of the Japanese ambassador to France in Faubourg Saint-Honoré.

The screen, which has now been put into production by Cassina, is composed of 313 wooden blocks that are linked via metal rods, which enables it to be easily adjusted to suit various interior spaces.

Find out more about Paravent Ambassade ›

Edison table by Vico Magistretti for Cassina

Cassina has reissued the Edison table, originally created by Italian industrial designer and architect Vico Magistretti in 1985.

The table is composed of four tubular interlocking steel pipes, which come in matt black or orange, that sit under a clear glass tabletop that comes in a rectangular, square or round shape.

Find out more about Edison ›

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Dezeen promotion: an anti-snoring pillow and a healthcare bracelet that helps people regulate their bodies are among the winning Health and Fitness designs at this year’s iF Design Award.

The iF Design Award evaluates designs across product design, communication, service design, packaging, architecture, interior design and user experience.

This year’s winners in the Health and Fitness category, include design solutions that aim to improve health and wellbeing.

Below are the award-winning projects. Explore all of the winning designs on the iF Design Award’s website.

GlucoStick 

GlucoStick is a reusable glucose monitor designed to transform how people with diabetes manage and track their glucose levels.

Standard glucose monitors require 14 days of continuous blood and sugar monitoring and are often expensive.

GlucoStick reuses a sterilisable lancing stick where users twist on new replacement lancets before each use. This reduces waste and the system’s cost.

Project: GlucoStick
Manufacturer: Compal Electronics
Designer: Compal Electronics
Category: Medicine / Health

Canyon Speedmax

According to the iF Design Award, the enthusiasm for cycling has increased during the pandemic.

Canyon Speedmax is a triathlon bike that includes storage spaces and has optimised aerodynamics, to give triathlete athletes competitive advantages.

Project: Canyon Speedmax
Manufacturer: Canyon Bicycles
Designer: ARTEFAKT design
Category: Sports / Outdoor / Bicycles

Lumitester Smart

The Lumitester Smart is a hygiene monitoring system that can be used to assess whether an object is contaminated.

It uses long-term tracking technology that can be shared via a smartphone app, enabling users to manage their hygiene, “at a time when cleanliness has never been more important”.

Project: Lumitester Smart
Manufacturer: Kikkoman Biochemifa company
Designer: OPTEX Co
Category: Medicine / Health

Motion Pillow

Motion Pillow is an anti-snoring pillow designed to improve the user’s quality of sleep.

It is ergonomically designed with airbags within the pillow that change the position of a user’s head without disturbing their sleep.

It has an ergonomic C-curve design to support the user’s cervical spine.

Project: Motion Pillow
Manufacturer: 10minds Co
Designer: 10minds Co
Category: Medicine and health

DnaBand

DnaNudge’s DnaBand is a product that enables users to make food choices that are personalised to their own DNA profile.

Users scan food packaging’s barcodes, and the technology tells them whether the product is recommended based on their DNA.

Project: DnaBand
Manufacturer: DnaNudge
Designer: DnaNudge
Category: Medicine / Health

OMRON Compressor Nebulizer

OMRON Compressor Nebulizer is a therapeutic medical machine that can be used as a treatment for asthma.

The bottle is designed for both children and adults, and the rounded mask is meant to be worn while sleeping.

Project: OMRON Compressor Nebulizer
Manufacturer: OMRON Healthcare Co
Designer: OMRON Healthcare Co
Category: Medicine / Health

JOINFIT Fast Adjustable Dumbbell

JOINFIT Fast Adjustable Dumbbell is a dumbbell that users can adjust the weight of to vary their training intensity.

The product aims to halt the inefficient disassembly process of standard adjustable dumbbells and result in an efficient fitness regime.

Project: JOINFIT Fast Adjustable Dumbbell
Manufacturer: Suzhou SIP Joinfit Sports&Leisure Products Co
Designer: Suzhou SIP Joinfit Sports&Leisure Products Co
Category: Sports / Outdoor / Bicycles

Embr Wave 2

Embr Wave 2 is a healthcare bracelet that was designed to help people thermally regulate their bodies.

When worn, Wave 2 delivers a cool sensation on the wrists and is designed to relieve the symptoms of menopause, migraines, and insomnia that often cause the body to overheat.

The system allows users to manage their comfort via personalised control.

Project: Embr Wave 2
Manufacturer: Embr Labs
Designer: Loft Design
Category: Medicine / Health

Neck Cooler

Neck Cooler is a device that can be worn around the necks to reduce the risk of heatstroke in hot environments.

In summer, it cools the blood flowing through the neck to lower the core body temperature, minimising the decline in brain function and maintaining a user’s concentration.

In winter, it warms the neck and improves blood flow to eliminate body chilling.

Project: Neck Cooler
Manufacturer: Fujitsu
Designer: Fujitsu
Category: Medicine / Health

LUISA

LUISA is a ventilator designed to be used at home. It has a compact, mobile, and lightweight design, which has a battery run time of up to 18 hours.

It works in either a vertical or horizontal position and can be attached to a bed or a wheelchair. The design is intended to give users security and “expands the user’s radius of action supported also by easy operation via the ten-inch display”.

Project: LUISA
Manufacturer: Löwenstein Medical Group
Designer: Löwenstein Medical Group
Category: Medicine / Health

Multifunctional home fitness equipment

This multifunctional home fitness equipment is designed to meet the fitness needs of diverse groups of people and includes barbells, kettlebells, dumbbells.

The equipment range is designed to be stylish and can be stored within a small space at home.

Project: Multifunctional home fitness equipment
Manufacturer: Hangzhou Feier Industrial Design Co
Designer: Hangzhou Feier Industrial Design Co
Category: Health / Medicine

Mobifitness Smart Elliptical Trainer

Mobifitness Smart Elliptical Trainer is a range of professional fitness equipment designed to blend into the home.

The equipment has 24 adjustable levels of resistance that can be controlled by a smartphone app.

Project: Mobifitness Smart Elliptical Trainer
Manufacturer: Mobifitness
Designer: Mobifitness
Category: Sports / Outdoor / Bicycles

Novo GO

Novo GO is a wearable safety device designed to connect older adults with a service centre when needed. The device can make calls via a mobile network, ensure user safety and allow them freedom of movement.

The design is created for user comfort and is equipped with a simple interface.

Project: Novo GO
Manufacturer: Legrand
Designer: Bticino
Category: Health / Medicine

Modular highly-integrated home fitness system

G-wall is a modular home fitness system with weight lifting devices, an anaerobic exercise module and a weight module with dumbbells, barbells and dumbbells.

The equipment and cabinets come in a range of materials and colours.

Project: Modular highly-integrated home fitness system
Manufacturer: Piano Customized Furniture Co
Designer: Piano Customized Furniture Co
Category: Sports / Outdoor / Bicycles

Moon kettlebell

The Moon Kettlebell is made for home exercise.

The non-slip design has a compact volume and is designed to have an architectural quality, ensuring it doesn’t appear like traditional gym equipment.

Project: Moon kettlebell
Manufacturer: Hangzhou Feier Industrial Design Co
Designer: Hangzhou Feier Industrial Design Co
Category: Sports / Outdoor / Bicycles

Smart Blood Pressure Monitor

The Smart Blood Pressure Monitor is designed to solve the inaccurate results of traditional blood pressure monitors and provide a new user experience.

The design’s “hand pillow” is added for comfort and positions the user’s hand to ensure an accurate measurement. Its forest green colour intends to relieve user tension.

The project aims to solve the problem of inaccurate results caused by measurement posture or psychological factors.

Project: Smart Blood Pressure Monitor
Manufacturer: Shenzhen Apeman Innovations Technology Co
Designer: Shenzhen La Chang Laboratory
Category: Medicine / Health

MOBI TM 01

MOBI TM 01 is a folding treadmill with a minimalist design that ensures users forget about the machine and focus on their exercise.

Its surface is designed to absorb impact and reduce injuries. It is available in five back designs and comes with a “mobifitness app”, which allows users to plan their exercise sessions.

Project: MOBI TM 01
Manufacturer: mobifitness
Designer: aolab
Category: Sports / Outdoor / Bicycles

Island

Island is an all-in-one preventative health device that can alert an issue with a patient before mishaps.

It is designed to detect and track vitals, which it sends to the cloud for AI analysis.

The design monitors and records heart rate, body temperature, blood pressure, respiratory rate, cholesterol, glucose, and uric acid.

Project: Island
Manufacturer: Compal Electronics
Designer: Compal Electronics
Category: Medicine / Health

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After an incredibly successful run on Kickstarter, the Airhead Mask is now readily available in the UK as well as across the world.

It’s honestly been a rather interesting journey for face masks in the past 2 years, with their popularity completely spiking because of the global pandemic… and although there are still parts of the world where wearing face masks in public is an absolute necessity, it seems like humanity has reckoned with the fact that masks will probably play some continued role in our near and distant future – if not to help flatten the curve on pandemics and diseases, then to help combat deteriorating air quality in the form of pollution, dust, smog, wildfires, chemical leaks, or just allergens in the air. The Airhead Mask was designed to play a pivotal role in that future. It comes with a slim, lightweight design that looks just as compact as a regular face mask, but under its hood lies a nanofiber filter that provides clean, 99% pure air directly to your nose and mouth.

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The mask’s overall design is focused towards the people who’d like to be able to breathe clean air even with an active lifestyle. Designed by a group of passionate cyclists who wanted to stay healthy, Airhead was made to be a lightweight, ergonomic mask that provided clean, purified air directly to your nose and mouth while you worked out or just went about your day.

The mask features multiple layers of filters that give you clean, pure, microparticle, and microorganism-free air that filters in from the front, and exits the mask from the two valves at the back, ensuring warm air is quickly removed from your face. The Airhead Mask’s TPE seal creates an airtight seal around your nose and mouth, preventing polluted air from leaking in through the sides and warm air from fogging up your glasses.

The Airhead Mask uses a nanofiber filter that can trap particles as small as PM0.3 which is significantly smaller than typical dust, soot, smoke, and respiratory droplets from sneezing. This obviously also includes larger PM2.5 and PM10 molecules, commonly present in urban pollution, making the Airhead Mask perfect for wearing in cities and urban dwellings. The filters are even equipped with an activated carbon lining that helps filter out nitrogen oxide (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SOx), ozone, and VOCs (odor compounds).

The Airhead Mask sits snugly against your face thanks to two adjustable straps that wrap around your head (so they aren’t tugging at your ears). Each mask also features a removable hood that lets you access the filters underneath for easy replacement. You can even pop the hood off while wearing the mask for a quick breather or to grab a bite or take a sip of water… and Airhead even ships hoods, also known as AirSkins, in different colors that allow you to customize your mask to suit your outfit for the day! The Airhead Mask is available at a discounted price exclusively to YD readers. It ships in the UK for free, and you even get free international shipping on orders above $150.

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Guitars are like pizzas. They come in different shapes and styles, and you’re never satisfied with just one. Just within the domain of electric guitars, you’ve got the Stratocaster, the Telecaster, the Les Paul, the Jazzmaster, and a hundred others, designed and crafted with a specific persona – defined by their body design and their sound. The tragedy of electric guitars has always been that you need to buy different guitars for those different sounds… although the folks at Reddick Guitars may have a solution – Modularity.

A lot of times the word Modular gets used as a catchword or a gimmick (most notably in Architecture and Tech), but what the Reddick Voyager does is low-key genius. Electric guitars work when the vibrating metal strings create fluctuations in the magnetic fields of the pickups on the guitars. Different electric guitars come with different pickups placed at various different locations to create their signature sound (a Stratocaster uses 3 single-coil pickups while the Les Paul uses 2 humbucker pickups)… so Reddick decided to just create a guitar with modular pickup blocks that you could swap in or swap out. The video above showcases the Reddick Voyager in action, as the demonstrater hot-swaps modules in the middle of playing to show you how different they sound.

Swapping the pickup modules is just about as easy as swapping cassettes in a cassette player (if you’re old enough to remember those), making it convenient to switch modules mid-concert. The Voyager comes with 6 interchangeable modules, modeling the Telecaster, the Les Paul, the SSS Stratocaster, among other popular layouts. The modules clip right into the central cavity in the Voyager, and can be removed by gripping them using the hole at the back. The base of the guitar features a detachable module too, with interchangeable controls that allow you to get the best of your jamming experience. Sadly though, while you can swap out modules on the Voyager to dramatically change its sound, you can’t do much to alter its body. The Voyager’s design models itself on the Fender Stratocaster (the most popular electric guitar model out there and a hot favorite of Hendrix) and comes with a wooden finish, allowing it to look drastically different from the enamel-coated colorful electric guitars you usually see – a design move which makes sense, given that the Voyager is so unique in its function.

What’s so ground-breaking about the Voyager is its ability to physically be able to model different guitars, without you needing to actually own different guitars. This versatility, aside from having an economical benefit (given that electric guitars can cost anywhere between $300 and $1500), is incredibly convenient for musicians too, allowing them to experiment with new sounds on the fly, or potentially even easily swap out modules mid-concert without worrying about running backstage to get a new guitar (or worse, going through tuning or sound-check all over again!)

The Voyager Modular Electric Guitar comes handmade in either walnut, ash, or cherry wood. The guitar is available as a bundle, including two pickup modules of your choice, and one standard control module, for $1,499… which makes sense considering you’re getting multiple guitars for the price of one. You can buy additional pickup modules for $199 each, allowing you to expand your sound library to include different guitar styles and sounds, without having to empty your wallet.

Designer: Reddick Guitars

Getting its name from the Egyptian word for beauty, the Nefer perfume bottle embodies sheer elegance on the inside and out. The bottle’s design is derived from the curved lines of the female figure (possibly as an ode to the ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti), and comes with an organic skeletal design that could only be fabricated using 3D printing. In fact, Nefer’s design reminds me of Ross Lovegrove’s 3D printed line of fragrances, created in collaboration with Formula 1.

The bottle’s intricate design comes with a sculptural exterior and an interior that contains the liquid fragrance. Given that 3D printing isn’t a conventional form of mass manufacturing (and also removes various design constraints), it made sense for the Nefer to showcase a luxurious bottle design that used 3D printing in a bid to look eye-catching but also exclusively limited.

As large as the bottle may look visually, it holds a mere 90ml (3 fl.oz.) of liquid in its inner chamber. While under most circumstances I’d call that wasteful, the more fitting characteristic term here would be opulence.

The Nefer perfume bottle comes in a decorative box that uses a combination of black and rose-gold to create an eye-catching visual contrast. Open the lid and it reveals the highly alluring bottle on the inside, set within a specially formed inner chamber with the bottle’s negative form, allowing the bottle to snugly fit inside it. Ultimately the bottle doesn’t come with any branding of its own, although designer Amr Ibrahim Mousa believes that the bottle’s iconic design is enough to serve as its visual branding.

The Nefer perfume bottle is a Silver Winner of the A’ Design Award for the year 2021.