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Rattan cane encircles furniture in this collection by French design collective Numéro 111 (+ slideshow).

The Insulaire range by Numéro 111 incorporates rattan cane as the structural support in most of the pieces, both as bent sections and straight poles.

“We were impressed by its toughness and also by its suppleness and its capacity to assume varied shapes, more or less complex,” said the designers.

The material forms the external frame of a sofa, holding rounded upholstered cushions and supporting a back that wraps around one end and leaves the other open.

Two resin platforms fit into the cane frames of low and high side tables, and the top one of each is removable.

Small shelves and a mirror can be hung from the horizontal members of loose grid of poles that form a screen. A vertical fabric panel with a large pocket can be also be attached to the side as an acoustic shield and storage pouch.

Rattan is laid down in strips as a flat surface and lacquered pink for a section of a rug, which also has a softer tatami-influenced area.

Upholstered pillows have rigid backs and handles that can be folded back to create an angled back support.

The shade of the lamp slides up and down the wooden stand so it can be used as either a floor lamp or a table light.

Numéro 111 exhibited the collection at the Maison & Objet trade fair outside Paris earlier this year.

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Designers including Philippe Starck, Patricia Urquiola and Nendo have reinterpreted the Bourgie table lamp produced by Italian plastic brand Kartell to mark the design’s tenth anniversary.

Kartell invited fourteen designers to put their own spin on the plastic Bourgie lamp, originally designed by Italian designer Ferruccio Laviani in 1994.

He first created the lamp as a transparent polycarbonate copy of the one that sat on his desk, which had a traditional antique candelabra stand and fabric shade.

Ten years on, the group of designers have altered the shape, materials and function of the piece while keeping the essence of Laviani’s original.

“I have always supported and promoted the ‘remix’ concept, to explain that what I create is something that already exists but becomes something else through my revision of reality, my re-interpretation of things,” said Laviani.

Nendo turned the Bourgie lamp upside-down and used the inverse of its shape to create the silhouette for a cylindrical design.

A wireframe version with a CMYK LED lightsource was designed by Ludovica+Roberto Palomba.

Mario Bellini used two shades and three stems to turn it into a coat stand, while Patricia Urquiola took an element from the stand to form branches of a chandelier.

Philippe Starck wrapped the stand in bracelets and charms, Piero Lissoni created the lamp in paper and Christophe Pillet covered it in grey felt.

Other designers that participated included Tokujin Yoshioka, Rodolfo Dordoni, Eugeni Quitllet, Alberto Meda, Patrick Jouin and Front.

The designs were showcased at Kartell’s flagship showroom in Paris to coincide with the Maison & Objet trade fair last month.

They will also be exhibited during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan and ICFF in New York later this year.

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Maison&Object 2014: perforated 3D-printed shades diffuse the glow from lamps in this collection by Italian designer Alessandro Zambelli.

Each lamp in the Afillia range features a laser-sintered nylon shade created by Italian 3D-printing company .exnovo. Alessandro Zambelli designed a set of three shades punctured with patterns of small holes, which follow mathematical patterns found in nature.

“The shade reveals a web of essential geometric configurations, capable of capturing the light and concentrating it in a spherical, compact and luminescent aura,” said the designer. The diffuser shapes include a sphere and two narrower squashed forms, one with a flatter end than the other.

Swiss pine is used for the base of the table lamps and the bulb socket in the pendants. All have green cords to connect them to the power supply. The designs were exhibited at this year’s Maison&Objet trade fair outside Paris, which finished yesterday.

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Maison&Object 2014 French design duo Colonel has launched its third furniture collection, featuring items based on camping equipment (+ slideshow).

Designers Isabelle Gilles and Yann Poncelet of Colonel have released a series of new products and updated items in their previous collection, released at the same exhibition last year.

“[We] drew this new collection in the same spirit as the previous one, which makes the brand signature – light wood, patterns and fresh colours reminding travel and holidays throughout the year,” said the designers.

The two sliding doors of a small beech wood sideboard are cut with perpendicular slots, which create a grid pattern when they overlap.

Designed to look like a shepherd’s stool, the three-legged Bob wooden coffee table with a curved lip comes in beech or light grey and at two heights.

The Swarm lamps comprise a metal frame covered with a layer of coloured fabric behind a honeycomb mesh, pulled in at the top and bottom with drawstrings. The lamps sit on three spindly legs, either long or short, and also come as a pendant version.

A piece of wood veneer curved into a cylinder is hand painted with watercolours and mounted on a metal frame to form another lamp called Dowood.

The collection also includes a set of turned wood containers with patterned fabric rims and mirrors with curved ladder-like metal frames.

Updated items include the Caracas chair – a contemporary version of a 1960s camping chair – that has been revamped with new graphics for the seat material.

Also new fabrics are available for the tiltable faceted shade of the Faces floor lamp, which has a branch halfway up its stem for hanging coils of the colourful cord.

The full collection is on display at Maison&Objet, taking place outside Paris until tomorrow.

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French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has wrapped a pattern of woven rattan around one side of this radio for design brand Lexon, which is on show at the Maison&Objet trade fair that begins today in Paris.

Lehanneur used the natural material on his Hybrid radio for Lexon as a contrast to the digital technology. “Digital intelligence is blended here with a raw material, what might be called smart and craft,” said Lehanneur.

Formed from dried palm-like grasses and woven into a flexible material, the rattan is wrapped around one of the curved ends of the radio and framed by plastic on all sides.

Disks sticking out of the other end control the volume and radio frequency, which is shown using a small digital display on the front. The chunky antenna that pops from the top can be adjusted up and down to receive the best signal.

Small and large sizes are available, and both come with either a white or graphite-coloured case. The radio is being presented at Maison&Objet fair at the Nord Villepinte exhibition centre outside Paris, which commences today and runs until 28 January.

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