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Product news: these matchboxes from Danish design brand Hay are decorated only with the red phosphorus ink that’s used for striking matches.

Designed by American product designer Shane Schneck and Swedish graphic designer Clara von Zweigbergk, the Strike Matchbox gives prime position to the striking surface, which is normally squeezed onto one side. “We simply flipped the space devoted to the activity of creating a flame,” says Schneck. “99% of matchboxes are used only for advertising.”

There are seven different sizes in a variety of bright colours, with patterns in varying scales. Hay presented the product in Paris and Stockholm.

Husband and wife Schneck and von Zweigbergk also worked together on the art direction for Hay’s catalogue featuring blocks of bold, bright colour, and Schneck was the designer behind the wooden chair with a cantilevered seat that Hay presented in 2010.

See more products by Hay here, including glassware by Scholten & Baijings that was also shown in Paris and Stockholm.

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Product news: French designer Sébastien Cordoleani has created a range of wall-mounted containers and hooks for Parisian brand Moustache.

Called Angolo, the set comprises three metal pockets for stashing small items, like keys and sunglasses in the hallway, while larger things like coats or umbrellas can be hooked over their tops.

Moustache launched the designs at Maison&Objet in Paris last month alongside a series of vases with tops that loop over the flowers and new pieces in the Balcon range by Inga Sempé. Sébastien Cordoleani has a studio in Aix en Provence.

See all our stories about design at Maison&Objet here, including cutlery based on chopsticks by Toyo Ito and a chair draped in a wooden mat by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance.

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Danish brand Normann Copenhagen has launched a table-top mirror with a dish in the base to hold small items, created by Spanish designer Javier Moreno.

The Flip mirror can be turned up, down and rotated 360 degrees. It is available in either black, white or a sand colour.

Javier Moreno says: “The tray design on the base means that flip is both a traditional mirror and an easy and simple storage utility for small items.”

Javier Moreno set up his own studio in Alicante in 2010.

We’ve featured products from Normann Copenhagen before, including a colourful modular storage system by Henriette W. Leth and circular kitchen knifes by Italian designers LucidiPevere Studio.

Maison&Objet took place in Paris last month. See all our stories about design at Maison&Objet here, including cutlery based on chopsticks by Toyo Ito and a chair draped in a wooden mat by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance.

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Maison&Objet 2013: Swedish designer Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF has created an uplighter for Danish brand Muuto that can be adjusted by rotating the shade.

Called Up, the product features a funnel-shaped shade that is lower at one side than the other and sits on a baring, allowing it to be rotated freely to alter the amount of light blocked.

“Up lamp mixes light and shadow to create a cosy and warm atmosphere anywhere it is placed,” says Ståhlbom. “Through the profile of the lamp shade, Up elegantly interacts with the surrounding walls and ceiling.”

The lamp features a replaceable warm LED bulb with a dimmer function. It’s made of cast aluminium with a rubber switch at the back, above the flex, and comes in white, grey or green.

Up was launched at homeware and gift fair Maison&Objet in Paris last week. See other new products launched at Maison&Objet here, including ice-cream coloured poufs and rugs by Patricia Urquiola, and colourful glassware by Scholten & Baijings for Hay.

TAF is based in Stockholm and the studio’s other recent projects include a table with an upside-down underframe and silicone storage pots shaped like birds. See all our stories about design by TAF.

A previous project by TAF for Muuto is the Adaptable table made of oak and powder-coated steel. See all our stories about Nordic design brand Muuto.

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Maison&Objet 2013: Italian designer Valentina Carretta made these hanging lamps for Italian brand Seletti with coarse paper like the kind used in egg boxes.

Valentina Carretta’s Egg of Columbus lamps come in three sizes and combine a shade made of moisture-resistant recycled paper with a ceramic lamp holder and a red fabric cord.

The lamp’s name refers to the story of how explorer Christopher Columbus challenged his detractors to make an egg stand on its tip. When they gave up, he did it himself by tapping the egg on a table to flatten its tip, demonstrating how a brilliant idea can seem easy once you know how it’s done.

Made for Italian design brand Seletti, the lamp was shown at Maison&Objet design fair in Paris last week, where we also reported on a family of terracotta pots with rubber lids and cutlery with slim handles like chopsticks – see all products from Maison&Objet 2013.

We previously published a lamp with a paper pulp shade that doubles as packaging for the product’s components.

Lots of products made of paper have featured on Dezeen, including a crumpled paper stage set for an opera and bowls made from shredded banknotes – see all designs made from paper.

Other lamps we’ve featured lately include architect Frank Gehry’s scaly fish lamps and a lamp made from two pieces of ceramic joined by a silicone band – see all lamps on Dezeen.

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