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Product news: twenty-six cable ties make up this pendant lamp that London studio Vitamin is exhibiting at Clerkenwell Design Week.

The black and orange industrial ties are locked into place by a turned wood and spun metal component at the top and a steel cog at the bottom. The different diameters of these elements cause the ties to curve outward towards the base.

The lamp is currently on show at Clerkenwell Design Week, which concludes tomorrow, and will be available to purchase in two sizes later this year.

Dezeen Watch Store has a pop-up shop in the Farmiloe Building at the event, where we are presenting a selection of our latest and best-selling watches – more details here.

Other lamp designs on Dezeen include aluminium shades with softly angled edges and a table lamp made of seaweed.

Vitamin has also designed mix-and-match vessels built up from assorted materials and ceramic urban gnomes that we’ve featured.

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Product news: British designer Benjamin Hubert has created a chair with a hammock-like back for Italian furniture brand Moroso.

Called Cradle, the design is a cross between an upholstered lounge chair and a flexible hammock.

The steel frame of the hammock supports a textile mesh, which has been CNC-cut to allow it to stretch around the sitter’s shape.

“The chair’s aesthetic is purposefully architectural with a sharp rectilinear backrest contrasted with a softer seating area,” explains Hubert.

The chair was launched in Milan last month alongside another of chair by Hubert for Moroso, which looks as if it’s wrapped in a cloak – see all Dezeen’s coverage of Milan 2013.

Other designs by Hubert we’ve featured lately include a metal frame armchair that weighs only three kilograms and a family of terracotta pots with rubber lids – see all design by Benjamin Hubert.

Other Moroso furniture we’ve published includes Patricia Urquiola’s chairs with backrests wrapped in rush and Nendo’s chair shaped like a stiletto heel – see all furniture by Moroso.

Here’s some more information from the designer:

Cradle is a new lounge chair launching at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in April 2013. The project is the result of a close collaboration between Benjamin Hubert and Italian brand Moroso.

The product is a unique blend of two typologies of seating – a net structured hammock and a conventional upholstered lounge chair. The chair’s aesthetic is purposefully architectural with a sharp rectilinear backrest contrasted with a softer seating area, breaking traditional rules of seating typology and styling.

The chair stems from the studio’s materials-driven, process-led industrial design approach, research into the construction of mesh materials, and a study of the relationships between traditional seating components.

Cradle utilises a custom-made cut pattern that allows a non-elastic textile to stretch in a controlled manner in a three dimensional form. This allows for the correct tension to comfortably support the body and both visually and physically reduces the product’s weight and cost.

The chair comprises a metal frame supporting a non-elastic textile with a geometric cut pattern, which cradles an upholstered seat block.

Materials: CNC-cut Kvadrat textile mesh, steel frame, moulded polyurethane, Kvadrat textile

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Product news: cable clutter is hidden away under the lid of this extension lead from Swiss design brand Punkt.

The ES 01 socket hub by Colombian designer Georges Moanack conceals five plugs under its cylindrical cover.

A central button allows all five devices to be turned off at once.

“I wanted to make crawling under furniture to untangle cables a thing of the past, and the design challenge was to find an attractive and accessible solution to this problem,” says Moanack.

The power cord is three metres long and there are six different socket types available for different countries.

Like all Punkt. products, it comes in red, black and white.

The ES 01 was presented at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan last month.

Punkt. is a Swiss product brand with Jasper Morrison as creative director. Past launches include Morrison’s DP 01 telephone and AC 01 alarm clock. See all our stories about products by Punkt.

Other extension sockets we’ve featured on Dezeen include a system that combines plugs from different countries, one shaped like a crucifix, and a combined alarm clock and extension cable that wakes you with the breeze from a fan or the smell of coffee brewing.

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Here’s some more information from Punkt:

Cut out cable clutter

Punkt. launches its third product: the ES 01. The ES 01 is an original extension socket that has been designed to tackle a ubiquitous lifestyle problem: cable clutter. The ES 01 plugs 5 sockets and is available in a range of versions to comply with the different power supply standards of a wide selection of countries.

Punkt. ES 01: finally a solution to the cable clutter that plagues modern lifestyles and makes a mess of interiors. All of your cables and plugs converge neatly in the ES 01 extension socket, tucked away under its sleek rounded lid. Convert cable chaos into a clean design feature for the home or office.

No hiding power stations under furniture, no crouching down to untangle dusty cables, and no power damage to your devices; just an attractive, sturdy design piece that blends in well with all interiors and simplifies cable management.
Get organized and power your gadgets and devices with the ES 01!

The young Colombian designer Georges Moanack designed the ES 01 under the art direction of Jasper Morrison. The ES 01 combines Georges’ fresh outlook with Jasper’s talent and experience, resulting in an ingenious solution to a ubiquitous problem.

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The armrests of these chairs by Swedish designers Claesson Koivisto Rune reach out as though asking for a hug.

The Hug range by Claesson Koivisto Rune for Italian brand Arflex features deep, thin arms that angle upwards and outwards.

“The friendly and welcoming gesture, seen most clearly in the ‘open-armed’ position of the armrests, is meant as a universal invitation, saying ‘come, sit with me a while and I’ll put you at ease,'” say the designers.

The upholstered seat, backrest and arms sit on a wooden plinth supported by legs in a contrasting colour.

The Hug collection includes a dining chair, a lower side chair and a high-backed club chair that’s more enclosed.

Arflex presented the pieces at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last month, where Claesson Koivisto Rune also showed top-heavy chairs inspired by the work of American minimalist artist Ellsworth Kelly for Italian furniture brand Tacchini. See more design by Claesson Koivisto Rune.

Meanwhile Spanish designer Jaime Hayón presented another chair with outstretched arms for Danish brand &tradition.

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Product news: furniture brand Vitsœ has reissued a classic chair by German designer Dieter Rams, the former head of design at Braun.

The 620 Chair Programme, first designed in 1962, has been “comprehensively re-engineered” according to Vitsœ, which last year was granted an exclusive global licence to produce Rams’ furniture designs.

Like Rams’ 606 Universal Shelving System, which Rams designed for Vitsœ in the same year, the chair is an adaptable piece of furniture that can be joined with other chairs to form a multi-seat sofa. Its castors can also be swapped for a swivel base.

Dezeen previously recorded a podcast with Rams at London’s Design Museum, where he talked to Vitsœ managing director Mark Adams about an exhibition of his work at the museum – see more stories about Dieter Rams.

Photographs are by Vitsœ.

Here’s more information from Vitsœ:

New licence, new Vitsœ chair production

Following Dieter Rams granting Vitsœ the exclusive worldwide licence to his original furniture designs, Vitsœ is pleased to announce it has comprehensively re-engineered Rams’s 620 Chair Programme delivering exceptional improvements in both quality and price. The 620 Chair Programme – marking its 50th anniversary – will be available from 9 May.

Vitsœ’s new production of 620 shows characteristic rigour and attention to detail. The chair has been completely re-engineered, right down to the last purpose-designed stainless-steel bolt. In turn, the very best traditional upholstery skills have been revived to ensure a chair that will last for generations, a point reinforced by the choice of a sumptuous full-grain aniline-dyed leather that will only improve with age. All of this has been achieved while prices have been reduced.

Designed for Vitsœ in 1962, the 620 Chair Programme has won numerous prizes and is collected by, and exhibited in, museums and galleries worldwide. Notoriously, in 1968, the chair was copied. Vitsœ’s co-founder, Niels Vitsœ, fought a lengthy court case that culminated in the chair being granted rare copyright protection in 1973.

Like its sibling the 606 Universal Shelving System, which was designed by Dieter Rams in 1962, the 620 Chair Programme is a carefully-conceived kit of parts. For example, a single chair can become a multi-seat sofa when more chairs are added. Or a chair on castors can be transformed into a swivelling chair.

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