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Belgian design studio Fou de Feu has created two collections of ceramics including vases shaped like soap bubbles.

Fou de Feu‘s most recent collection Forms No Figures features decorative objects and a lamp, which combine lightly glazed ceramics and honey maple wood.

“This collection was inspired by industrial forms you find in old factories,” said designer Veerle Van Overloop. “Because these are originally made from wood, I decided to combine it with the ceramic.”

The wood is used to create the base and a rim around the ceramic shade of the simple lamp.

The decorative items come in a range of similar shapes. Some have wooden tops while others have wooden bottoms.

A few of these pieces have a small hole in the top so they can be used as candle holders or vases.

Fou de Feu has also crafted a collection of unglazed ceramic vases that look like combinations of soap bubbles, called Life’s a Bubble.

These round vessels are all a slightly different shape and either black or white.

Other ceramics on Dezeen include porcelain with patterns that play on traditional designs of Japanese pottery and a range of plates and bowls created from analogue 3D-printed moulds. See more ceramic design »

Photography is by Heikki Verdurme.

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Product news: Swedish designer Jonas Wagell has created a padded sofa that resembles the shape of risen bread.

Jonas Wagell designed the Swell sofa for Danish design brand Normann Copenhagen.

The three-seater model has curved padded seats and bulky armrests.

Comprising a wood structure and polyether foam, the fully upholstered sofa comes in 21 colours.

Other sofa designs include a settee that has an elasticated yellow bungee cord holds cushions in place and seating based on rock formations by Zaha Hadid.

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Product news: Australian designer Marc Newson has surrounded this bed for French brand Domeau & Pérès with chunky bumpers.

Marc Newson enclosed the Bumper Bed within padded leather cushions to evoke the sense of sleeping on a mattress laid directly on the ground.

“Most people I know have at some point in their lives slept on a mattress on the floor,” said Newson. “So I thought it would be nice to design a bed that would [encourage] people like me to replace their faithful mattress with a ‘beautiful bed’.”

One lip sits flush with the mattress and a second wraps around the bed at floor level, with an orange leather strip running between the two.

The sides are deep enough to be used as seats and can be ordered from Domeau & Pérès in white, dove (pictured) or chocolate colours.

Marc Newson recently teamed up with Apple senior vide president of design Jonathan Ive to design a range of products to auction for U2 frontman Bono’s charity (RED).

More beds on Dezeen include one that curls round on itself and another designed to cure insomnia.

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Product news: London designer Samuel Wilkinson has launched a blown-glass lamp with a digitally created lozenge pattern for Danish brand &tradition (+ movie).

Combining traditional craft with digital technology, the BLOWN pendant lamp is Samuel Wilkinson‘s first lighting collaboration with &tradition.

Wilkinson used 3D computer software to model the structure of the metal mould used to imprint the diamond shapes onto the glass.

“The texture of the glass is rendered carefully in 3D CAD in order to control the inflation of each bubble precisely, achieving fine control of how the form would reflect the light at different angles,” said Wilkinson.

The mould incorporates zig-zag teeth that fit into each other exactly and follow the diamond pattern, so the mould line is hidden within the indentations to leave a seamless finish.

Molten glass is inflated and shaped using traditional glass-blowing techniques and then inserted into the mould while still hot.

The mould imprints the pattern onto the glass, then once it cools the shade is sanded and cleaned.

The lampshade encloses the light source and refracts the lozenge pattern onto surrounding surfaces.

BLOWN comes in two versions: translucent with a silver lustre and sandblasted matte white. Both are completed by a powder-coated aluminium suspension fitting and a fabric chord.

Wilkinson also designed the energy efficient light bulb Plumen 001 in collaboration with London design brand Hulger.

BLOWN was exhibited at design fair designjunction during the London Design Festival last month. Other lighting designs that featured at the event include the Apollo lighting range by International and wicker lighting by Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune.

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Blown is a mouth-blown glass pendant light with a variegated lozenged pattern imprinted on the surface which encloses the light source. It comes in two versions: translucent with a silver lustre and sandblasted matte white . Both versions are finished off with a powder-coated die-cast aluminium suspension and a fabric chord.

Wilkinson came to prominence for his involvement with the design of the avant-garde energy efficient light bulb Plumen 001, but this is his first light for &tradition. “It’s nice to be working with Samuel Wilkinson on a pendant light that marries traditional form with material innovation in this way,” says Brand Manager Martin Kornbek Hansen. Wilkinson has previously designed the Hoof tables for &tradition.

Like the Hoof tables, Blown is experimenting with a manufacturing process which combines industrial manufacture with a hand-crafted finish. While the making of Blown relies on technical 3dCAD (computer-aided design), the end product is mouth-blown by highly skilled craftsmen, connecting traditional craft with innovative technology.

Blown makes a statement as a standalone item, but works equally as well in clusters or in succession. The two versions cater to a range of interiors, with the sandblasted variant providing a subtle, sophisticated glow, while the translucent version transforms the space it inhabits with the intricate textures and patterning.

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Product news: German designer Daniel Becker has created a series of wall lamps based on the patterns of crystalline structures.

The LEM wall lamps by Daniel Becker have been constructed using 3D wire frame shapes.

The angular forms are based on studies of symmetry in crystals. The wire frame acts as a base for layers of textiles and foils.

The light can vary from subdued to bright depending on the density of layers and the bulb used.

The lamps are available to purchase on design website Contemporary Components.

Daniel Becker has also designed a set of ceramic tiles that let stoves give off more heat.

Other wall lamp designs include a collection of chandeliers and wall lamps designed by rapper Vanilla Ice and a wall-mounted bedside lamp that swivels in all directions. See more lighting design »

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The shapes of the series LEM are the first results of the analysis and interpretation of quasicrystals and aperiodic patterns. In chemistry, quasicrystals stand with their aperiodic but still ordered structure for a contradiction to the actually required periodic symmetry of molecules within a crystal.

During the development process, crystalline structures have been constructed and implemented in three-dimensional shapes of fine wire mesh. These shapes are covered with layers of different textiles and foils, thereby creating a play of light which varies in addition depending on the used bulb.

The main intention in the still ongoing design process of LEM is the search for shapes with a very high visual complexity on one hand and a construction which is reduced to the essentially necessary parts on the other.

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