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London Design Festival 2013: concave bookcases and furniture with hotdog-shaped legs feature in the first collection by Joined + Jointed, currently on show at designjunction (+ slideshow).

Joined + Jointed was set up by designer Samuel Chan as an online store, selling furniture by a selection of designers.

A bookcase by British designer Simon Pengelly has a concave front, with shelves spaced closer together at the centre and becoming more curved at the top, bottom and to one side.

The wooden bookcase can be used side-by-side with another that has a mirrored pattern to create a concave front.

Pengelly has also created a set of sofas, chairs and benches with simple grey or beige upholstery.

Lazy chairs and tables by Freshwest have legs similar to strings of sausages, finished in a colourful stain except for a single chipolata-shaped element on one leg. On other models, just one sausage is coloured while other elements are left natural.

The British studio’s Inside Out cabinet has line drawings of possible contents on its doors.

Simple wooden furniture designs by Sean Yoo, Alex Hellum, Henrik Sørig, Wales & Wales and Samuel Chan also feature.

The collection is on display at designjunction, which continues until 22 September, along with wicker lighting by Claesson Koivisto Rune.

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Here’s some more information from Joined + Jointed:

Joined + Jointed, a new online concept offering contemporary furniture pieces from a global collective of established and emerging designers, announces its launch in the UK in September 2013.

Working to the principle ‘creation through collaboration’, Joined + Jointed brings together designers, craftsmen and production experts to create furniture of unique design and exceptional quality – at attainable prices.

Available exclusively through the Joined + Jointed website, the debut collection will include inspired new furniture designs from: Simon Pengelly, Sean Yoo, Alex Hellum, Henrik Sørig, Wales & Wales, Freshwest, Samuel Chan.

Highlights include a monumental bookcase by Simon Pengelly, a graphic drinks cabinet from Freshwest, Samuel Chan’s stacking pallet drawers and a broad selection of tables, chairs and cabinets from the design collective.

Joined + Jointed is being launched by Samuel Chan, an award winning furniture designer and founder of bespoke furniture brand Channels. With more than 18 years in the industry, this new venture expresses Samuel’s desire to collaborate with like-minded designers, using his artisan production experience to bring their best furniture concepts into being.

The end result is a collection of more than 80 brand new furniture pieces, intelligently designed and beautifully crafted, to be discovered now and appreciated forever. All are available to buy online.

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London studio Pengelly Design has created an airline seat that converts into a 2.2-metre-long bed for Virgin Atlantic.

Created in collaboration with the Virgin Atlantic design team, the seats were arranged four-abreast in a diagonal configuration that means all passengers have an aisle seat.

Carbon-fibre screens surround the chairs to integrate storage, reading lights and touch-screen monitors.

Simon Pengelly claims that it is is the longest flat business-class bed ever made.

The cabin design will be rolled out across all new Airbus A330 and Boeing 787-900 aircrafts.

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Here’s some more information from Pengelly:

New Upper Class Suite, Virgin Atlantic

We are proud to introduce Virgin Atlantic’s new Upper Class Suite designed by Pengelly Design in partnership with Virgin Atlantic Design. Together we’ve immersed ourselves in every aspect of the Suites’ development over the last four and half years and we’re thrilled with the result which is already on selected flights and will be installed on all of Virgin Atlantic’s new Airbus A330 aircraft throughout 2012 and on the new Boeing 787-900’s.

The team was tasked with designing a new passenger environment – a blank canvas with which to invigorate the flying experience with more luxury, comfort and a sense of discovery. The aim was to create a sophisticated and uplifting product developed to include some revolutionary features.

The development of the unique 4 abreast herringbone configuration has allowed us to fully optimize cabin space, giving more room to each passenger whilst actually increasing the amount of seats within the cabin, providing every passenger with their own aisle access, ensuring an uninterrupted journey.

The new Upper Class Suite has been designed with a ‘furniture aesthetic’, our speciality, moving it away from the traditional aircraft feel towards a more domestic and familiar experience, providing a secure, wonderfully private and calming space.

We’ve spent months shaping and reshaping the form of every surface and curve of the carbon fibre chair-surround to encapsulate all the functional features a traveller needs whilst ensuring each surround is as thin as possible to maximise personal space.

Every effort went into the provision of intuitive and easily accessible passenger elements in seat and bed mode in addition to providing as much individual storage as possible.

The chair itself features an innovative comfort system for aircraft seating that provides an unparalleled level of repose for long haul flight. This system also provides an equally high degree of comfort to the bed which at 87 inches is now the longest fully flat business class bed ever developed.

The Suite contains nothing superfluous, quietly understated it’s an environment in which to explore and discover your own space, the materials used are designed to enrich your journey and give you the sense of being looked after. Every feature cleverly designed, positioned and blended into the surround such as the flexible reading light, fold out cocktail tray and fully adjustable touchscreen monitor for ease of viewing in every chair and bed position.