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The Double Life storage solution was named after our tendency to look well put together when we leave the house, while our closets are left in shambles! The unit contains cubbies of various sizes to keep a wide range of items neat and tidy. Though it looks like a singular piece, each of the eight squares can actually be arranged according to the users taste and needs.

Designer: JuHyun Shin

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Cologne 2013: Berlin design studio Osko+Deichmann has launched a chair inspired by cooked spaghetti for French brand Ligne Roset.

Called Ficelle, meaning “string” in English, the chair is made from aluminium and is designed for both indoor and outdoor use. It comes in either black or white, along with an optional seat pad.

“Inspired by the smooth curves of cooked spaghetti, Ficelle is a unique poetic chair, nicely curved, fluid and light,” say the designers.

The lightweight tubular legs continue along the sides of the seat and up the side of the backrest before curling over and down to become the back legs. These distinctive profiles are linked by aluminium slats that have been evenly spaced along the seat and back of the chair.

Osko+Deichmann was founded in 2005 by Blasius Osko and Oliver Deichmann, who met while studying at the University of Fine Arts, Berlin. We’ve featured projects from Osko + Deichmann before, including the Straw stackable chairs for Blå Station, and a collection of tubular steel and pine furniture called Kink.

imm cologne took place from 14 to 20 January. Other products launched at the fair included an asymmetrical desk by Thibault Desombre for Ligne Roset and a DIY curtain kit by the Bouroullec brothers.

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Foldin is a modular shelving unit comprised out of a framework and foldable shelves. Each shelf is made out of three plywood plates connected with a p..

News: American brand Emeco has reached a settlement in its legal dispute with Restoration Hardware after claiming the fellow US company’s Naval Chair (below) is a rip-off of its classic Navy Chair (above).

Emeco released a short statement saying that “as part of that settlement, Restoration Hardware has agreed to permanently cease selling the chairs that Emeco accused of infringement, and its existing inventory of such chairs will be recycled.” The total amount of the settlement remains undisclosed.

Emeco Industries Inc. filed for a preliminary injunction in a San Francisco district court on 11 October 2012, seeking to block Restoration Hardware from manufacturing, marketing, advertising, and selling its “cheap knockoffs” of Emeco’s iconic Navy Chair, also known as the 1006 chair.

An original Navy Chair by Emeco retails at around £300, but the Restoration Hardware version was on sale for just £50.

“We’re not going to stand by while Restoration Hardware steals our brand and trades on our reputation by selling an inferior product,” said Emeco CEO Gregg Buchbinder at the time. “It’s important for American companies to stand up for craftsmanship, quality and jobs. We not only want to stop Restoration Hardware but prevent others from doing similar damage to our economy.”

The Hanover, Pennsylvania-based company first created the Navy Chair with its distinctive curved back and three vertical slats in 1944 as a sea and sailor-proof piece of furniture for the US Navy. Its light weight and toughness led to its widespread use in institutions like police stations, prisons, schools and hospitals across America and the design has been in production ever since.

The seats are made by hand from recycled aluminium and are guaranteed for life, which the company estimates at 150 years.

Emeco has more recently experimented with other recycled materials, including the plastic 111 chair made of coke bottles and the Broom chair made of debris from factory floors by Philippe Starck.

Copying remains a hot topic in design, including the recent news that an entire building designed by Zaha Hadid for Beijing has been pirated by a developer in Chongqing, with the two projects racing to be completed first. Last year Qatar was accused of “counterfeiting 1000 street lamps”.

Apple recently had to pay up for using a Swiss rail operator’s trademarked station clock design and has now filed a patent for the layout of its Apple stores.

Last year UK copyright law was changed to give artistic manufactured goods the same term of protection as literature or art, following a campaign started by Elle Decoration UK editor Michelle Ogundehin, who condemned replicas of classic furniture after the British prime minister’s wife revealed that she’d purchased a reproduction of the Castiglioni brothers’ iconic Arco floor lamp.

Meanwhile industrial designer Tom Dixon told us that “legal systems don’t really defend designers at all” and designers should turn from mass production oversees to localised manufacture and digital production to overcome the threat to their businesses.

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This original seating design called Statthocker transforms old-fashioned 1960s street lanterns into modern, stackable stools that pay homage to the repurposed material. Noticing that local discarded lanterns were the perfect seat height, the designers covered the tops in durable HI-MACS material and left the underside open for easy stacking. As an ode to the origin, LED lights are fitted into a milled recess beneath the seat, bringing new life and functionality to the recycled shades.

Designers: Oliver Bahr & Bastian Demmer

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