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Product news: design studio Ryan Harc has created a series of modular stools that fit together to create different pieces of furniture.

The Tea stools feature an overhang on either side, which the user can place objects on, hang objects from or simply grip onto. “We thought typical stools provided limited space,” says one of the designers, Ryan Yoon. “We came up with a simple idea: adding more space on both sides so that we can put or hang some objects on the additional spaces.”

The resulting ‘T’ shape means the units fit together in different formations to create diverse shapes. “It allows you some creativity,” he says, adding that as many modules as desired can be combined to create a bench, a table or a desk. The pieces are made out of pine wood with curved edges for comfort and grip.

The limited-edition stools are available to buy directly from the designers.

RYAN HARC was founded in 2009 by Ryan Yoon and Harc Lee and is now based in London.

Other stools we’ve featured on Dezeen include A-shaped stools which slot together to make a bench and a stool with legs inspired by skateboards.

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Marc Jacobs is not perfect, but the word is etched–in a distinctly imperfect slant of capital letters–on his right wrist as a reminder of an acceptance mantra (“I’m a perfect being in a perfect world where everything that happens benefits me completely”) he learned in rehab. That’s just one of the fashion designer’s 33 tattoos, many of them inked by Scott Campbell, he told Fern Mallis during a wide-ranging conversation held last night at New York’s 92nd Street Y. As for his favorite, that would be the furniture. “A couch. A Jean-Michel Frank couch that is tattooed right here,” said Jacobs, patting his abdomen. “And ask me why a couch, because everybody does, and there’s no reason. That’s exactly the reason.”

The outline of a classic Frank three-seater is joined by a jubilant SpongeBob SquarePants, Oui magazine logos, a red M&M character, and the world “Shameless.” When Mallis asked about the proliferation of cartoon characters, including the Simpsons-ized likeness of the designer himself, he shrugged. “Well, kids on the beach like them. They’re colorful,” said Jacobs. “I think I see life in a kind of cartoony way, and I like colorful tattoos. I never saw tattoos as a dark thing, or ritualistic.” And he’s already thinking about his next one. “I was talking to my trainer today, and there’s this character on South Park called Manbearpig, and I think we might be fighting over which one of us going to get it.”

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Product News: these chairs with metal frames wrapped in continuous cords by Israeli designer Rami Tareef have gone into production with Israeli design brand Gaga & Design.

Rami Tareef’s COD chair prototypes were first featured by Dezeen in 2011, and Gaga & Design is preparing to launch a dining chair and an easy chair at the imm cologne trade fair next week.

The chairs’ geometric patterns are created by wrapping and weaving cord around steel frames.

Tareef created the chairs using techniques he learned from a wicker craftsman in Jerusalem.

We’ve previously featured crocheted furniture made with yarns of PVC, tape and washing lines as well as a tubular steel chair made with techniques for making bamboo furniture.

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Photographs are by Gaga & Design and Ariel Caine.

Here’s some more information from the designer:

COD by Rami Tareef for Gaga & Design at the imm Cologne fair 2013

COD is furniture collection of two chairs made from tubular steel structure woven with synthetic sleeve. The collection comprises a dining chair and easy chair designed and developed by Rami Tareef during the last two years. When Gaga & Design showed an interest in the project, the designer and the brand collaborated to finish the development process and bring the collection to the market.

The design is based on traditional weaving techniques. One of the designer’s goals was to preserve the handmade and craft values to keep these traditions present in contemporary design. The geometric forms identified with the design language were created by deconstructing the technique while examining the relationship between the chair’s structure and the continuously woven sleeve. The chairs will be unveiled at the imm cologne fair in 2013 under the brand name Gaga & Design.

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