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Product news: Paris design studio A+A Cooren has designed a table and a console with branching metal legs for French brand La Redoute.

Y Collection was created by A+A Cooren for French mail order company La Redoute as part of the Sam Baron & Friends range.

Above: image also shows A+A Cooren’s Big Air Sundae vase for the collection

The dining table and console have Y-shaped metal legs supporting a birch plywood top.

Above: image also shows A+A Cooren’s modular storage unit for the collection

While the table is self-supporting, the console must be fixed against the wall.

We’ve published some similar furniture on Dezeen lately, including a chair with its backrest wedged between catapult-like legs and furniture that appears to be peeled away from wooden stems.

Previous pieces by the same designers include a glass vase with a vortex-like interior and a collection of lights held together by velcro – see all our stories about A+A Cooren.

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The Mägi (Estonian for “mountain”) bench’s striking construction is composed of just two parts: the upper with simple and pure geometry that constitutes the seat in contrast with the lower base where jagged lines remind of stylized contours of headlands and mountainscapes while serving as both support and storage for books, magazines and other items.

Designers: Jari Nyman & Olli Mustikainen

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Product news: the first piece to be produced by Barcelona studio Lagranja Design is an armchair inspired by classic Danish design.

The Basic Armchair is described by Lagranja Design as a “gentle interpretation of the Danish archetype”, with a “Mediterranean touch” seen in its upward-flicking armrests.

It was originally made for the lobby of the Chic & Basic Hotel that the studio designed just off La Ramblas in Barcelona.

The armchair is made of solid beech, with a seat and back upholstered in fabric or leather selected by the client.

We recently featured a collection of colourful mix and match furniture created by Lagranja for Spanish brand Sistema Midi.

Other armchairs we’ve published on Dezeen include a curvy seat designed to look like an app and a pleated leather seat inspired by the puffed shoulders of Renaissance costumes.

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Photographs are by Meritxell Arjalaguer and Fotodisenny.

Here’s some more information from Lagranja:

Basic Armchair

It is basic twice. Once because is been expressly designed for the Chic & Basic Hotel lobby, one of our latest interior design projects. Twice because it is the minimal yet acceptable image of an armchair. A gentle interpretation of the Danish archetype… of course with a Mediterranean touch.

The Basic Armchair is the very first object produced by lagranja. How did we get there? It is the purest expression of a need. While furnishing the hotel lobby we were fighting with a very tight budget, and we couldn’t find any armchair that fit the budget and that we liked, so we decided to design and produce the best piece we could within our budget constraint.

It is a solid beech wood structure armchair with matte water varnish finishing. The seat and back are upholstered in fabric or leather, with possibility of using fabric indicated by the client. The fabrics for this armchair have been selected among the best collections of the most exclusive firms.

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This design concept from Orla Reynolds Furniture seems like one of the most efficient uses of space that we’ve ever seen. Watch how the four colorful chairs and a table hide inside the panels of a 16-compartment modular bookcase:

My only concern would be scratching the chairs and table when sliding them away into the cabinet.

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From a brainteaser develops lounge chair Lownge. The soft lines is interrupted to accommodate the aesthetic elegance of the ball; classic wood clashes..