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Maison&Objet 2014: Catalan designer Eugeni Quitllet has taken the silhouettes of famous modernist chairs and amalgamated them into the back of this bar stool.

Eugeni Quitllet‘s Masters Stool retains the sinuous forms of the chair he created with French designer Philippe Starck for Italian plastics company Kartell.

The three strands that form the back are derived from the recognisable outlines of Arne Jacobsen’s Egg chair, Charles Eames’ DSW seat and Eero Saarinen’s Tulip design. These intertwined shapes create a back support and armrests that flow into the seat and legs.

“The stool version is available with longer legs, the seat is smaller, but the inimitable graphic hallmark of its frame coming from the interweaving of three silhouettes is the same,” said the designer.

The proportions of the original chair have been altered to incorporate the smaller seat and the longer legs are braced by a square ring close to the ground, which doubles as a footrest.

Available in a range of colours, the bar stool can be used both indoors or outdoors. It was launched at the Maison&Objet trade fair outside Paris, which finished earlier this week.

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Maison&Objet 2014: each item in this six-piece stationery set by London designer Samuel Wilkinson has a soft faceted body (+ slideshow).

Samuel Wilkinson‘s Babylon stationery collection for design brand Lexon contains a pen, a pen pot, scissors, a stapler, a tape dispenser and an alarm clock.

“I wanted to create an aesthetic, tactile set of objects that work as well in the office as the home,” Wilkinson told Dezeen. “Each object has its own individuality but still looks coherent in a group.”

Made from a thick injection-moulded plastic in a matte finish, all the pieces feature vertical creases down the curvaceous forms that create multi-faceted shapes based on rock formations. Each design is comes in its own bright colour and the entire range is also available in slate grey.

“We were searching for an distinct surface treatment that could elevate the series and tie all of the objects together,” Wilkinson explained. “Through our research we came across inspiring images of rock strata, such as the The Wave, on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes in Arizona.”

The twelve-sided alarm clock has raised markings on the face to indicate the hours, with white hands for telling the time contrasted by a green alarm hand.

Controls and battery are stored inside the rear case, which is held to the face with magnets and cut at the end so it sits the correct way up on the desk.

A refillable ball-point pen that comes in ink blue is shaped to flow into its weighted stand.

The scissor handles are designed to be comfortable for both left and right-handed users. A tall stand completely covers the blades when stored away.

Coloured bright yellow, the stapler is moulded to hide the hinge at the back and can rest either horizontally or vertically.

Tape loads into the top of the green dispenser, which appears to squeeze around the wheel from the wide weighted base.

There’s also a ten-sided pen holder that includes a soft inner base to muffle the noise created when writing implements are dropped in. Photography is by Sylvain Deleu.

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Maison&Objet 2014: British designer Sebastian Bergne has created a letter stand from a folded sheet of metal to keep post and stationery tidied away.

Sebastian Bergne‘s Post Point letter holder for French brand L’Atelier d’exercises is bent from a single piece of steel painted white.

The steel sheet is folded in four places to create a niche for resting new envelopes, important post or mail that needs to be sent, and a smaller raised dent for holding pens.

“A home for your letter writing paraphernalia or a stand for your incoming or outgoing mail, Post Point accommodates envelopes, cards and pens,” said Bergne.

The shape narrows diagonally after each crease in the material to look like the back of an envelope. A small magnet holds stamps in place.

The letter holder can be hooked onto the wall using a hole in the back or simply rested on a flat surface. Post Point is on show at this year’s Maison&Objet trade fair outside Paris, which concludes tomorrow.

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British designer Tom Dixon will show his latest range of brass home accessories based on cogs at the Maison&Objet trade fair later this month.

Tom Dixon has designed two collections of brass items for the home. His Cog collection references industrial machine parts and tools.

“As we scour factories worldwide, we find ourselves constantly referring to great British engineering,” said Dixon. “Creating a sense of the tooled and the machined, these pieces are formed in brass-plated solid aluminium.”

The range features candle holders in two sizes, cone and cylinder-shaped tea light holders, different sized trinket boxes, a candelabra and a desk tidy.

Sections of each item have been turned on a lathe to create a diamond-shaped pattern, a process known as knurling, to create a better surface for gripping.

The Arc collection contains a two-piece trivet, a bottle opener and a corkscrew, all created in solid brass using a sand-casting process. Dixon called them “science fiction-inspired futuristic simplicity combined with practical shapes that are easy to use.”

A four-point star can be removed from the centre of the circular trivet so the elements can be used to protect table surfaces from hot or wet cooking utensils.

The bottle opener and corkscrew both have curved tops and embossed edges.

These new products will be exhibited at the Maison&Objet trade fair outside Paris from 24-28 January.

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Designer Karim Rashid presented a collection of stainless steel containers for Italian design brand Alessi at Maison & Objet in Paris last week. 

Called Hellraiser, the range includes a basket, tray and fruit bowl, all featuring cut-out geometric shapes.

Maison & Objet took place 21-25 January 2011.

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Here’s a bit of text from Alberto Alessi:

There are two Rashids: the architect (Hani) and the designer (Karim). We’ve worked with both of them.

With the first (timid and reserved) we produced a collection of desk objects, “Parq”, “Scup”, “Trina” and “Stila”, the “Trianava” vase, the “Arc” wristwatch and the “Ares” pen.

With the second (extroverted and even overly outgoing) the “Kaj” wristwatch and the projects we’re announcing today: harsh and metropolitan (an interesting contrast to his usual soft and rounded language), as soon as I saw them, I spontaneously called them “Hellraiser”.

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Metrobowl by Frederik Roijé	Morphê by Zbynek Krulich	Cross by Karim Rashid for Freedom of Creation