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Desire/Acquire: Cafe Tables
As I think about warmer weather and less rainy skies, I'm excited to spend more time outside at a sidewalk cafe. However, it's sometimes hard to get to a cafe to lounge at one of their outdoor tables, so I'm hoping to get one for my own house. I adore this Pensi Cafe Table (shown here), but at $692, it's a little out of my budget.
Desire/Acquire: Curved-Arm Floor Lamps
What's not to love about the chic Marc Sadler Twiggy Floor Lamp ($2,022)? (OK, besides its price.) This gorgeous, curved-arm floor lamp will gracefully bend toward your favorite novel as you sit on your sofa, and its sleek finish, available in red, black, yellow, or white, will create a great visual statement in your home.
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Less or More: Conical Leaning Floor Lamps
For the next installment of this game, take a look at each of these leaning floor lamps and see if you can answer my questions about them.
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Crave Worthy: Cherner Armchair
Designed in 1958 by Norman Cherner, the Cherner Armchair ($949) has a dramatic and elegant sloping shape, achieved by molding plywood, that sweeps me off my feet, literally and figuratively. Made of solid beech, it's built to last. This particular chair is a reproduction of the 1958 design, manufactured to the exact original specs by Cherner Chair, a company run by Norman Cherner's sons.
Love It or Hate It? ABCD Two-Seater Sofa
"A chair should be more than simply functional. It should be friendly, fun and colorful," asserts designer Pierre Paulin, responsible for the ABCD Two-Seater Sofa ($3,516). While this sofa is available in a variety of fabrics, I kind of like the groovy '60s inspired pattern shown here.
Weird Furniture: The Worker Chair
You know that I love Hella Jongerius. But, sometimes her designs can be a little kooky. Take, for example, the Worker Chair made by Vitra.
Crave Worthy: Vitra Kast Tall Storage
When you've got storage like the Vitra Kast Tall Storage ($10,695), even your Encyclopedia Brittanica collection can look sexy — all the way from aardvark to zygote. The modular unit has a shelf and wall cupboard combination with colorful sliding doors. Although there's a lot going on with the color palette (pink, dark green, bronze grey, dark blue, sulphur yellow, and bright white), the clean lines and perfect proportions of the unit give it a restrained look that's elegant and distinguished.
Weird Furniture: Globus
Although I've been feeling globe shapes lately, I must say the Michiel van der Kley Globus ($8,775) is one big piece of weird furniture. It is described as a "compact personal mobile workstation," but is basically a desk and and chair on wheels in a big white ball. Its rotating chair and pull-out table top are revealed when you crack open its globe shape, and you can close it up and roll it away if you want to work in another room.
Crave Worthy: Hivemindesign Rune Bed
Hello, drama! I can't help but think that if you called this bed your own, something edgy would happen in it. Hivemindesign's Rune Bed ($14,000), according to its makers, "creates a dialogue between the geometry of the form, with an implied cube that reflects its ornamentation into itself."
Found It! Daniel Meade's Desk Lamp
I'm a huge fan of Ugly Betty. I've been told that I even have an extra-loud belly laugh during the show. Besides admiring the great writing, acting, and physical comedy on the show, I've also been impressed with the thoughtful set design.
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