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Geometric chair concept almost looks like an Escherian optical illusion

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Chairs can come in all shapes and sizes. Some can take on complicated and organic forms, while others can be extremely minimalist or even brutally raw. They can range from designs that take inspiration from nature to those that adhere to simpler geometric shapes. The Euclid concept is one of the latter, aptly named after the ancient Greek mathematician. But while it draws its shape from a simple cube, its execution sparks a bit of wonder and curiosity as it resembles more the skeleton or wireframe of the shape, represented by almost unbroken lines that are reminiscent of Escher’s famed optical illusion, the impossible cube.

Designer: Sonakshi Gupta

Admittedly, it’s a bit difficult to see the Euclid chair as a cube, since most of us have this idea of a cube as having 12 lines that are all connected at eight corners to form six faces. Then again, that popular Escher object already shows an impossible depiction of that shape, and those familiar with that print might see some of that characteristic in this chair when viewed from certain angles. Overall, it creates a dynamic form that has your eyes following the lines and moving all over the place, sometimes confused about where the front and back sides are.

Its unique form isn’t the only notable thing about this concept, however. Its use of reclaimed wood gives it more than a sustainable character. That material, in a way, carries some history from what it was before becoming a part of this chair. Even if that past is unknown to the new owner, simply knowing it has one could give each Euclid chair its own unique charm.

And then there’s the method used to bring all the pieces together. Instead of requiring screws or even glue, a mortise and tenon joinery is used to provide stability without introducing complicated mechanisms. In theory, this could make it easy to later take the chair apart if some pieces need to be replaced, though that could also start to weaken the connection over time if done too frequently.

The Euclid concept chair offers a design that is minimalist, sustainable, and visually interesting. Whereas a cube is pretty much the epitome of symmetry, the missing edges and disconnected faces give the chair a bit more volatility. That said, it doesn’t seem like the most comfortable chair to sit on. Even if you put a cushion on the seat, the hard edges of the armrest and especially the backrest could give your body some grief after a long period of time.

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Quirky wooden side tables bring delight with geometric holes like a kid’s game

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Almost all tables have tops that are flat and horizontal mostly because of the function they serve. You wouldn’t want your glass to tilt over or your phone to slide down just because of an uneven or inclined surface, right? But as long as you are able to place things down on the table without having them wobble, fall, or roll off to the side, then the tabletop can almost be open to any design or shape. That seems to be the reasoning behind these fun-looking side tables that, at first glance, don’t look reliable or functional, at least until you realize that using them is almost like playing that educational game of fitting shapes inside the right holes.

Designer: Chien Yuoning

Many parents or even kids might be familiar with that toy where you have holes in a geometric shape and you’re supposed to drop matching geometric blocks inside them. This side table collection might immediately remind people of those toys and, unfortunately, might also give them the wrong impression of the practicality of such a design. Fortunately, it isn’t just a whimsical decision as these geometric holes can actually act as helpful organization aids in addition to being quite interesting to look at.

The Designated Table collection has geometric shapes like circles, squares, rectangles, and even pills cut out from the tabletop. While they might look like a loss in terms of usable space, they act as designated containers for things like glasses, phones, books, or whatnot. These compartments let you separate different things while also providing a bit of support to some extent. It’s harder for a glass to topple over if its area is constricted.

At the same time, the shapes add a playful character to the tables, especially since the shapes have a different color from the natural finish of the rest of the wooden table. The tables themselves come in different shapes, including a hexagon and a half circle, doubling the fun factor of each side table. That, however, also determines where some of these side tables can be placed, like the hexagon-shaped side table making a poor fit for a nightstand or anywhere the table needs to be flush against a flat surface like a wall, a couch, or a bed.

Another interesting aspect of the Designated Table’s design is that the legs follow the shape and orientation of those seemingly random shapes. That makes it feel like the wooden legs flow from these geometric indentations or vice versa, giving the tables an almost whimsical flavor that doesn’t sacrifice their stability. The gaps between the legs can even become a place for magazines, taking advantage of the narrow space. The geometric design of the Designated Table feels jovial and delightful but still makes the side tables completely functional and, perhaps, even more effective in keeping your things in their proper places.

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Dodecahedron Cat Litter Box: for Polyhedral Pooping

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Litter boxes: they’re generally unattractive. Plus, they smell. That’s two strikes against them already. Looking to change that, the Pet Object Litter Box on Kickstarter is a cat litter box in the shape of a dodecahedron to compliment the rest of your tasteful geometric home decor. You do have other tasetful geometric home decor, right? I hope it isn’t just milk crates and pizza boxes like my place.

The Pet Object Litter Box features a front entry cats have to step up and out of to help prevent rogue litter from tracking into your house. It has a removable top with a charcoal filter, integrated storage on the back for its litter scoop, and an optional litter mat. The entire top half comes off for easy scooping, which is good because the last thing you want from a litter box is difficult scooping.

The Pet Object Litter Box comes in three colors: Sand, Wimbledon White, and Translucent Amber. Personally, I’m going to go with the translucent amber one. That way, I can pretend the cat poops inside are really mosquitos trapped there hundreds of million years ago, carrying the DNA necessary to clone dinosaurs. Scooping just got a whole lot more fun!

This geometric glass cabin’s layout was defined by the fjords and rock formations that surround it

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The Efjord Cabin is a triple-glazed glass cabin that one newlywed couple calls home on the Hallvardøy Island in northern Norway.

When you’d rather spend your honeymoon in your own home than in a luxe hotel somewhere on the beach, you know you did something right. When Frode Danielsen and Tone Beathe Øvrevoll went on a holiday to Hallvardøy Island in northern Norway, the couple spent the next two years there designing their dream home where they’d soon spend their honeymoon and the rest of their lives together. The couple looked no further than the internationally renowned architecture studio Snorre Stinessen Architecture for help in building their dream home, The Efjord Cabin.

Designer: Snorre Stinessen Architecture

Before getting their plans off the ground, Danielsen and Beathe Øvrevoll had to work with the Ballangen municipality to develop a new zoning plan for the undeveloped plot of land. Settling on a naturally flat area to give rise to their new home, the couple chose it to keep the site disturbance to a minimum.

In good company, Snorre Stinessen also takes land disturbance seriously as the architects at the studio are “committed to developing projects that are conscious of our surroundings.” Stinessen goes on to say, “The shape of the building is both a dialogue with the close natural formations, but also with the larger landscape. Its functional aspects create privacy and indoor/outdoor connections to different zones around the building.”

The Efjord Cabin is propped up on a concrete slab and stationed between two rock formations which influenced the overall layout of the home. Split between two volumes, the larger of the two comprises two floors harbors the sleeping accommodations and spacious sauna.

Connected next door is a similarly angular structure that houses the home’s open-plan living room. Each volume is topped off with an inclined roof that offers lofty interior ceiling heights and unobstructed views of the snow-covered hills outside.

Defined by its triple-glazed glass facades, the Efjord Cabin finds thick insulation through 14-tons of glass to reduce energy demands. The home is also strategically configured on the site’s sloped hill to passively collect the available solar energy.

Stinessen also took to locally sourced timber to clad the exterior and interior of the Efjord Cabin. On the outside, core pine treated with iron sulfate provides the home’s exterior with a glossy sheen. Inside, birch veneer gives the home a warm, Scandinavian appeal.

Birch veneer frame the glass windows of the Efjord Cabin to balance the wild views with Scandinavian refinement.

The angular, geometric look follows through from the outside to the inside, with clean, neutral lines defining the inteiror.

Gray carpeting and tile flooring help cool down the inside and gives the home a darker appeal.

An in-home sauna can be found in the larger of the two structural volumes. 

Positioned on a sloped hill, the Efjord Cabin takes full advantage of the passive solar conditions.

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These Bauhaus-inspired chandeliers and wall-lamps add a touch of modernism to your interiors!

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Titled the Moonrise collection, these lighting designs are a Bauhaus-inspired interpretation of the different phases of the moon. Designed by Lara Bohinc for Brooklyn-based design outfit Roll & Hill, the Moonrise comes in 3 styles – two wall sconces, and one chandelier, available in either brushed brass or black anodized aluminum.

The collection makes use of straight lines intermingled with circles and half-round shapes, creating different stages of the moon ranging from a full to a half and even a crescent moon. The lighting elements sit within artistically detailed aluminum frames that end up looking like sculptural pieces when the lights are off. Switch the lights on, however, and they attract the eye even more!

The Moonrise’s playfully geometric design manages to stay true to its lunar inspiration in a beautifully abstract way. The design manages to be bold yet light, geometric yet fluid, and echoes the moon’s feminine qualities wonderfully through its almost jewel-like design.

“Lighting is like jewelry for the room – it brings sparkle, life, and joy to any space. Lights are accents that determine the mood. The room is never complete without lighting,” says Lara Bohinc, the designer behind the collection.

Designer: Lara Bohinc for Roll & Hill

This geometric dome is a modular shelter that can be anything from a greenhouse to a tiny home!

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Think of Ekodome as the grown-up version of building forts with bedsheets and pillows. Just like your fort could be anything you imagined from a storefront to a palace, these geometric domes are also designed to be anything from tiny homes to greenhouses! The modular design of these geodesic dome kits gives you endless possibilities and I, for one, would love to convert it into a creative home office.

Ekodome is a New York City-based company and they have many different models and sizes for you to choose from. The base concept is simple, it involves an aluminum frame that you can easily assemble DIY-style. The dome is crafted from high-quality and durable materials so that it is more than a temporary shelter while still retaining its modular, scalable, and lightweight nature. Your kit will come with the aluminum hub and hub caps with EPDM seal on. Both the aluminum struts and caps will be equipped with TPE SEBS seals and stainless steel bolts and nuts. Some of the popular uses for these geometric shelters has been to turn them into a greenhouse, a garden shed or even a glamping tent.

Once constructed, the geodesic dome can be used for a multitude of purposes such as a greenhouse, garden shed or glamping tent. You might want to employ it as a temporary work space, living quarters or a chicken coop. It would also work as an off-grid tiny home or disaster relief shelter.

Each frame can be covered with your choice of material, ranging in thickness from 4mm to 10mm. This allows you the ability to adapt the unit for use as a greenhouse with plastic or as a shelter with fabric. You can form your own coverings using company templates or wait for the pre-cut panels, which are expected to be offered soon. The modular design allows you to connect units together via tunnels for the true Mars experience and also for protection from the elements here on Earth.

The geodome concept isn’t new and has been used for tents and full-size homes with an understanding that the design is strong, light and efficient. However, these domes often have notable issues in regards to water resistance and reliable, protective cladding options. Ekodome has overcome those challenges using innovative technology to create strong seals throughout.

The company now offer five geodome solutions. Ekodome explained, “The five different models at various sizes are named after the feelings they evoke at first sight: Seed, for being the smallest in size; Luna, for being able to connect to bigger sizes like a satellite; Terra, for being the most common size for greenhouses; Stellar, for its stunning look and Cosmos, for its massive dimensions.”

Designer: Ekodome





These window-like lighting fixtures create playful geometric light displays when opened!

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There are some architects whose work transcends their medium and pours into in-between spaces of the design world. Tadao Ando and Luis Barragán, for instance, might be aptly known for their artful geometric structures formed primarily from plastered concrete, but they’re perhaps better known for the ways they use light to dance and interact with the angles and surfaces formed from those concrete structures. Inspired by the renowned architects’ masterful uses of light, Brazilian designer Luiza Guidi created Māyā, a collection of simple lamp fixtures that when opened create enchanting light displays.

In Hinduism, Māyā is, “the power by which the universe becomes manifest; the illusion or appearance of the phenomenal world,” as Guidi notes. Appropriately described as an illusion, Māyā contains a lot more than meets the eye. When closed, the simple lamp structure almost appears as an empty picture frame hanging on the wall. When opened, in a similar fashion to that of a book, Māyā disperses light and forms geometric shadows and angles against the wall from which it hangs.

Constructed from steel rods with a hinge opening method, the minimalistic lamp fixtures can be peeled open to form multiple sets of different angles. When Māyā’s steel rods are fully unfurled, forming an obtuse angle with the lamp’s hinges, the initially concealed lamp fills the wall with warm, golden light and slim, fractal dark shadows. Then, when only slightly opened, larger geometric shadows are framed with soft beams of light. As Guidi puts it, Māyā embodies, “the simplest design with a bewitching result.”

Designer: Luiza Guida

Depending on how far you open Māyā’s hinged lamp, dazzling shadows and angles light up the wall from where it hangs.

Constructed from steel rods, Māyā’s lamp initially remains concealed.

When closed, Māyā appears as an empty photo frame.

When left ajar, Māyā pours golden light across the wall and forms darker shapes and fractals from shadows.

When opened only slightly, Māyā’s center shadow element is bordered with slim beams of golden light.

Playful modular cabinets that put a quirky spin on storage by using geometric shelves!

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Simple yet unusual, modular yet quirky. The ROOM Collection of furniture by Erik Olovsson and Kyuhyung Cho is like IKEA but with a twist!

Fundamentally, the ROOM Collection is a series of wooden blocks with geometric negative spaces that you can store things in. The blocks are modular, which means you can stack them on top of each other to build shelves or cabinets… but what’s different about them is their storage spaces which are represented by a variety of geometric cutouts, from your conventional squares and rectangles to the unconventional circles and ellipses, to even the bizarre triangles and hexagons! The cutouts give each individual block their own unique character, and invite you to figure out what they could hold. The longer cutouts work well for wine bottles and vases, while the zig-zag ones are ideal for tablets, laptops, and books. Part of the adventure is in building the furniture to suit your space, but the rest of it is in figuring out how to turn your shelf or cabinet into a canvas for all your odd objects and souvenirs!

What the ROOM Collection so beautifully does is turns furniture into graphical art by allowing you to build a collage of 2D shapes and use them to store your objects. Inspired by architecture, designers Erik and Kyuhyung wanted to create “rooms” for your objects, with each room acting as storage while also adding to the composition of the entire shelf. The blocks come crafted from plywood and are topped off with a pine veneer. The playful treatment of the blocks literally gives them the appearance of building blocks that kids play with… acting as a reminder that we’re still creative beings who can turn ‘adulting’ into something incredibly fun and engaging!

Designers: Erik Olovsson and Kyuhyung Cho

What if the PlayStation 5 was designed by Microsoft instead of Sony?

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While I’m firmly of the opinion that the PlayStation 5 has a much more alluring design than the Xbox Series X, I can understand why some find the geometric, boxy design of the Xbox more soothing. It’s traditional, bordering on no-nonsense, and the straight lines seem like the logical decision in today’s hyper minimalist world where almost all of our gadgets are rectangular. Although, as boxy and straightforward as the Xbox Series X is, it’s just not a PlayStation… right?

If you’re a PlayStation enthusiast who finds themselves ‘questioning’ the console’s organic design, Ismail Mits has a compromise for you. His PlayStation 5 concept features a geometric design that feels like a well-calibrated blend between the styles of Sony and Microsoft. The conceptual console is shaped like an extruded right-angled triangle. Its dynamic design lets you keep it any-which way on your table, and the triangular top plays in well with the triangular icon often used in the PlayStation visual assets. The ports are located on the wider face, while a neatly positioned slit on the front acts as the disc drive. The ‘boxy-yet-not-boxy’ PS5 concept sticks to the same Stormtrooper color palette of the original design, and even features the same blue lighting, albeit at the base of the device, allowing it to give the floor or your TV cabinet a nice wash of azure blue when the console powers on!

Designer: Ismail Mits

This eccentric looking armchair interprets furniture as a postmodern art-piece!

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The Varier Ekstrem was built to evoke a reaction. Now it doesn’t matter what reaction it is as long as it’s extreme (as the chair’s name suggests), but I’m guessing designer Terje Ekstrøm is going for a combination of shock-value and absolute delight, because as eccentric as the Ekstrem armchair looks, it surely looks hypnotic too!

The Ekstrem comes with an incredibly bold-looking silhouette, thanks to its pipe-shaped design. The chair distills the seating experience to its most basic form, and then exaggerates it with thick cushioned columns that curve and intersect to create a seat that’s still comfortable to sit on. The armchair comes with a backrest and a seat, each created by four pipe-columns merging together. The pipes then branch out, becoming either the armrests, or the legs of the chair, creating something that’s absurd to look at, but something you’ll undeniably want to sit on!

Each chair comes with an internal stainless steel frame, covered with PU foam, giving the chair its soft appeal. The foam members are individually upholstered with a bespoke woven woolen fabric, giving it breathability along with elasticity that allows the fabric weave to naturally stretch when you sit on it. The chair comes in six Pantone color variants, ranging from the classic black and light Gray Violet, to more vibrant options like Shaded Spruce, Port (maroon), Sulphur (yellow), and Bridge Orange.

Designer: Terje Ekstrøm for Varier

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