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This Chair doubles as a Floor Lamp for quirky, multipurpose furniture for tiny homes

Most furniture is remarkably obedient. It goes where you put it, does what it was designed to do, and asks nothing back. A sofa is a sofa. A side table holds your coffee and your remote and maybe a plant you keep meaning to water. The relationship is comfortable, uncomplicated, and, if you’re honest about […]

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Alpine’s Wildest F1 Concept Car Concept Uses a Magnetic Levitation Cockpit to Protect Its Driver

If Alpine’s 2026 season is about consolidation, about switching to Mercedes power units and clawing back from last place in the Constructors’ Championship, then HakHyeon Lee’s Alpine Horizon concept is the opposite impulse entirely. This is a designer throwing Alpine’s arrow logo onto a closed-cockpit hypercar with a magnetically levitating driver pod, wire-tethered to a

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How Three Sisters Turned Their Father’s Former Grocery Store Into A Space For Culture + Community

How Three Sisters Turned Their Father’s Former Grocery Store Into A Space For Culture + Community Studio Visit by Lucy Feagins, Editor An art piece hanging in Dukkana reads, ‘As a minority in a predominantly white space, to take up space is itself an act of resistance.’ The El Samad sisters, Emina, Safa and, Fatima.

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This Custom BMW R 1300 R Superhooligan Pays Tribute To 50 Years Since Its First Daytona Victory

Fifty years ago this month, a team of engineers and riders rolled three air-cooled German boxer twins into Daytona’s paddock and lined them up against a field of screaming Japanese inline-fours that everyone assumed would bury them. Butler & Smith, BMW’s US importer at the time, had hired an aerospace engineer named Udo Gietl to

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Louis Vuitton Escale Mount Fuji Pocket Watch brings a functional landscape to life

If you’ve reached here, stop scrolling any further, and just look at that goddamn watch. Isn’t this Louis Vuitton pocket watch simply incredible? Museum-worthy, my colleague cries out! Before figuring out the entire dynamism of it and setting out to write, I looked again. Is that even a watch? It’s more of an art piece

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ferréol babin renders french countryside on hand-carved furniture for friedman benda show

Ferréol Babin opens ‘In a Landscape’ at friedman benda   In a Landscape, the newest exhibition by Ferréol Babin at Friedman Benda, brings a group of carved wood objects into dialogue with painted surfaces and ceramic inlays. Ahead of the March 6th opening in New York, designboom spoke with Babin about the works on view,

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Decathlon’s Betty Tiny Home Proves You Don’t Have to Sacrifice Comfort for the Open Road

Tiny house living often demands tough trade-offs between mobility and livability, but Decathlon Tiny Homes aims to strike an appealing balance with its latest model, the Betty. At 28 feet long, this towable home sits comfortably in the mid-size category, offering enough room for a thoughtfully designed two-person layout without sacrificing the ability to hit

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5 Solar Panel Designs So Beautiful You’d Never Know They’re Generating Power

A quiet revolution is reshaping the future of sustainable architecture. Instead of treating buildings merely as energy-saving shells, designers are now turning them into active power generators. With innovations such as Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) panels and ultra-thin solar films, the building’s exterior becomes an energy-harvesting surface, enabling power generation directly where people live and interact.

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One Galaxy S26 Ultra Case Glows in the Dark. The Other Has a Built-In Thermal Sensor. Pick One.

Most people buy a phone case the same way they buy a phone. They want it to feel like them. Some people want basic, slim protection that keeps the phone looking as close to naked as possible. Others want rugged, military-grade armor that could survive a construction site. Some hunt for modular systems with swappable

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