Cool Hunting

P.A.M. x Undercover Shade Lamp
Using macabre imagery to form an eerily symbolic sculptural piece, Jun Takahashi of Undercover joined forces with P.A.M. to create the Shade Lamp. The scene depicts a tree growing out of (or through?) a skull in a cemetery somewhere with the branches (fittingly) holding the shade. For mood lighting, I like the green and gold eyes, but my favorite part of the lamp has...

Blumen by Loop
Remember Blumen, uses electroluminescent display technology to create a decorative surface that reacts to its environment. The botanical pattern animates in a manner to suggest natural growth and is designed to be cut and constructed in a range of shapes and sizes....

Fireorb
Straight off the set of the Jetson's, Fireorb is a 3 foot wide steel fireplace that's suspended from the ceiling. Presumably all you need to do is put a hole in your roof and, poof you get a fireplace. Regardless, it's truly Cool Warmth as they describe it....

Star Trek Apartment
Tony Alleyne's (is that pronounced like Alien? interesting.) 24th Century Interior Design created this Star Trek apartment which looks like the real (fake) thing. There are tons of pictures here, but suffice it to say that the attention to detail is incredible. Just look at the kitchen and bedroom above. If you're willing to live in Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK, this place could be yours...

Nature Wallpaper
Swedish designer Camilla Diedrich aims to add uniquely natural elements into her mass-produced products. Her goal for Nature Wallpaper was to inject an intrinsic luminance using a single color. Or as she succinctly explains, "I have been searching for light without light." Her efforts resulted in repeating patterns of vaguely organic forms, which are cast in vibrant hues and resemble some sort of luminous...

Bottoms Up Doorbell
A winner of a Red Dot award last year, Peter van der Jagt's Bottoms Up Doorbell is perhaps one of the best examples of repurposed objects we've come across. It's no surprise that it comes from the fertile Dutch collective that is Droog, circa 1994. A magnet (which adds bonus points for its exposed wiring) between two different sized crystal wineglasses creates the classic...