Dwell on Design 2012 Expo Debuts Inventive Designs
The Dwell on Design expo is going on this weekend (June 22–24, 2012) at Los Angeles, also this year is bigger and better than last. I found some new products you’ll need now. If you are in the L.A. area, check it out for innovative ideas and fascinating lectures. Otherwise, here is a roundup of the products producing excitement around the show floor.
Natalie Myers
Upon entering the exhibit hall, you instantly find this sculptural installation, called “Screenplay,” by Oyler Wu Collaborative — so you know that you are looking for an elevated design experience. Peppered among the exhibit booths are high-concept showings by design students as well as various design contest winners, making for a thrilling walk around the expo.
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Dunsmuir Cabinets supplies custom cabinet doors to operate with any Ikea kitchen cabinet body. The new system allows you to make a beautifully modern custom kitchen easily, as you are using the existing Ikea cabinets system. Dunsmuir can retrofit Ikea kitchens back to 1988 and operate together with the Ikea planning software. The best part is you can install it yourself to get an instantaneous DIY upgrade. Brilliant in its simplicity.
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Resource Furniture North America provided a contemporary take on the Murphy bed called Compact Living Solutions. It’s a modular unit of wall bed with sofa, where you may add shelving and storage units.
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The styling is young and sleek. The wall bed unit has been drawing a bunch on the floor both at the closed and open positions. Once you customize your unit, it is delivered to your door apartment packed to be installed by a contractor. It’s perfect for small urban dwellings, studios and guestrooms.
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Hansgrohe has launched a new line of bathroom fittings known as Axor for fans of minimalism and performance.
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The Axor Bouroullec set of over 70 items allows you to compose your own unit to fit your exact requirements. What fun!
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From Kohler, we find a collaboration with Jonathan Adler to introduce a world of saturated colour to a kitchen and bathroom. The colors — yellow, pea green, sky blue and navy — are not meant for the faint of heart.
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Porcelain tile that looks like wood planks isn’t a new notion, but I have never regarded as good an illustration as the Over lineup from Arizona Tile. It needs to be available in August 2012. Gorgeous.
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The Spore doorbells and chimes were cute. From illuminated little buttons for home exteriors to larger door chimes evocative of schoolhouse bells, the appearance was contemporary and vintage at precisely the same moment.
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Another home exterior idea, this one from Potted, is your City Planter, which doubles as a home numbering marker. As the metal ages and takes to a rusted patina, your home exterior won’t be affected because the planter sits on a cleat a half-inch from the surface.
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Most of us love our chalkboard paint, but new on the scene is Whitey Board, which makes white and clear paint which may turn any painted wall into a dry-erase board. It’s also has vinyl dry-erase stickers that stick onto partitions and may be removed and repositioned.
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I enjoy the Urbio modular storage systems too. They are magnetic, and you are able to install and arrange any assortment of the containers on any component of the horizontal panels. They are an easy and attractive vertical garden or office supply solution.
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A new online store called Shelter Black caught my attention. The lineup was utilitarian, refreshing and organic feeling. Some neon, natural green and wood elements combine to create for a new preferred home goods and gifts origin.
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The outdoor fireplace provided by Modfire is precisely the sort of product I hope to see from editorial about outside living for the following five decades. It’s a Southern California midcentury-cool vibe that will be welcomed in a variety of summer collecting.
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In furniture, Bend Seating introduced a very of-the-moment lineup of flexible geometric wire chairs I’d happily have in my living room or on my outside patio.
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In case goods, wfour has a line of simple and trendy sideboards and cabinets that you will covet. The pieces are made from quality woods like walnut, cherry, oak and cherry, plus they have a lacquer finish in a variety of playful colors. Each piece may be customized.