*The Glass House by Santambrogio Milano*

Few weeks ahead of Christmas, here is a series of design items you may still have time to order and surprise people around you. Here is the #DesignYourChristmas Season 1.

Toucan lamp

The Toucan Lamp by Old Timer Ferrari (Italy, 1968, H 23.4cm, L 17.7cm, W 10cm). Plastic.

Founded in 2013 by Lora Appleton, kinder MODERN, is a contemporary and vintage design gallery and studio. Based in New York, it has identified a rare selection of historic and iconic pieces but also develop its own collection of furniture, objects and rugs for exemplary residential and commercial projects including homes, amenities spaces, hotels, public space, educational environments and more.

Price: USD 650*

Cubetto

Cubetto by Primotoys is a cross curricular early learning resource that helps young learners develop coding skills, problem solving, communication, and creativity through adventure and play.

Made of tactile and hard-wearing wood, Cubetto is a guide to the world of coding; screenless, friendly, and ready to play. It allows special needs students to engage in coding without a reliance on language, memory or working a computer interface.

Each unique tile was designed with blind and low vision users in mind with clear tactile distinction. The button to activate the robot is a large with a clear feedback, built into the stable solid, grippy interface. Plus, feedback cues with sounds and lights reinforce the connection between each instruction and robot action.

Price: USD 220*

Slip Chair

Made by hand in Portugal by Uva for Snarkitecture, the white oak wood frame of Slip Chair appears to be sinking into the ground, rendering it unusable. However a tapered black marble stone slab restores a level, functional surface for sitting. The opposing elements of the light, wood frame and heavy, monolithic volume that rests upon it, exist in an oscillating balance. Rotated on two axes, the implied instability of the slipping form conceals the durability of Slip Chair.

Price: around USD 1,900*

Split Mirror

The Split Mirror by Zoë Mowat for Ariake, was designed with the Japanese concept of Ma in mind, which expresses the importance of a pause, gap or a negative space — as being equally significant to a whole. The mirror frame is made up of two wooden halves that are separated by a break that allows the eye to contemplate the space in between. The Split Mirror is available in two sizes and can be installed vertically or horizontally.

Ariake Collection is a furniture brand founded by Legnatec and Hirata Chair, two factories from Morodomi in Saga prefecture, Japan. Named after the Ariake Sea in Southern Japan, Ariake means daybreak in Japanese. It symbolises a new chapter for the two factories as they embark on a collaboration with international designers for the global market.

Price: around USD 2,700*

Pilule

This unique light installation by Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert Studio. Free-hand blown glass, incalmo technique, brass stem, LED system. 30 x 40 x 50 cm (variable dimensions).

Located right in the heart of Paris, Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert Studio creates contemporary and exceptional works made of glass, intended for professionals and lovers of fine handmade objects and luxury decoration, both in France and around the world. Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert (born in 1980 in Paris, where he lives and works) is a French-American craftsman who has spent over twenty years perfecting freehand glass-blowing techniques that he learned during a cosmopolitan apprenticeship between the United States and Europe from 1998 to 2007.

Price on request*

*all prices are exclusive of local taxes and shipping.

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