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Coppe: The Concrete Vases Turning a Simple Container Into Sculpture
Ethimo and Studiopepe's new Coppe collection strips the vase back to its purest form, a seamless concrete vessel with handmade texture, continuing their ongoing outdoor design collaboration.


Nida: The Outdoor Chair That Turns Rush Weaving Into Something Sculptural
Ethimo's new Nida dining chair, designed by Chiara Andreatti, takes the humble rush-seated chair, the kind you'd find in an old countryside kitchen, and gives it a completely contemporary outdoor makeover, built to hold up beautifully season after season.


San Marco: The Ceiling Lamp Bringing Venetian Glassmaking Into Your Living Room
Cattelan Italia's new San Marco ceiling lamp takes its cues from centuries-old Venetian glassmaking, translated into a piece that feels as much like a sculptural object as a light fixture. The oval glass shades come in two soft, unexpected hues, kiwi and peach, each one blown using techniques associated with Murano's glass tradition.


Matera by Cattelan Italia: The Coffee Table That Rearranges Itself Around You
Cattelan Italia's new Matera collection, designed by Studio 28, is built on a simple idea: your coffee table shouldn't have to stay in one place doing one job. The set comes in three shapes and sizes that can be mixed and matched depending on the day, sitting front and center in the living room one moment and tucked beside the sofa or a favorite reading chair the next.


The Cutting Board Gets a Glow-Up: Inside knIndustrie's Beautifully Considered Kitchen Objects
knIndustrie's cutting board collection, Barrique, S/Lab, and Essenze, is designed to move from prep station to dinner table without missing a beat, each piece built around its own material and its own personality.


Yashica's Funtastic Keychain Camera Adds a Selfie Screen to the Y2K Mini-Cam Craze
Yashica has entered the Y2K mini-camera craze with the Funtastic Keychain Camera, a 22-gram digital camera that doubles as a wearable charm. Its flip-up selfie screen sets it apart from rivals like the Kodak Charmera, and licensed Hello Kitty and Snoopy editions turn a lo-fi gadget into a collectible, all for under $30.


Aqara Smart Lock U500: Three Versions for Gates, Glass Doors and Standard Entrances
Most smart locks are designed around a single door type, typically a standard wooden front door with a mortise or deadbolt. The Aqara Smart Lock U500 series, now available in the UK, takes a different approach, offering three separate versions built for door types that retrofit smart locks have historically struggled with.


Le Creuset Fruit Cocotte Collection: Three Stoneware Pots Shaped Like a Peach, a Strawberry and a Blueberry
Hosting has shifted from formal dinners to everyday gatherings, with more people investing in their kitchens and tablescapes as extensions of their lifestyle. In that context, the objects that sit on a table or a kitchen counter carry more weight than they used to. They are part of the atmosphere, not just the function.


Salter Slushie Maker: A Frozen Drinks Machine That Takes On Ninja at Half the Price
At-home slushie machines have become a genuine kitchen appliance category over the past two years, largely on the back of the Ninja Slushi, which sells at £299.99. Salter, the British kitchen appliance brand, has now entered the same space with its own Slushie Maker, priced at £179.99 and built around a similar operating premise.


Dreame Cyber X: A Stair-Climbing Robot Vacuum That Cleans Each Step on the Way Down
Robot vacuums have been solving floor-cleaning across single rooms and open-plan spaces for years, but stairs have remained the consistent limitation. Most models stop at the edge of a staircase. The Dreame Cyber X, first previewed at IFA Berlin in 2025 and formally announced at Dreame's Paris launch event this week, addresses that directly with a purpose-built stair-climbing system and now comes with a stair-cleaning function that was absent from the earlier concept.


Barista M3 1926 Limited Edition Carbon Fiber by Ducati: A Coffee Machine Built Like a Motorcycle
Ducati was founded in Bologna in 1926, and the centenary has produced the kind of releases one would expect from a marque of its standing. The Barista M3 1926 Limited Edition Carbon Fiber, developed in collaboration with Swiss manufacturer Cuisine Barista, is a different kind of object: a capsule espresso machine built with the same material logic as a racing motorcycle.


Scavolini's Stilo System by Spalvieri & Del Ciotto Takes a Single Design Language from Kitchen to Bathroom, Built Around the Cylinder
Scavolini's Stilo, designed by Spalvieri & Del Ciotto, is a whole-home system that runs from kitchen through living area to bathroom within a single coherent design language, premised on the idea that the contemporary home no longer organises itself around fixed single-purpose rooms but around spaces that shift function across the day.


Globe-Trotter Has Turned Its Iconic Trunk Into a Piece of Furniture and It Belongs in Every Well-Designed Room
Inspired by early twentieth-century steamer trunks, the new Steamer Home Trunk retains their sturdy construction and generous proportions while focusing entirely on interior functionality. Placed at the end of a bed, it functions as an ottoman.


The Limited Edition Fender x PAC-MAN Player II Telecaster Is a Made-to-Order Collector's Guitar at £949
Fender and PAC-MAN have collaborated on a limited edition guitar that is equal parts collector's object and fully functional instrument. The limited edition Fender x PAC-MAN Player II Telecaster is available now as a web exclusive, made to order at £949, with a current delivery wait time of approximately four months from the point of order.


Pedrali's Gentle Habitat Is the Design Philosophy Your Home Has Been Waiting For
Pedrali has introduced what it calls the "Gentle Habitat," a design philosophy built around the idea that the spaces we live in should actively contribute to our well-being rather than simply hold our furniture, and the new collection it has built around that conviction is worth paying attention to.
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