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One-Handed Clothes Hanger is a Quirky Product Redesign

Posted: 08 Feb 2013 10:00 AM PST

Getting a shirt off of a hanger in the morning probably isn’t either pleasant enough or annoying enough to remember it by the end of the day, but making the experience a little easier couldn’t hurt. The SOLO hanger was invented by Howard Tseng and submitted to crowdsourcing manufacturers Quirky.

The one-handed clothes hanger allows users to grip the hanger and slide it easily into or out of clothing. As seen in the video above, the unique design makes for a quick way to grab a shirt. You can even do it one-handed, a boon for those mornings that you can’t muster the energy to use both hands at once.

Maybe even more importantly, the SOLO hanger gives a much easier-than-normal way to hang a shirt up. Rather than struggling to wrestle the hanger in through the top of the shirt or finagle it in through the bottom. You very simply slip the SOLO in through the neck and squeeze the top hooks together.

Kitchen Cooking Tables Combine Cooking + Dining Surfaces

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:00 AM PST

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of eating at a Mongolian Barbecue restaurant, you know that having food prepared inches from your plate is kind of a fun experience. Cooking tables from German kitchen outfitters Alno give the same experience at home.

Originally created by design students at the Muthesius College of Art in Kiel, Germany, the cooking tables incorporate preparation, cooking and dining areas all in one piece of furniture.

The unique tables include features like flip-up glass covers that protect the cooktop when down and protect the diners from cooking splatters when up. Although most in the range are free-standing, one model is a cooking surface that attaches to an existing dining table.

Certain models of the cooking tables include movable eating surfaces that can be adjusted to provide sitting room on one side of the cooking surface or the other. The unusual tables are ideal for small-space kitchens in which counter space, cooking surfaces and dining space are all in constant competition.

Wooden Shade Slats Reborn as Attention-Grabbing Furniture

Posted: 06 Feb 2013 04:00 PM PST

There are certain objects which immediately bring to mind certain cities – for Buenos Aires, the wooden roller blinds on homes and businesses may just be those objects. They are simple but recognizable, ubiquitous and often discarded without a second thought.

Argentinian architects Maria Constanza Nuñez and Gabriel Pires Mateus, collectively known as Gruba, have created a line of recycled furniture from these wooden roller blinds that is uniquely Buenos Aires.

The salvaged bits and pieces are refinished to create sophisticated furniture that looks nothing like it was once discarded. The roller blind slats are joined together with simple wooden frames into chairs, loungers and coffee tables that are surprisingly elegant.

Veering away from the wooden slats but staying in line with their green vision, Gruba also created this amusing – and probably very comfortable – stool called Banquito Willy. It features an engineered wooden frame that is held together without nails or glue, and a seat of recycled tennis balls.

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