Take your radiator to bed with you. Danish designer Anna Gotha has designed an attractive heating installation that you can actually take to bed with you, or on a picnic in the snow.

Why is it not possible to make more use of the heat from a radiator? Anna Gotha tried to answer this question by designing a radiator with multiple functions.

Existing radiators take up too much room and the design is often rather conservative. With the new radiator, Anna Gotha has made use of the heat, and at the same time given the user a more functional and simple design.

Modulo is the name of the radiator, and it is a new way of exploiting the heat. You can add or remove modules as desired and hide them in your wardrobe drawers when you want to repaint, or when you just want to use the floor space as optimally as possible.

But the radiator has more to offer.

The modules are designed with an upholstered aluminium core that gives you the opportunity to use the installation as a piece of furniture to lean up against. Also, the core is warmed up by the radiator and therefore you can take it with you to bed, or maybe outside in the cold.

Anna Gotha has with her design tried to combine technique with aesthetics and at the same time create a design that to a greater extent, emphasises modularity and the possibility of variations. The result is an aesthetic radiator with multiple functions and a design that can be adjusted to the individual.

Designer: Anna Gotha Made in Denmark

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care&click innovatively combines aesthetics and commitment in its fight against global warming. It offers a daily high-quality wallpaper from famous photographers as a free download from its webpage. The images underline the fragile beauty of our planet and demonstrate vividly why we should care! This intention is also reflected by the basic but still colourful design of the site. For each download corporate partners donate 10 Euro-cent towards reforestation. For every 10 downloads, a tree is planted as a carbon dioxide reduction method. Daily downloading of fascinating images of our planet helps you to reduce your carbon footprint considerably – and it is free!

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The concept is based on the fact that you can't sit upright on a sitting bag, and you're not allowed to lie backwards on the 2 back legs of a chair. This combination creates a sitting sack in which you can put the upper part-which is connected to the sac- in the way you like: just shake the little balls to ad the right position.

Designer: James Van Vossel Made in Belgium

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‚the Berliners‘ help to keep your desk tidy. They are easy to put together, available in three sizes, three uses: for CDs, pencils, and as a box for anything and everything! The combination of materials is fascinating and innovative: grey cardboard and rubber. And simply wire tie. Our Berliners are packed lying flat: the thick, the small, and the flat ones.

Designer: Raumgestalt Made in Germany

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After meeting at the SaloneSatellite in Milan last April, the Japanese Manufacturer Idée has commissioned Marina Bautier to design a collection of furniture, in the same line as the one she presented at the fair (the Bureau, Chaise & Tabouret, Portemanteau and Lamp). Combining different material with oak, like metal, paper or paint, M. Bautier developed the following products: a flat pack Table assembled without any screws or tools, a compact wooden Chair to go with it, a home Desk formed by a wooden table and mobile metal accessories, a table Lamp with a paper shade and a Coathanger combined with a stool.

Designer: Marina Bautier ( Belgium ) Manufacturer: Idée ( Japan )

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The seat is made up of 1600 pencils which are individually sprung. Each pencil can be removed and used.

Designer: Boex 3D Creative Solutions Made in UK

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Compared to ordinary drawers Dias wants to stand out! It opens up sideways like a matchbox, dictating the positioning of other furnitures by claiming a central space on the wall. The drawer is covered with pyramids with the exception of a small flat tray-like surface. This has partly been in order to create strong contrasts caused by the highlights and shadows from the surface structure, but also to limit the tendency to place all sorts of knick-knack on the horizontal surface.

Designer: FurnID Made in Denmark

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DLM/ Don't leave me Small mobile table for everyday use: drinks, ashtrays and other necessities, outdoors or indoors.

Designer: Thomas Bentzen Made in Denmark

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