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Transform Your Bathroom With This Recycled Ceramic Washbasin Made From Almost 100% Waste Materials

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With our super hectic lives, bathtime is probably the only time of the day when we get to relax and be truly alone. It’s that precious hour of the day when we can completely indulge in self-care, and pamper ourselves, hence it is my favorite time of the day. Having a beautifully designed bathroom with thoughtful designs will only amplify this special time of the day. These products can make a huge difference in our everyday bathroom experience. And a product that would make an invaluable addition to your bathroom is the Recycled Washbasin by VitrA.

Designer: VitrA

Designed by Turkish bathroom brand Vitra, the Recycled Ceramic Washbasin is a minimalist and well-designed bathroom fixture that is made from almost 100 percent waste materials. These materials even include discarded ceramics from the company’s own production processes. This recycled washbasin has been designed to ensure minimal damage to the environment, according to VitrA.

“The recycled ceramic washbasin embodies the principles of circular manufacturing, where waste becomes a valuable resource,” said VitrA. “Choosing to reclaim materials from the manufacturing process that would otherwise have been discarded, VitrA crafts something new from waste products.

For the Recycled Ceramic Washbasin, VitrA chose waste materials, creating something new and improved from what would otherwise have been discarded. They are promoting the ideology of circular manufacturing, ensuring that everything is used, and nothing truly goes to waste.

The Recycled Ceramic Washbasin is available in five rounded shapes – Pebble, Square, Circle, Oval, and TV. The different shapes are created in a textural taupe-colored clay, which allows them to merge perfectly with different bathroom designs. Besides being eco-friendly, the washbasin also features subtle and minimal aesthetics, making it a good-looking addition to your bathroom, instead of an eyesore. The washbasin also features a compact and ergonomic size, so it won’t occupy excessive space in your bathroom, encouraging you to design and curate a well-planned and efficiently-designed bathroom.

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The Vitra ACX Is The Sustainable + Sleek Office Chair Of The Future With Essentially No Physical Controls

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One of the most important pieces of furniture in an office is an office chair. We spend the majority of our day sitting on chairs, whether we’re working in our home office or a corporate one. Hence, this piece of furniture needs to be not only comfortable but ergonomic, and aesthetic as well. It needs to be back to support our backs and butts through a long day of dealing with tasks and completing important assignments. And, an exceptional office chair that would make a great addition to your office is the Vitra ACX.

Designer: Antonio Citterio and Vitra

Designed as a collaboration between Antonio Citterio and Vitra, the Vitra ACX is the tenth task chair created by the collaborators. The Vitra ACX is an evolution and culmination of the long-lasting partnership, and it is a neat fit for your home office or corporate office. The goal of the chair is to have a “long service life with the smallest possible carbon footprint”.

Vitra is dubbed as ACX’s most sustainable task chair available, and this claim is backed up by the fact that the chair has a 100% recyclable construction. It is built with a limited number of components to ensure that service and maintenance are simple and efficient. Citterio explains, “The use of up to 100% recyclable materials was the single most important factor in the design process.”

The Vitra ACX features a three-dimensional form-fitted knit that covers the backrest pretty minimally, without causing any intrusions of the seam. The fabric has a tactile imprint design which provides supportive softness. The mesh fabric design is quite airy, and an excellent option for those who want a lightweight fabric rather than a heavily padded traditional support. Also, the Vitra ACX doesn’t feature too many controls. Physical controls have been eliminated resulting in reduced weight, and the eradication of any confusion or doubt when it comes to operating the chair. Instead, ACX is equipped with a mechanism that automatically adjusts itself to the different kinds of users and their body weights. The seat’s height is still manually adjustable though.

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Panasonic wants to make displays more invisible and ubiquitous in homes

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Panasonic Vitrine wants to make displays more invisible and ubiquitous in homes

It looks like a Samsung Serif TV (and it sort of made its first appearance at the exact same place, the Milan Design Week), which inspired a wave of hate in me, but that dissipated as quickly as it rose when I learned more about what Panasonic’s actually trying to do. This is the Vitrine. It isn’t a TV, but it’s more of a smart glass cabinet. With a wooden frame on the outside, and an angular glass on the front, the Vitrine, co-created by Panasonic, Vitra, and designer Daniel Rybakken, was developed post two long years of R&D. What it essentially is an innocuous display that doesn’t demand attention, or space. Built with a transparent OLED screen integrated into the glass, the Vitrine combines art, design, and tech. Unlike most televisions that become a big black mass when switched off, the Vitrine oscillates between being a screen when switched on, and a clear case for the things behind it (books, toys, figurines, trophies, photographs) when off.

Panasonic hasn’t really outlined any solid use-cases for the Vitrine yet, but that’s probably because it exists as a single prototype with no launch-date. If paired with smart speakers, the Vitrine could deliver notifications, play visualizations while listening to music, or just display ambient artwork along with information like the time, calendar, or weather. The Vitrine is currently on display at Vitra’s stand (Booth B07/C12, Hall 20) at the Salone del Mobile in Milan until 14th April.

Designers: Panasonic, Vitra, and Daniel Rybakken

Panasonic Vitrine wants to make displays more invisible and ubiquitous in homes

Panasonic Vitrine wants to make displays more invisible and ubiquitous in homes

Panasonic Vitrine wants to make displays more invisible and ubiquitous in homes

Panasonic Vitrine wants to make displays more invisible and ubiquitous in homes

The Eames Radio is making a modern comeback after over 70 years

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After a little over 70 years, Vitra is doing a special reissue of Ray and Charles Eames’ iconic radio design, but bringing it back with a slight modern twist. The Eames Radio, if you look at it, looks quite like the icon of a radio. It’s perhaps the most natural design ever, featuring a use of geometry, proportion, and just pure sense, to make something so clear and so beautiful, it looks stunning even after 70 years. Vitra’s reissue takes that design and puts a modern spin on it. The radio still comes with a molded plywood exterior, an antenna, and a matrix of circular holes that serve as the speaker grille. It still comes with two rotary knobs, but also packs four extra control buttons and an LCD display that’s equally vintage and modern. With the Eames signature on the bottom left, the Vitra Eames Radio pays tribute to an icon of product design, created by two of product design’s most revered names. In honor of how special the original design is, Vitra is limiting their production/reissue to just 999 pieces.

Designer: Vitra X Ray & Charles Eames