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If you are fond of scouring the ground at the flea market looking for that rare treasure, this wool rug from Emilie Lecouturier and Céline Poncelet at Atelier Blink brings the flea market to your living room...

The light cage by Jocelyn Deris comes in two sizes and is available through La Corbeille.

Modern nomads long ago discovered the airbed. But now when it's time to decamp, you can simply deflate this inflatable Chesterfield sofa designed by Jeroen van de Kant and pack it up into its specially designed carrying trolley for easy transport...

If you're crazy about those Pantone mugs, here's an idea from Elle Décoration to transform your stairs...

This is just one possibility for arranging the Tangram shelves from Italian company Lago, who specialize in high-quality modular pieces that you can arrange and rearrange to suit your whims...

Not wild about the mask art, but the floating bedside storage next to the floating bed in a display at a recent edition of Maison & Objet from Italian company Lago is worth a look...

Winnie Lui's White Chandelier for Innermost is a trash-to-treasure exercise from the jewelry turned lighting designer, who has made 50 limited edition pieces in white and black. It's just one in a long tradition of light fixtures made from cast-offs that take on relevance as the world becomes increasingly overloaded with junk and designers transform it into raw material...

Pascale Palun is an Avignon-based designer who started creating lighting and decorative objects made from old materials when she took a break after 10 years in the fashion industry to raise her son. Since then, she's done interior design for John Malkovich and makes regular appearances at the bi-annual Maison & Objet trade show, leading to commissions from around the world. Her philosophy is that each piece should be "unique, made by hand and imperfect." ...

Since he first designed it 10 years ago for Eurolounge, British designer Michael Young's Stick Light has become a modern design icon -- a statuesque rod of light that leans casually against the wall as seen here in a photo spread from Livingetc. Now he has reengineered the Stick Light for Innermost, adding a base that allows it to stand up straight and makes it suitable for indoor or outdoor use...

Five top-floor former maids' rooms were combined into a roomy apartment overlooking the rooftops of Paris in this photo gallery from Cotemaison. But the architect figured out a way to make it seem even more spacious by plastering the wall seen at left with LC2 "Wallfurniture" ...

If you missed this one when we blogged about it last year, check out the hobbit-like eco-house that Simon Dale built for himself and his young family in just four months, with the help of his father-in-law, passersby and visiting friends...

It's hard to walk down the Rue Vieille du Temple in the Marais without pausing to gaze at these traffic-stopping medusa/gorgon doors on the Hôtel Amelot de Bisseuil at #47. But what does this landmark building and popular tourist photo op have to do with the founding of the United States of America?

We have transformed old sweaters still in good condition into covers for throw pillows before, with no one the wiser, proud of our thrifty DIY. But this bedspread made from old sweaters proudly boasts its humble origins...

Pieke Bergmans' series of one-of-a-kind crystal LED lamps for Royal Leerdam Crystal and Solid Lighting are what the designer calls "light blubs." And what exactly is a light blub?