apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Ah yes, La Corbeille...they exhibited at Maison Objet in September and had this 5.5 stuff!! 5.5 was also exhibiting a huge range of porcelain at Maison-Objet but nothing earth-shattering. I think the 5.5 tea cup handle shaped sugar was posted on Design Sponge earlier this week.

Sorry but this is a hideously bad idea. As if the exposed line voltage contacts aren't bad enough, who in their with mind wants to be forced to look at a plug-strip? Not me. At home I don't want to see wires ever, anywhere.

This goes against my cord-hiding tendencies.

It's kind of interesting - and I'll conceded that it would actually be very useful in a hotel room... but the fact that it's European only makes it pretty much a "so what?!" for me.

If it's not actually even an option for the vast majority of AT homes, I don't think it meets the bar of innovative/attractive/witty or "wow" enough to warrant inclusion here.

If you're going to show love for 5.5, their "seat prosthesis" (sorry, can't get the link to work - but you can find it under products/seats) is a 100x more fabulous design than this lamp/plug business.