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High Designs Inspiring Low at CB2

CB2 has been carving a path for itself as being affordable, hip and sophisticated, AND many of its designs lately seem drawn from other sources, where they usually cost a great deal more. Here is a ...

Hot or Not? Finn Lounger Daybed from CB2

Part of CB2's new fall collection is the Danish-Modern-inspired Finn Lounger — a sofa with a deep twin-mattress seat just waiting to be filled with pillows... ...

Best Outdoor Dining Tables 2009

This weekend I discovered that we had a desperate need for an outdoor dining table. After years of carrying the inside dining table outside (which I sort of like), Sara Kate said, "enough", and I w...

Best Outdoor Dining Chairs 2009

I've been looking to upgrade our outdoor dining chairs for the past month. The ones' we've got are simple old Paris park folding chairs which I love, but they've become really run down from many ye...

Best Water & Wine Glasses for Summer 2009

We had dinner at a friend's house two weeks ago and they served us wine in these glasses up top (bottom left). Though they are really water tumblers, they have a passing resemblance to the Riedel s...

Current Favorite Pendant Lamps: Roost, Thomas O'Brien, CB2 & Cecile Manz

Today I'm fixated on my recent pendant lamp obsession. I've rounded up all of the best ones that I've seen lately and passing them on. Enjoy!......

Best Sleeper Sofas & Sofa Beds 2009

I've been updating my list of best sleeper sofas each year for about four years now, and things have usually changed slowly. This past year, however, things changed a good deal and I have a bunch o...

High & Low: Colorful Outdoor Chairs
Luxembourg Collection & CB2

We've admired Frederic Sofia's Luxembourg collection of outdoor furniture since it was created in 2000 as a modern update of the furniture from Paris' Luxembourg Gardens. We've seen it at The Conran...

How to: Make a Bubble Chandelier
by Jean Pelle for ReadyMade

We've blogged about Jean Pelle's beautiful designs before — we love her work. This time, she's teamed up with ReadyMade magazine to create a light fixture that can be easily replicated at hom...

Best Storage Beds of 2009

The Matera Bed I am generally against storing things under your bed because I feel it creates bad bedroom energy, BUT I do find it necessary - at least a little bit - in NYC, so I've created and upda...

Harmonica Storage Bed from CB2

Last year we posted CB2's Sleepy Hollow Storage Bed — and it was a big hit. It's since been discontinued and replaced by the Harmonica Storage Bed......

Roundup: Short-Armed Sofas

We've noticed an increasing number of new sofas with "short" arms — arms that don't extend to the full depth of the sofa cushion. While the Hutton from Room & Board made an appearance last yea...

High & Low Table
Matthew Hilton, Atlantico & CB2

As we continue to look through all the new furnishing options launched in the new year — we're drawn back to CB2 and their keen ability to offer similarly inspired designs at a fraction of the...

High & Low Desk
Herman Miller & CB2

We've admired George Nelson's Swag Leg desk (above, right) since Herman Miller re-introduced it two years ago — and now CB2 has unveiled a desk inspired by the design classic and available for...

Best Product: Glam Sconce from CB2

We recently noticed these new additions to CB2's line of lighting and wanted to share. Glam Sconce comes in either "Lobster Red" (whoever writes copy for CB2's website deserves a raise) and "Poli...

Good Questions: Identify This Color from CB2?

I am not sure who to contact about this question...any chance you might be able to find out the name of the ridiculously gorgeous green-blue color wall on page 72 of the new CB2 catalogue? The color...

Good Questions: Substitution for Emeco Chairs?

We lust after Emeco chairs for our dining room (above, right), but at $395 a pop, buying six of them seems a little extreme. We just got the new CB2 catalog in the mail, and saw their "bandit chair"...

Matchbox Bed from CB2

If you're a minimalist, you'll love CB2's new super, super low Matchbox Bed. It holds just a mattress and lets you sleep just 11" off the ground. This bed also allows the neat and tidy among us to t...

CB2's Hancock Bookcase

First, we have to say we love the lobster red color CB2 is showing off in the photo up top. And center stage is taken by the new Hancock Bookcase, named for the sky scraper in Chicago......

Sol Console Table from CB2

We're loving the intense yellow color of the new Sol Console Table from CB2. The color is named "yolk" and we think it is very appropriate. The 60" table measures a slim 14.5" deep which is great f...

Axis Modular Storage Units from CB2

We're always thrilled to discover new, inexpensive furniture that allows for unique configurations and is adaptable to many different living situations. It helps when the furniture also adds STORAGE...

High & Low: Woven Accent Table

Patricia Urquiola's Flo collection for Italian company Driade features a small, woven rattan-topped table. Perhaps it was the inspiration for CB2's Crochet Table? With remarkably similar shapes and ...

Look!: Rex Chair and Eddy Table at Dolores Park Cafe

Okay, we happen to be in San Francisco visiting our team here (and enjoying the really good lattes), but this street scene relates to what we wrote about just last week in one of our emails... ...

ICFF 2008: Nicolo Taliani's Lamp #1

>> To All NY ICFF Posts Color continued to play a big part in designs at this year's ICFF, and Nicolo Taliani's lamps were a case in point. Even better in person (we'd seen them only in print), these...

Best Water/Wine Carafes of 2008
Email from 5.5.08

I opened up the new T Style magazine yesterday and thought it was thin. Design & Living is my bag, and I was totally ready for some good shelter porn, but I was left wanting. I guess if you pay ...

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