The ZERO chaise, designed by Nolen Niu is the metaphoric relashionship of suspension under tension. After working with some of Los Angeles’s leading furniture and architectural design firm developing private furniture lines, custom one of a kind pieces, mass production furniture, residential, and retail spaces. In 2005, Nolen Niu decide to venture out globally and opened his own design studio in Los Angeles. This year he received the Consumer Electronic Association Innovations Design and Engineering Award.

Starting at $3,500 at Nolen Niu

Apple® today unveiled MacBook® Air, the world’s thinnest notebook. MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks. MacBook Air has a stunning 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight® video camera for video conferencing, and a spacious trackpad with multi-touch gesture support so users can pinch, rotate and swipe. MacBook Air is powered by a 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache, and includes as standard features 2GB of memory, an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive, and the latest 802.11n Wi-Fi technology and Bluetooth 2.1.

Available soon on Apple’s store for $1,799.

Here’s a little something every good laptop user’s living room needs, a place to stash it in a hurry. Belkin’s new Laptop Hideaway is stylish storage that keeps your laptop and accessories accessible, organized, protected and out of the way. Its large handle allows you to easily carry your laptop, power cord, and magazines from room to room.

Available soon on Belkin’s site for $49.99.

Toca is to see through in Japanse so you can read time through thin maple veneer on this clock! 2 setting, regular or military time. No alarm.

$176 at Tortoise

Simplistic high tech modernism, a loung chair with individual, covered strips that shape the body. Clean in profile, it becomes a line.

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The transformative process of making fresh espresso informs the Moka Pot’s design. The glass funnel, framed between the two cast-iron cubes, shows hot water entering the cluster of ground beans and emerging as espresso on the other side.

Learn more at Joey Roth

A Simple, Modern Teapot Limited run of 300. Inspiration: I’ve always been entranced by small, beautiful things that are so detailed, they seem like miniature worlds, yet so ordinary they’re often left unnoticed. I designed Sorapot to emphasize one of my favorite- the unfurling of tea leaves. Sorapot suspends the process of tea making in a glass tube a few centimeters above your tabletop. Unlike standard teapots that confine tealeaves in a small mesh basket, your leaves will have full run of Sorapot’s interior as they unfurl and change the hot water into tea. You might even see a tea-colored shadow cast by sunlight that passes through the tube and comes to rest in a gossamer puddle on your table.

$179

Custom made for all sizes shock absorbing ecofriendly without any use of fillingmaterial – just felt biodegradable felt 100% pure wool, anodized aluminium different colors.

Sculptural yet functional “Plant” is a lamp. As we all know plants get energy from sunlight, so why not try to create a plant that generate light. The plant lamp, is a delicate object, always in balance, supported and structured by thin wire legs, between these wires only a couple go all the way to the wall outlet.  

Part of an ongoing series exploring how much space the artist can occupy and the interaction he can have on an environment in 10 seconds. Using a self-timer, Savannah College of Art and Design photographer Aaron Smith captured himself within a 10-second flash. Limited reproduction of archival giclee print, matted and framed in black wood. 37.5″ x 29″h.

$99 each