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Product: EGO Bamboo Collection
Company: EGO
Designer: Steffen Schmelling

Bamboo in a new design

Aarhus company EGO is nominated for Formland Design Award – Autumn 2009 for a collection of table items in bamboo. The company has launched an environmentally friendly production, the bamboo fiber is made into modern design products.

The uniqueness of EGO’s offering is to use bamboo in a new and different way. The result is a smart collection that has beautiful lines and forms – and is faithful to the natural color of the material. At the same time, thinking of the environment, the products are 100% degradable in nature after only 8-10 months, says the nomination committee.

EGO Bamboo Collection was designed by Steffen Schmelling whose targets have gone after the environmentally friendly production as replacements for melanin or plastic. The solution is found in bamboo-fiber, which has a natural binder in it. The collection contains several parts. The indicative retail price is from $ 149 to $ 349 sætvis.

A customized Vipp bin by Ron Arad – designed in 2006 for a charity auction in London hosted by Vipp in collaboration with The Conran Shop – will be on display at MoMA in New York City from August 2, 2009 until October 19, 2009.

The “Crash” bin is owned by a London Gallery but will be visiting MoMA as a part of the exhibition “Ron Arad: No Discipline”.

With Stelton’s new milk frother you can make the delicious creamed froth for your Latte. The frother consists of a plastic container which is placed in the micro wave and a top part which works as a skimmer. Place milk in the frother up to the line, attach the top and in less than one minute you can skim the milk for your coffee.

The milk frother works so well that you can use low fat milk and still get the thick creamy froth, which is a must for your cappuccino, caffé latte or café au lait.

Design: Niels Kjeldsen
Materials – stainless steel and plastics
Width – 6 cm
Heigth – 15 cm

Menu has turned things upside down. Now wine needs a coat to stay cool!

Cool Coat, Menu’s creative wine cooler, lives up to its name. It is really cool! A fully innovative, ingenious alternative to the traditional wine cooler with ice that leaves melted water on the table every time you take the bottle out of the bucket.

Cool Coat is the invention of designer Jakob Wagner, who is also the man behind many of the items in Menu’s Vignon series, which consists of an array of accessories for handling, storing and serving wine. Cool Coat consists of two layers of textiles and a loose wrap sewn with channels filled with cooling gel. You just have to put the wrap in the freezer for some time and then put it back in the coat and give the bottle its cold apparel. After just 15 minutes, the temperature of the wine will be reduced by about 10°C and the chilled wine can be poured into glasses while the remains in the bottle will stay fresh in the coat-clad bottle – without dripping on the table.

Cool Coat comes in black with a grey wrap and a new white version with black or lime wrap and push button. “The coat fits most bottles, and you can adjust the collar as you like to give Cool Coat its own personalised touch,” says designer Jakob Wagner.

Design: Jakob Wagner
Materials: Textiles, plastic, metal push button, cooling gel

New, stylish press coffee maker matching the bread bags color scheme. Under cover is a new kind of coffee press – all known inconveniences from the traditional press coffee maker are “designed” away. The cover keeps the coffee warm and prevents table scratches. The jug is practical – you can pour no matter how the top is positioned. The cover may be washed up to 30 degrees.

Design: Klaus Rath

Content – 1 litre
Materials – stainless steel, plastic, glass and fabric
Width – ø 11,5 cm
Heigth – 18,5 cm

The ice scraper is made of hard plastic with a rubber coating to avoid scratches. It has a hard part for ice and a soft part for snow. When folded it is compact for storage in the car.

If Spock from Star Trek had an ice scraper on his journey through the Milky Way – it would have been a Stelton Ice away.

Design: Klaus Rath

Materials – stainless steel, plastic and rubber
Width – 8,5 cm
Length – 11,5 cm
Height – 2,5 cm

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