The Swedish company works with local and international designers to offer affordable products with a Scandinavian aesthetic. Spawns include Marie-Louise Gustafsson's playful bicycle basket, below, which when turned upside down doubles as a picnic table, and Harri Koskinen's popular Block Lamp, a lightbulb encased in a translucent cube. The Museum of Modern Art store in San Francisco and MOMA's shop in New York City carry a selection of Design House's wares.
Good design is everywhere these days. Great designthe objects, places and ideas that fuse functionality and aesthetics and then push the boundaries a step further to capture the imaginationis more elusive. Take a look at the standouts.