It's hard to find a rug that's both interesting and unique - but the Michelle Mason Stella rug just about manages it.
It's all about wheels - big ones, small ones, medium ones - crammed into one large circle, with a diameter of around 1.2 metres and construction of 100 per cent wool.
Take your pick from black and cream and be prepared to wait a little while - the initial stock of these sold out immediately. But more are expected this month, priced at £345.
A cheeky twist on the traditional wall-mounted moose head - the Moo Wall Lamp by Trond Svendgård & Ove Rogne.
Thankfully, no animals have been harmed in the making of this light fitting, the designers have made a replica of a moose's head that can actually be used both indoors and outdoors - thanks to its poly-resin construction.
It is sized at 75 x 75cm and available for pre-order, priced around £740.
Find out more at the Scandinavian Design Center website
Looking classic, but at the same time very modern, is the newly-launched Philippe Starck Mi Ming armchair.
In fact, it is a very traditional piece of seating, except of course for the transparent polycarbonate structure and the contrast backrest in red (which you can opt for as clear if you wish).
But as an attention-seeking piece of design, you can't go wrong. Available towards the end of this year, but available now as a pre-order, you can pick one up for £175.
Whether you use it in the living room or garden, you'll certainly brighten up the space with the Low Lita armchair.
This child-like polyethylene seat is the work if Italian designer Paola Navone, ideal for lounging with its curved backrest and solid legs (should you slump too far).
Take your pick from a number of colours, all retailing for £189.35.
Find out more at the Made In Design website
Who needs occasional seating when you can inflate some at five minutes notice - as is the case with the Blofield inflatable Chesterfield sofa.
Designed by Jeroen van de Kant, it keeps the same dimensions as the classic two-seater Chesterfield, but can inflate from nothing in just five minutes with the aid of its electric pump. And when you're done with it, that same pump can deflate it.
Use it indoors, outdoors or anywhere - it even flattens down into its own holdall. Available in white now, with green and brown to follow - it's priced at £350.
Find out more at the Utility Design website
Clever and eye-catching design - you get both with the Astra stool.
Designed by Luca Somaini for Slide, the Astra is polyethylene seating that offers seating for two from a single structure (back to back). But not only that - you can connect the Astra together for a longer seating unit or use it as a side or coffee table just by turning it around.
Take your pick from red, green, yellow and white, all retailing for £222.
Real impact lighting from Hans Bleken Rud - the Scheisse pendant light - which is shaped like a broken light bulb.
This large pendant light is as much sculpture as light and certain to dominate a room. Made of steel, it has a matt covering of off-white, with the light bouncing off the segments of shattered bulb.
It has a height of 60cm and a diameter of 58cm, plus a hefty price tag of £587.99. If you want one, you can pre-order now for an August release.
Find out more at the Scandinavian Design Center website
Not everyone has a traditional fireplace these days - or for that matter wants one. But if you still want some warmth and fire in your home, you could take a look at the Blomus Chimo revolving fireplace.
As the name suggests, this fire sits on a plinth, revolving to spin the flames to where you want them. There's also that polished steel exterior, with the fire fuelled by bio-alcohol ethanol (which costs around £5 per litre).
The Chimo itself retails for £1,111.
Find out more at the Dot Maison website
A take on the classic ball lamp - except the O2 pendant light from Holmegaard has a hole in the middle.
Designed by Maria Kariis, the glass pendant has round openings on each side, leaving an exposed bulb and creating an 'O' shaped light that's certain to catch the eye and fire out some interesting light.
Available online, you can pick one up for £282.
A simple thing, but certainly an eye-catching design - the Henriette Melchiorsen Rubber Vase for Menu.
Re-introduced for 2008 in new (bold) colours, the Rubber Vase is very much as it says - with the look of a ceramic vase, but actually made of a sturdy rubber. Which means you'll have a job breaking this one.
Various sizes available, with prices starting at around £13 for the small version.
Find out more at the Panik Design website
Not just good to look at - the Amazonas nesting tables also help the environment.
That's because parts of the proceeds from the tables support The Children´s Rainforest, preserving rainforests in Central America. And as well as that warm glow of feeling good about yourself, you get these three distinctive tables made of green lacquered metal - looking not unlike a rain forest viewed from the sky.
Designed by Eero Koivisto and available to buy online, you can pick them up for £402.24.
We featured (and indeed loved) the Holmegaard One table lamp. So we're particularly excited to see a version for your ceiling - the Holmegaard One pendant light.
Designed by Maria Berntsen, it's one of those lights that would fit just about any room you can think of, with that distinctive shade (made from a single piece of handblown glass) creating an almost timeless piece of design.
Available online, you can pick up the One light for £218.
Find out more at the Panik Design website
Slightly retro but at the same time very modern - that's the Donna Wilson Hue sofa for SCP.
it does have a touch of the mid-century about it (particularly in the legs), but those sharp angles and 'box' arms (ideal for a laptop apparently) make this very much a contemporary design. The frame is made from hardwood, padded with multi-density foam, with support from lacquered beech turned legs.
Prices start at £1,790.
Apparently doing the round in various Vans stores and concessions, this Vans Sk8-Hi chair is now available to buy for your own home.
In Japan anyway. Made by Coarse Toys, the seat is shaped like the shoe in almost every detail - except for the size obviously (as you can see from the image).
Whether it makes for a comfortable seat is open to debate - but it's certainly an eye-catching one. It retails from LTD in Japan for around £250 - and they ship overseas.
Find out more at the LTD website
You can create your own wallcoverings from just about anything with the Andrew Martin Panorama Wallpaper collection.
It's simple - just provide Andrew Martin with a digital image, picture or document to scan, together with the wall you are looking to cover and the company will do the rest - right down to customising the colours, should you wish.
The final product is supplied on vinyl wallcovering, with full hanging instructions and in a choice of 'grainy' or 'flatter' finish. The only downside is the price - £150 per square metre. And if you go for an old comic, it looks something like the above.
If you've been in a hospital, you'll know what the Colin O'Dowd Beats coat rack is based on.
Yes, the 'beats' is the beat of a heart - and this is what you'll see on the monitor. Except this is made of 8mm powder-coated steel wire and wall-mounted - so you can hang your coats on it.
Sized at 545 x 275 x 60mm, you can pick one up for £39.50.
A light fitting that looks interesting whether it is on or off - the Moooi Non Random light.
What does it look like? Well, balls of yarn, soap bubbles or some kind of web maybe - but you can make your own mind up from the image above. And you can also guarantee that the interest in the Moooi light will only increase when the switch is flicked to 'on' and the lighting effect hits the walls and ceiling.
Prices vary, depending on the size of the light, but start at £306.
Find out more at the Nest website
It isn't going to fit into our pocket, but the Pocket Bookshelf is designed for the books you might carry on your person.
Designed by Karin Nyberg, you can use the Pocket bookshelf as you would everyday shelving or you can flip it horizontally (as above). Either way, it's ideally shaped to store your average paperback book - but can be used for other items as well as books.
Take your pick from a variety of bold colours for the lacquered MDF, all retailing for £289.
Scandinavian Design Center website
Kartell's 60s-inspired Ferruccio Laviani lamps from 2002 have had a makeover - now available in a gold or silver finish for 2008.
Not actual gold or silver obviously, just a new colour choice for the light. Aside from that, everything is as it was - a slim, minimalist pendant light, made of polycarbonate and made in Italy to an original Ferruccio Laviani design.
You can pick one up for £83.99.
He might be in his 70s, but Eero Aarnio is still producing some of the most interesting and eye-catching design around - including the newly-launched Swan Lamp.
No prizes for guessing where the name came from - those swan-like curves made from a moulded plastic body that 'scatters light' around the room, the light coming from an energy-saving compact fluorescent bulb.
Take your pick from white, yellow and black, all available from this month for 239 Euros each.
When it comes to adding some colour or impact to a room, a rug is always a good way to go. Especially if you go for something like this Fez flat weave rug.
The bold pattern was designed exclusively for The Conran Shop and is hand-woven in cottages in rural Indian villages. Which makes each one unique.
That might get alarm bells ringing over price, but it's not as expensive as you might think - you can pick one up online for £150.
Find out more at the Conran Shop website
Keeping on a space age theme, Artemide has introduced this superbly futuristic Cabildo hanging lamp from Eric Solé.
This circular piece of lighting is made of die-cast aluminium, with light from a halogen bulb that creates a glow rather than a more typical shining light.
Available online, you can buy one for £205.58.
Find out more at the Made In Design website
Fancy a complete departure from the usual DFS/Land Of Leather rubbish? if you have the money, you could go futuristic with the Isobel sofa.
Designed by Michiel van der Kley, it features nosag springs and PUR foam for comfort, with a Dacron layer to guarantee long life. But the selling point here is the looks - striking minimalism and an attention detail, right down to the matching cushion.
Choose from a number of fabrics, with the sofa selling for around £2,085.
Lollipop Shoppe website
Functional object or piece of art? You can make your own mind up about the Lightning Shelf from Save Our Souls.
It's made from sheet metal and in bold colours - ideal to break up a plain wall or just to add some interest to a room. And not just that - it also has various storage possibilities both inside and outside, depending on how you angle it.
It retails for around £212.
Save Our Souls website
You can get it as both a ceiling light and a floor lamp, but the Foscarini Lumiere really works best as a table lamp.
Designed by Rodolfo Dordoni in 1990, it can probably lay claim to being a modern classic - that polished aluminium tripod base and blown-glass shade/diffuser offering almost timeless style for any living room.
As well as the aluminium base, there's also an option of black chrome as well as a colour choice of shade. All retail for around £162.
Find out more at the Panik Design website
A very modern piece of interior design, with just a hint of 1960s influence - the Karim Rashid Orgy sofa and ottoman.
This circular piece of seating has a steel chrome base, with polyurethane foam upholstered in your choice of fabric for comfort. And that stool, which will tuck comfortably in the gap when not in use.
Not cheap, but the £7,000 outlay will turn a few visitors' heads.
If you need space for books, CDs, DVDs, magazines or folders - all of them will fit neatly into the Contraforma Quad storage case.
Designed by Nauris Kalinauskas, this freestanding unit is available in natural or black laminated plywood and with a choice of coloured back panels, all with a seemingly endless number of storage options - just as long as you don't mind everything at a jaunty angle.
Sized at H1200x W120 x D30cm, it retails for £895.
A simple light with a little trick up its sleeve - the Luceplan Superglu suspension light.
On its own the Superis fairly appealing, available in a choice of painted aluminium shades with a cord designed to be barely visible. But if you raise or lower the shade, there is a marked difference in the light given off - reflected either upwards or downwards, giving you two lighting effects for the price of one.
Available now, one will set you back around £217.
Two products in one with the She from Fontana Arte - it's a lamp and a shelf.
Available in two widths, the 'shelf' has a built in lamp, with the polished white interior designed to enhance the brightness.
Wall-mountable and perfect as a modern alternative to the bedside table, it retails for around £260.
Practical on two levels - that's the Ho Ladder Bookcase by Jocelyn Deris.
Available in red or beech, it's a great lean-to storage unit, with the ladders makng it easy to reach the high shelves. You could probably use it as a ladder in its own right too - but then you would have to remove your books, CDs and DVDs first!
It stands at a height of 240cm, with a capacity for around 200 CDs/DVDs or 100 books. You can pick one up for around £383.
A twist on the vase, the Plant Frame by Chiaki Murata offers a new way to show off your greenery.
This square resin frame is designed to cultivate (the included) grass seeds to create something you can mount as a piece of art or just place on your sideboard instead of a plant pot.
You can pick one up for just $35 (around £18).
Chandeliers aren't hat they used to be - with the Egg pendant very much of the new breed.
Designed by Lars Bessfelt in 2006, the Egg pendant consists of heat resistant polypropylene plastic cards that have been sanded to a matte transparent finish. The geometric framework is made from dark grey powder coated steel and the cord is transparent- giving the impression that your Egg is floating.
Available online, it retails for £290.
Why Pisa? Well, that's obvious - because it's leaning.
And that means you can use this Matt Carr-designed shelving unit anywhere you need it - there's no requirement to have a completely flat floor and there's nothing to fix to a wall.
And as an added bonus, the dark wood veneer makes it a stylish piece of design. Available now, you can pick one up for £235.
No, there isn't a fungus on the wall, these are The Dots - a stylish ways to hang your coats.
The work of Veit & Tornoe for Muuto, the 'hooks' are made of oak, all varying in size to create an arrangement that's as much a piece of wall art as a functional item.
And you can buy them online - priced at £89 for the set.
Minimalism is all well and good, but sometimes you just need that splash of colour. Something that the Confetti shelf system offers by the bucketload.
It uses a multitude of four-colour tiles as a backdrop and best of all, you can swap them around to create your own individual look or piece of personal art. Once you've sorted out your colour scheme, you just slip your frosted acrylic shelves into place. Although to be honest, it seems a shame to stick your bits and pieces in front of something so stunning.
Designed by Per Bäckström, it retails for £225.
Find out more at the FunktionAlley website
Whether you're looking for an easy chair for reading or an upmarket office chair, the Cortina chair by Gunilla Allard could well fit the bill.
It has visible moulded back in stained white, black and most eye-catching of all, walnut, with a 100 per cent wool upholstered seat and a four-star chrome swivel base. All combining to produce a chair that looks fairly simple, but is so obviously a cut above.
Not the cheapest chair you'll ever buy though - retailing for £603.73.
Probably the least design-friendly item in your bathroom, the toilet roll holder could do with brightening up. Replacing it with Mr P could be a start.
Designed by Chaiyut Plypetch, Mr P is a bald-headed man, complete with eyes, nose and paper-dispensing mouth. And if you get bored of it, you can always stick a wig and false moustache on it.
Yours for just £15.
Find out more at the Panik Design website
Stripping time down to its absolute basics is this Jonas Damon Numbers Clock.
Yes, it's just numbers - each packed into a coloured acrylic box (not just orange), which you can arrange on any way you like - although I would keep them in the right order if you want to get to work on time. Saying that, it also has an alarm, should you wish to keep it by the bed.
Available now, this retails for $100 (around £50).
Find out more at the Design Public website
Throwing stars are the unlikely inspiration behind the Maze Five Star Hanger.
Indeed, Fredrik Mattson's design looks very much like the throwing stars have been randomyl fired at the back panel. That's obviously not the case though - not least on the grounds of safety, with all the stars featuring rounded edges (to protect your clothing) and because all the stars have been carefully placed to provide maximum hanging space.
Sold in either either white or in a red flock, it retails for £45.
Find out more at the FunktionAlley website
We seem to be on a colour theme today on Switched On Set. Purely by accident, but we might as well run with it and indeed add to it with the Habitat Dita coffee table.
It looks like an oversized set of child's blocks and to be honest, that's what it is. The work of Olivier Droillard, it combines lacquered coloured panels with dark stained oak veneered MDF to produce something a bit more fun than the average functional coffee table.
Sized at 65 x 25 x 106cm, it retails for £249.
It might look like an accessory for a Lego house, but the PXL table lamp is a working light fitting that's available to order for your home.
It's designed by Fredrik Mattson, who has 'sliced up and transformed' several single-coloured lamps, then re-built the pieces to create a lamp with 'edgy character'. Well, as edgy as a Lego-like lamp can get.
Made of aluminium and steel, it's available online for £683.58.
Find out more at the Scandinavian Design Center website
Ok, it's not going to suit everyone's home, but if you want show off your green credentials, you can do it with these Pendant Jelly Lights.
If you hadn't worked it out, the lights are made from vintage metallic jelly moulds, re-invented as quirky lighting in an almost industrial style, complete with a matching silk-covered flex.
As these are one-offs, you can't choose your mould - that's at the mercy of availability. But they all retail for £45.
Find out more at the Re-Found Objects website
Is it a log? Is it a table? Well, actually, the Log Table could pass as both.
It's essentially a side table, shaped as a log and as it's made of laminated oak veneer, could pass as a log at a distance. But it's also storage if you whip the lid off - a great place to hide all the clutter when someone unexpectedly calls in.
The Log Table is actually part of a range by Naoto Fukasawa for Swedese that also includes a Log Bench and Log Stool, with the table retailing for £341.
Wood isn't the first thing you think of when it comes to light fittings, but it works a treat with the Coral pendant, designed by David Trubridge.
Coral by name and Coral in looks, certainly taking inspiration from the sea bed. It's made of hoop pine ply, that comes with an untreated finish and indeed in kit set - you have to create your Coral with plastic clips.
If the plain look doesn't appeal, it's also available in a white, ebony, chocolate walnut or rimu stain finish, all of which retail for $700, which is around £350.
Find out more at the Essenze website
Andrew Martin has taken the humble trestle table out of the workshop and into the office with the A-Frame chrome and glass desk.
It's certainly an impact piece, with the legs/supports made of chrome, while the top is 18mm toughened glass, combining to create a stylish piece of timeless, but at the same time very contemporary design.
That style does come at a price though - retailing for £1,695.
Even if you haven't room on a table, the Lack lamp from Ikea could still fit the bill.
These adjustable and colourful lamps (take your pick from black, green, red and white) have two bases - a traditional one if you have the room and a clamp to fix to the side of a unit. Both matching the main lamp obviously. Not just that, but these are eco-friendly too, using an LED bulb - which means 50 times longer life than an incandescent bulb and less energy consumption.
Made from steel, polycarbonate plastic and painted steel, the Lack lamp retails for £16.99.
Fancy hiding your home audio and cinema kit away? The Pli Grass Cabinet can do the job - in fact, it's been designed for it.
This eco-friendly sideboard-style unit is made from sustainable bamboo and wheat straw-board - hence the name 'Grass'. It also features curved cut outs in the back for easy threading of cables, wide opening doors for easy access and enough shelving for your essential kit. Or indeed, anything you want to hide away.
Available online, you can pick one up for £499.
Even if you don't have a coat or scarf to hang up, the mountain-shaped Coat Range is certain to brighten up a wall.
Created by Brave Space, the Coat Range uses a piece of maple that's been scraped carefully along the top to create that 'mountain' look. And if course, pointed in four places to hold your garments. If you want to hang more coats, but another - they join up for as long as you want them to.
Made of FSC certified maple and walnut veneer, and finished with a durable water-based varnish, it retails for $175 (around £90).