At the furniture fair in Milan, Martin Alexanderson (designer at Electrolux) found a clever interpretation of the chair from Vitra. This strap (15 Euro’s) acts as a body support, allowing one to  sit down in places that don’t offer a conventional solution when the need arises.  Perfect for the beach, the park or for use at a transport terminal whilst waiting to get a bus or train ticket should an erupting volcano disrupt flight plans.

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The Electrolux SHINE washing machine concepts were launched at Eurocucina, Milan yesterday. The design concepts (not actual Electrolux products) are potential solutions to address the issue of shrinking domestic spaces, with one of the appliances being wall mountable and the other designed for integration within a bathroom (for those who may not have a dedicated space for laundry).  Both of the concepts were shown in a bathroom context at the Riva 1920 exhibition space, also at Eurocucina.  We’ve posted more images and further detail below.

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Following on the heels of the recent Korean design book post, and for those Facebook fans that perhaps missed it, here is further reason to submit a design to the Electrolux Design Lab contest.  A number of previous Design Lab concepts are featured in this Trend Hunter video (released at the back end of 2009),  now seen by almost 50,000 viewers (watch out for trend number six!).