Made with soft merino wool and cotton warps, UK-based textile artist Elizabeth Pawle creates woven and embroidered wall hangings in pretty colours.

Having previously worked as an interiors journalist in the publishing industry, her creations became an outlet and creative release.

“My work is colourful, abstract and completely freeform,” says Elizabeth on her website. “I never look for inspiration, I just seem to collect it and it always arrives in the form of colour. I love combining colours to see how they work together and I endeavour to pair natural traditional materials with modern colours.”

Shop the collection at elizabethpawle.com.

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Renowned Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has designed an innovative BookChair for Italian brand Alias.

The design allows the user to use the shelf and chair combination to store books, as well as take a seat. The minimalist design is as practical as it is intuitive and stylish. The BookChair is made from wooden fibre panels and the back of the chair is formed from a single piece of wood.

‘‘BookChair comes to life through the aggregation of a new element, the chair within the bookcase, based on a concept that aims to reflect the basic, fundamental relationship between a book and its reader,” says Sou. The symmetry between the bookshelf and the chair that a reader makes use of has certainly been taken into consideration.

“The bookcase becomes an element of the environment where it is installed, playing an active, continually changing role,” shared Alias. “The brand recently launched a similarly hybrid set of furniture by Nendo, which blended tabletops with giant bowls.”

(h/t) dezeen.com

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