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Beautiful/Decay x Furni Magazine Rack

Our friends at the Montreal-based design company Furni recently collaborated with our friends at Beautiful/Decay magazine to create this hand-made magazine rack. The acrylic basket bears a scripted Beautiful/Decay logo and connects to a Russian plywood frame. The rack holds six to 10 magazines and comes in your choice of natural or chocolate brown-stained wood. An internet exclusive, it will not be available in stores. …

Crackery Tableware

A sad fate awaits cracked china. With no real value on the secondhand market, most is relegated to the garbage. That is, unless Brazilian/Israeli designer Joana Meroz gets a hold of it. Based in the Netherlands, Meroz reclaims broken cups and dishes, which she transforms into her Crackery Tableware line for the Ornamented Life. Instead of trashing them, she chooses to "celebrate their imperfections" by …