If you love origami as much as I do, wouldn’t it be nice to be gifted with these nice trinkets on December 25th? West Elm currently stocks a wide variety of origami-inspired accessories: Piggy Banks, Ornaments, Pillows and even an origami set! Fun! Fun! Fun!

Los Angeles based Environmental Designer Brooke Woosley is another amazing designer who challenged herself by creating a dynamic piece of furniture with a flat sheet of metal. In this process, she experimented with paper, basswood, light, and chipboard and finally concocted this awesome piece called Oru. It is waterjet cut, bent aluminum, painted in an auto finish: gloss white top with a matte blue underside. An excellent piece of furniture for a modern loft or studio.

Last Sunday, I attended the International Contemporary Furniture Fair with my colleagues and found many beautiful origami inspired furniture and accessories design. One in particular that stood out was Kanshin Lamps. The lamp shades are made from paper mulberry and folded into simple and elegant origami, which reminds me of Yuko Nishimura’s work.

Daniel Schipper designed an exciting new origami lampshade made from recyclable plastic. They will start production once 100 orders have been placed. This 25.6 inch (65 cm) lampshade is 100 euros or $135.00USD. Once production begins and arrives at your doorstep, your package will include the lampshade, frame, transparent, electrical wire, and a stainless steel lamp socket. They are on order #29, help Daniel make it to 100!

When I was in Munich, Germany at the end of March I discovered the coolest origami inspired models from Denmark based company, Kvadrat. What I liked about it is that you can take a very simple shape – the pentagon and coupled with a couple of textured crease lines, you can manipulate this textile to form a very big and bold complex figure. Your final model can be as large or small as your imagination allows it to be!

Daniel Schipper who is a graduate from the Design Academy in Eindhoven (south of the Netherlands) discovered origami when he was assigned a class project to create a homeless shelter. When one is homeless, easy transport becomes a key design element. If you are lucky, you might have a sleeping bag; otherwise maybe you might consider Mr. Schipper’s shelter made from misprinted milk packaging.

Since then, he’s discovered the amazing powers of origami. He noticed that you don’t need extra screws, bells, or whistles to create a functional and beautiful product. He’s created more origami inspired items, including an awesome greenhouse and child’s chair for play! Asked how he learned origami? He replied, “Just foldin’ for days in a row until I find the perfect shape or construction method.”

This origami inspired house in Tokyo designed by architect Yasuhiro Yamashita of Atelier Takuto shows off excellent lines and shape without sacrificing form and function. Along with an integrated car port, which balances handsomely on a single point at its base; this innovative design is a fantastic solution plaguing crowded urban cities.

Even if you don’t know how to fold origami, the crease patterns on Gregory by Ligne Roset will give you the illusion that you do! This awesome crease pattern creates a little table which also doubles as a rug. It is ideal for those who love novel and creative ideas or great for someone who is practical and love to get two for the price of one.

I just got my Four Pillars of Destiny reading on Wednesday and it said that my natural elements are water and metal; which became the inspiration for today’s post. Dutch designer Sander Mulder, a graduate from the design Academy Eindhoven, took a sheet of aluminum, scored it with the use of CNC milling, then folded the sheet into its final product. Click below to see a more practical application of this awesome table.

Tangrams should really be called tangami. Rather than creating from a square, a tangram is a breakdown of a square into seven geometric figures. Like origami, the combination of a tangram is endless. I’ve noticed lots of tangami around lately and because I am in desperate need of a handsome bookcase, the winner is Daniele Lago