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Ready for a new style and a new feeling regarding wall plates? These silhouette wall plates, spotted on the fabulous AphroChic, are such a fun take on the trend of hanging plates as wall décor. After all, nobody’s actually going to be eating off of these anytime soon…

…but they’re perfect as decorative accents! We love the idea of hanging them over a wall with texture, pattern, or bright color. They’d be lovely on a wallpapered wall, as well, with the pattern showing through the cut-outs.

via apartmenttherapy

Leather skin mosaics have become the trend du jour. This luxurious and unusual wall-covering option will bring your walls to life with its earthy look and feel! This leather skin mosaic by Italian company Silven comes in panels that can be arranges to suit any size and shape, so every wall in your house can be accommodated in style. Not limited to walls, this versatile wall covering can also be used to finish architectural features like columns and arches. These mosaics are available in a natural finish, or if you’re feeling a little more adventurous, make a statement with an exciting lame gold effect, bronze, silver, or select an exotic print like crocodile, cayman, ostrich or an optical motif. For more information of modern decorating ideas for the home, visit Silven.

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There are other options to paint when it comes to decorating walls. These 15 wall coverings ideas show different types of wall coverings ranging from vinyl to fabric. The fact is that there are a tremendous number of designs out there ranging from subtle to bold. On the bold side might be the “Lipstick” example and on the subtle side there are numerous examples. Playing with color can also really jazz up a room and bring it to life. These wall coverings can all be found at Elitis of France.

via FurnitureFashion

LC1 is a robot chair. Approach the chair and it will unfold itself and greet you by wagging its extremities…

Created by designer Anders Huus, the chair is an experiment which combines furniture design and robotics.

From Anders Huus:

The purpose of LC1 is to test the possibilities of bringing life to traditionally “dead” furniture. This opens up a wealth of possibilities for both functionality and the users experience of the furniture.

LC1 is brought to life by a few simple means: It reacts to light, time and life around itself. The chair rotates quite slowly around its own axis in 24 hours. Simultaneously it opens itself more as light around it becomes brighter and just like a flower it closes itself when the day is waning and light fades away.

Skateboards these days are amazing examples of graphic design, and some are practically objets d’art – what a shame that they should to go to a landfill after the boards have lost their pop! Thankfully, Pennsylvania-based Deckstools is here to keep art from the trash heap and to add style to your pad with their striking line of furniture made from reclaimed skateboards.

Inspired by the way that skateboards consistently break, designer and craftsman Jason Podlaski hand selects broken board parts, and builds every stool in his Pennsylvania factory. A unique aspect of the design is that the cast aluminum trucks, which connect the deck to the wheels, are repurposed as hardware that joins the seat to the legs of the Deckstool. If you are in the Philadelphia area this weekend, you can see the stools and other recycled skateboard creations on display at VGroove Studios.