Forget your cold and hard tub - soft rubber tub solution

Dutch designer Maren Hartveld presented a soft bathtub at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show in the Netherlands earlier this month. "Bringing a new meaning to sinking into one's tub," says Hartveld.

A free-standing soft bathtub made from polyurethene coated foam rubber; not cold and hard like the average bathtub, but soft and warm, and comfortable like a sofa.

Wanna have freshest mushrooms at home?

mushrooms ate my furniture' by designer shinwei rhoda yen is of garden furniture that is made with natural wood, embedded with mushrooms' spawn. after a time of exposure to the weather, mushrooms will grow our and live with the furniture for a few more years. as the nutritional material from the wood is eaten by the mushrooms, the furniture will start to break down, eventually dying while giving its life to the mushrooms."

"'mushrooms ate my furniture' by designer shinwei rhoda yen is of garden furniture that is made with natural wood, embedded with mushrooms' spawn. after a time of exposure to the weather,

mushrooms will grow our and live with the furniture for a few more years. as the nutritional material from the wood is eaten by the mushrooms, the furniture will start to break down, eventually dying while giving its life to the mushrooms.