Design UnLeashed!

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Unique among the arts, interior design reflects more about our choice of it than it does of the designer. Its 3-dimensionality, its functionality, its size, color, material, pattern, and many other more subtle dimensions of interior design speak volumes about who we are, where we've been, and what we aspire to. Find here the latest, hottest, coolest, most evocative and cleverest international designs... design that's totally unleashed.

The DVD Stereo Luxury Bathtub From Baden Bath

by Toby

Do you know someone who loves to soak for hours in a hot bathtub? If you do, I think I've found the gift that keeps on giving...

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Interior Designer's Mr. Potato Head: Mr. Light By Tomás Alonso

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You may not get the similarity between Mr. Light, by designer Thomás Alonso, and Mr. Potato Head, by toy company Hasbro... not right away.

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Designer Piggy Bank Holds $10,000: Buy Two And Save $20,000

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A stunningly realistic pig, gilded or polymer coated in hot pink, by a world famous designer, would look smashing on her dark cherry server. She would love it, even be encouraged to shove dollar bills through the cork opening and look forward to saving $10,000....

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Instant Mashed Potatoes On Thanksgiving? You Betcha!

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I rarely eat mashed potatoes except on Thanksgiving, and maybe Christmas. Of course, I always mashed the potatoes myself. It would kill my family to think that I'd whipped up instant mashed potatoes to serve to them. But, guess what? I'm going to serve instant mashed potatoes this Thanksgiving - the same kind my husband made for me....

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The 5 Darkest, Sexiest Pin-Up Calendars For 2010

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Fascinated by strange and sometimes too-real images of beautiful but gory women? By obscure references in artistic disguise? Love sexy goth? Boy, do I have a collection of 2010 wall calendars for you!

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Hold On To The Light Bulb While You Climb The Stairs

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Minimalist and eco-friendly, these cool hallway and stair lights do double-duty as hand rails, so you can see and walk at the same time!

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Grenade Christmas Decorations: Pretty, Glittery, And Political

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Partnering with Suck UK, Britain's inimitable producer of both the humorous and seriously absurd in design, Ctrl.Alt.Shift will use the proceeds from its Grenade Christmas Tree Decorations to further efforts to call for world attention to the "silent majority."

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Let Them Eat Cake With The Schleckfingerbesteck

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Now, Marie Antoinette, wild as she was, would never have hesitated to run her pretty little index finger through the creamy icings of these Viennese (or French) pastries....

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10 Ghost Chairs That Will Scare The Living Sit Out Of You!

by Toby

You know the feeling of readying yourself to sit on a chair that someone else is guiding? You're never sure which way he is going to move the chair -- toward you or away from you. In the case of these "ghost chairs," it's not another person's intent that scares you, it's the illusion that the chair may not really be there at all. If you're inebriated or just klutzy, better stay away from these....

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6 Furniture Designs With Split Personalities From The Palindrome Series

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The way to perfect 3-D symmetry is the mold and cast. British designer Peter Marigold has achieved just that in the split-personallity furniture he calls the Palindrome Series.

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