Like Want Need - August

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What? Sofa
Product: Coast
Made by:  Arketipo

Coast is an informal and comfortable sofa designed by Francesco Rota for Arketipo. An unbroken line links the back and arms, and surrounds a big, comfortable seat. The metal structure grants the sofa with solidity, while the seat padding is made of a quilted cotton cover filled with goose down. Staked on the curved line of the backrest, the sofa communicates a sense of comfort that is informal and elegant at the same time.

United into a single surface, the discrete and thin structure of the backrest and armrests encompasses the seat, encouraging conviviality and relaxation. A dormeuse designed with the same line matches the sofa: a large and comfortable seat cushion closed on two sides by a light structure.

What? App
Product: Sketchbook Pro
Made by: AutoDesk

AutoDesk has been making graphics programmes for desktop computers for as long as there have been desktop computers, but this is the first application for the iPhone and iPad. With a single sub-megapixel resolution of 768 x 1024, the program provides a great deal of artistic freedom and tools. In its latest form, Autodesk brings a whole new meaning to finger-painting.

What? Furniture
Product: NOVECENTO
Made by: Natuzzi

Natuzzi has introduced Novecento, a modular wall unit collection that can be fully customised. The collection features a variety of separate pieces, including a sideboard, wall shelves, benches, drawers, cabinets and TV elements.

What? Book
Product: City Building: Nine Planning Principles for the 21st Century
Made by: Princeton Architectural Press

John Kriken of the award-winning planning firm SOM has been at the forefront of urban planning for over forty years, and in City Building he brings both his wealth of experience and his great optimism for the future. In this new book, Kriken illustrates a means for comprehensive rather than symptom-based problem solving.

What: Speakers
Product: Cubo 2010
Made by: Filini

UAE online furniture and lifestyle store Filini has unveiled the latest addition to its growing catalogue of products, the Sonoro Audio Cubo 2010. Designed and crafted by Germany’s Sonoro Audio, the Cubo 2010 is a sleek and stylish CD/MP3 player, clock radio and iPod dock. The product offers a smooth curved-corner design, available in four shades, and is fitted with a full-range speaker integrated with a bass-reflex tube.

What? Book
Product: Constructing a New Agenda for Architecture: Architectural Theory 1992 – 2009
Made by: Princeton Architectural Press

This follow-up to Kate Nesbitt’s best-selling anthology Theorizing a New Agenda collects twenty-eight essays that address architecture theory from the mid-1990s through the present. Kristin Sykes offers an overview of the approaches adopted by architects and architectural theorists during this era.

What? Desk
Product: Mosaico
Made by: Coinma

Mosaico, a range of office desks from Spanish company, Coinma, answers calls for practical yet stylish workplace solutions. It combines C-shaped legs, a wooden top and an effective wire management system to create a lightweight, sculptural element. The contemporary desking solution was designed by up-and-coming Spanish designer, Mario Ruiz. “We gave him 100% freedom to create something different,” said Inazio Eguskiza, Coinma’s export manager. The end result is “light, fresh and different – a breakthrough in office furniture”.

What? Computer
Product: Eco-friendly monitor
Made by: BenQ

Forget buying solar panels or offsetting your long haul flights, now you can save the world by surfing the web. Digital manufacturer BenQ has introduced a new, eco-friendly range of computer monitors to the Middle East. The company’s LED monitor range boast higher energy savings than traditional monitors, mercury-free engineering and an armful of environmental credentials.

BenQ claims that some of its new models can save up to 70% of the energy of a normal monitor, while maintaining one of the highest dynamic contrast rations in the world. The monitors save power by using energy efficient backlighting panels, which consume almost 40% less power.