Like many egg-based chair designs, the Ovalia by Henrik Thor-Larson is a vintage classic. However, this is one vintage classic returning for a revamped re-release and a piece of design history available to buy now on limited supply. Debuting to immediate success at the Scandinavian Furniture Fair in 1968, this covetable ovum stayed on sale for a decade, but has now, with a few improvements, been relaunched in its original style for a new generation of egg-chair fanatics.

For more information of to make an inquiry visit www.ovalia.com

Joerger bring the rain. Previously we brought you the Jaclo Dream Light cloud cover showerhead, and today we see the RainHeaven from Jorger, an 800 x 800 mm double 'rain' shower canopy. Stainless steel and LED-lit, RainHeaven will shower you and your loved one like a tropical cloudburst.

Visit Jorger online at www.joerger.de

The Floating House (or Das Schwimmhaus) may, with its prefab style set aboard a floating platform as if a cabin, seem like a confused direction, but, in fact, this German-designed and German-moored home is making good use of urban density and sprirally living costs for its owners. Combining the dual experiences of Germany design company Confused-Direction's Flo Florian (interior design) and Sascha Akkermann (master carpentry,) The Floating House fulfils the increasingly modern craving for a new type of existential habitat, and one which works with our pocket alongside the planet.

Sourcing a local workforce committed to sustainability and re-usability, Florian and Akkermann have created a home which is not only eco-friendly in regards to building materials, but also in allowing the inhabitants a grassed-roof garden area. Financially speaking, this kind of home makes sense particularly for those on a quest for uber-contemporary living on a budget as a recent Grand Designs Houseboat episode showed. Though the moorings are, for the most part, the bigger cost, the design and materials and space (it's rare and excessively expensive to have even the tiniest outdoor space in London) are much more affordable and can be a more accessible means of creating your dream contemporary home.

Visit Confused-Direction online at www.confused-direction.de

Award-winning Spanish designer, Andreu Beleguer, "Is always from a dynamic and multidisciplinary work," evident in the Cosmo Collection, for which he sought "to contribute a new concept of aesthetic, functional and constructive furniture." Available through TEYS, Cosmo is a 2000 x 800 x 540 mm chaise longue complimented by a 570 D x 333 mm auxiliary table.  It's a rigorous and elementally pliable collection which can be enjoyed both indoor or outdoor.

Available from TEYS

Designed by Emaf Progetti, the Alpha from Zanotta is an icy cool winter slumberland. Comprised of 3 units - pouf, headboard and base - the Alpha is a personally adjustable modular bed system designed to present the bed as a feature focus. An aluminium painted demountable steel frame nestles upon height-adjustable, brushed and nickel-plated steel feet, with headboard, base and pouf upholstered in polyurethane/Dacron Du Pont.

Visit Zanotta online at www.zanotta.it

Hailing from Toyo's Nobody collection, comes the Isola S compact island kitchen. Putting the Tao in now, this furturistic yin-yang-inspired mini-kitchen exhibits versatility and diversity with it's intertwining but separate shapes. No man is an island and this unique island kitchen certainly promotes intimacy through the preparation of food as the Isola S can function as two individual sections or placed together to complete the whole. Toyo provide a generous sink and hob area, plus internal corrugated drawer for utensil storage and large area for serving and dining with space for two seats.

Visit Toyo online at www.toyokitchen.co.jp

“...with all the chutzpah and brilliance of a well-performed magic trick... this project is a triumph over adversity.”

 - Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs

If you love the smell of horse poo in the morning, then get yourself to 'Nham. That's Cheltenham, the West Country's Regency wonderland and home to the famous equine racetrack. If you're chomping at the bit to get a snaffle of the more refined side of genuine West Country life and are lucky enough to have a 'spare' £25, then mayhap you should enter this 'ere comp.

All's you have to do is pay the good folk 25 of your lovely, hard-earned English pounds and answer one racing-related question and you're in the running for a super prize. And just what is this super prize, I hear you ask? Well, the grand giveaway is a 3-storey, ultra-modern, low-maintenance house as featured on the really rather splendid Grand Designs. This quite divine dwelling is 3-bedroomed (master with en-suite, dressing room and wet room) and comes complete with large contemporary spa room, cinema room and decked patio/terraced gardens. But that is not all...oh no, the house comes fully furnished with all mod cons and is an ideal first mortgage-free step onto a particularly grand property ladder.

So, a unique and very lovely prize, I'm sure you'd agree, but, you must be in it to win it, people, so get yourself on over here to get your entries in. I hear the going's good to firm. Good luck!

The RIBA award-winning Casa Kike in Costa Rica by Gianni Botsford Architects is not only one writer's paradise, but an architectural aphrodisiac for the eyes. Set in lush natural landscape, this shoreside home boasts the "coupling [of] indigenous techniques and materials with modern design technologies and aesthetics" and is stunningly harmonious yet outstanding for it. At a cost of a mere £55,000, this astonishing abode is based around a main studio space, with library, writing desk and grand piano, and set apart via a raised walkway are the bathing and sleeping quarters. This wooden structure contains roof beams up to 10m long and a mono-pitched roof elevated towards the sea shore.

It is incredible to me living in England that what is essentially my dream home where I could write and read and play piano amongst the wood and the sunshine is available by the power of major-award-winning architects for what is a relative pittance. To have that level of contemporary design in such a setting would be not only inachieveable here but also astronomically expensive. I would gladly swap the concrete jungle for Nature's own in an instant as here's proof it doesn't Costa Lot to live in Costa Rica. Truly inspirational.

© photographs copyright christian richters you can view more at archdaily.com

From the designer who brought us the fabulous Jeeves and Wooster pendant lights, comes this chair as gloriously imposing as its namesake. The Orson by Jake Phipps is an Oscar-worthy performer indeed, with it's devilishly dark mouldings and rotational, sculpted low seat. A formidable figure in home or office furnishings.

Visit Jake Phipps online at www.jakephipps.com

Taking a minimalist aproach this aluminium framed chair features a seating surface of stretched fabric, which sculpts itself to the form of the person sitting, supporting the arm, back, thigh, and the calves, for maximum comfort and a relaxed posture.

Designer Abhijeet Kumar studied at the National Institute of Design, specialising in industrial design and has gone on to work as a consultant in ahmedabad primarily in furniture and products.

You can view more of Abhijeet Kumar's work on his personal porfolia site at thingks.wordpress.com