Homeless Sweet Home

These duvets and shams are photo-printed so that they look like cardboard boxes. In reality they're a much softer 144 thread count cotton that the Dutch by Design people tout as virtually no-iron (despite the low thread count, which my friend Rima asserts isn't a good gauge of softness anyhow) that I suppose we could call them No Iron Irony. One would think this to be a rather insensitive print, if it weren't for the fact that, as the Dutch by Design website asserts, "30% of the gross profits go to Centrepoint, the UK charity for homeless young people aged 16-25 (charity number 292411). Every night Centrepoint provides support and housing for 800 vulnerable homeless young people." So I guess you can make your bed not only with irony and whimsy, but it'll be covered in charity as well. With that much going for it, you should sleep pretty soundly at night.

From about $11 per sham up to $90 for the duvet, depending on your chosen size. Buy them here. Via BLTD.

Tuft Love

After hunting for the perfect Chesterfied-style sofa for my apartment for three years, and eventually settling on a non-Chesterfield style because of space restrictions (so much of the silhouette of a trad Chesterfield is used up by the massive rolled arms and backrests - not exactly NYC studio-friendly), now Jonathan Adler touts his Baxter line of furniture. Equal parts traditional tufty goodness and modernist 70s clean lines, it's the perfect melding of old school and new cool. It kinda looks like he was channeling some vintage style (shades of Milo Baughman) as he often does, but he's good at that, so yay. But I can only dream about getting yet another new sofa, because despite it's overly current MCM lineage, I love my Room & Board Jasper sofa. Still, I can look at Adler's Baxter line and lust after it, because I even tried it at the store several months ago, and can say that it's also quite comfy. Pricing varies according to fabric, as usual. Get them at jonathanadler.com.

Raising The Bar

Progressive thinking demands progressive design, and no one gets the point across to designers (and Mac enthusiasts) in a wittier way than Christopher David Ryan. His clever progress bar poster for Obama is a call to action and a hopeful wait for a better future all at once. Download these Obama posters for free from his website and distribute them to your friends. You'll be complimented not only for your design sensibilities, but for making sensible choices as well, bar none.