It’s so North American to blend, fuse and create our own. This darling bag is no exception, and just in time for Fall.

Available through Delight.com, this tote is made out of cork with raspberry organic cotton and hemp detailing.

Ok, so her head is cut off. Not-so-good for her self-esteem, but the bag, yes, very cute.

Handmade in the U.S.A. and priced at: $84.50. For more info, click here.

Very cool and original indeed. This stool made of 100% cork and named Sway Stoll by its makers dmfd, swivels when you sit on it.

More details from the designers:

These stools are made completely from cork that originates as the waste material from the bottle stopper industry. The central column of the stool, located directly under the spine of the user, is flexible, solid cork while the rest is perforated. The result is a seat that flexes and pivots under the weight of the user, responding to the slightest body movement. The user’s muscles remain slightly engaged to maintain balance, improving posture and circulation. Many have reported this to be a perfect seat for working at a desk or computer, enabling the user to move and rock while working and thinking. - dmfd

I’ve become fond of smaller kitchens lately.  I’ve lived in both large and small and honestly, I feel much cozier in a smaller, nesty kind of a space where everything is easily accessible and clean-up more manageable

The following inspiration for small kitchen decor (shown at left and below) came via Small Space Style.

All are small kitchens that boast big style.

How perfect is the above island on wheels? Very. Love the blue.

Check out this fabulousness:

Lebanese designers Hoda Baroudi and Maria Hibri of Bokja have created ten pieces for The Quirico Company featuring vintage furniture covered in antique fabrics.

Bokja is a Lebanese furniture company, set up in 2000 by Hoda Baroudi and Maria Hibri. Hoda always had a passion for ancient tapestries and textiles, and Maria for antique furniture.

They combined their passions and created some of the beauties you see here.

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The indoor cooking stove Chulha intended for use in the developing world by Philips Design, is among the winners of the Index Awards 2009,  announced in Copenhagen last night.

Besides being absolutely adorable, Chulha (which coincidentally in Mexican slang spelled “chulo or chula” means cute) allows people to cook in the traditional way but removes reduces the amount of fuel required and the risk of injury or death caused by smoke inhalation.

Very cool.

More details from the Index Awards:

CHULHA

Home category

Intent: limit the dangerous health conditions caused by traditions of indoor cooking in many rural areas of the developing world. The Chulha is a stove designed to limit the dangerous health conditions caused by traditions of indoor cooking in many rural areas of the developing world.

The stove is being made available by Philips Design to the universe of social entrepreneurs so that they can, free of charge, produce the stove, themselves, and generate local business while helping counter what the World Health Organization estimates is some 1.6 million deaths per year from conditions prompted by the toxic fumes of indoor cooking with “bio-mass” fuels (wood, dung, peat, etc.).

For more details read the complete article here.