Doggone Hip & The Cat's Meow: Pet Interiors' Fabulous Felt and Leather Pet Beds

Pet Interiors of Denmark offers beautifully made and nicely designed pet beds for both dogs and cats. The products are hand made in Germany of hard-wearing felt made from pure new sheep’s wool, high-quality, long-lasting fabrics, rattan wickerwork, fine leathers and resilient metal.

Each of the styles of beds come in various sizes and materials, so you have lots of options. They also offer cushions, limited editions, and more. Take a look.

For The Canines

The Cube is available in real or imitation leather and various sizes:



The Bowl is available in leather or imitation leather, as well as felt:


The Camilla, available in various colors:

The Starlit, available in various felt colors:

The Crown, available in various felt colors:

The Arena, available in various felt colors:

Cushions and cover colors:

The Sophie and Rocco Cushions:

Leather cushions, Sam and Stone:

The Stone Cushion in fabric:

Limited Edition Cushions #9 and #11:



For The Felines

The Bowl in leather or imitation leather:

The Bowl in wicker or felt with cover:

The Bowl in felt:

The Crown, available in various felt colors:

The Arena, available in various felt colors:

The Starlit, available in various felt colors:


The Rondo is available as both a free standing bed/house for cats and a wall-mounted house/bed. It's available in real leather, imitation leather, wicker, felt and even limited patterns or scratching materials:





They even make specially shaped cushions for the Rondo:

You can even customize the Rondo with scratchable covers or decorative covers:


The people behind the pets: Christel & Otto Meyer


Christel and Otto Meyer, married, live and work in Lichtenfels. In their shared office for product design, they develop integrated designs based on a closeness to life and are therefore constantly setting new trends. As a result, the innovative collection for cat-interiors.de was created in 2004. The range was successfully expanded in 2007, when the products for dogs were added.

As well as developing creative porcelain designs, their creative work also focuses on gift items, trade-fair architecture, the designing of corporate identity systems and interior design projects.

They would be delighted to answer any questions you may have:info@pet-interiors.de

They ship worldwide with reasonable prices. Start spoiling your pet here.

Sport-Inspired Furniture From Arik Ben Simhon

Arik Ben Simhon is an Israeli designer whose latest furniture collection was inspired by sports equipment and elements found in the gym. We're not talking barbell lamps, beanbag chairs covered in sports jerseys or a coffee table made of skate decks.

These are modern, high quality, sophisticated leather and upholstered pieces that take their design cues from the protective pads worn in sports like hockey and skateboarding and the metal tubular elements of work-out machinery.


above left: pro-tec hip and tailbone pads and right, Ben Simhon's leather chairs



The inspiration:


above: Protective hockey gear for the heart, kidney and spleen

above: Protective gear from pro-tec for hips, tailbone and knees

Clearly inspired by the protective pads shown above, a few chairs from the collection:



The collection includes sofas, easy chairs and occasional seats as well as more obscure items such as a rocking chair, children’s high chair, hammock and punching bag.

Materials include full-grain fashion-quality leather in monochrome and metallic hues with flashes of color introduced thorough ultra-bright occasional seats and bright velvet chairs.

 With a wink to chesterfield upholstery techniques many of the pieces are stitched and padded by hand, imparting a sense of humour often found behind these designs.



He premiered this unusual collection as part of Superstudio’s concept “Temporary Museum for New Design” during Milan Design Week 2009 this past April:


The Chairs:

Mickey Max:

Little Cube:

Goldy:

Shazlong Ex Mackey:

Box:

ExtraBox:

Box & Half:

Supermuscoli:


Taison:

Mamma Son:




The Sofas:

Mentallys:

Soft Cube Sofa (leather and suede):

Mr. T:

Little Mamma:

Chocolate:


Miscellaneous items:

Punching Bag:


The Bici stool:



The Tarzan hammock:


The Dondolo Rocker:


The Bambini Highchair:




Tel Aviv designer Arik Ben Simhon is known for bold design pieces which reference the fashions of contemporary culture and sport. Beginning his career in design at the age of 24 he first worked on a series of commercial projects in the capital including hotels, clubs, restaurants and bars.

Now, after a successful international launch in 2008, he is not only considered one of the most prominent and influential designers in Tel Aviv but is widely achieving recognition on a global scale.
 


About the new collection, 
Ben Simhon says “For the new collection I started by looking at 1930s movement photography and juxtaposed this with fashion. Sport has been pivotal in fashion since the 70s with functional high performance sports clothing moving from the sport hall and streets to a high fashion context. I wanted to capture this with furniture that is made to the highest quality but that maintains a cool informal edge.” 


“In uncertain times I hope to evoke positive emotion and give people a piece of furniture which they will want to live with for years, an “investment piece” both from the practical aspect but also the emotional” 


all information and photos courtesy of Arik Ben Simhon, ecxpet the sport equipment potos

To see the complete collection, visit Arik Ben Simhon

Arik Ben Simhon
110 NAHALAT BINYAMIN ST
TEL-AVIV 66066 ISRAEL
Tel. +972 (0)3 683 7865

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