From top left, clockwise: would you get your dog food delivered?, Kyjen squeaky toys keep on squeakin’, Tim Flach dog photography, an Airstream-inspired pet camper.

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The 2011 IKEA catalog is out now, and there are a few pieces that I like in particular. IKEA does such a great job of getting their catalog out early, and getting all of their products available online before they release it.

Above, the VIKA VEINE top (white or black-brown) and VIKA MOLIDEN legs combo is pretty sweet. I love that you can fold the top down and hide your mess away. The inside is lined with felt and has little pockets and such for your pens and papers. There’s also a power strip in the back to help organize your cables.

The desk with top closed

VILMIE pillows and pillow covers. I especially love the FIGUR (above, last pillow) BLOM (below, bottom).

This Artist’s Loft by Della Valle Bernheimer looks more like an sculpture than a home. The walls are created by laser cutting metal sheets and with them separate living, working and entertaining spaces. It’s no surprise that the use of raw concrete for the floors blends so well with the color of the walls and makes the art really pop against this background. The slits on the curved wall serve as a visual art element; the light behind projects through, creating a beautiful pattern displayed on the floor.

Udesign is a brand new UK-based custom wallpaper company that specializes in personalized wallpaper, stickers, canvas prints or murals. Udesign also offers over 3000 professional template designs.

To celebrate their launch they’re holding a design competition with MyDeco. Click here to learn more about how you can enter and have your original designs sold on their site.

ABR is a company that helps designers bridge the gap between idea and a tangible product. They don’t want to be considered a manufacturer, but more of a furniture publisher. I like that term.

Latten Chair by Max and Hannes Gumpp

Liam by Toni Palleja and Porcuatro

Dayboard by StokkeAustad

Bell Table by Sebastian Herkner

During The London Design Festival 2010, they will be showing their collection at the Places and Spaces curated exhibit The Workshop at Studio Egret West September 21-26, 2010.

Andra is a graceful three panel free-standing room divider.

Una is an elegant floor-to-ceiling single panel room divider.

Vital Steel NYC is husband-and-wife team Robbin Brosterman and Benno Schoberth who were also featured in a recent New York Times article!

Jonathan Adler is the man behind the Jonathan Adler name. Jonathan Adler the company is dedicated to bringing style, craft, joy, and a general feeling of grooviness to your home.

Since receiving his first order for pottery from Barneys New York sixteen years ago, Jonathan Adler’s eponymous company has grown to become an internationally recognized home and gift oriented lifestyle brand offering decorative objects, tabletop collections, bedding, bath accessories, candles, furniture, rugs, pillows and lighting. Jonathan Adler is known for a design aesthetic which pairs modernist forms with bold colors and groovy graphics.  The company motto, “If your heirs won’t fight over it, we won’t make it,” reflects Jonathan’s commitment to impeccable craftsmanship and panache.

Besides being an amazing potter, Jonathan has been the lead judge on Bravo’s Top Design and last year he partnered with Barbie® to design the retro-glam and girl-chic interior for the “real” Malibu Dream House.

Favorite things:

1. Grim Reality TV
Hoarders, Intervention and Lockup are my Holy Trinity of TV fare. Dunno why but I find the grim conditions of other people’s lives oddly relaxing. Every night after work my bloke and I tuck into an episode of one of these fine programs, followed by a bracing game of ping pong.

2. Hardcore Crafts
I was ecstatic when I stumbled across this fab book from the 60s that celebrates the freaky-ass erotic creations of the early craft movement.  From Feminist needlecrafts to Funk Ceramics phalluses, this book has got it all. Highly recommended.

3. The Scalinatella Hotel in Capri
Surreal, sublime and surprising, the Scalinatella is Heaven Hotel is heaven on earth! Visit the website for a mini vacation.

4. David Hicks
I know, I know, everybody loves David Hicks and his fab geometrics and bold color sense. But what I love the most about David Hicks is his sense of fun. I love how he used to mix old and new and bold and blue and always with a sense of wild abandon and a feel-good energy.  I find his work innately optimistic.

5. Beautiful People by Simon Doonan
Yes, he’s my husband, but Simon’s book Beautiful People is my fave book of all time. It’s hilarious and moving and gripping and everything a book should be. Every time I finish a book and think it’s time to start a new one, I inevitably just pick up Beautiful People and give it another read. It’s that good.