Recent MoCo submissions.

+ Save Our Souls duo, ceramist Magdalena Nilsson and designer Johannes Carlström, have a new collection inspired by climate change. From left; Dark Clouds plastic and sunshield pendant lamp, Heavy Rain wallpaper “Like a tropical rain the wallpaper floods the room” and Oväder glass and tubular steel table “global warming is expected to affect the number and magnitude of extreme weather events such as hurricanes and heat waves.”. Both SOS and Erika Lovqvist below will be showing at The Old Truman Brewery during the London Design Festival.

+ Bring more nature into your home with Erika Lovqvist's Water-Lily table (left) and Antarktis blown glass vase. “I want the observer to be reminded of a reed that is frozen into ice on a lake during wintertime.”.

+ Contra Design will be showing its new collection at the London Design Festival. From above left; Neringa Dervinyte’s MOM rocking-chair, Nauris Kalinauskas’ LITERA bookcase system and Zilvinas Stankevicius’ HIDRA.

+ Designer Mann Singh’s Barahmasi and Champa lamps for Devi Design. Also check out the brass twig votive here.

+ Modern Turkish design by Faruk Akin.

+ Sybs Bauer’s Qing Tea-Set, the traditional Chinese tea set is reinterpreted combining the “experience of thousands of years of the china porcelain production and the over 300 year old European technique of Schlickenmalerei”.

+ Sydney Cash recently put up one of his unique Light Installations in the top corner of a stairwell in a duplex loft in Brooklyn.

+ This week's interview at three layer cake is with designer Martin Blum, design partner in London-based consultancy black + blum. "Actual new ways of approaching products aren’t out there and we see this as an opportunity to try to make something new.".