Nate Archer’s Designboom, one of the pillars of the online design community, had kind things to say about Lucie Koldova’s X Stools set. This follows an equally-flattering review of Tsai’s ZigZag coffee table, published about 10 days earlier.

You can read Designboom’s post on Lucie Koldova’s X Stools here.

The DeZona blog, which has been a fan of 66degrees.com for some time now, gave full treatment to the X Stools set, by Lucie Koldova ("Koldova is a real discovery!"), and was joined by Design East, which promotes talented artists and designers from Central and Eastern Europe.

DeZona’s story on the X Stools, by Lucie Koldova, is here, while Design East’s post is at this address.

A finalist in the Czech Grand Design Newcomer of the Year Award in 2007, Lucie Koldova takes her wildly popular chair line into a new direction, exclusively for 66degrees.com.

Lucie Koldová’s Miss Extreme chair debuted to critical acclaim last year. Now Lucie introduces her complementary X Stool, another takeoff on a simple cross pattern that emphasizes “clean surfaces and pure lines, to create [an] archetype”. Constructed of fibreglass, the X Stool is lightweight, durable, and easy to maintain. The piece is also properly balanced to serve as the base for a small table, requiring only your choice of material for a top. This simple but elegant design is available for the first time in a number of different colours, including white, yellow, cyan, pink and deep purple. The X Stool is sold as a set of two.

Take a closer look here »

By Jessica Michault. Published: August 10, 2004

PARIS: In the jet-set world of luxury living, globe-trotting fashionistas have finally embraced the shopping medium that is made to measure for their lifestyle: the Internet.

Once a bastion of mass-market outlets like The Gap, J. Crew and Nordstrom, the World Wide Web has recently made inroads into the elite world of luxury shopping. A handful of sites — among them net-a-porter.com, neimanmarcus.com, eluxury.com and vivre.com — are catering to some of the world’s wealthiest people, and making a profit.

Who would have thought that virtual luxury could be so successful? For these shopping princesses, there is no saleswoman at beck and call, no visceral thrill when crossing the threshold of an exclusive store, no one-on-one time with the products before purchase. Let’s face it: Buying a $40 T-shirt at the Gap is one thing, but spending $1,750.00 on a Darby Scott taupe ostrich clutch, sight unseen, is something else altogether.

According to Elaine Pinkster, a senior consultant at Ledbury Research, a luxury-market research firm, these multibrand retailers are outperforming their single-brand counterparts. Neimanmarcus.com has seen its online sales grown to $200 million from $150 million in the past year. And the American jewelry company Tiffany, which sells everything from jewelry to baby rattles online, has seen its Web site and catalog sales rise 15 percent, driven by larger online orders.

So how have these Web sites won over a group of people accustomed to the best? By giving them what they crave the most: exclusive luxury at their fingertips.

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By Maggie Shiels, published July 11, 2008

Businesses are missing out on the huge potential that social networks present, a leading information technology company has warned.

Researchers for Gartner found that huge opportunities for improving the management of large firms exist.

“Businesses which harness how employees use these sites stand to increase savings, productivity and profits,” said Gartner researcher Jeffrey Mann.

He told the BBC the challenge was how to apply this to the corporate world.

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Our friends at Designboom, who earlier this year celebrated our artist’s nested bunk beds (which subsequently won the first ever “Most Beautiful Object in South Africa” award) found time to recognize his latest design, this time for for 66degrees.com.

Designboom’s post on the ZigZag coffee table, by Tsai Design Studio, is here.

From ThisNext, whose mission is “reassessing economy and geometry as usefully descriptive concepts and waiting for the Karim Rashid for Playskool collection to bring back plastic for kids in a big, big way", designdude said ZigZag “looks as cool as it works and will stand out in any space".

ThisNext’s story on the ZigZag coffee table, by Tsai Design Studio, is here.

Design Crack, which has written about us before, had this to say about Tsai’s ZigZag table: “Hey, it’s not the iPhone, but it’s a damn nice design by one of South Africa’s more talented and prolific modern designers. Give it a look". Congratulations, Tsai !

Design Crack’s story on Tsai’s ZigZag coffee table is here.

Design Milk, a blog from San Diego from a woman who loves art, design, cheese, and dogs, said simply “This is really a beautiful piece". That’s good enough for us.

Check out Design Milk’s post on the ZigZag table here.

From a designer whose work has been dubbed “The Most Beautiful in South Africa” comes this Chinese-inspired coffee table, a creation of more from less.

Born in Taiwan and trained in South Africa as an architect, Tsai uses his eclectic and modern design sense to create the ZigZag Coffee Table. Beginning with a rigid angular form traditionally found in Chinese home doorframes and screens, Tsai has cleverly combined artistic sensibility and space saving awareness. As a functional piece, the interior of the ZigZag Table creates a series of shelves that can be used to hold any number of objects. What better way to clear the clutter and leave only clean looks and bold design behind?

Take a closer look here »

Chicago-based Lizzie Garrett’s DESIGNwatcher blog (with a passion for all things design), was intrigued by 66degrees.com - “things you won’t get anywhere else” - but she was especially taken with Sergio Silva’s Oyule lamp set. “I love his concept of reusing lightbulbs and essentially sending them ‘back in time’. DESIGNwatcher’s post on 66degrees.com and Oyule is here.

The prestigious Home Rejuvenation blog, a dazzling compendium of ideas from Singapore interior design firm KNQ Associates, published a short story today on Oyule, by Sergio Silva.

Check our their post here.

Kimmie Smith, our favourite New York City princess-going-on-queen, writes this about Ondas: “I have found the bracelet that is not only handmade but absolutely decadent! Now this luxury is intensively constructed. The pattern has beautiful waves and make you feel like you’re wearing walking art…definitely a must have".

Kimmie’s post on Ondas, by Oscar Figueroa is here.

From a Mexican city world famous for its jewellery, Oscar Figueroa creates this exclusive hand-made bracelet in sterling silver.

The Ondas bracelet takes its inspiration from waves. Made of sterling silver, a small amount of copper is injected to help make the metal workable, then hand sanded and double-checked to make sure the patterns are consistent. The pieces are joined together to form a design that mixes both traditional Mexican patterns with a modern sensibility.

Buy it here »

Nothing at 66degrees.com has used up as much ink as Sergio Silva’s Oyule light bulb set. Treehugger gleefully shows off a few knockoffs of Sergio’s idea, but we think none has been quite so imaginatively and immaculately delivered as the original.

Treehugger’s story on Oyule is here.

Well, we never quite thought of Sergio Silva’s retro lighting design as a nursery fixture, but the editors of CribFashion.com seem to. Crib Fashion gives you fresh tips about decorating your crib, about the newest trends in fashion and many other design advices.

Crib Candy’s post on Oyule, by Sergio Silva, is here.

Spend Money online, a blog with a mission to “Tell You How And Where To Spend Money", did just that for Oyule. Spend Money Online’s story on Oyule, by Segio Silva, is here.

Oyule has attracted a lot of attention in the last few days, mostly from gadget sites like Instructables, Boing Boing, Electricpig, and ThisNext (and a couple in languages we can’t read). Many of these scoff at the price, forgetting that all the works on 66degrees.com are made to your order, by hand, in small limited editions – there are no production lines at 66degrees.com to bring down the cost. Wal Mart might “rip off” Sergio’s idea and order a million from China, but you’ll find the one-of-a-kind item here first.

Nicole’s So Haute! blog ("about interior design and other stylish things") found time to bookmark 66degrees.com – “Another site to check out is 66 Degrees…an cool new e-commerce site that showcases limited edition works of art and design by innovative and talented artists and designers from across the globe. Lots of interesting things to see here. I was recently checking out this Barnsley table by Pennsylvania furniture designer David Stern Lightner. It’s made of woods from Central America and Brazil and was handcrafted right here in America". You can read So Haute’s story on 66degrees.com and Barnsley here.

Indie Style File is “an ode to my love of the little known and non-Gap brands out there". That works for us. Chief guru Kim Bui is a newspaper reporter by day, a home design and fashion blogger by night.

You can read Indie Style File’s story on Sarah parris’ NYC bag here.

Trendir (subtitled ‘Where the New Products Are’) is a newish blog by Joe Pikus, from somewhere in cyberspace, with a mission to search out “the latest home decor products and trends in high-end luxury markets. Enjoy the sense of style. Identify with the best in contemporary decor"!

You can read Trendir’s post on Oyule, by Segio Silva here.