cappellini day bed by jasper morrison

With 12 years experience in the futon industry from delivery and set up, to sales and buying, Mike Gallawa began Night & Day Furniture. His goal: to solve all the issues that plague the words "futon frame". Things such as difficulty converting from sofa to bed, barrel nuts that never line up, and having your face on the floor to connect the seat to the back. Then, everyone's favorite, the dreaded hardware pack full of lots tiny pieces and parts. Just when you think you're ready to assemble, you open...

"The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years...

What feeds the inspiration of the designer? Observation. In Jasper Morrison's collection of pictures, the icons of design history meet up with the unassuming objects of everyday life. Every picture tells a story and creates a new one in juxtaposition with its neighbor-without words, in the language of form. Morrison responds to the arbitrariness of form with simplicity and complexity, poetry and humor in a repertoire of compelling designs. A World Without Words is a pocket-sized school of seeing...