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Friday’s news: Breathing furniture, poignant photography and the property market hits a new low 6 November, 2009

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Friday’s child is loving and giving, and so are the team here at mydeco! There were some great design stories to choose from today, but we’ve handpicked our favourites to keep you going until you flee the office at five. Enjoy!

mydeco’s pick of the top three news stories:

1. Design Milk: Breathing Chair Made Out of Foam

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Image credit: Design Milk

Who says that comfort automatically means a sacrifice in style? Well this chair doesn’t exactly do much to disprove the theory. Created bu Taiwanese designer Yu-Ying Wu, who wanted a seat that would help ease the problems she has with her knees, the square block turns into an armchair when you sit on it. Do the ergonomic benefits override the fact that it looks like a giant block of swiss cheese? You decide.

2. Cool Hunting: Kelly Gorham: The Stones Have Memories

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Image credit: Cool Hunting

Berlin still bears much of the architectural scarring that resulted from WWII, and Kelly Gorham captures this perfectly in her latest photographic exhibition, The Stones Have Memories. Monday will mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, but many structural symbols of the society it created still exist. The resonant emotion in such architecture is allowed to speak for itself in Gorham’s photos – they really are worth a look.

3, Daily Mail: Unveiled: The luxurious £2m underground mansion designed to keep away prying eyes

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Image Credit: Daily Mail

Although this underground nirvana is still only in the planning stages, several footballers are already believed to be engaging in estate warfare to get their hands on the property. Personally, I hope Wayne Rooney gets it. No offence Coleen, but I don’t want to see any tabloid pictures of Wayne in his undies.

The best of the rest:

Daily Mail: Can you dig it? If you want more space, it’s time to go underground

The Telegraph: Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan’s Belgravia restoration

The Telegraph: Is the property market recovering?

The Telegraph: Design notebook by David Nicholls

Design Week: Wallpaper designs by Damien Hirst

Design Week: Bark Design is creating an installation in the London College of Communication’s Atrium Gallery

Dexigner: 2010 Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition

Interior Design: New product: Hammered Bowls

That’s your lot for today everyone, so it’s goodbye until Monday from the daily news blog, I hope you don’t miss us too much!

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