I love the Tio chair by Conscious Design. The Tio comes in a range of fantastic patterns and colors, all of which come as interchangeable covers that allow you to with change the lounge chair as you so desire.

The beetle shelf system by Amaridianwas one of the coolest pieces at the show. Patterns are very big now and the beetle reinterpretation was a nice leap. Greg and Roché Dry, of EGG Designs, created the screen and do a bunch of other great work as well.

The Yothaka furniture line used a variety of different materials, and one of the most interesting was the line of Pineapple Paper pieces. The seat of the Baco Stool is loose sheets of dyed pinapple fiber paper.

Shine, by James Lear, is a great reinterpretation of the armchair. Re-inventing the ornate repeat by simplifying the pattern form and increasing ornament by using Swarovski crystals, the chair is both new and old at the same time. James is a RISD BFA Furniture ’08.

view more of the RISD ICFF 2007 pieces here

Palo Samko’s work was gorgeous in person. The pieces have playful details and are extremely well crafted.

b O bles are a series of foam toys that are shaped to have multiple uses and act as toys of exploration and imagination.

A translation of the rocking horse. The Rockingsheep (right), may or may not be made of real sheep skin. Kind of creepy if it is! Desgined by Povl Kjaer.

It was great to see Danish designer Anne Black’s work at ICFF. Her porcelain pieces are so delicate and beautiful. By placing the graphic on the inside of the ceramic ware rather than on the exterior in her Black is Blue collection, she takes a modern spin on a traditional medium.

The fixtures from Perch all have that handmade ceramic quality because they are indeed handmade and ceramic. Amy Adams designs and crafts all of the objects in the collection. I really like the muted colors and the deep glaze finish of the ceramic.

Thout’s work is full of clever surprises and solutions for compact living. The HoleySTUMP is a reclaimed cedar stump with holes bored into it, conveniently sized so as to store a beer or a soda can, if desired. Thout has also developed a series of UtiliTILES, a modular wall tile system that is programmed for specific functions – to hold a piece of fruit, a cup, a fork, etc.

The Lattice Platter by Chris Metcalfe (left) and Pegster by Peter Collis (right) are two examples of positioning the user as the maker of the object. The platter comes flat-packed and laser-cut and is assembled by the end-user. And the pegboard poster re-forms itself based on the user input.