German designer Leoni Werle has created a bell-shaped lamp that can seesaw between upright and inclined.

The solid oak base of the Pilu lamp is v-shaped so it can be stood vertical or rocked forward so the powder-coated steel stem becomes angled.

A one-directional joint connects the bar to the the bell-shaped spun aluminium shade so it always points down regardless of the lamp's position.

Werle designed floor and table versions of the lamp, which was nominated for the [D3] Design Talents contest at imm cologne earlier this year.

She showed a giant lampshade and table that were combined to create a workspace at DMY Berlin back in 2010.

More moving lamps on Dezeen include one that's adjusted by rotating its pivoting shade and another that's dimmed using a spinning wing at its base. See all our stories about lamp design »

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Fanions, which means 'fringes' in French, is a collection of rugs intended to look like "extruded 3D shapes", according to designers Dimitri Bähler, Linn Kandel and Ismaël Studer.

"We used the fringes in a modern and graphical way," they said, adding that the material was cut with a CNC machine.

We featured Bähler's storage set for stationery last December, while two years ago in Cologne we reported on Kandel's tables inspired by electricity pylons.

The rugs were shortlisted in the [D3] Contest for young designers at imm cologne, which was won by Swiss industrial designer Lucien Gumy's interlocking wooden shelving.

Other rugs we've featured lately include a rug decorated by squeezing bottles of paint over it and an installation of dozens of rugs in a Barcelona square – see all rugs.

We reported on lots of products launched in Cologne this year, including paper clip-like desk lamps and a table with a cross-shaped notch that holds magazines – see all products from Cologne 2013.

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Fanion is a project by Dimitri Bähler, Linn Kandel and Ismaël Studer

The starting point of our project is the traditional rug and its details. Especially the fringes; Fanion in french. For that project, we used the fringes in a modern and graphical way. Their direction creates an illusion. The rugs become extruded 3d shapes.

The felt (made of pure wool) provides the rugs different qualities; the colors are very deep and the material, dense, is easily processed by the cnc cutting machine. Thanks to that material, Fanion gives also a warm atmosphere impression. Simple and direct, Fanion is a contemporary vision of the traditional rugs.

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Designed by Philippe Nigro for Ligne Roset, the Cuts table is made from moulded polyurethane and reinforced with a steel frame.

Deep folds disrupt the lacquered white surface to create four tabletops at three different heights.

Two years ago in Cologne, Nigro presented interlocking pendant lights and a set of bright yellow divans, tables and a foot stool, both for Ligne Roset – see all designs by Philippe Nigro.

Other Ligne Roset products shown in Cologne this year include a chair inspired by cooked spaghetti and an asymmetric desk with a bright yellow top – see all design from Cologne 2013.

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Philippe Nigro loves to explore concepts in depth. For years now he has been working with Ligne Roset on the theme of intersections, interweavings and assemblies. He brilliantly demonstrated this with his Confluences settee (2009), and then his indoor/outdoor collections Passio and Résille (2011). In 2010, he blazed a new trail whilst playing with the concept of notches, resulting in the Inséparable footstool/table (2010), a concept which was later masterfully transformed into the Cuts shelving (2011).

In 2013, he develops that same idea of the notch, this time applying it to the low table: a flat surface is ‘disrupted’ by notches to create 4 distinct tops positioned at three different heights. The angulation of the two intersecting notches is 28°.

The irregular architecture of the low table thus obtained contrasts with the slimness (just 8 mm) of the single material and its immaculate whiteness to create a result which is more than appealing: the varying dimensions and differing levels of the tops are practical whilst the notches can be used as magazine storage.

Whichever of its each four sides it is viewed from, its contours are different yet always surprisingly light, like a paper aeroplane.

Low table in 8 mm thick satin white lacquered expanded moulded polyurethane, reinforced with a steel framework.

Width: 100
Depth: 100
Height: 15/23/30

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Philippine Lemaire incorporated metal ball joints underneath each sawn-oak circular top so the sections can be realigned.

Segments cut out of three of the four tops allow them to fit together and rotate around each other easily.

Each suface balances on two solid oak legs, which branch from a single stem coated in grey laquer at the joint.

The console was displayed at imm cologne last month, where a paperclip-like lamp and an asymmetric desk were also on show.

Other products launched by Ligne Roset this year include a footstool nipped-in with lengths of cord and a glass table with three circular tops.

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Filip Gordon Frank showed the power-coated steel desk light at imm cologne last month.

He has also blown the design up five times to create a floor lamp, and both sizes are available in nine different colours.

First designed in 2006, the light was originally produced by Italian company spHaus until it was discontinued in 2009. "I was kind of convinced that the product was good enough to carry on with production in some other way," says the designer of his decision to found Polymorph.

A ceramic light held together by a silicon band was also launched at imm cologne, along with a chair inspired by I-beams and a DIY curtain kit.

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