The gorgeous ancient, matured wood “was in a building for at least 150 years” prior to being used to manufacture the beautiful DECARUS line of minimalist furniture. Amazing craftsmanship, organic material, beautiful minimalist design.

Brothers Tej and Sach Chauhan of Chauhan Studio designed this futuristic phone for Suncorp Communications, fittingly named after famed Italian designer Joe Colombo. They state the design seeks to re-establish the lost relationship between earpiece and mouthpiece in modern telephones. The flash and html versions of Chauhan Studio’s site state both Spring and August of 2008 respectively as the availability date—so I’m unclear about that one. Let’s hope it’s soon. More images after the break.

Inspired by the warm, closed environment of a mother’s womb, the BabyC^™ cradle brings a welcomed dash of style to modern parents. This must’ve been the cradle in which Dr. Heywood R. Floyd rocked his daughters—that is, if they had gotten the timeline right. Designed by Dripta Roy, co-founder of Puur Design Studio. Available in Europe this fall for €2650 + taxes, by winter in North America—can be pre-ordered at sales@puur.ca. Detail image after the break.

A specially designed mattress is provided.

I love when designers find ways to remove clutter and replace clumsy designs with practical ones. iriver’s new domino flash drive is a nice example of minimal design—they’ve replaced the easy–to–loose protective cap that comes with most other flash drives with a slide mechanism that exposes the USB conector when needed, and even removed the unnecessary “GB” acronym from the label, leaving a single, clean beautiful number to indicate the drive’s capacity. It comes in 2 and 4 GB capacities and in your choice of white, black, pink, chocolate or coral–pink. Unfortunately this beauty is only available in Korea for now, but hopefully will be made available in the rest of the world soon. More images after the break.

Art. Lebedev’s Cubistorus is a simple modular storage system that can be easily configured in a variety of ways. The cubes can be stacked and secured from all four sides with specially designed clips that are extremely easy to attach and remove. The design was released on April 30^th but availability is not yet clear on Art. Lebedev’s site. More images after the break.