We adore the work of Melbourne designer Adam Cornish (having featured his Monkey Grip pots in the past) so we’re excited to see his latest design for Italian design powerhouse Alessi.

Adam is among a small handful of Australian’s to join the Alessi’s design encyclopaedia with the launch of his Trinity bowl.

Representing Australia on the international design landscape, Trinity was launched earlier this month in Alessi’s ‘Fall/Winter 2013 Collection’. Trinity has been a few years in the making: from the initial sketches and drawings on paper, through to renderings and various revised prototypes which underwent vigorous product testing and manufacturing. The final outcome is a beautifully constructed centrepiece that is inspired by the spiral structure of the Nautilus mollusk sea shell.

Trinity is available in store or online Top 3 by Design or Workshopped 

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Monkey Grip by Adam Cornish was designed with space conscious living in mind. With more and more people living in town houses and apartments due to proximity to cities and work, housing is becoming smaller and more compact. Monkey Grip is a system of linking pots which utilise space not currently available to common house pots. 

The pots are designed to hang from typical structures found within in the home, such as beams, rafters, handrails and standard plant hanging hooks. Each pot then joins to the other to form a chain of potted plants, creating a beautiful column of foliage and minimising clutter on the floor. 

The pot’s unique shape not only enables the plants to be linked together to form a chain,  but also houses a water reservoir in the bottom with a simple wick system that allows water overflow to be saved and wicked back to the roots of the plant;  minimising water consumption in today’s water conscious society. 

The pot’s unique joining system pays homage to the children’s game, ‘barrel of monkeys’ and are designed to be used with standard plants to ad beauty, or to grow herbs and edible plants.

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The ‘Wooden Hammock’ by Melbourne design legend Adam Cornish, 2011 Winner of the Herman Miller Asia Pacific Yves Behar Design Competition.

Designed as an alternative to the common cloth hammock this unique sculptural form is anything but common. Flexible, comfortable and mimicking the human spine the Wooden Hammock is a premium design product where each detail has been carefully considered.

Manufactured from a range of sheet materials including bamboo and plantation grown plywood the design maximises the economy of materials whilst minimising environmental foot print.

Price: $3500
Available from: Adam Cornish Design (Contact)