Yesterday I checked out the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, an annual trade show highlighting what's new in design. It's not a kitchen-focused show, but I like going to see what's exciting for the dining room. A big reveal at this year's show was the brand-new Stockholm dining table and chairs from IKEA, made of walnut and due in stores in August! See more photos below:

We've seen these lap mugs and knee mugs - clever and yet oddly impractical in their very practicality - but there was even more from Hupton, a design group from England. Click through to see the next products sure to show up at your local Urban Outfitters this year...

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Normann Copenhagen designs products for the home and kitchen, including some of the most iconic popular design items of the last few years. You would probably recognize their green collapsible funnel and companion red collapsible strainer. At ICFF we saw an expansion of their Familia line of cookware into similar shapes for tabletop. To see more (especially that cute teapot) read on... More

ICFF is all about design. There's a lot of beautiful design that begs to be admired and examined. We saw some things that seemed like good and practical additions to our kitchen, but mostly we saw design that made us reflect on the kitchen, its purpose, and how we think of our cooking.

The NeckLAdle is one of these things. It's a necklace made out of a segmented wooden spoon and strung on a cord. This sounds impractical for most of us, right? Listen to what the artist had to say about her design... More

From the designers who brought you the Egg Pants, here comes an old-fashioned cafeteria tray, but with a twist.

Trays like these were originally designed to slide quickly along a fast food line, but this tray takes that concept and subverts it with a reminder to go slow. More photos below... More