"Relax if you can."

image by fedrus

Artists and designers can get inspirations from many things! – even cactus. The picture of the freakily green cactus-sofa above was used for an AXN-ad with the tagline "Relax if you can."
It was spotted on Designboom and has listed a whole range of cactus-inspired designs including furniture, apartment buildings, toys and toilet brushes.

"probably the most famous cactus is the saguaro, with its hard and solid spines
which grow from the stem. generally speaking, a cactus is a symbol of patience,
endurance, persistence and nostalgia. its cultural imaginary is portrayed in the
emphasis of the many design applications."


this armchair and ottoman are moulded in silicon gel in Xiang Yun
via


the twin sisters tineke and marieke willems, who form the dutch design studio tweelink,
have designed the bux chesterfield pouf for the new outdoor furniture company dutch summer.
the bux is an inimitable chesterfield pouf inspired by the box tree.
the top is made from skai leather and the bucket is made from plastic.


urban cactus is a housing project in the vuurplaat section of rotterdam
by UCX architects / ben huygen and jasper jaegers and done
for vestia rotterdam feijenoord/estrade projecten.

and a re-design of the 'merdolino' cactus toilet brush by unknown designer



tokidoki's wildly successful cactus friends line of vinyl figures