Patricia Urquiola has designed a swing chair to add to the existing Maia collection of outdoor furniture that she designed for the Spanish manufacturer Kettal.

For the fourth Holiday Collector’s Series by Lacoste, Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana have created a range of polo shirts for Lacoste.

The special edition is based on their famed Alligator Chair, which shows how the reptiles pile up in mud beds during the dry season in their natural habitat.

This is replicated by embroidering a cluster of eight crocodile logos onto a classic men’s and women’s white polo shirt.

Dutch Design house, Oooms has created this set of ultra-luxury, 14 karat gold-plated staples, packaged in a velvet jewelery style case.

Intended primarily as a form of jewelry, these luxury pieces can be applied to clothing (or just about anything) with the help of your average stapler.

24 pieces of these goldplated staples will cost you 140 euro ($210). Make sure not to waste it!

In his collection entitled Rough Diamond, designer Lee Broom transforms vintage furniture in its original condition into Design Art with light.

Club Chair (above) is a traditional Chesterfield that has been spectacularly transformed with fairground jewel light bulbs.

Luminaire Bergère (below) is a one-of-a-kind unfinished Parisian relic that displays the juxtaposition of old and new.

Italian fashion designers Donatella Versace, Alberta Ferretti, Anna Molinari for Blumarine, Veronica Etro, Silvia Venturini for Fendi, Consuelo Castiglioni for Marni, Angela Missoni and Rossella Jardini for Moschino, have teamed with Coca Cola for fund raising campaign in support of the victims of the earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy.

Printemps store Paris, the largest beauty department in the world, is about halfway through a $100 million renovation that it hopes to complete in 2010.

“Our vision is to make Printemps the best store in the world,” said Paolo de Cesare, the store’s president and chief executive.

For now, Printemps is under a giant tentwhile a team of 60 artisans bring the flagship’s 1883 façade back to its original Belle Epoque glory.