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Levity is a minimal and poetic flexible light. An LED source is enclosed within a flexible loop which drapes across a metal frame. Feelings of both lightness and gravity are evoked by the loop’s gentle form. The light radiates through a woven textile exterior, giving a sense of softness and familiarity. Truly Truly is a design … Continue reading “Levity by Studio Truly Truly”
Like many creative people, we like when an object gives us the opportunity to change its configuration. It’s the case of these lighting beams designed by Wisse Trooster and Troy Reugebrink from Qoowl. Thanks to an ingenious magnet system, “Per Meter – Pendant” or “Per Meter – Wall” can be positioned rather freely and the direction of … Continue reading “‘Per Meter 01’ Light by the meter”
Launched by Lensfelt at the Milano fair this month, this is the Boring Collection of contemporary office furniture. Yes boring! At a time when some office furniture of big companies look more and more like playgrounds, this series of furniture created by Space Encounters, a multidisciplinary architect office based in Amsterdam, offers an interesting opposite … Continue reading “Lensvelt Boring Office Furniture Collection”
We all use everyday tools. At work or at home. To measure, communicate, watch etc. The tools are extensions of ourselves, designed to enable us to overcome the limitations of our bodies.They are not always complex tools involving high technology. Some are actually simple things we use every day. They save us time and make life easier, … Continue reading “Exhibition ‘About Tools: Extending our reach’”
Espèces is the fruit of an ongoing dialogue between artist Sébastien Lacomblez and jewellery designer Marie Artamonoff.
Super Bo is a design studio and company producing contemporary objects suggesting a different way of living. The brand’s objects are produced in Belgium melding both contemporary and traditional techniques. Break is a numbered serie of furniture for rest and contemplation. The object is simply placed on a fabric canvas. This rectangular fabric defines its … Continue reading “Super Bo – Give me a ‘Break’”
Founded in 1979 in Lubián, a small Spanish village nested in the mountains bordering Portugal, the PICO PAO workshop was born in a house that sheltered a wife and six children. The poverty of her children, her genius to use waste material and skilled craftsmanship led her to make the best toys that a child … Continue reading “Ludus Ludi Las Escaleras – Let’s play!”
Need a little poetry in this brutal world? Here you are! The door of the “Tumble” cabinet designed by Koen Devos for Dutch company Vij5 opens unexpectedly, in a subtle and quiet manner.A new way to open cabinet doors, very elegant and low tech, using gravity by simply pulling a lever. Nicely done.
Wood is not very often used in lighting design. Yet the heat of the material and the light it reflects are appreciated. Now that the choice of led bulbs with low heat emission is becoming broader, we should see this renewable material increasingly used in the field of lighting.
Housed in a mall surrounded of Art Galleries, Iconik Gallery offers vintage furniture from the last century.Favoring originality and quality, Laurent is searching for goods. With her acute sense of aesthetics, Magali photographs and showcases all of these findings. Their beautiful collection is visible on www.designaddict.com or on the website www.iconikgallery.com
TAO (Trace Architecture Office), one of the most active contemporary architectural firms in China, has built the Rockview Tea House. Located in an abandoned quarry at Tashan Park, the natural landscape park in Weihai is open to the public for free.
As the holiday season is approaching fast, this is a topic that seems appropriate. We know that some people, seeing this champagne glass, will think “And so what? It’s just a glass, nothing fancy here.” But of course design is not only about forms! The exercise done here by Claesson Koivisto Rune touches the essence … Continue reading “Claesson Koivisto Rune Optimum Champagne glass”
To Bee or not to Be is a project on the importance of bees’ and their protection.CTRLZAK was inititally asked by GREEN ISLAND initiative to design an urban beehive, but after an extensive research on the subject it was obvious that such an object was not the first priority. Instead emphasis was placed on … Continue reading “To Bee or not to Be”
On the occasion of the last Stockholm Furniture Fair which has just closed its doors in Sweden, Carl Hansen announced the launching of production of two “new” models by Hans J. Wegner. The CH22 lounge chair, which marked the beginning of their long standing collaboration between the designer and Carl Hansen in the fifties, as … Continue reading “Two “new” design icons by Hans Wegner”
Empreinte Québécoise, an action-research project in the furniture manufacturing industry will participate in the 2016 edition of the Canadian Furniture Show, which will be held from May 28 to May 30 2016, at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ontario.Empreinte Québécoise will be presenting 7 first creations resulting from the innovative approach put forth to participating … Continue reading “L’Empreinte Québécoise at the Canadian Furniture Show”
Marc Hotermans is a renowned Belgian cabinetmaker, a highly recognized expert in the field of modernist furniture and a collector who owns many rare pieces from the first part of the 20th century. He is also a friend of Design Addict since a long time. Two events are related to his collection: – an exhibition to … Continue reading “Collection Marc Hotermans”
The 25th Silver Edition of the Biennale Interieur is coming up very soon. Among the new products that one should expect to see this year in Kortrijk, here is an overview of the creations by Belgian designer Sylvain Willenz. Arpel “U-Series” suspension lights
This year marks the 60th Anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight. The Freedom Fight was a defining event in both Hungarian and Canadian history. Canada welcomed 37565 Hungarians after the Uprising, moulding the image of Canadian society so much, that in 2010 it was designated a Canadian national historic event and part of Canadian heritage. On this anniversary Hungary … Continue reading “Hello Wood “Tunnel Through Time””
The L-HOP 2 is a fixture that will make you smile. The name is inspired by the American series ‘Little House On the Prairie’.To obtain your toilet paper in an original way this luminaire is equipped with a 3W LED and is available in several colours. Designed for Dark by Danny Venlet L-HOP has won … Continue reading “L-Hop 2 by Danny Venlet”
Norwegian designer Lars Beller Fjetland created “Moment” an iron candlestick with a counterweight mechanism that extinguishes the flame of its candle when the wick has almost finished burning. Produced by wrongforhay.com, it has been launched at Maison & Objet this September 2015.
An example of minimalist design.Japanese studio YOY proposes simple and very innovative design creations. POSTER is a series of a wall lamp like a A2-sized poster. Two cuts are made in the paper to form the curved lamp shape, and a small LED light is fitted inside. The light illuminates the paper from behind, while the cuts … Continue reading “POSTER by YOY”
Ascent is a table light designed for Luceplan by Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken.By moving the head along the stem, the light intensity goes from being turned off at the bottom position, to gradually ascending to the full light at the top. This gives the user control over not only the light intensity, but also the … Continue reading “Ascent light”
‘The Fashion Resource Book: Research for Design’ is a richly illustrated survey and a mine of information about the major themes of fashion, with interviews of leading contemporary designers and education professionals. The author Robert Leach, in the fashion business for over 30 years, is associate Lecturer at Central St Martins since 1992 and Senior … Continue reading “The Fashion Resource Book: Research for Design”
The Museum of Modern Art presents the exhibition ‘Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs. Dispersal’. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959)—perhaps the most influential American architect of the 20th century—was deeply ambivalent about cities. For decades, Wright was seen as the prophet of America’s post–World War II suburban sprawl, yet the dispersed cities that he … Continue reading “Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs. Dispersal”
In her latest book, Judith Gura, a specialist in the history of interiors and furnishings explains the important movements (Bauhaus, Postmodernism, High Tech, and Green Design), forms, and furnishings from the 1950s to the present.Design After Modernism captures the range of influences that have spurred new ideas in design and illustrates many of the most … Continue reading “Book: Design After Modernism”
Teaching materials commissioned by Maria Montessori. 1920s. Manufactured by Baroni e Marangon, Gonzaga, Italy (est. 1911). Collection of Maurizio Marzadori, BolognaMoMA is presenting the first large-scale overview of the modernist preoccupation with children and childhood. The exhibition brings together areas underrepresented in design history and often considered separately, including school architecture, clothing, playgrounds, toys and … Continue reading “Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000 at MoMA”
The gallery Mjölk in Toronto, is opening the solo exhibition of Luca Nichetto, with the launching of the coffee set ‘Sucabaruca’ designed by the designer specifically for the gallery.The collaboration between Luca Nichetto and the Mjölk gallery started during the first visit of the Venetian designer in Canada, where, taking the suggestion of his friend … Continue reading “Luca Nichetto ‘Sucabaruca’ for Mjölk”
“Rolha”, (Portuguese for the cork stopper used in wine bottles), is aside table, inspired by the uncorking of a fine wine, designed byGonçalo Campos. This table is composed by very simple elements. A solid, turned cork top and 3 turned wood legs, fitted with a screw, similar to the ones used to uncork traditional wine … Continue reading “Rolha side table”
During the Dutch Design Week Studio Nienke Hoogvliet presented her new project: ‘Sea Me’.
Carlo Scarpa © Svegliado and his son Tobia Scarpa © Riccardo CrosettaSince 2003, the Museum of Decorative Arts of Bordeaux organizes regularly exhibitions of design. This year, the museum presents the work of the venetian architect Tobia Scarpa and the work of his father, Carlo, who died in 1978 and with whom he was first … Continue reading “Carlo Scarpa & Tobia Scarpa – Dialogo sospeso”
