British furniture designer Matthew Hilton will launch his new collection at 100% Design London later this month. New pieces include Fracture table (above), Tapas chair (top image), Manta chair (below) and Hepburn sofa, which has been shortlisted for a 100% Design/Blueprint Design Award. Hilton launched his own brand at 100% Design last year. See our previous story. The solid wood furniture is pr..
Young designer Christian Vivanco has designed a steel-framed sofa, which he calls Our Little White Sofa. The sofa is designed for both indoor and outdoor use. “The concept started with the search for an all-together furniture, but at the same time looking for a new expression for this kind of piece,” says the Barcelona-based designer. The following info is from Christian Vivanco: – Our little wh..
‘The painted room’ continues where the ‘stasis’ series left off - taking it to its natural conclusion on a much larger scale. Differing slightly in technique, this time splotches of paint cling to a forest of vertically strung monofilament to recreate a to-scale living room setting. I want to underscore the paradox I find fascinating between the cold hard grey matter of a purely material existen..
Designer Crispin Jones has launched five new additions to his Mr Jones Watches range. The Average Day (top image) is a watch that displays time broken down into possible activities rather than hours. The Watcher (above) has two characters on the face that never look at each other. Loves Me (above) displays the words ‘loves me’ and ‘loves me not’ alternately, and can be stopped by pulling up the ..
StairCASE This is one of my favourite projects, which realised in 8 weeks, from assigned theme to an almost finished and working prototype. The initial keywords: space, storage, future. In the future space becomes more desireable because big apartment buildings are taking over normal 1, 2 or 3 level houses. Building vertically is more efficient because less ground square meters are needed to hou..
WOK Family Limited edition series of our ‘Made in China’ collection. Each piece is unique, featuring traditional Chinese furniture embedded with hand-carved wooden toys and finished in white lacquer.V
Icono The Icono has created a new experience for the telephone, which is a very traditional product. I have based my design on the iconic hand gesture people use to represent the telephone. The handset is divided into two parts, earphone and microphone. This invites the user to use the iconic gesture when using the phone. When the user dials the numbers, an animated path is shown on the touch sc..
Architects always seem to be dreaming of the world’s tallest buildings, even though most people who’ve ever lived or worked in one will likely tell you they hate it. So it would not come as much of a surprise to learn that it is an architectural firm, UNStudio, behind the world’s longest table for all cultures. What is surprising however is that they managed to make it look quite down to earth c..
An exhibition of work by fashion designers Viktor & Rolf is on show at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. The show includes a six-metre high dolls’ house designed by Siebe Tettero, filled with 54 porcelain dolls wearing miniature versions of all the outfits on display in the gallery. Throughout the exhibition outfits are displayed on life-size porcelain dolls. The retrospective exhibition spans..
as one of the 'four designers of the future' at design miami/ basel 2008, kram/weisshaar (clemens weisshaar & reed kram) presented new work inside the markthalle basel. the designers were commissioned by design miami/ to create new works using concrete and wool and document the creative process of the work with a short video. VENDOME' is body of work takes a precondition of endless transformatio..