As designers we travel around the world to new places in order to get inspired and discover the newest up and becoming artists, objects, designer furniture and all that has to do with design. In one such exclusive exhibition in London we discovered the great artworks of Petr Weigl and mission was accomplished. Son of a Czech émigré born in England, Petr Weigl is a talented artist/sculptor/graphi..
Model Citizens is an annual exhibit in New York for independent designers to show off their work. This chair is from Brooklyn-based designer Joshua Newman. from contemporist
Undoubtedly, one of our favorite presentations in the Milan International Furniture Fair was the Peep-Show, Fishes and other Objects of Desire. The space design installation was created especially for the event by the Interior Architecture/Space Design section of the HEAD Geneva (Haute école d'art et de design - Genève). The installation was presented in Zona Tortona via Novi 5, Milan. Peep show..
This stool is the result of research for a project developed at an International Summer Workshop held at the Domaine de Boisbuchet in collaboration with the Vitra Design Museum. The workshop was conducted by Stephen Burks, one of the leading lights of American design. The brief? To provide support based on various frequently adopted natural postures and objectify the concept as a mechanical exte..
The Salone del Mobile 2010 will provide an exclusive showcase for the launch of the new creation from Ernestomeda, leader at the high end of the designer kitchen market: Carré, the brand new kitchen bearing the name of Marc Sadler, the outcome of three years of intensive collaboration between the firm and the designer, generating a new concept in fitted kitchens. Versatile and multifaceted, Carr..
During Milan Design Week 2010, we met German designer Daniel Rohr, who was exhibiting the Colander Table that we featured last October from contemporist
TWILS, a furniture manufacturer based in the northern Italian town of Cessalto, have sent us photos of their 2010 collection of contemporary beds. from contemporist
During Milan Design Week 2010, we visited the Soft Architecture exhibition from Italian lighting manufacturer FLOS at Superstudio in Milan’s Zona Tortona district. Soft Architecture consists of a new collection characterized by the use of a special composite material (Under-Cover technology) of which Flos holds an exclusive license agreement in the lighting compartment for its production and com..
During Milan Design Week 2010, designers Jan Wertel and Gernot Oberfell of Platform Studio, introduced the Dragonfly.MGX Pendant Light that they designed for .MGX by Materialise. The Dragonfly.MGX pendant light draws inspiration from the curved honeycomb structure of insect eyes and their optical qualities. The fascination for us lies within its complex three dimensional array of photoreceptor c..
At Salone del Mobile 2010 in Milan, we visited the booth of Italian manufacturer Infiniti Design, where they provided us with creative images of their 2010 Collection. from contemporist