Nya Nordiska, a leading international textile company based in Dannenberg, North Germany, whose early stages were strongly influenced by Scandinavian design, recently received a highly unusual enquiry from the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. The legendary interior landscape “Fantasy Landscape“ by the designer Verner Panton was to be returned to its original condition for the museum's exhibition “Interieu..
British designers Dan Ziglam and Elliot Brook have created the Capsule Collection of seating for their furniture brand Deadgood. This fully upholstered collection of seating utilises off cuts of fabric to create a graduated run of colour tones and textures that cover an arrangement of irregular sized buttons. The forms themselves are derived from a simple three-dimensional capsule shape which cr..
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In 1895, Johann Bretz created his first cosy “Kautsches” (couches) in Gensingen, a German wine village on the Rhine river. Today, his great great-granddaughter Carolin Fieber – a fashion designer and stylist trained in Milan, Paris and London – is completing the evolutionary pathway by putting the ancestral Kautsch to contemporary rebirth with new sofas, armchairs, stools, tables and rugs. from ..
Japanese design studio Leif.designpark have created the Hug Lounge Sofa for De La Espada. From De La Espada: Hug Lounge Sofa has a generous seating area and a playfully modern form reminiscent of a large embrace. In contrast to the familiarity of the welcoming seating area, the back of the sofa has the formality of a mens suit. from contemporist
London Design Festival 09: Berlin design studio Osko+Deichmann will present a range of seating inspired by a pebble at The Dock in London next week. Designed for Swedish brand Blå Station, the Pebble range are based on a stone found in the designers’ studio. The range includes an armchair, two- and three-seater sofas, and a footstool. Pebble will be shown at VORBOTEN: 7 Studios from Berlin, at T..
The Japanese design group has created a super-visual childrens sofa in steel and fabric. The furniture is made with a fresh yellow frame which provides a nice contrast to the dark seat. A piece of furniture would like in an "adult version" as well. Should soon come into production, and we hope a Danish importer takes it to heart. The chair is called Lotta Kids Chair. from dagensdesign
Seattle architect Nils Finne has shared with us his experience of getting a custom designed handcrafted rug made in a remote area of Nepal. Nils says: The rug is meant to evoke a field of grass, and we generated drawings and made sample color strike-offs here in Seattle. Then, Dorjé Contemporary, a custom rug company based in Seattle, transmitted all the information to their weavers in Nepal. Th..
Omri Barzeev has recently finished his degree in industrial design at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Zaza chair was his final project. From Omri Barzeev: My project Zaza is a new chair that created and based on a research and integration of various substance and in search of the morphology, resulting from a combination of substances consisting of a variety of ..
The chamber music hall has been installed within Manchester Art Gallery for the duration of the Manchester International Festival 2009.From the festival program: “Across a series of nine concerts, threeinternationally acclaimed musicians will perform Bach’s soloinstrumental works in this unique, intimate space. The aim: to create anear-perfect environment for the audience to experience some of t..
