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We Make Carpets
From pasta to balloons, the 'we make carpets' project takes everyday products and materials and frames them within traditional carpet symmetry. Created by designers Stijn van der Vleuten and and Marcia Nolte and visual artist Bob Waardenburg, the trio were connected by the instantaneous ...

Wheel of Nutrition
Are you eating right? Or left and centre as well? If you need to read your meal a little more closely this ceramic dining plate offers a simple service. Coming in three different versions - Diet, Extra ordinary and Supersize - its explanatory graphics correspond to varying percentages of ...

Fehling & Peiz
15 - 18 May, ICFF, New York
Yvonne Fehling & Jennie Peiz's Hockerbank seating is one of the featured objects in Design Germany 2010, the German Design Council's touring exhibition that has moved on from Milan and will shortly open at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). Alongside nearly 100 new products ...

COLLECT 2010
Designers Guild store window, Kings Road, London, until 18 May
In its second year at the Saatchi Gallery in London, alongside the main COLLECT 2010 contemporary craft fair (14- 17 May) is a Trail that sees the works of seven emerging artists feature in the store windows of Designers Guild, Cath Kidston, David Mellor, Osborne & Little and TASCHEN.

Art Bollart
Shangahi, China - and Antwerp, Belgium
Mooring posts, bollards, whatever your urban language the presence or absence of this object makes a perceptible impact on the cityscape. Bollart, a project initiated by Belgian sculptor and designer Patrick Villas reinterprets the pleasure of sitting on the dock of the bay, with a direct ...

Bram Boo's Still Life
Ventura Lambrate
Not your average workplace materials, Belgian designer Bram Boo's ''still life' of a desk' was realised in polished copper and wood. 'Using the silent beauty of archetypal office items and translating them into storage', the resulting objects sought to transform their regular ...

True Stories
Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan
‘In collaboration with Lamborghini’ must have been sweet music to students attending Milan’s Scuola Politecnica di Design Master’s Programme in Transportation Design. Sunday at the Race, which lined up 11 models of new Lamborghini supercars on a rollercoaster, was one of four scenarios that ...

Aldo Bakker
Ventura Lambrate
Accompanied by pieces from his Urushi series, Aldo Bakker continues his relationship with Japanese varnish. The show was presented by the Amsterdam-based Particles Gallery.

Studio Job & Pieke Bergmans
Pieke Bergmans with one of the seven light objects in the Wonderlamp collection, created together with Studio Job and presented by the Dilmos gallery.


Totem and Taboo
Oratorio della Passione, Basilica Sant' Ambrogio, Milan
Designer Ineke Hans is mesmerised by Sottsass at the Totem and Taboo installation.

The Campana Circus
The Campana Bros' Circus rug for Nodus. Baby dolls...made in Brazil.

13.798 Grams of Design
Lambretto Art Project, Ventura Lambrate
Exhibition featuring work by Barber Osgerby, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Konstantin Grcic Gitta Gschwendtner Max Lamb, Arik Levy, Marc Newson, Fabio Novembre, Inga Sempé, Kiki van Eijk, Maciek Wojcicki ao. Curated by Maria Cristina Didero and Susanna Legrenzi.







