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Eclectic
20th – 24th January 2012, Now!
Maison & Objet, Paris
Eclectic by Tom Dixon is a new accessories collection from the British brand launching exclusively at Maison & Objet 2012. This first collection of everyday home accessories, giftware and design objects comes after ten years dedicated to creating the best in lighting and furniture design. ...
Window Agriculture
Window Agriculture is an alternative way to practice indoor-urban farming. Before the beginning of the last millennium, most of the food was produced in rural areas, and shipped to big cities. The city depended on
the rural environment to feed itself. Today, there is more people living in the ...
TOON, Music player for elderly people
Using a modern system is often difficult for elderly people or people with dementia. Kyra Meilink designed TOON, a music player especially for this target group. The design is inspired by radio's from the 1950s. The sound system has a SD memory card on which carers and family can put ...
SenufoTable & Pillhead Lamps
Once upon a time there was a UFO flying over Africa. The aliens, on seeing that the locals had no furniture, approached them with design - small tables in aluminium with CMYK colours. After the aliens left, the locals started to copy these objects out of wood.
With the possibilities of 3D knitting, Print investigates the rapid, skilled production of garments. Aritificial
folds, structures, and extendable size become inherent to this programmed product. Material, volume and appearance are designed as one.
Dog
When you like design and love cats, you need to have a scratching post, in order to save your furniture.
Hacking Hope
Hacking Hope is about analysing systems that coexist with us, while being prepared to look far beyond
their predetermined face value and attempt to hack into their raw potential in search of fresh new possibilities.
Wooden Textiles
A material .that is half-wood-halftextile, between hard and soft, challenging what can be expected from a material or category. It looks and smells familiar but feels strange, as it is able to move and form itself in unexpected ways.
Pleat box
Marset director Javier Marset posing under the Pleat Box collection in his Barcelona showroom - a project by Mañosa, in collaboration with the Mashallah design studio. Pleat Box utilises a digitally-designed crease in a piece
of cloth, the silhouette of which is applied to a ceramic base. The ...
Colourful Life
‘Colourful Life’ reflects the creative and cultural life of Ian Wright, Keaykolour Paper’s Artistic Ambassador spanning five decades of contemporary youth and street culture, music, fashion, film and style, with a visual aesthetic that celebrates, comments and contradicts.
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The entire selection proceeded along the axis of time. The set has been completed with something contemporary: the Fatboy chair. This has meant transforming the amorphous and ever-changing shape into the individual curves of a wire structure.
Mr. Smith the 2nd
The technical integrity of this chair is achieved through the designer’s years of experience in joinery and the hand crafting of furniture, coupled with his understanding of the science and technology of materials and pushing the
properties of woods and plastics to the limit.
Desk & Yellow Light
A product made from the cooking of plastic powder, using different techniques to obtain different finishes. To achieve a velvet-looking finish, grains of plastic powder are added to the surface.
Mosa
Development of a new shape for Amaison Amsterdam.