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Yes We Can: debating the future of American design
A recent panel discussion at Washington DC’s International Design Festival got to grips with the somewhat provocative question, “What Happened to American Design?”, the implication being it doesn't enjoy the singular, coherent identity of other national design cultures. Here, journalist and panel moderator David Sokol outlines and extends the debate.
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Lux Redux: Euroluce 2013 – Part II
Need more light in your life? The second part of Architonic's survey of high-end lighting design from this year's Euroluce fair in Milan should provide the illumination you're looking for.
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Il design affina le sue abilità al Brera Design District 2013
Costantemente alla ricerca di come trasmettere un valore ai prodotti, oggi più che mai stiamo assistendo ad una rinascita dell’approccio artigianale nel mondo del design. Dove se non a Brera, il quartiere principale del design di Milano, da tempo la culla dell’espressione artistica e artigianale, possiamo approfondire questa tendenza?
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Non Plus Ultra: the Interior Innovation Award 2013's 'Best of Best'
The biggest, the fastest, the smartest. When it comes to marketing-speak, there's nothing like a superlative to liven things up. Best of Best – the annual exhibition held at imm cologne of the category winners from the Interior Innovation Award 2013, a scheme organised by the German Design Council and voted for by a jury of big names from the design industry – is no exaggeration, however.
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Coming Up: [D3] Design Talents at imm cologne is 10
More than 500 young and emerging designers have taken to the [D3] Design Talents stage at the Cologne Furniture Fair over the past ten years, presenting their ideas in prototype form to both an industry and a general audience. Architonic takes a look at the show's success stories and considers why exhibitors and visitors alike keep coming back for more
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Only Connect: Belgrade Design Week 2013
In eight short years, Belgrade Design Week has put the Serbian capital on the creative map, playing annual host to an unmissable pow-wow of the finest creative minds around.
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Lux Redux: Euroluce 2013 – Part I
We may live in somewhat gloomy times, but this year’s confident edition of Euroluce – the biennial international lighting showcase at the Milan Salone del Mobile – shone brighter than an old-fashioned 100-Watt light bulb.
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Easily LED: the charms (and challenges) of a developing technology
Many hands make light work, goes the old saying. Many new LED producers also make the creative possibilities of working with such a fast-changing technology exciting, thanks to the proliferation of products they bring to the market. But, for lighting design manufacturers, an expansion of supplier choice brings with it a number of challenges. Architonic sheds some light.
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Size Doesn’t Matter: contemporary Nordic architects who cross boundaries
Head north and you'll find a thriving design culture where the level of consideration given to the way things look, feel and work isn't determined by their scale. Be they housing projects, chairs or taps, the Scandinavian approach to design continues to be a more democratic one, driven in no small part by the number of Nordic architects who design beyond buildings.
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ARCHITEKTUR 0.12: the first exhibition on popular Swiss architecture wins big audience
‘Are Swiss architects unable to create interesting buildings?’, asked Felix E Müller, editor-in-chief of Swiss newspaper NZZ am Sonntag, in a recent article. ‘Unfortunately, all new buildings look the same.’ With this provocative statement, Müller laid the foundations for the first exhibition on popular Swiss architecture, ARCHITEKTUR 0.12, which took place this October in Zurich’s Maag Event Hall.
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Go West: Architonic strengthens its presence in North America
With an expanded North American sales team, a bigger presence at this year's ICFF in New York, and two brand-new apps – 'Best American Design Brands' and 'Best Canadian Design Brands' – Architonic has gone all transatlantic.
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Milan 2013: The Ultimate Photo Tours
No one provides you with as an exhaustive and detailed photographic coverage of the annual Milan Furniture Fair as Architonic. On this we pride ourselves. If you weren't able to make it to the 2013 edition of the mother of all design trade fairs, fret not – here you'll find links to image galleries for the Salone, Euroluce, the SaloneUfficio and the SaloneSatellite.
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The Gold Standard: iF International Forum Design celebrates 60 years
Three score old and in rude health: the iF design gold awards, handed out to a painstakingly selected, international cohort of companies at the recent Munich Creative Business Week for their outstanding products, is looking to the future.
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Systematic: furniture that grows on you
System furniture did what it's wont to do at this year's imm cologne: expand. A number of new and innovative furniture programmes, modular in nature, were shown alongside augmented and reworked old favourites. It's all about joined-up thinking.
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stilhaus: 'Bringing together what belongs together'
stilhaus – the new design destination in Switzerland – doesn't do things by halves. 20,000 square metres of retail and exhibition space next to one of the country's busiest motorway intersections offers architects, planners and end consumers an edit of some of the top international design brands. stilhaus is in the house.
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The Grand Hotel: The Bourgeois Dream of an Aristocratic Castle
Journalist Klaus Leuschel provides a crash course in, and a guided tour of, grand hotels, and how even design excellence in the five-star tradition is of no avail when the quality of hospitality does not match it.
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Il parco dei parchi: Superkilen di Copenhagen
Un collage di storie e realtà urbane da tutto il mondo: la risposta di BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, Topotek1 e Superflex al quartiere più multiculturale di Copenhagen
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Taking the Waters: born-again spa and wellness architecture
The spring of architectural creativity is in full flow, with a number of offices working internationally adding value to the age-old practice of therapeutic bathing. Here's our selection of the best of the latest spa and wellness architecture. Go ahead. The water's warm.
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Looming Large: innovation in new textile design
If you think textile design is, well, a little two-dimensional, think again. Contemporary producers of high-quality woven materials for interiors are busy exploring all sorts of innovative directions in terms of materials, processes and applications. And that’s no flannel.
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Same but Different: classic design and the design of change
Everything changes, so they say. But should it? What about decades-old, often iconic designs? Should they be preserved, as it were, their contemporary production remaining ‘true’ in every respect to the ‘original’? Or ought manufacturers be free to modify them – materially, technically, even formally – in the name of contemporary market appeal. And what about the thorny issue of authorship? Architonic investigates.
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