Design
Milan – an initial selection
Few exhibitors risk coming to Milan without some new products to show off. And even if not all of these new creations make it all the way to the production stage, they are still a thermometer for trends, vitality and differentiation within the industry.
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Cities of the Pacific Century
The impending Olympic Games in China are dominating the headlines just as much as reports about the current spectacular major projects of the international architectural stars in the country. But what is happening behind, below, next to these individual highlights?
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Urban Romanticism
“Urban Romanticism” is the motto of the Luminale 08 marathon. Many openings will already take place on April 5th.
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Projekt Vitra
The title of the book says it all. What we have here isn't a product catalogue but a rich collage of texts, photographs, sketches, types of paper, layouts and dictionary-like lists of the designers and architects who have worked for and with Vitra in the past and will continue to do so in future.
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Golden moon surfaces
The designer Alexis Oehler works in the heart of Berlin's Kreuzberg district, but the romantic impression given by his workshop is contradicted by the hardness and roughness of his preferred material, which normally tends to evoke associations of depressing concrete housing blocks.
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The VIA Creation Grants
For the maiden run of the 'Meuble Paris' furniture fair, and pursuing its annual Creation Assistance programme, VIA has presented the Carte Blanche grant awarded to designer Jean-Louis Frechin, the ten Project Assistance grants prototypes, as well as the new Partnership Project 'Creation and Skilled Trades', which brought together designer Philippe Nigro and the Compagnons du Devoir journeymen.
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Young Design at the imm cologne 2008
This year, too, the imm cologne will provide lots of opportunities to discover young design talent and discover fresh ideas. Here a few suggestions.
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A classic returns
At that time the Casala furniture company, which was founded in 1917, was one of the leading manufacturers in Germany. For almost two years the sculptor Alexander Begge worked on shaping and processing a series of monoblocks on behalf of Casala. The result was the Casalino
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Bamboo 2.0
Due to new processing methods bamboo materials, such as bamboo veneer or Plyboo (in other words bamboo plywood) have become important materials for the furniture industry. And the good thing is that it is now possible to overcome the musty colonial aesthetic which bamboo has been associated with.
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Triennale di Milano
It's not just because of its dominant architecture – the Palazzo dell’Arte was designed early in the Thirties by Giovanni Muzio– but also because of its historic past that the Triennale has, for many years, been an especially popular location for exclusive design and architectural exhibitions.
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StokkeAustad
Since 2004 Øystein Austad and Jonas Ravlo Stokke have formed the design team StokkeAustad, which is based in Oslo. They only opened their design studio last year, although their successful cooperation began during their studies at the 'Oslo School of Architecture and Design'.
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Fiction
The italian manufacturer Glas Italia presented the impressive mirror serie by the french designer Jean-Marie Massaud at the imm cologne.
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News from Cologne
Even if the imm cologne has lost ground in comparison to the Milan fair, which has now become the major international design event, and the Maison & Objet exhibition which has benefited from the design boom in France, the response of the majority of imm exhibitors was entirely positive
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Greenhouse in Stockholm
Like on many other furniture fairs also in Stockholm the exhibition of young designers is a relevant part of the programme. In cosy atmosphere – the exhibition was designed by the swedish studio TAF – international talents present their work.
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In spite of all the prophecies of doom
On Sunday before last this year's imm cologne closed its doors after receiving 107,000 visitors from 103 countries – statistics which speak for themselves.
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Village life in the Greenhouse
The Stockholm Furniture Fair, which takes place from 6 - 10 February, is enjoying ever greater popularity with both manufacturers and designers. This is primarily because the fair has set itself the target of making Stockholm a major platform for creative new ideas.
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Design + Research + Industry
The cooperation between BASF, the German industrial designer Konstantin Grcic and the Italian furniture manufacturer Plank came into being as a result of the Universal Days workshop, to which BASF invited a number of designers in order to present the new plastic Ultradur© High Speed to them
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Nordic Novelties
Stockholm is increasingly establishing itself as the design capital of the North. With almost 40,000 visitors this year the Stockholm furniture fair and the Northern Light exhibition were more successful than ever.
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light + building
This year's light + building successfully defended its position as the top trade fair in the lamps and lighting systems sector. In spite of the many international manufacturers who displayed their products and the large masses of visitors, the organisers succeeded in keeping the exhibition manageable and well structured. In addition to the stands of well-known established manufacturers, it was in particular the work of a number of smaller young suppliers who were presenting their products for the first time which caught the eye.
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New Walls, Please!
For some years now wallpaper has been celebrating a major revival. Thanks to intelligent materials, new methods of processing and a return of the readiness to risk more graphic wall design, wallpaper is becoming a favoured projection surface for artists, architects and designers.
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Digital Furniture Design
With the help of digital technologies it is now possible to create all forms imaginable, whilst streamlining the design process from concept to fabrication.
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A swedish bright spot
Just one year ago Magnus Wästberg started his lighting company. At the Stockholm Furniture Fair he presents his first collection with names like Irvine und Massaud.
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GRP meets porcelain
The 'Professorship Project' (Projekt Professur) is the name of the programme at the Karlsruhe College of Design under which well-known designers are invited to become visiting professors at the college and which, after three appointments so far, has proved highly successful.
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Mingei
Design of "Limited edition" obscures the boundary of design and art. Craft elements bring singularity into otherwise mass-produced works and lift them to an art piece in the market.
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Brazilian Design
Brazilian design can look back on a long history. And although it was initially strongly influenced by European design ideas, it has since developed its own, unmistakably Brazilian aesthetic.
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