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Milan: Chairs 2
30 April 2008
More chairs from the big manufacturers – the Bouroullec Brothers try out a previous design in plastic, and Ineke Hans looks to insects for inspiration.
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Milan: Chairs 1
30 April 2008
From simple to psychedelic – here are a few of our favourite chairs this year, by designers Konstantin Grcic, Hella Jongerius and Adam Goodrum.
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Milan: Tokyo Wonder
29 April 2008
A “ballet of floating lights” is how French designer Gwenael Nicolas,
of Tokyo-based design studio Curiosity, describes Light-Light, an
installation at the Tokyo Wonder exhibition in Milan. Here is a video
of the piece, with little balls of light floating and bouncing in the
dark.
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Milan: Moroso - Doshi Levien
28 April 2008
My Beautiful Backside – a divan with cushions that appear to float behind it – was Doshi Levien’s confident follow-up to its hugely successful debut for Italian manufacturer Moroso last year, continuing the fusion of Indian and European themes.
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Studio Libertiny
24 April 2008
Tomás Gabzdil Libertiny has always been fascinated with making things,
and the methods behind their making. Disassembling objects and piecing
them back together was a common pastime during his childhood in
Slovakia.
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Milan: Swarovski Crystal Palace
23 April 2008
This year’s Swarovski Crystal Palace showcase in Milan included pieces
by Tokujin Yoshioka, Front, Marcel Wanders and Paul Cocksedge.
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Stanley Donwood's Fleet Street print
22 April 2008
When we went to interview Stanley Donwood, Radiohead’s official artist, he let us watch him make a special limited-edition print. The linocut, of Fleet Street being destroyed by fire and flood, is being auctioned to aid the St Bride Foundation, an educational charity.
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Last Breath Bruises
21 April 2008
Last Breath Bruises, Sandra Backlund’s latest collection, was inspired by the colour spectrum of bruises. The Swedish fashion designer’s Autumn Winter 2008 collection evolved from what she describes as “a dark story”.
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Review: Heiner Goebbels: Stifter’s Dinge
18 April 2008
In the cavernous space of P3 – a bunker formerly used for stress-testing concrete – industrial sounds clunk, twang, shudder and thud. A pair of black-clad stagehands carefully move pieces of black piping into the edges of three green-tinged grid formations on the floor.
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Riva Split
17 April 2008
“We wanted the design to mirror the shimmering sea,” says Saša Begović, partner at Croatian practice 3LHD. Riva Split is a redevelopment project for the city of Split’s ancient waterfront, overlooked by the 1,700-year-old Diocletian Palace.
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Spaghetti benches
16 April 2008
Visitors to the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in west London may never sit comfortably in a public place again. Pablo Reinoso’s new exhibition features three ordinary park benches – but with a twist.
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Milan: preview
15 April 2008
Here is the first of our coverage of the ever growing Milan furniture fair. We will be posting some of our highlights while we are out there, so stay tuned.
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Elena Manferdini’s Merletti installation
14 April 2008
Elena Manferdini’s installation Merletti is a tribute to the painstaking process of lace making. She has created a suspended canopy consisting of 300 black glossy panels manufactured with CNC technologies.
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Review: The Island: London Series
11 April 2008
There is a box of magnifying glasses at the entrance to Stephen Walter’s exhibition The Island: London Series. It’s a courteous gesture. Walter’s hand-drawn maps are an overwhelming mass of cramped detail.
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Junya Ishigami's Facility
10 April 2008
A white forest in a grey field, Junya Ishigami’s university project space in the foothills west of Tokyo is a building designed to almost disappear.
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Chanel’s Mobile Art Container
08 April 2008
On the roof of a car park in Hong Kong, in the shadow of Norman Foster’s HSBC building and IM Pei’s Bank of China, sits Chanel’s latest publicity ruse, the snake-like Mobile Art Container.
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icon 059 out now
07 April 2008
The May icon is something of a feast. The cover stars of the biggest issue of the year so far are a chicken and Dutch “eating designer” Marije Vogelzang. Vogelzang bakes dough with angle-poise lamps, prepares funeral banquets at which all the food is white, and organises tap-water tastings.
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Paper tea house
07 April 2008
A paper tea house designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban sold at auction in London last week for £31,700. The lot was one of many pieces of Japanese art and design being auctioned by Phillips de Pury & Company.
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Review: Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
04 April 2008
Nine white cars suspended in various stages of flight – with blinking LED lights streaking in cartoon-like drama from their window screens – appear to be flying through the centre of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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The Design Auction
02 April 2008
When three resourceful graphic design students from Lincoln University were trying to think of ways to raise cash for their degree show, they never imagined they’d spark intense competition between some of design’s leading lights.
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New United Kingdom coins
01 April 2008
The Royal Mint has revealed new designs for the reverse side of seven of the UK’s coins, the most significant design change since decimalisation was introduced 40 years ago. Young designer Matthew Dent has been working with Royal Mint for the last year developing the new coins.
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