Category Archives: industrial design

This could be anyone’s FAVORITA

Newly transformed by Nuno Sottomayor and  Sam Baron, we can see why this Portugalian escape has been re-named Hotel FAVORITA.

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Frank Michels – RUSTICAL X INDUSTRIAL 2010

Rustical x industrial’ is a series of furnishings which derive from an aesthetical and theoretical survey on rural and suburban bricolage. The objects enunciate the poetic language of such vernacular furniture by arranging a crude patchwork of archetypes and materials -Michels … Continue reading

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QLOCKTWO by Biegert & Funk

For those of us who have still not gotten over the trauma of learning to read a numbered face-clock in first grade, this sleek, type-based clock by Beirgert & Funk seems like a comforting resolution (although it may not have … Continue reading

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Pack it up Pack it in

Itay Ohay ‘s looks at the process of packing, shipping and unpacking in his concept piece Unpacking.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckHt9nuu36w]

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Debora Baxter packs a punch

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David Clarke

Selected as one of the winners of the Jerwood  Contemporary Makers Prize 2010, David Clarke‘s unusable kitchenware adds poiniently to the dialogue about consumption and mass-production.

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Chapütschin & Gion

Although a couple weeks ago, the sentiment proclaimed across the design desk  by my colleague Fattie was precisely this:  “I’m so over multifaceted everything!”, I think these last eco geoms by Pour les Alpes might warm her heart again to … Continue reading

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What could be better than a giant luminecent body pillow? Designed and developed by Cleanroom, the Super Nova light ads calming ambient lighting to a space while adding actual comforting tactility.

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Can we ever get enough Danish Modern?

Next month at London’s Rocket Gallery, UK furniture makers, Benchmark and Rocket unveil a re-issued collection of Danish born American designer Jens Risom’s mid-century classics. Under close supervision of Risom, pieces such as his famous upholstered bench and easy chair … Continue reading

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Gift For That Person Who Has Everything

When Sir Richard Branson isn’t climbing Mount Everest or looking for more Caribbean islands to purchase, he’s inventing new toys. The latest? An off-shoot of Virgin Airlines – Virgin Galactic. On Monday 7th December Virgin Galactic unveiled SpaceShipTwo to the … Continue reading

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