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Art & Design
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May 21, 2012
Mondo Cane Children Chair Collection
About 50 chairs were displayed May 17th in the Partners & Spade studio in lower Manhattan. But these chairs are not your ordinary piece of furniture; they’re designed specifically for children. These chairs are not just unique in their scale, … more
May 20, 2012
Modern Danish Furniture – Finn Junhl
We should not take for granted the introduction of modern Danish furniture to the American Industry, which is one of the reason it is now a very popular style all over the world. At the time after the second war, … more
May 18, 2012
Minimum [book]
Minimum [book] is a versatile and expandable bookshelf that can be used to arrange and display books, as well as any other stuff. The notion behind this brilliant twist shelving is to help anyone design his/her own bookshelves in an … more
May 18, 2012
Graphic Design in China from 1920s-30s
Believe it or not, these very awesome chinese graphics are from the 20s and 30s, using the woodcut technique founded by Lu Xun, one of the leading figures of modern Chinese literature. At that time he believed the technique can be … more
May 17, 2012
Bellboy Chair
Bellboy is a New York-based wood shop, producing hand made furniture products. Founded by art director Matt Driscoll, the shop uses a lot of local materials to create modern furnitures with simplistic design.
On it’s latest project, Bellboy created this sleek … more
May 17, 2012
KAWS Nature of Need at Galerie Perrotin
The brilliant painter KAWS a.k.a. Brian Donelly just displayed his series of paintings in an exhibition entitled “The Nature of Need” at Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong. The gallery presents one of the largest vertical displays of KAWS and over 50 … more
May 16, 2012
Matryoshka Bench by Jaewoo Chon and Antariksh Tandon
The Matryoshka Bench is a set of furniture by Canada based designers Jaewoo Chon and Antariksh Tandon consisted of 6 L-shaped individual benches. Inspired by the Russian Matryoshka Doll, each part is bigger than the other. The idea is to explore … more
May 16, 2012
Domsai Terrariums by Matteo Cibic
It’s an astronaut. No, it’s a plant wearing an astronaut suit. It’s.. a Planstronaut? Whatever you may call this, the Italian designer Matteo Cibic calls this DOMSAI, which is actually a little a dome enclosing a plant, standing on a … more
May 15, 2012
‘Branch’ chair by Staffan Holm
In highlighting the correlation of design and technology at Milan’s SaloneSatellite, the award-winning Swedish designer Staffan Holm showcased his delicate design of the bentwood chair he calls Branch. Branch was created with the use of complex wood bending technology they … more
May 14, 2012
Maisonnette by Simone Simonelli
With the idea of utilizing small spaces in big cities, Italian designer Simone Simonelli presented three little mobile storage units in Milan, in an exhibition called Uncovered 2012. The furniture set is named Maisonette, which in French means small house. … more
May 13, 2012
Future Zoo by Ian Sklarsky at YOTEL New York
YOTEL New York at Times Square presents NYC Future Zoo, a temporary exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist, Ian Sklarsky. Sklarsky uses the Blind Contour drawing method which has become one of his statement. He created a series full of colourful animals … more
May 11, 2012
Red Dot Concept Winner: Bloom Chips
We know when it comes to Pringles, “once you pop, you can’t stop”, this marketing of those stacked-up chips was brilliantly accepted by anyone, except one designer, who loved the whole idea of stacked-up chips, but found the package to … more
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