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Dezeen promotion: Italian brand Pedrali has released a colourful furniture collection for use in all areas of the workplace.

The Office 2.0 comprises chairs, armchairs, modular seating, tables and stools designed in response to today’s more open and flexible office layouts.

The simple shapes and colourful upholstery of the furniture allow it to look as appropriate in work stations as it does in meeting rooms and reception areas.

Some pieces were designed by Pedrali’s in-house team, while other items are the work of Italy-based designers Marc Sadler, Claudio Dondoli and Marco Pocci, Alessandro Busana and Cazzaniga-Mandelli-Pagliarulo.

A few of the designs have been used to furnish the Google Campus in Ireland by Swiss architecture studio Camenzind Evolution and Dublin studio Henry J Lyons Architects.

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The massive changes occurring in workplaces, driven by technological progress, have profoundly influenced the design of contemporary offices.

Thanks to the introduction of new devices for mobile communication the employees do not have to be physically present in the office. They have to be available 24/7 but they are not bound to their desks as they live the work environments in a more dynamic way.

Based on an extensive analysis of these changes, Pedrali has come up with a wide range of new fittings that are able to respond to the new and emerging demands of the second generation office: chairs, armchairs, modular seating, tables and stools for reception areas and conference rooms, open areas for meetings and rapid exchanges of information, furniture for break out areas and canteens.

A clean and bright coloured collection that has been also selected to furnish some areas of the Google Campus in Ireland, designed by the Swiss architecture studio Camenzind Evolution in collaboration with local firm Henry J. Lyons Architects.

Arki-Table by Pedrali R&D

Industrial look, rigorous shapes and versatility. The Arki-Table family of tables has been enriched by three new versions, that still keep the extremely thin tops and the peculiar structure with trestle legs.

Available in rectangular, square or round versions with steel or solid oak legs, extruded aluminium frame and solid laminate top. Top available with cable management for rectangular version.

Host by Pedrali R&D

Host is a modular system, consisting of seating elements that offer different combinations. Steel tube frame Ø 16mm in chromed finish. The seat is completely upholstered with fire retardant polyurethane foam which can be covered with fabric or leather. Optional: linking device.

Noa by Marc Sadler

A family composed of chair and armchair which combines the elegance of proportions to the comfort of the seat thanks to the innovative construction technique. The seat is upholstered and contained in a polycarbonate shell with a polished external surface. The upholstery can be in fabric or leather. Noa is available in the stackable version with chrome-plated steel or powder coated four legs or in the version with die casted aluminium central base with four spokes with castors.

Gliss by Marco Dondoli and Marco Pocci

Considered one of the “icon collections” of Pedrali, Gliss, expand its horizons introducing three new chairs that keep the same design idea. Gliss Wood chair has ash wooden legs and polycarbonate, technopolymer or upholstered genuine leather shell. Gliss Lounge chair has steel sled frame or aluminium swivel base with technopolymer or upholstered genuine leather shell. Gliss Swing is the rocking chair. Soft upholstered covering for Gliss Lounge shell available.

Laja by Alessandro Busana

A family composed of chair and armchair in different versions. The comfortable seat is made of crossed elastic belts, covered by polyurethane foam. The back is slightly elastic and comfortable. The upholstery could be entirely with fabric or leather for the outside and fabric for the inside shell. The wide range of colours allows monochromatic upholsteries or bichromatic combinations, inside/outside.

Malmö by Cazzaniga-Mandelli-Pagliarulo

A collection of ash wood furniture born from an imaginary journey along the sides of a Scandinavian lake. When, in 2012, the chair, the armchair and the table have been presented, immediately garnered the interest of the market. Both the chair and armchair have ash timber frame in bleached or black stained finish; multilayer, fabric or leather upholstered shell. Malmö extendable table has ash wooden legs matched with solid laminate or ash veneered table top.

The armchair also won two international awards: the Good Design Awards, the prestigious award sponsored by the Museum of Architecture and Design “Chicago Athenaeum” and the Red Dot Design Award 2013.

For the Salone del Mobile 2013 the Malmö family expanded to new contexts entering in lounge environments, waiting areas and cafes. The collection has been enriched with a lounge armchair, the coffee tables and the barstools, all made of solid ash frame with tapered legs. The result is a unique Scandinavian taste of exceptional lightness.

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Réalisée par Peter Simon, cette vidéo Ballpoint Barber nous propose de découvrir en stop-motion monté à l’envers un homme chauve utilisant une stylo magique pour se faire pousser les cheveux et la barbe. Une création sympathique à découvrir dans la suite sur une musique de Paul Otteson.

The helmet worn by FDNY Engine 16 Lieutenant Mickey Kross, who survived the collapse of the North Tower. (Courtesy Skira Rizzoli)

At the distance of a dozen years from September 11, 2001, a new book relives the tragic events of that day through a selection of artifacts—Minoru Yamasaki‘s World Trade Center model, shattered plane fragments, the four-inch heels worn by Michele Martocci as she walked down from the 62nd floor of the South Tower and onto St. Vincent’s Hospital, and the wallet and wedding ring that once belonged to Robert Gschaar, who worked thirty floors higher.

The Stories They Tell (Skira Rizzoli), edited by Alice M. Greenwald and Clifford Chanin, also offers a preview of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, slated to open early next year. “At the 9/11 Memorial Museum, every object tells a story, bringing history into vivid focus,” writes Joe Daniels, president and CEO of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, in the book’s introduction. “The objects connect us to people who owned them, made them, used them, or survived them.”

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If you’ve visited Dezeen on a mobile device over the last few weeks you may have noticed some improvements… our mobile-friendly responsive site went live at the end of last month.

The new responsive design detects the device you’re using and serves the optimal user experience for that device. So if you’re using a mobile phone, you’ll see a stylish new interface with simplified navigation. There is just one column of stories, with all other navigation tidied away into drop-down menus.

Dezeen is proud of its logical yet stylish layout and we think we’ve found a way to bring those same qualities to smaller mobile screens. The mobile experience is designed to be as simple, clean and fast-loading as possible. Features such as slideshows and movies automatically reformat to work seamlessly on iPhones, Android devices and other mobile gadgets.

We’ve been testing the site extensively since it went live and we think we’ve ironed out all the bugs, but let us know if you spot any more.

We’re still working on ways of sharing stories via social media on mobile, and on offering a way to view the desktop version of the site, in case you’d prefer that experience.

Comment counts will also be added to the homepage soon (and by the way we’ve also overhauled our comment engine, which is now run by the more elegant and customisable Disqus solution, rather than Intense Debate).

Suggestions for further improvements are most welcome!

Desktop, laptop and tablet users will still see the full, three-column version of Dezeen. Our analytics show that readers feel very comfortable visiting the full version Dezeen on devices such as iPads – the number of users visiting Dezeen on tablets more than doubled over the past year compared to the previous year. Mobile users grew 70% over the year and have grown a further 20% since we introduced the new responsive site.

The site has been designed by our office mates Zerofee. The next steps will be to roll out responsive versions of our Dezeen Jobs recruitment site and our Dezeen Watch Store ecommerce site. Our World Design Guide maps already feature responsive design.

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3D-printed guitars, food, and fashion will be displayed and discussed at Mediabistro’s Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo next week, September 17-18 in San Jose, California. Join us there and network with leaders in the Silicon Valley tech community.

Design-oriented sessions include “Tools of Creation” and “The Future of Retail and Materials for 3D Printing,” which will be led by Isaac Katz of Electronic Art Boutique and David L. Bourell of Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication.
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