Smool Kitchen Tools: Magnetic cooking utensils keep your kitchen clutter-free and looking good

Smool Kitchen Tools


Dutch design agency Smool, led by founding designer Robert Bronwasser, presented an exhaustive collection of products for the home this past week in Milan as part of …

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Highlights from Design in Common: Beijing Design Week’s Milan show innovates on carpentry

Highlights from Design in Common


Last week in Milan we were pleasantly surprised to find Beijing Design Week presenting Design in Common—a selection of pieces from the capital city’s fair. With a focus on communal furniture and tea-drinking pieces in particular, the exhibition was proof of China’s far-ranging…

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The Sandwichbike: A flat-packed wooden bicycle delivered to your door for self assembly

The Sandwichbike


First introduced as an imaginative concept by Dutch design agency Bleijh about seven years ago, the Sandwichbike has finally reached maturity. Upon its first introduction by designers Basten Leijh…

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Interview: Aiko Telgen: We talk to the designer about his glowing plasma Ion Two lamp at Milan Design Week

Interview: Aiko Telgen


Almost completely hidden in a small, dark booth inside Zona Tortona’s Temporary Museum of New Design, German designer Aiko Telgen presented Ion Lamps, one of our favorite finds at…

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Renault Twin’Z by Ross Lovegrove: Fancy meets function in a glass-roofed, luminescent commuter car

Renault Twin'Z by Ross Lovegrove


The Twin’Z was unveiled at La Triennale during Milan Design Week as the fifth concept car in Renault’s six-petal “cycle of…

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Re-lighting Gino Sarfatti Edition N°1 by Flos: The first in a series of reconfigured lights originally created by Italy’s brilliant designer

Re-lighting Gino Sarfatti Edition N°1 by Flos


Gino Sarfatti is possibly the most important lighting designer in the history of Italian design. Between founding the beloved Arteluce in 1939 and selling it to Flos in 1973, the self-taught designer had over 600 lamps…

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Heineken Open Design Explorations, Ed. 2 : Designers called to create the ultimate lounge experience at Milan Design Week 2014

Heineken Open Design Explorations, Ed. 2


Advertorial content: While here in Milan with our Design Master Classes at the Magazzini space in Tortona, Heineken has announced their next Open Design…

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Linha Combine Portable Table Set: Bamboo rounds stack up in an eco-friendly approach to picnics

Linha Combine Portable Table Set


Brazilian design company Bold announced this week Linha Combine, an all-in-one set for transporting family-style meals. During the presentation at Rio+Design, we…

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Tom Dixon + Adidas : British ingenuity meets German technical performance for a collection of design-driven travel bags, garments and footwear

Tom Dixon + Adidas


Both powerhouses in their own right, English designer Tom Dixon and German sporting brand Adidas do many things well in significantly separate spaces, rarely crossing over. However, to explore…

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“Tools for Life” by Rem Koolhaas for Knoll: The innovative Dutch architect behind OMA teams up to create a collection of kinetic and transformative furniture




Following in the footsteps of such visionaries as Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen and Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas has been tapped by American furniture design powerhouse Knoll to…

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