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Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: new table sizes and a matching bench have been added to London designer Mathias Hahn’s E8 range of colourful wooden furniture.

Mathias Hahn originally designed the E8 table in 2009 but recently released a bench in a similar style – with all surfaces stained bright colours apart from the top, which remains natural.

Tables from 1.2 to 2.6 metres in length are also now available and the benches come in corresponding sizes. The wooden seats can be upholstered in fabric or leather.

Produced by German brand Zeitraum, the furniture was on display at this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week.

Also shown at the event were pendant lamps made of cable ties, plus a shimmering target was installed in front of a medieval gate.

Hahn has also designed mirrors that can be swivelled with wooden handles and a pendant lamp that clamps to its own flex.

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Mathias Hahn sent us the following information:

The long and narrow format of the original E8 Table allows it to be used as an every-day work and kitchen table, where temporary items such as laptops or paperwork can easily sidestep during meal times. With its overhangs it also serves as a full size dining table when needed.

Now, the E8 family has grown and the table is available in a variety of additional sizes and colours. The adaptation of the design into a range of tables varying from 1200mm to 2600mm length offers a very versatile selection which covers all areas of domestic live and work scenarios, but is also attractive for the contracting market.

The contrast between natural timber and colour emphasises the two-dimensional character of the top surface and its quality as a worktop. All surfaces except the top are coloured, using a staining technique that offers saturated and bright colours, while ensuring that the natural texture of the wood remains visible. Unlike lacquer, which scratches off easily, this method allows the table to wear gracefully over time while maintaining the character of the material.

Corresponding to the E8 Table, there is now the E8 Bench, which also comes in a range of different lengths, relating to the table configurations. The bench is designed alongside the language of the table however deliberately created to work well as a stand-alone piece in its own right, which is why it does not have the overhangs of the table. It comes in a wooden version and is also available lightly upholstered in fabric and leather.

E8 is available in a broad set of colours, including different shades of cold and warm grey and several spot colours.

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Basée à New York, Melanie Chernock a imaginé un kit de survie « Love Hurts Packaging », contenant tous les éléments nécessaires pour se remettre d’une rupture amoureuse. Avec une identité visuelle simple et réussie, découvrez ce projet contenant des mouchoirs, du chocolat ou encore de la vodka dans la suite en images.

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: New York designer Stephen Burks tells us how his once rough-edged city is being tamed by world-class architecture, urban design improvements like the High Line and a European-style bike-sharing scheme in the first of our reports from the Big Apple.

“I think New Yorkers all of a sudden are interested in quality of life” rather than just working and making money, says Burks, pointing to the Citi Bike scheme that launches later this month.” It’s the kind of thing you could never have had in New York 15 or 20 years ago. They would have got vandalised.”

New York is becoming more international in its outlook, Burks believes, being both more welcoming to foreign visitors and more eager to employ overseas architects. “There wasn’t an emphasis on great, international architects working in New York, but today it’s a selling point,” he says, pointing to the way that Herzog & de Meuron’s 40 Bond luxury apartment development in NoHo has triggered improvements in the area.

However New York is still a brutally capitalist city, and even elite architectural projects have to pay their way. “In New York you have to understand that everything is about the commercial context, everything is about capitalism at the end of the day, and culture here isn’t necessarily culture for culture’s sake. So a great architect is hired because it allows them to to sell on a different level, or to compete with the building across the street. There’s more of a relationship to commerce here in New York.”

Burks takes us on a tour of New York’s west side, taking in Chelsea (where his studio Readymade Projects is located) and the West Village, where he lives. In recent years the area has been transformed from a dangerous district known for its nightclubs to a sophisticated art, fashion and leisure area.

The change was spearheaded by the arrival of prestigious private art galleries such as Gagosian, David Zwirner and Gladstone, which cluster in the Meatpacking District on Chelsea’s western fringe.

More recently the High Line, a park created from a disused elevated railway that cuts through the area from north to south, has brought swarms of visitors and triggered a fresh round of regeneration.

Dezeen was in New York during NYCxDESIGN, a new annual citywide initiative linking together various design events including the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and NoHo Design District. We stayed at the Ace Hotel.

We’ll be posting more Dezeen and MINI World Tour reports from New York over the coming days.

We drove around New York in our MINI Cooper S Paceman.

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