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News: online design retailer Fab.com has announced it will design its own range of furniture and homeware to be sold alongside its existing inventory.

The brand has also announced its expansion into France, the acquisition of a German furniture company and the opening of its first physical retail store.

In a blog post today, Fab founder and CEO Jason Goldberg revealed that the company, which originally launched in 2011 as a social network but switched focus last year to become a retail site for design, was once again “pivoting” its retail strategy as it looks to compete with global retailers like Amazon and Walmart.

“We won’t rest until we’ve created the global brand that is synonymous with design for years and years to come,” Goldberg wrote, adding that the relaunch was part of his plan to make Fab “the world’s number one design store”.

From today, the brand will add three exclusive product ranges to its offering: a line created in-house, called Products Designed by Fab; a specially selected line of products by other designers, named Products Found By Fab; and Designer Collaborations, which will see Fab developing products with other designers.

Goldberg also announced the launch of Fab’s operations in France, a move that he says gives the brand coverage of 99% of the European Union, as well as the acquisition of MassivKonzept, a German startup specialising in customised furniture. MassivKonzept has been rebranded as Fab Designed By You, offering customers the chance to order made-to-measure shelves, tables and sofas in a variety of materials.

The company is also opening its first physical retail store in Hamburg, Germany, as well as expanding its mobile shopping experience with the new Fab iPad and iPhone apps.

In September last year, Fab closed its UK site and relocated staff from London to Berlin as part of a move to create a single European e-commerce site based in Germany. The company’s UK operation launched two months earlier when it acquired Llustre.com, a design-led UK flash-sale site that had itself only launched three months earlier.

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Milan 2013: Foster + Partners has designed a coffee table made by stretching a perforated disk of steel upwards to form a metal-mesh base.

The Teso table by Foster + Partners for Molteni&C is pressed and twisted into a tapered cylinder by a robotic arm.

A circular transparent glass top allows the structure to be seen from any angle. It’s available in a brushed stainless-steel, brushed brass or bronze-painted finish.

This is the architecture firm’s second table for Molteni&C, following its Arc table with a base made of cement and organic fibres in 2009.

Teso was presented at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan earlier this month.

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Milan 2013: French designer Jean-Marie Massaud has created chunky grey seating resembling the jagged forms of an iceberg for Swedish furniture brand Offecct.

Massaud’s Airberg collection for Offecct comprises a long sofa and a chunky chair, both with an asymmetrical backrest.

“Airberg consists of a structural case that gives the impression of being filled with a vacuum, but is in reality filled with a flexible padding material,” explained Offecct.

The collection, currently still in prototype form, is one of the first results from the new Offecct Lab research and development initiative.

The design was presented at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan alongside UNStudio’s curvy red seating for Offecct – see all news and products from Milan 2013.

Massaud recently collaborated with auto maker Toyota to create an “anti-crisis” concept car with plastic bodywork and a bamboo bonnet – see all design by Jean-Marie Massaud.

Other Offecct furniture we’ve published recently includes a chair by Japanese studio Nendo that flicks out like a flowing cape and a sofa with a winged backrest by Spanish designer Carlos Tíscar – see all design by Offecct.

Here’s some more information from Offecct:

Airberg by Jean-Marie Massaud is an innovative piece of furniture that breaks with conventions.

Airberg is one of the first results to come out of the work at Offecct Lab, a strategic initiative designed to concentrate Offecct’s efforts in the development of new solutions and new products. Airberg is not ready for production yet, but should be seen as a result of an ongoing R&D process where Offecct and Jean-Marie Massaud dared to develop a piece of seating furniture for the meeting places of the future.

The inspiration behind the form of Airberg is a combination of a comfortable, inviting piece of seating furniture and an iceberg filled with vacuum. The furniture’s abstract form is light in its expression and Airberg is contemporary both in its design and in the technique used.

“Offecct is prominent in offering the market a strong and varied product selection. This means that with Airberg I could take a step further and break with conventions and question existing norms of what a piece of seating furniture usually looks like,” says Jean-Marie Massaud.

Airberg consists of a structural case which gives the impression of being filled with a vacuum, but is in reality filled with a flexible padding material. The unique craftsmanship used in the production of Airberg makes it possible to create a deconstructed piece of furniture that is more defined in its asymmetry. Jean-Marie Massaud has created a piece of furniture that is comfortable, sustainable and competent, making it highly contemporary.

“Offecct has always worked continuously with product development and lately we have intensified our efforts to taking yet another step in creating innovative and challenging products for the international market,” says Kurt Tingdal, CEO, Offecct.

“With Airberg, Offecct, together with Jean-Marie Massaud, take a great leap in that direction resulting in a unique piece of furniture that has to be experienced,” Kurt Tingdal concludes.

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