The Future Of Home Living by PSFK: The New York think-tank showcases their finds for innovation in the modern inner-city home

The Future Of Home Living by PSFK


PSFK has brought their “Future Of…” trend report series to an immersive space in NYC. In partnership with Stonehenge Real Estate and…

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Vanity Faith: Preachin’ Ain’t Easy: Design collective Greece Is For Lovers turns sacred symbols into satirical furnishings

Vanity Faith: Preachin' Ain't Easy


by Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi The move to marry modernity with sacred symbols is gaining momentum in both religious and design circles. This démarche has been a welcomed challenge for design collective Greece Is For Lovers (GIFL), as…

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Bestie: Scott and Scott Architects’ minimalist interior shines in Vancouver’s small sausage and beer parlor

Bestie


Anyone with an eye for minimalist design will tell you, less is more. But do Dieter Rams’ sagely timeless words apply to restaurant design? Vancouver-based Scott and Scott Architects believe so. And with a budget of just over $15,000 and 750 square…

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“Colouring Book” by Deirdre Dyson: The London-based carpet designer embarks on a playful marketing approach




This finely crafted coloring book is the work of carpet designer Deirdre Dyson and we’re big fans of her playful, but sophisticated, approach to marketing. Because sketching and coloring carpet and textile design is intrinsic to…

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Touching the Edge : Italian designers seek to redefine consumers’ relationships with objects

Touching the Edge


by Stefano Caggiano A few years ago, Giovanni Delvecchio and Andrea Magnani worked together on a thesis project in Product Design in Faenza—a little northern Italian city famous for a long tradition of ceramic manufacturing. What…

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Big Leaf Manufacturing: The Seattle-based woodworkers use years of experience to take artistic risks

Big Leaf Manufacturing


By Sam Bovarnick Roy McMakin opened Big Leaf Manufacturing in 1997 as a workshop for his furniture and architecture firms, but now maintains a level of independence that allows…

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Grapple by Ryan Frank: Testing production limits with modular hanging hooks made of grass

Grapple by Ryan Frank


Barcelona-based designer Ryan Frank has invented a modular hanging system called Grapple. The molded hooks have a buckle feature which allows them to be set at different heights along strands of webbing and hold items of…

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PHUNK + 1956 by Tai Ping Carpets: Singapore-based art and design collective launches a series of carpets inspired by “rule breakers and nonconformists”

PHUNK + 1956 by Tai Ping Carpets


Founded in 1956 to preserve the historical craft of handmade carpets, Hong Kong’s Tai Ping has grown into a global leader in quality carpeting. In recent years the renowned maker of woven Axminster, hand-tufted, machine-tufted, printed carpet and Axminster carpet tile designs introduced…

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Aesop East Hampton : The artistically-inspired Australian skincare brand moves to the beach

Aesop East Hampton


When establishing a new outpost, Aesop likes to do the unexpected. Since its beginnings in ’87, the Australian skincare brand has been coveted for its line of high quality natural products and, in recent years, it’s become equally beloved by an international…

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Three Reissued Modernist Lamps : Celebrated mid-century designers’ once forgotten luminaires brought back to life

Three Reissued Modernist Lamps


by Adam Štěch As the year rolls forward many furniture and lightning brands continue to show an interest in reissuing historical design artifacts of decades past. Large or small, most producers comprising the design market now present some form of forgotten or previously discontinued elements of design. To offer…

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