New input for one of the bestsellers by Kristalia, the Thin-K table designed by Luciano Bertoncini. Now, the aluminium tops are also available in genuine wood veneer with brush-effect, a technique that highlights the natural grain of wood. It is still a challenge for Kristalia and the designer to keep an extremely thin top: only [...]
Cork is a very special material with qualities that make it perfect for a wide range of technical applications, while being environmentally sustainable, reason why it has seen a great appreciation in the last few years. Most of its harvesting and production is also based in Portugal, because of the particularly favourable climate to it’s [...]
A small space with just over 20m ² was the site for the deployment of this kiosk in the Casa da Música Metro Station in the city of Porto, Portugal. This project was based on the idea of “pause”. Pause between commuting routes (home-work-home, home-school-home, etc.) where one color dominates: the yellow. As in [...]
Paster & Geldmacher studio designed the ELEPHANT rocking chair. When thinking of retirement, many people imagine sitting in a rocking chair in front of a fire. Perhaps it was the same idea that inspired the two designers of the Neuland, Paster & Geldmacher studio when they developed Elephant Rocking. This rocking chair is a development of [...]
PRESENT SIMPLE chair by YOXIMOVIC designo studio Present simple is a simple chair. It is used for sitting which happens regularly, every day, from time to time, always, sometimes. It is used for sitting when sitting is talked about. You can sit on it in the past or in the future. You cannot sit now [...]
Reinier de Jong designed the REK bookcase. + Design statement More than four years after we designed and created the very first REK bookcase for a private client, we have taken a few significant steps forward. REK has a new finish, is much lighter and we have made some great photos of it. What are [...]
Toer designed a stool that gives the appearance of sitting on air, Dome. The eighty curved steel rods that spring out of the wooden base create a polar array. This strong shape, used in famous architecture like the pantheon, makes it strong enough to sit on. The stool is crafted from beech wood and is [...]
Turkish designer Mebrure Oral designed the Typographic Bookshelf. + Design statement “Simple way to organize books.” Designed to simplify organizing books and encourage to read more. Separating books into sections “has been read” and will be read” serves as reminder. Typographic elements and perpendicular lines act like bookends. Modern and stimulating appearance. Made by craftsmanship [...]
FOLDONE expresses a new dynamic position, with a strong conceptual abstraction. It evolves in a continuum of folding surfaces, giving a contemporary spirit to space. Dynamism and transformation are concepts which describe this design generated by research into the perception of movement: surfaces are folded, creating continuity, into functional spaces able to accommodate objects. A [...]
Sanindusa has just launched an elegant solution able to meet two needs: wash-stand and cupboard. BLOK, as it is called, completely made of ceramics, hides the drainage pipes and enables you to take full advantage of the interior space for storage of personal hygiene objects.
Polish design studio WAMHOUSE recently has created the new Armchair “przelany”.
Jonathan DORTHE designed the First Chair for Atelier-D. + Design statement The idea of this project was to design a simple chair that I could make in my workshop with the tools I had. All the pieces are cut from a flat sheet of Russian plywood, and then assembled using traditional joinery techniques. The front [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
