Camilla Hounsell Halvorsen has designed a “Drops Chair“, which was inspired by the process behind making tassels. + Design statement courtesy of Camilla Hounsell Halvorsen Drops consists of legs of stainless steel and an inner tube covered with recycled upholstery material. The seat is not permanently fixed to the underframe, but the inner ring in [...]
Selfportrait, image courtesy of Ka-Lai Chan Selfportrait, image courtesy of Ka-Lai Chan The young designer Ka-Lai Chan has designed an innovative chair “Selfportrait” in her graduation project. In 2009, she established her own design studio. + Design statement courtesy of Ka-Lai Chan “Selfportrait” is a graduation project based on the emotions and suppressed feelings what [...]
Istanbul based Gursan Ergil Design Studio has designed an eco-friendly modern furniture, with traditional craftsmanship of wood shaping and joinery. Each furniture carefully retreated, handcrafted and finished with environmentally friendly methods. The furniture is made of reclaimed materials. + About Gursan Ergil Design Studio ‘ENVIRONMENTAL MODERNISM’ Gursan Ergil Design Studio is an Istanbul based Design [...]
Paris-based design studio Samal design recently has designed three contemporary products – Sphery chair lounge, Alien lamp and Human table. The style of which combines both: the futuristic and retro vision on design. I call it “New Retro-Futurism”, mix of retro design with futuristic and advanced elements. I think that the future of design is [...]
Spanish design studio Ebualà recently has designed 2 versions of Midori (a chair and an arm-chair) for Sancal. + Design description courtesy of SANCAL Inspired by one of the main characters of the novel “Tokio Blues” by Haruki Murakami, the stool Midori is never temporary. It doesn’t belong anywhere. That’s why it belongs to everybody [...]
URBIA Furniture System for Small Apartments in Big Cities, designed by OBRA Architects for the lifestyles of minimal materiality. + Design description courtesy of OBRA Architects Over the past few years the technological developments related to digital fabrication have became a sort of David’s sling in the design process, significantly expanding the range of what [...]
Miami based design studio PIE studio recently has launched an aluminum chair – Scream, after the success of the Steel Tongue (PIE studio‘s first aluminum chair) back in 2005 (Steel Tongue became a Permanent Collection to the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution NYC in 2006). + Design statement courtesy of PIE studio Scream: Design [...]
Table & Chairs Enterprise, designed by Italian architect Marco De Gregorio who is currently living in Barcelona, Spain. + Design statement courtesy of Marco De Gregorio These soft fluid objects are conceived as a mesh molded and sculptured in one piece structure. It is a transition from the horizontal to the vertical by a combination [...]
Germany-based Oliver Schick Design has sent us their 3 selected furniture designs – Airsquare, Bowie & Walker. + Airsquare courtesy of Oliver Schick Design Airsquare? is a modular plastics foam shelving system. The high-tech material ? used in automobile and aircraft construction ? is sturdy and very lightweight. The system consists of single cubes, each [...]
Italian designer Massimo Iosa Ghini has designed a South Face installation in Milan, the installation creates spectacular aesthetic effects, making sustainability both beautiful and feasible. + Design statement courtesy of Massimo Iosa Ghini Sustainable but beautiful: this is the goal I have pursued in all of my projects for years. South Face is the outcome [...]
Spanish based furniture brand, Sancal recently has released a new chair named NOSSO which is consisted of one armchair and two sofas. + Design description courtesy of SANCAL As Tom Jobim used to sing “O Nosso amor va ser assim, eu prá voce, vove prá mim”. Arm and chair join together to give Nosso voice [...]
It takes some time to get all the holes to line up on the invisible welded joins Charlie Davidson British designer Charlie Davidson has just finished his latest hand made piece entitled Is this the coolest chair ever made? Made from 2mm punched steel sheet, brazed together and powder coated. Based on a prototype for [...]
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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 [...]
