German-born designer Sebastian Gronemeyer grew up surrounded by the works of Arne Jacobsen Poul Kjärholm and Eero Saarinen. He brings, through his company Silence and Grace, two fresh new designs to 100% Design in London this month: The Orchid Chair and The W Chair. MORE…
The London-based, 100% Design event is one of the biggest and most important design events on the world’s design calendar, bringing together manufacturers, name designers and major specifiers from all over the world. 100% Design fuses the worlds o
f architecture and design with innovative, contemporary interior products, creativity and a dynamic mix of new and established talent. MORE…
The World Architecture Festival is perhaps the big annual event for architects worldwide. The Festival addresses and celebrates the work, concerns and aspirations of the international architectural community, during a three-day event this autumn in Barcelona. MORE…
The main exhibition of the 2008 International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno, Czech Republic, designed by Radim Babak and Ondrej Tobola of Hippos design, consists of 600 works by 162 designers, arranged using chairs so that visitors can browse the magazines and books on show. MORE…
Best known for its collection of traditional prefabricated houses, the Finnish Kannustalo company’s modern model Touch will be displayed at an exhibition of prefabricated homes opening on 20 July at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
The Finland-based Kannustalo’s prefabricated house Touch was designed by the renowned Finnish architects Mikko Heikkinen and Markku Komonen. MORE…
The exhibition Traces at the Gallery art.si consists of illuminated transparent works on plexi-glass that bring together abstract, organic-like motives and immaterial elements as light reflections, projections and shadows. Light-works, crystalline and bio-amorphous in form, refer to nature but rather than reproducing natural landscapes, they manifest the energetic mental, immaterial but nevertheless bodily constituted organic topologies.
