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 design behind the Grohe Ondus is intended to make life simpler, by making it possible – and easy – to make personalised presets for most washing and bathing functions. The automated features are built around a one-touch interface which operates bath and shower performance. Further, the user interface is icon-based simplifying operation and digital programming. MORE…
For the Seijo Townhouses in Tokyo, Kazuyo Sejima experiments with a singular model of a special kind of collective housing – for client/buyers ready to pay more than the already demanding prices of real estate in Tokyo today. MORE…
The Mutaflex Seating Concept by Barcelona-based Figueras International Seating recently received the Award for Business and Commercial Innovation, in the Culture of Innovation category. The prizes are an initiative of the Granollers City Council in collaboration with a number of entities based in the county of Vallés. MORE…
Cremation demands specific solutions, so Belgium’s Maximal Design has created a cremation coffin with integrated urn in order to appeal to the specific functional needs and emotional circumstances of a cremation funeral. MORE…
Tokyo-based Schemata Architecture’s 63.02° is built in a densely residential area in Nakano, Tokyo, a small building consisting of a SOHO (small office/home office) and a rental apartment with total floor space of just 71m2. The road facing onto which it is built is extremely narrow, but the apartment block next door enjoys a large open space between the road and the building. MORE…
Johannesburg-based Ronel Jordaan, a South African textile designer active almost 30 years now, sees inspiration in nature, and uses felt to express her colourful imagination. MORE…
The E-V Sunny Bicycle, developed by Canadian Entrepreneur, Peter Sandler, President of Therapy Products, employs light-absorbing Solar panels built into the wheels to generate continual power from the sun. The bike is the first of its kind in the world, the first all-solar electric bicycle powered entirely from the sun. MORE…
The Bubble Calendar is a fun and innovative handmade calendar that comes out of Brooklyn, NY.
It’s a big (122cm x 46cm) poster calendar that has all days of the week with all major (US) holidays marked; weekends are also bolded for quick reference. But the best part is there’s a bubble to pop every day. MORE…
