Great design no longer stops at the kitchen sink with Black and Blum's stylish new dish rack 'High and Dry'. As well as being a gorgeous piece of sculpture for your kitchen, it is functional too – its wave of spikes can solve the tricky issue of drying wine glasses, even the most delicate champagne flutes, its makers Dan Black and Martin Blum promise.
is what distinguishes Nina's designs.
design, we share a desire to achieve simplicity and purity in our work.
exactly what she wants to do.
I admire this attitude and that is what we have in common," says Jacqueline.
workshop in Lugano. This is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Buenos Aires.
provides an income for them. I respect this idea very much", adds Jacqueline.
chairs by famous British artists.
Designer Jacqueline Rabun open her exquisite studio and showroom in Grosvenor Crescent Mews.
The space will exhibit designs by Danish designer Nina Tolstrup from Studiomama, who Jacqueline has long admired. There will also be six new collections from Jacqueline on show.
Love glassware? Love Scandinavian design? Then don't miss this exhibition of work which focuses on the iittala company. Entitled "Into the Woods" the show is curated by Finnish designer Harri Koskinen and considers the work of such design luminaries as Alvar Aalto, Kaj Franck and Tapio Wirkkala among others, drawing on iittala's vast archives. The result is a journey of discovery through the decades and given the penchant for retro styling in the 90s and 00s, it's interesting to see that certain designs associated with those periods in fact date back far further. The exhibition is being held at Chelsea Space, near to Tate Britain and runs until 17 October.
Jan Kaplický, who died earlier this year, was the Czech architect responsible for some of the most remarkable buildings that Britain has ever seen. Lord's cricket ground holds the press box he built with his former partner, Amanda Levete – it was their first major project and won the Stirling Prize.
London designer Nina Tolstrup of Studio Mama presented a collection of furniture made from digitally-altered branches with TEN XYZ at 100% Design in London last month.
Called Branch Out, the project involved scanning the branches with a 3D scanner before maniuplating them with software and rapid-prototyping the resulting forms.
London based designer Sascha Bischoff just finished his new seating project. the 0909 stools are made from oak, and are stackable – catering for the client's need to save space.
Gal you are involved in many creative areas particularly as an Architect, Designer and Musician how did this happen?
I guess the three planes have been present since childhood, and evolved in parallel along the years until joining into one ouvre (an Opus) during my mature professional activity. I think the big challenge is to create a real awareness in the act of design, be it in an architectural context or in a musical one. My activity in music had begun in childhood, and allowed me to evolve into a jazz pianist by the age of 17 till now. Architecture begun in Architecture school, which I graduated from in 1993. Design, I believe, is an in-between activity, an overall one which I have been doing all along (composing music, planning spaces, translating and joining entities). Furniture design bagan later, as part of my architectural projects, and 5 years ago when I founded OpusDV.
The Blank of Ideas at 100% Design London conceived and curated by Corridor.
The phone call suggested we take a last minute free space at 100% Design on the main boulevard. It was a tempting offer, but what shall we do with the space, and in less than three weeks?
The 100% Design show attracts over 35,000 people annually, so the thought of trying to harness the creative thinking and energy that passes through the space, was the ambition.
Entitled The Blank of Ideas, we invited several leading industry experts from design backgrounds, to put forward socially provocative questions. We would turn the negative space into a social thinking hub.
It's a hunk of tree. Look closer. It's still a hunk of tree, but that's the point. The Wood Drop 14 stool by North Carolina-based Skram basks in all its imperfect glory, its naturally occurring cracks and flaws turned into valuable assets simply through their presentation.
the upcoming show at galerie kreo 'heroic shelves & simple boxes', is a collection of furniture by martin szekely. the pieces are tables, cabinets and shelves made from lightweight cork, but their forms have a weight and robustness.
Copper has amazing germ-killing properties,and now The Treehugger website points us to another use of the material.