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Designer Pages is excited to announce the launch of NYC A+D, a new social network and common interest group we’ve created to talk about cool products and people in NYC’s A+D community. With presentations by Guy Geier, Senior Partner at FXFOWLE and Brooklyn-based furniture designer Hugh Hayden, Read more…
Who needs slippers when you can have a cashmere sweater underfoot? Beyond looking good, Danskina’s contemporary rugs are soft to the touch, plush and pleasant to walk on. “Warm, soft wool sweaters” in the words of some proud owners. Rather than patterned textiles, as seen with the striped patterns Read more…
After the success of the Tu-Be 1 and the Tu-Be Luester, hanging lamps featuring an array of aluminum tubes dangling at various heights that were co-designed by Ingo Maurer and Ron Arad in 2007, Ingo Maurer has designed a new desk lamp version called Tu-Be 2. This time around, the tubes are hollowed out on one end—making it less of a tube Read more…
Full Disclosure: my understanding of tennis is limited at best. The game seems to go on beyond any practical measurement of time; it seems less of a sport to me than a marathon of cruelty. If the idea is to gage the better player—as in the person who can serve, swing, run, react, and so forth Read more…
Everyone needs and loves a really good table. With one, you have a place to work, dine, caffeinate, throw your keys and all other manner of unsorted stuff; without one, everything (if you are me) is relegated to the floor. I’ve just discovered the wonderful functionality of a large dining table, Read more…
Prototypes, though cool and inspiring, are often out of reach for two reasons: the first financial, and the second that they don’t go into production. Individuals lacking the fancy tools, technology, and state-of-the art materials can’t simply recreate these pieces. Recession Design introduces an exception to that rule. Read more…
It seems I have a bit of a Slavic bias of late. After profiling Vladimir Rachev’s work early in the week, I’m closing out the week with a look at up-and-comer Velichko Velikov. Lately of the Bulgarian manufacturer Nikrom, Velikov currently calls London home. With an emphasis on the graphic arts Read more…
While it’s not usually my custom to o.d. on lighting—and this week I’ve already examined iacoli and mcallister’s handsome Frame Pendant—I just couldn’t let the weekend go by without singing the praises of Danese’s Una Sistema by Carlotta de Bevilacqua. Read more…
Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has an uncanny ability to reinterpret design history. Manta, a furniture collection for the Italian company Ceccotti, signifies the designer’s modern slant on Art Nouveau. As revealed in an Read more…
iacoli and mcallister’s Frame Pendant Lamps are retro and modern at once. The trapezoidal construction evokes the timeless lanterns of the nautical communities of early America, as well as the minimalist profile and industrial bent of a 60s seaside boardwalk. Read more…
