Posts Tagged ‘metal’

Image: TEEbooks Will Fit Your Décor to a T

TEEbooks Will Fit Your Décor to a T

Posted September 9th, 2010 by Joseph Starr

Designer Mauro Canfori is probably best known for his work with colleague Emanuela Destro and the collaboration they call Teracrea. The objective was to create new paradigms for interior landscaping, or “to introduce greenery into internal architecture and offer new solutions to traditional pots for outdoor plants.” In their efforts to work with containers of materials besides terracotta, they enlisted the services of none other than The Bouroullecs, the Campanas, and Konstantin Grcic, among others. Read more…

Image: The Norfolk Bench by Wales and Wales for CS Contract Furniture

The Norfolk Bench by Wales and Wales for CS Contract Furniture

Posted September 9th, 2010 by Sonja Hall

The Norfolk benches of Wales & Wales have been assigned to the new seafront regeneration project called “Next Wave” of the Bexhill-on-Sea on the southeast coast of East Sussex. Skillfully designed for the contract furniture industry - and manufactured right in the UK by CS Contract Furniture - the benches are modern in appearance and completely functional. Read more…

Image: Arik Levy Gives Some Structure to the Proceedings at 100% Design

Arik Levy Gives Some Structure to the Proceedings at 100% Design

Posted September 3rd, 2010 by Joseph Starr

If you’re in the market for a bit of Structure to your surroundings, I suggest you mark your calendar for September 23 -26, when designer Arik Levy shows his new Structure Collection at 100% Design London. Levy—born in Tel Aviv but residing in Paris now for 20+ years—gained a following sometime back as a “thinking designer.” Read more…

Image: Strive for Lightness Every Day: Roberto Paoli’s Nixon

Strive for Lightness Every Day: Roberto Paoli’s Nixon

Posted September 3rd, 2010 by Alicita Rodriguez

Designer Roberto Paoli professes an interest in the “lightness” of objects. The declaration takes me back to college English, when I first discovered the great writer Italo Calvino (a compatriot of Paoli’s) who talked about striving for the very same: “my working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.” Read more…

Image: Grab Todd Bracher’s Stick Lamp Before It Walks Away

Grab Todd Bracher’s Stick Lamp Before It Walks Away

Posted August 30th, 2010 by Joseph Starr

The next time you happen to be forging through the wilds of a desk-littered office space, or sounding the depths of an artifact-laden artist’s studio, don’t dismiss the occasional thin, reedy, or bent-looking stick as wire detritus, as the mere leavings of an untidy sweeper. For the ostensible refuse just might be a sampling of designer Todd Bracher’s Stick, his series of elegant desk and floor lamps made from otherwise un-spectacular bent metal tubes outfitted with the always-employable LEDs. Read more…

Image: Underwater Wonder: Coral by Pallucco

Underwater Wonder: Coral by Pallucco

Posted August 19th, 2010 by Alicita Rodriguez

Italian design firm Pallucco produces some inventive and imaginative lighting, including Fortuny, a standing lamp that looks like a cross between an eyeball and a photographer’s umbrella, and Glow, a series of lamps that looks like a collection of paper cranes. Read more…

Image: The Clear Channel: Vetroslide by GEZE UK

The Clear Channel: Vetroslide by GEZE UK

Posted August 16th, 2010 by Sonja Hall

To the untrained eye, interior glass doors are as transparent to a space as the gifted vase on your shelf. With the new Vetroslide manual glass sliding door system by GEZE UK, the modest chemistry of a glass door and its innovation becomes, well, clear. Read more…

Image: Spin Your Study into a Salsa Desk

Spin Your Study into a Salsa Desk

Posted August 11th, 2010 by Sonja Hall

Like a perfect visual of a literary palindrome, the simple and functional four-person Salsa desk by Vanerum was conceived while designer Bram Boo played with two chairs from his ‘Gypsy Things’ collection at his house. Read more…

Image: A True Hollywood Stool: The Freddy by JANUS Et Cie

A True Hollywood Stool: The Freddy by JANUS Et Cie

Posted August 5th, 2010 by Sonja Hall

Dangling, bent, or wrapped around; whatever your barstool sitting preference, a solid stilted chair fits every shape and size. Is it any wonder then that bellying up to the bar with friends or relaxing onto a local coffee bar Read more…

Image: Seletti Stack Invites a Method to Your Madness

Seletti Stack Invites a Method to Your Madness

Posted July 29th, 2010 by Joseph Starr

Perhaps you’re one of the lucky few—like my mother—for whom the high school experience was the epitome of “good times” (or “happy days,” as her particular generational cliché has it). But I suspect that the bulk of readers—whether children of the 70s, 80s, or 90s—remember high school as an emblem of subtle despair, Read more…

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