Designer Surf

As culmination of studies of Interior Design at Sint-Lukas in Brussels, the young Ellen Ectors designed for the thesis SWITCH Table & Chair, produced by Ellesco International. The young but promising Belgian designer, achieved with craft finishes, the cubic form of a wooden table finished leather, which turns into a chair with the aid of a ball sitting colored skin, which rolls everywhere here need. The project creative and original, allows for design elements that can create eclectic combinations for the most disparate needs.

Field of Light is the new lighting that the Lighting designer Bruce Munro will present all ‘Eden Project this winter. The project consists of 6000 acrylic tubes containing 24, 000 meters of fiber optic, who is with a great visual impact, an area of 60 x 20 meters placed on the grass roof of the visitor center of Eden Project, for a period runs from November 1 until the spring of 2009.

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At the Copenhagen Furniture Festival, until Dec. 23 the company Danish Gubi presents at its showroom in Copenhagen, a selection of the latest production design and collection of lamps with a Bestlite development to say the least creative and original.

Designers, architects and artists, with PUF Sarah Becker, Isabel Berglund with Mbler p SNOR, Ben Clement & Sebastian de la Cour with Mountain of Depression, Christian Kornum with Lyslevende and Stine Bidstrup with Sights and sites for an office landscape, with the elements furniture as part of un’istallazione artistic design that offers a broader view and eclectic.

Domestic renewing the domestic scene by proposing the return of wallpaper made with the help of creative artists and designers like Matali Crasset, Ich & Kar, Dylan Martorell, Mark Verhaagen, Tado, Studio Job, Timorous Beasties, Jeremyville, Elisabeth Arkhipoff and Ryan Cox.

The subjects landscape, pastoral, urban and futuristic The new Domestic Landscapes have until Sept. 21 at the London Design Festival. Each decoration is printed on high quality paper 3 x 4 meters el’edizione is limited to 100 pieces a year numbered and signed by the artist who designed them.

Still a student at the Department of Industrial Design of Shih Chien University in Taiwan, the young Kuan-Sheng Wu has designed the furniture for libraries The Matching Tree, both efficient and functional by winning the 2008 International Design Excellence Award and the 2008 Taiwan Young Designer Competition Awards.

The system ideally inspired to trees, has a structure of aluminum and extensible mobile that allows him to furnish a corner, a wall or an entire room. The wooden shelves above are accessible by a retractable ladder and is extremely easy to install, thanks to a system to fit that does not require screws and bolts to be fixed.

The support of V-shaped helps balance the weight of the shelf and keep it stable if not necessarily seismic shocks. A promising modular system that fits perfectly both in public spaces as a private, especially since arriving from the creative mind of a budding designer.

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Mark founded by Anna Hart and John Miller, is the new Brand Design Made in Cornwall, close to the functionality and sustainability of its collection of furniture, household items and lighting, which presents a preview to 100% Design. Each element of the collection, the fruit of collaboration with a large team of designers, is made in Cornwall and characterized by a strong focus on local craft skills and ethics attentive to sustainability.

Tomoko Azumi, Kay + Stemmer, Richard Shed, Dylan and Tom Raffield FREETH designers are selected to represent this new collection consists of ARRIS Lounge Chair finished by hand, Net chair with a design inspired by fishing nets and a different form for each chair . And Ribbon Pendant Light with a sinuous design with curved wood steam, shaper table with the charm of a surfboard, the versatile Slide Sofa and the fascination of the natural grain of the wood Wave table.

Janos Korban, specializing in metal with a background in psychology and genetics el’architetto Stefanie Flaubert, are the couple that Australian professional since 1993 under the brand Korban / Flaubert, is working to design furniture for indoor and outdoor lighting and experimental works for an international clientele. After having seen the show in Milan Freestyle, I am presenting one of their latest projects.

Mighty chair is a chair whose force suggested by the name derives from a piece made of polyethylene-piece printed with rotational technology. The simple and practical design, the solid structure, size 37 × 48×80 cm. and the variety of colors from magenta to white which is designed to make Mighty chair a session so perfect for the interior as the exterior.

Office of Product Design has just launched Ding, a collection of steel pots that reinterpret the traditional items used for cooking Chinese. This is the first line is part of a broader collection entitled “Cultural Connections & Everyday Objects” which deals with objects and additions for the kitchen borrowed from different cultures and reiterpretati in a modern way as typical of contemporary needs.

Olivia is the new aluminum lamp designed by Sand & Birch Luxury Design by Andrea Fino and Samanta Snidaro. The floor lamp, designed to implement the potential of LED technology, with its line slender, flexible, modern and its 190cm in height, will be presented in January 2009, at the next Maison & Objet in Paris.

Julien De Smedt Architects have submitted on their blogs the new designer modular shelving system designed for Brand Danish Muuto. Structured with the aim to be specific and general, the designer system is composed of rectangular shelves of different sizes, held together by clips enabling him to combine them according to specific needs and requests. The shelves of small size 218 x 436 x 350 mm, average 436 x 436 x 350 mm and large 654 x 436 x 350 mm (great) are made of MDF painted in white and yellow.