Candy Light series / Jaime Hayon for Baccarat Designer Jaime Hayon brings exuberant creativity to Baccarat lighting design with the Candy Light lamp. The lamp mixes ceramic and crystal materials. The Candy Light lamp highlights the perfect combination of ceramic and crystal and the purity and elegance of a bold design…
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Prahran Hotel / Techné Architects The Sand Hill Road bought the Prahran Hotel in early 2011, and will reopen it after eight months of hefty reconstruction. At the Prahran Hotel, they had city-based architects Techne design the space, utilising concrete irrigation pipes, each about 2.5 metres in diameter, sitting four pipes high…
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Serpentine Gallery Art Pavilion 2013 / Sou Fujimoto Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 – The latest pavilion, designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, opened on 8 June and runs until 20 October. Fujimoto, the youngest of the 13 architects tapped for the annual pavilion in London’s Kensington Gardens, envisioned the structure as an assemblage of white grids that is organic, almost cloudlike…
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‘CARRY ON’ stool / Mattias Stenberg for Offecct Carry On is a portable seating solution produced by OFFECCT that works perfectly by itself but also as a complement to other products. Carry On is designed by Mattias Stenberg who has a strong belief in the need of flexible working places in the public space. Today we work more in projects and need environments that can be easily adapted to different needs…
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La Luciole Concert Hall / Jacques Moussafir Architectes The La Luciole Concert Hall in Alençon, France designed by Jacques Moussafir Architectes, Despite the fact that it could only host an audience of 250, the unique Luciole has carved itself a powerful regional identity thanks to good quality programming and the way this concert venue brought audiences closer to artists…
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‘Scraplights’ Cardboard Light Series / Graypants Studio The handmade scraplights from graypants are created out of repurposed cardboard boxes gathered from dumpsters and local businesses in the Seattle area. Founded by architects Seth Grizzle, Jonathan Junker, and Jon Gentry, graypants is the process of teaming up with Refugee Women’s Alliance and other similar organizations in Seattle to help provide a craft-based skill to local refugee women. The scrap lights, which take two to three hours to fabricate, have been used in restaurants, galleries, offices, and residences…
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Stills Flagship Store Amsterdam / Doepel Strijkers Dutch architects Doepel Strijkers were called to design the flagship stores of Amsterdam. Stills’ devotion to materials and texture was the inspiration to extrude fabric’s deeper dimensions into an open grid design. The store displays a new typology aiming to create a long-lasting spatial identity…
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Kinetic Solar-powered Chandeliers / Luke Jerram Kinetic Solar-powered Chandeliers Artwork by Luke Jerram, This 5m tall chandelier containing 665 radiometers was designed and created for the Bristol and Bath Science Park, UK…
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Tree Top walk Tower in the Bavarian Forest National Park / Architekt Josef Stöger The Tree Tower, designed by the Architekt Josef Stöger from Schönberg, features an impressively airy architectural structure and a unique concept for enclosing the three very old, up to 38 m tall fir and beech trees in the egg-shaped tower. 16 arched glued laminated timber girders (GL28c larch), each over 40 m long, support the 17 t look-out platform…
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Cykno – Vintage Electric Bicycle / Bruno Greppi & Luca Scopel Cykno is the result of an idea – a dream – of Bruno Greppi, a great engineer and innovator in the motorbike field, in collaboration with the Luca Scopel a designer who is specialized in the development of concept and luxury products. Cykno is the tangible outcome resulting from the collaboration between Gianpietro Vigorelli and Riccardo Lorenzini, gurus of Italian advertising over the past 30 years and through the active participation of some managers of finance…
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