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Railway Terminus Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh has done it all – watercolours, decorative glass, furniture design and buildings. His most famous structure is the Glasgow School of Art completed in 1909. His tall, straight back chairs are icons too, part of an exaggerated angular aesthetic he applied to interior design. He’s [...]

Llayers Llove Hotel/ Photo credit: Takumi Ota “Everyone has a hotel story,” proclaims the opening panel to The Grand Hotel, a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional architecture and design show now running at the Vancouver Art Gallery May through to September. The show addresses the impact hotels – and motels too – have had on society through four [...]

Designer David Trubridge’s installation ‘The Elements’ to be featured at 2013 Wanted Design NYC New Zealand based designer David Trubridge has created an installation called ‘The Elements’ to launch his new book ‘So Far’.  His shows are anticipated sculptural installations and this year he takes this to a new level in a collaboration with TSAR carpets. The lighting [...]

I have been religiously following artist Bernard Pras’s work for quiet sometime now and Pras never fails to surprise his audience with his unique art of assembling everyday objects to create anamorphic effects in his portrait works. For those of you who don’t know a  Bernard Pras, he is considered to be one of the [...]

The MINI Design Team led by Anders Warming, Head of MINI Design, presents the Mini Kapooow installation at the MINI Paceman as a dynamic sculpture during the Salone del Mobile 2013. In the two-part MINI KAPOOOW! installation the MINI Paceman – detached from the traditional design process – crosses the boundaries of space and undergoes [...]

Description:  Organized by Design Museum Boston in association with Grand Circle Gallery and Boston Logan Airport, ‘Getting There: Design for Travel in the Modern Age’ explores how design shapes and transforms the experience of traveling by ship, train, and plane. The exhibition looks back on the jet-setting days of the early 1900s, considers the contemporary [...]

The Rama chair is the latest product developed by Kristalia. Its evocative Spanish name Rama, meaning ‘branch’, already reveals the main feature of the product, that is, the predominant presence of wood. The chair features a multi-plywood structure supported by an almost invisible frame in pressure die-cast aluminium and solid wood legs. The chair will [...]

The winners of the 2013  Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition Winners  were announced just this past month, on the 19 March 2013. This award program is run by Sony markets from across 23 different countries.  Its’  goal is to search for the best image by an amateur photographer. This year, as there is every year, [...]

BE OPEN’S journey continues in Milan at Fuorisalone 2013.  After the launch at last year’s Milan Design Week, BE OPEN returns this year at Università Statale as co-producer of INTERNI’s Hybrid Architecture & Design project, from 8-21 April 2013, with an installation by Christophe Pillet in the University’s Cortile della Farmacia, the BE OPEN Talk, [...]

Presented at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, the Aria Chair is designed by  Matteo Thun and Antonio Rodriguez for La Cividina. La Cividina was founded in 1976 in Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy) and hold a reputation for producing armchairs and sofas with a strong connection to Italian design. The chair is produced by precisely laser [...]