I first discovered Lars Contzen back in December 2008 when I interviewed him for Designer magazine. You can read that interview here and find out all about how he uses colour, pattern and form in his surface designs. Anyway, earlier this year I noticed that he was again involved in some very exciting new projects,
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Private Space by Ellenberger Design
Photo credit: Alexander Fanslau Burgeoning urban populations have led to city dwellings becoming increasingly smaller and as a response many designers are seeking to create furniture that has a smaller footprint, is multi-purpose or that can be folded away for easy storage when not in use. With his Private Space furniture collection German designer Jannis
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Mansouri Furniture Collection
The Dcube Group of Companies is based in Vancouver/Burnaby, BC, Canada and is overseen by Mehran Mansouri. From its main business of high-end hotel architectural millwork, the company has expanded into the development of furniture and last year presented the Mansouri Collection 2010. The idea behind the Mansouri Collection 2010 was a desire to be
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Africa-inspired furniture & wallpaper from Elitis
Appartements Privés is a new range of furniture produced by French company Elitis. Featuring beaten leather with big, glossy, metallic crocodile scales, scratched wood and savannah fur, the collection pays homage to the animal world. Designed by Philippe Delzers and incorporating bronze sculpted handles and glass cabochons, bronze bases made to look like wood or
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Hungarian Mangle Sack Chair by Kelly Swallow
I did a post on the vintage chairs by Kelly Swallow a few weeks ago, which you can read here. I was so impressed by her beautiful patchwork chairs and the way in which each one of her creations takes an old chair that is full of history and breathes new life into using the
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Vintage Chairs by Kelly Swallow
Today I came across this absolutely beautiful furniture by designer Kelly Swallow. All of her chairs are individually sourced vintage pieces, so each one has its own unique charm and personality. Kelly uses an exciting collection of fabrics ranging from vintage to designer including the likes of Kenzo, Zoffany, Liberty, Andrew Martin, Designers Guild, Osborne
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John Makepeace – Enriching the Language of Furniture
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of interviewing furniture designer and maker John Makepeace about his illustrious career, his involvement in sustainability and education, and his forthcoming exhibition at Somerset House in London. The interview was published today in Inside the monthly newsletter produced by World Interiors News.
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Bringing the garden indoors
In recent months, I have come across quite a few innovative interiors products inspired by the great outdoors. This got me thinking that there are some really interesting ways to liven up your living room and bring the garden inside the house. So I’ve decided to do a quick round-up of my favourite products that
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Darwin Chair by Stefan Sagmeister for Droog
Designed by graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister for Dutch design collective Droog, the Darwin Chair is covered in 200 different sheets of paper, each in different patterns and colours. When the top sheet gets dirty or worn the user can simply tear it off revealing the layer below. Where each sheet is removed the perforation eventually
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Interview: Designer Remigiusz Laskowski
I have recently had the pleasure of getting to know Renata of Muslavi Gallery, the sole UK distributor of the furniture and homewares designed and produced by the Polish company Laskowscy Design. I blogged about their products some time ago and I now have the good fortune to be the proud owner of my very
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Helen Amy Murray’s unique sculptural textiles
Helen Amy Murray is a London-based designer who caters for the luxury market with her bespoke textile service. Her unique process involves carving sculptural relief within textiles such as leather, suede, wool felt, 100% silk and high-tech non-woven materials. For the most part, Helen’s work is focused on interior applications, predominantly upholstery and ranges from
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Furniture & interior accessories made from recycled tyres
Have you ever wondered what happens to all those old tyres once they have worn thin and are discarded by motorists? Well, they’re made into a funky range of eco-products for your home apparently. Or at least that is what one innovative company does with them. Tread employs talented artisans who use their traditional crafts
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Projekte Sway by Markus Krauss
Sway is a rocking chair designed by German designer Markus Krauss. It has a lovely big padded seat, which makes it more than big enough to comfortably seat two people at the same time. The chair also has a retractable central leg that can be extended to support the chair, stopping it from rocking and
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Swedish Furniture by Svenskt Tenn
As could be expected from a design geek, I spend a ridiculous amount of time every week trawling the net for fantastic products, people, and stories to include either in my various columns or indeed right here on my blog. Even when I’m trying extremely hard to concentrate on something else and not get sucked
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Modular Storage Solution by Kam Kam
Designed by KamKam, a design group located in Seoul, Korea, An Furniture is a modular storage unit that has been meticulously designed using the ‘Silver Ratio’. This mathematical constant is the same ratio used in the standard paper formats of A3, A4 , A5 etc and is considered by many artists, architects and designers to
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Interview: Victoria Redshaw explains the interior trends for 2011
What can Victoria Redshaw, a leading trend forecaster, tell us about the interior trends for 2011 and into 2012?
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Funky furniture for kids
As I’m almost 30 it’s got to that time when practically all of my friends are now married, settling down and starting their own families. So topics of conversation are gradually becoming more baby and child oriented. This got me thinking about how I would like to decorate a child’s bedroom when I have my
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Customise your Ikea furniture
One of the things that is so great about IKEA furniture, apart from its reasonable pricing, quality materials, and ease of assembly is its “hackability”. The furniture is mostly quite simple or minimalist and so lends itself to being adapted and modified to transform it from flat-pack furniture into something far more bespoke.
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Polish interiors range
I’m a big fan of Polish design so when I received a press release from Laskowscy Design about their furniture now being available in the UK I knew it deserved a blog post. Distributed by the Muslavi Gallery, the stunning powder coated furniture and interior accessories are designed by award-winning Polish artist and designer Remigiusz
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Saucy Seating
Bored with her nine to five office job, Aiveen Daly enrolled in an evening class in upholstery and before long was making a living modernising vintage furniture to create a collection of one-off collectible pieces. Including chairs, headboards, ottomans and later, silk lampshades, the collection is inspired by Saville Row tailoring and couture gowns. The
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Stackable bookcase
Studio Dror is a multi-disciplinary design studio specialising in product design, architecture and art direction. Based in New York and run under the direction of Dror Benshetrit, Studio Dror has an impressive list of clients from Cappellini, Boffi and Alessi to Levi’s, Swarovski and Target. The Stack bookcase was designed for Target as part of
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Affordable designer furniture
Most people, given the choice, would love to be able to afford to furnish their homes with designer furniture. Unfortunately, however, the price of such highly coveted items can be somewhat prohibitive for many of us. This is why a group of designers have decided to make a stand by stripping out the middlemen and
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Furniture made from recycled road signs
Working with scrap aluminium traffic signs Boris Bally repurposes an otherwise discarded material and transforms it into unusual, edgy and urban furniture. Bally has a background in jewellery making and grew up in an environment where recycling was somewhat of a family tradition. His so-called ‘aha moment’ came in 1991 whilst making the shell form
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Thinking outside the Boxetti
Designed and created by Latvian designer Rolands Landsbergs, the Boxetti Collection is comprised of five separate modules, each driven by three basic design principles – functionality, advanced technologies and the contemporary aesthetics of minimalism. Each of the modules is designed to achieve maximum efficiency by meeting the demands of functionality and suitability. All modules have