This year, Paris will get the privilege of hosting the first ever Mondial du Bâtiment. Three leading trade shows, BATIMAT, INTERCLIMA+ELEC and IDEOBAIN, are joining forces in one monumental event that will take place from November 2-6, 2015, at the city’s Parc des Expositions. Over two thousand exhibitors will present a comprehensive array of products, services and solut...
Gym equipment can be an instrument of change or an instrument of torture. Sometimes it is both. Treadmills, exercise balls and weights become symbols of a larger obsession with improvement, control and unattainable perfection. But after months of disuse, they can also become symbols of our best intentions or even self-perceived failure. Body Building examines this cultur...
The Journey of Things is precisely what its name implies. The exhibition follows the act of making. Objects begin as ideas, an inspiration that leads to a series of intricate processes before yielding a tangible result. At IMM Cologne, The Journey presented a design odyssey from six different design entities: Sarah Illenberger, Milena Kling, Wednesday Paper Works, Brose~...
Perhaps the most defining element of Dutch Design Week is the reigning sentiment of overwhelming freedom. The designers don’t seem crushed under the weight of producing to survive and many exhibits spend more time examining the design process than worrying if there is a viable product at the end of the chain. What’s so perfect about this way of viewing design is that ...
Curated by Héloïse Parke, The Aram Gallery’s Future Stars? exhibition brings together seven forward-thinking designers at the very start of their career. Each of the chosen designers has an unorthodox, experimental approach to design, and through these select few, the exhibition captures the ingenuity, research and breadth of skill that serves as a larger motor for the i...
With a renovated set-up, Lema is back on the stage of Design Post in Cologne during Imm 2017. Designed by Piero Lissoni, the new outfitting presents the newest proposals alongside some of the brand’s best-sellers to perfectly describe the spirit of the Lema’s home: refuge of the soul, space thought like a tailor-made dress free of constraints, inspired to a lifestyle awa...
Presentations at the Big 5 trade fair in Dubai underscored the importance of green building practices, including structure orientation. But creating a pleasant living environment is also important. One innovation is electrochromic window glass that can be programmed to darken, reducing interior heat and glare. Another is an electric door lock that consumes much less ener...
A peeling contest showed that a leak sealing membrane could not be removed once applied. Visitors to a decorative concrete demo watched an artist use a stencil, black paint and some fancy brushwork to apply a design with a slightly weathered look to a bench. Another company offered fairgoers panoramic views and a chance to take selfies from an elevated boom lift platform...
Coffee grounds can be transformed into espresso cups and even wall and furniture panels. Another process uses heat-molded bamboo powder to make tableware. A French designer employed propolis, a natural biodegradable resin produced by honey bees, to fashion glass-like vessels. Upcycling food industry by-products has also broken new ground. A German designer transformed sa...
A new feature was the Air Tent exhibit, large, transparent plastic domes containing collaborative displays involving students, businesses and prominent Japanese designers. Young talent was showcased through a competition to create a one-room living space. Inspired by post-earthquake needs, college students also presented a simple disaster shelter of wooden panels and a t...
Phone calls, discussions and other ambient noise have pushed open-plan workers into a kind of mental isolation. New approaches stress varying office configurations to meet different needs—privacy, intense collaboration, casual exchanges and more. A good balance is essential for efficiency and worker satisfaction. This month’s Orgatec in Cologne will showcase solutions fr...
Notions of work as play, or the other way round, typify the younger generation’s approach to activity. Then there’s “break-and-make” design—taking things apart and recombining the elements to create anew. Playful design aims to destabilize and challenge the banal aspects of everyday life. The result is unexpected combinations and juxtapositions, such as hotels sitting at...
TTM Rossi attended the event with an innovative product: the glass laminated with metal mesh. Wire mesh is commonly used for glass laminated, with results both functional and decorative. The metal mesh is applied in flat panels sealed between two glass sheets joined by polymer films or in wrinkled panels assembled into double glazing, between two glass plates separate...
. Techlam® by Levantina becomes the second skin of a special site created by the Valencian architect Borja García to present new collections during the Cersaie 2016 exhibition. Techlam® Gallery, an exhibit where the product is seen with a core message: beauty. Techlam® is a large-sized thin porcelain plate that communicates a whimsical enveloping geometry. This produc...
Manufacturers, retailers and architects joined forces to create designs and patterns inspired by that country’s flora and fauna—the azulão bird, a freshwater fish called tambaqui and cajueiro, the cashew—which lent colors to wooden furniture lines of the same names. Other pieces evoked brita, the crushed stone common in Brazilian construction. And an innovative line, cal...
On 22 and 23 September the TTM Rossi will be present at Architect @ Work- Paris with an amazing innovative product: the glass laminated. Wire mesh is commonly used for glass laminated, with results both functional and decorative. The metal mesh is applied in flat panels sealed between two glass sheets joined by polymer films or in wrinkled panels assembled into doubl...
This year´s exhibition booth of Freifrau at the imm cologne was dedicated to the theme fairy tales. With opulent velours, a tasteful lighting, mystical colors and a hall of mirrors as a special staging – the fairytale world has been worked out and the area got a very special atmosphere by this. Besides reissued classics also the new seatings Ruby and Romie as well as two...
Founded in 1985, Calflex starts producing articles for tap producers. The innovation of the company leads to the launch of the new CARIMALI design shower space brand with complete and functional solutions (showerheads, faucets and accessories). Characterized by its modern design and 100% Made in Italy, CARIMALI products interpret the evolution of the shower space as a di...
Every year, IFSEC welcomes over 27,000 global security professionals to experience the latest technological innovations and hear from industry leaders. Given its global importance, Fermax chose this major venue to present a new range of products for video door entry, access control systems and solutions for home automation and security. Visitors to the stand which c...
Many compliments to our designer Cristina Celestino Attico cristina celestino for the "Premio Speciale della Giuria" at Salone del Mobile.Milano Awards!
A variety of small- and large-scale installations were announced at a press conference that took place at the city's V&A museum this morning. Among the Landmark Projects – which last year included an upside down electricity pylon on Greenwich Peninsula – is an installation in the form of a smile-shaped tunnel by architect Alison Brooks and the American Hardwood Export...
Vitra, the Swiss furniture manufacturer and cultural-commercial project, will exhibit at NeoCon 2016, North America’s largest commercial design exposition in Chicago from June 13 – 15. Vitra is collaborating with Lukas Scherrer, the Swiss-born, San Francisco-based industrial designer to present his vision of an authentic design studio. Scherrer explores both the evolutio...
Inspired by the iconography of manga comics, Nendo has created a series of 50 polished stainless steel chairs that while adhering to a minimal, modernist aesthetic nonetheless come alive in expressionistic bravado. For those that missed the exhibition in Milan, it will be re-staged at the Friedman Benda gallery in New York on September 8 until October 15. Manga, deeply...
Italian tile manufacturers are undoubtedly having fun in this area, whether it’s applying new forms to stone-mimicking styles, recreating the hand of a woven textile, or casting a sculptural relief that channels classical friezes with a modern twist — there’s a style to suit every type of project. And not to worry: it’s not all about hexagons this year. 41zero42: Otto...
Successfully pushing china’s most populous city as being an international hub and metropolis of design, the furniture china expo has quickly gained a good reputation at home and abroad for the exhibition of top quality companies and manufacturers on its show floor. taking place once again at the shanghai new international expo centre (SNIEC) and the shanghai world exp...
the design, which forms the 15th incarnation of the world-renowned series, forms an amorphous, double-skinned, polygonal structure consisting of panels of a translucent, multicolored fluorine-based polymer (ETFE). visitors are able to enter the pavilion at a number of different points, with a secret corridor connecting the inner and outer layer of the design. the archite...
Occupying a small site for 560 square meters, the miniature forest is no accident of nature— TEAM.BREATHE.AUSTRIA planted the Austrian forest as part of the Austrian pavilion ‘breathe.’ The pavilion highlights the country’s fresh and high-quality Alpine air as well as oxygen’s importance to the Expo theme “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life.” The Austrian forest impr...
The show was curated by Fang Zhenning for the Chinese cultural year in Germany, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Earlier the exhibition was shown in other European cities. Each of the 100 projects is presented with one huge photograph or rendering and occasionally with a model. The renderings are so perfect that for ...
Resembling the shape of traditional filament lightbulbs, the teardrop-shaped glass of the Buster bulb encases a resin "light pipe" that emits a diffused glow. "These patented white fins allow ambient light to diffuse through the sides of the bulb and reflect down the centre of the pipe, where it exits as a spot light," said the designers, who claim that the product is t...
With only a few days remaining before the opening of the Expo 2015 World’s Fair, subtitled: “Feeding the Planet” in Milan, the vast site on the outskirts of the city is a hive of frenetic activity. Whilst uncube was visiting town for this year’s Salone del Mobile, we took the opportunity of a sneak peek at a few of the pavilions just two weeks before the official opening...
Finn Juhl is considered one of the leading figures in 20th-century Danish design, alongside Hans J Wegner, Poul Kjaerholm and Arne Jacobsen. His furniture designs – recognized for their softer shapes than his fellow Modernists – are now produced by Danish company Onecollection under the brand House of Finn Juhl, which is organizing the exhibition of his work in Paris. ...
Following a project that saw Bjarke Ingels' firm take over the space with a curving plywood maze, the Hot to Cold exhibition gives a comprehensive overview of its recent work across the globe, ranging from the hottest to the coldest climates. "Hot to Cold is conceived as a colourful exploration of how architecture evolves in response to its context and climate and as ...
Nendo Works 2014-2015 presents a year's worth of work by the studio's founder Oki Sato at Milan's Museo della Permanente. "We collected the main pieces that we have done in the past one year, and collaborations with a lot of European clients of course, with Japanese companies as well," Sato told Dezeen. The nine new ranges for manufacturer Glas Italia are displayed a...
Mindcraft is an annual showcase of Danish design that takes place in Milan during the design week. Previously located in the Ventura Lambrate district, for 2015 the show has moved to a new venue – Chiostro Minore di San Simpliciano, a historic religious cloister in the Brera district of the city. This year's curators, Danish and Italian design duo Stine Gam and Enrico...
The Unexpected Welcome showroom by the Dutch brand – founded by Marcel Wanders and Casper Vissers – is located within a vast warehouse in the city's Tortona district. The products are displayed on long, raised stands. Some are styled into arrangements to show how they might be used in interiors, while others are displayed more creatively. "We like to show the products ...
For the Ikea Temporary project at Via Vivegano 18, the Swedish furniture giant asked designers including Paola Navone, Matali Crasset, Studio Irvine and Thomas Sandell to create installations using its new Metod modular kitchen range. "We thought it would be exciting to get an outside perspective on Metod," said Mats Nilsson, creative director for the project. "We wan...
