11:05 pm in artists, chairs, Culture & Celebrity, Design & Architecture, designers, exhibits by TreeHugger
Shibaya Designs napkin rings for candlelight dinners.
Yakitate!, means "freshly-baked" in Japanese and a special exhibit of what young designers are cooking up was on display at the
Dwell on Design event last weekend with an international accent. Selected by Birgit Lohmann of
Designboom, the innovative wares included the reuse of beautiful vintage kimonos to cover objects, exquisite moon-like globes commemorating the Japanese tsunami, and innovative furnitur...
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8:30 am in architects, architecture, california, chairs, design, Design & Architecture, designers, flat pack, furniture, green building by TreeHugger
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This slick sustainable prefab house drew crowds at the 2011
Dwell on Design. Other hits? Think solid cork stools and coffee tables, linen made of seaweed, walnut plaster and gorgeous flatpack furniture.
While the actual floor does not have quite the scale of
ICFF or
Neocon, this boutique home and design expo attracts a high-profile scene with the latest in modern design.
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4:47 am in chairs, cool but ugly, Design & Architecture, designers, dining room, furniture, recycled building materials, tables by TreeHugger
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First spotted at the
Clerkenwell Design Festival, Made in Peckham furniture turns out to be the work of a creative design studio called Hendzel and Hunt who take an experimental approach to their furniture design.
Hendzel and Hunt make
all of their tables, cabinets and chairs out of wood found in their little 'hood in south London. To add to the fun, recently they held a 24-hour design...
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1:14 pm in chairs, icff by TreeHugger
Image credit Lloyd Alter
Students from
Pratt Institute often steal the show at ICFF; two years ago you couldn't get near their booth, clearly t
he hit of the show. This year the work was a bit more subtle. The industrial design program partnered with Cappellini, the Italian furniture giant, to "create modern and innovative furniture design prototypes that remain rooted in boldly disruptive ideas, while keeping the dynamism of design moving into the future."
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5:12 am in architects, Business & Politics, chairs, Design & Architecture, designers, lighting, sustainable fabrics by TreeHugger
Photo: lula dot
Grand Designs is a massive home show covering interiors, gardens, home improvements and renovations. Its public face, Kevin McCloud, is a national treasure. A designer,
developer and huge t.v. personality, he has been pushing and
popularizing the green and environmental angle of housing for years, way before anyone else.
Every year he picks his
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