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Restaurant design with a rough and rugged charm

Raw and natural – this is how restaurants are inclined today. That goes not just for the dishes on the menu but also for the furnishings – simple furniture and materials such as exposed concrete, solid wood or natural stone make an ambience as authentic as possible.   Design with corners and edges Materials with […]

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Solid wood: The material for individualists and nature lovers

Solid wood is extremely versatile, lending its strength to home building, floorings and furniture. It creates a natural indoor ambience and fuels the huge trend for individuality as each piece of solid wood is unique in its own right because every species of tree – and every tree, too – has a look that is […]

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Déco presents UltraShield®: the next generation WPC

Innovation, quality and aesthetics are the core words of UltraShield®, the new product, officially presented at Made Expo by Déco, one of the main Italian company specializing in long-lasting hardwoods and wood-polymer composites for outdoor. UltraShield® is unique for its category and will be presented exclusively by Déco as absolute news for the national market. […]

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Energy saving

Nowadays architects have to face increasingly difficulties, the new challenge is to plan buildings that are beautiful, modern, functional but, most of all, sustainable. A “greener” begins today by choosing the most suitable materials to meet people as well as environmental requirements. The glass blocks are the solution to reduce the environmental impact and to combine, […]

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Focus on Tables – Creativity and Environmental Awareness

Dialma Brown has always had, as main purpose, the will to furnish any space of your house, from the living room to the bedroom, in a very unique way. In a house, a table is always necessary. Tables are very useful, but they can also be a refined piece of design if they are well […]

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Nature is back for good!

The theme of Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair’s Trends Exhibition 2016/17   Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair has invited designer Emma Olbers, interior stylist Susanna Vento and interior stylist Christine Rudolph to create the fair’s Trends Exhibition 2016/17. They will each get to design their own area: the outdoors area, the Teatime & Playtime room […]

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Pure Talents: Wine meets Furniture

The designer Magnus Mewes creates furniture from barrique barrels. The shapely stools, chairs and tables have a history: for the famous barrique barrels, which are intended for the maturation of great wines, the oldest oaks, often 200 years old, are cut down. Four times they are filled with red wine, then they are used for […]

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Therapeutical view

The Waldhotel extends the theme of sustainability to an innovative typology of hospitality as a complex that offers not only wellness facilities but also services for several kinds of medical care, all in a setting of unspoiled nature, quite unlike anything experienced at traditional hospitals. The Waldhotel has 161 suites and about 4,800 square meters […]

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Pangea EXPO 2015

Pangea table design by Michele De Lucchi and made by Riva 1920 for Expo 2015, is now on display in the amazing and central location of Piazza Italia, the heart of Expo 2015. The project takes inspiration and its name from Pangea, the single continental mass which is thought to have included all the lands above […]

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I Massivi – love for wood

There are projects that immediately capture those who look at them for the first time as well as those who contributed to made them a reality. The “i massivi” collection is one of them. Inspired by the love for wood and its being alive, it’s a project with which Itlas is looking ahead, broading its […]