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A’ Design Award & Competition is the world’s leading international annual juried competition for design. The A’ Design Accolades are organized in a wide range of creative fields to highlight the very best designers from all countries in all disciplines. Entries to the competition are peer-reviewed and anonymously judged by an influential jury panel of […]
A comment from Claudio Luti, President of the Salone del Mobile, on the news of Haworth’s takeover of a 58.6% stake in Poltrona Frau S.p.A. from shareholders Charme Investments and Moschini S.r.l. “I think this is good news for the sector and for the country’s economy, because it shows that solid, well-managed leading companies are […]
Every question has its historical context. For example, asking ‘where do architects live?’ wouldn’t have made any sense 50 years ago, or to put it another way, the response would have been loud and clear: architects lived in incubators, homes that were the fertile terrain in which design was born, tested, achieving a high degree […]
To the German and Northern European public of IMM Cologne fair which is rediscovering the pleasure of Italian style living, Porro shows its idea of home: complete settings where the Porro icons and the new products in the collection flow into a harmonic ensemble, to show how its geometric and conceptual aesthetic can give life […]
Vorwerk Teppichwerke is going to expand its business activity and take over the business operations at Norddeutsche Teppichfabrik, a carpet manufacturer. Following a meeting of the creditors’ committee, Mr Udo Müller, the receiver in insolvency, announced on Tuesday that the purchase agreement submitted by TPH (‘Carpet Production and Trading Company’), a subsidiary of Vorwerk & […]
Born from the collaboration between the Portuguese De La Espada and the Italian Swedish Luca Nichetto Design Studio is the “50/50” collection. The project takes its name both from the concept of balancing skilfully hand-crafted wood with complementary materials at a ratio of 50/50, and from the idea of designing a collection that creates a […]
and introduces architect Jean Nouvel as part of its collection. Cassina returns to the immcologne fair with some of the most important names from the international contemporary design scene. Germany is one of the most significant markets in Europe for Cassina and the fair is the perfect opportunity to present the brand’s authentic style in […]
The trends: lively colours, shimmering lustre, Baroque inspirations Digital printing opens up new design opportunities Heimtextil, the world’s leading trade fair for home and contract textiles, presented an impressive panorama of textile design in Frankfurt am Main. From 8 to 11 January 2014, 2.718 exhibitors from all over the world showed the latest colour, pattern, […]
Mornico al Serio,15th January 2014 – Pedrali wins the Good Design™ Award 2013 in the Furniture category with Ester armchair designed by Patrick Jouin. The Good Design™ Award is the prestigious reward promoted by the Museum of Architecture and Design Chicago Athenaeum in cooperation with the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies […]
Margraf is again running high on the international market: the company headquartered in Chiampo, Vicenza, is going to supply 10,000 sq. m of exquisite marble in customized sizes and formats, out of its quarries of Botticino Classico and Fior di Pesco Carnico destined to the refurbishment of the new World Financial Center in New York. […]