Celebrating past design in the present Paola Ferrario - April 24, 2020 - Design Celebrating past design in the present Paola Ferrario - April 24, 2020 - Design Gebrüder Thonet Vienna – the historic furnishing accessories company from Austria – has won its first Red Dot Award. The N.200 lounge chair by renowned designer Michael Anastassiades was awarded the Red Dot Best of the Best 2020 in the category Home and Seating Furniture. An international guarantee of excellence introduced for the first time…
28 Posti Paola Ferrario - April 1, 2020 - Design The kitchen is the heart of the project for Milanese restaurant 28 Posti. Guests can see it along the obligatory short passage at the entrance and through a window in the dining room, thanks to which they can see the dishes being prepared. With this characteristic architectural project, the venue was returned to its original…
Aesop arrives in Amsterdam! Paola Ferrario - March 11, 2020 - Design Aesop – the famous luxury skincare brand from Australia – has entered the Dutch market with a store in Amsterdam designed by the Valentin Loellmann architectural firm. Located in a 17th century building, the store is geometrically structured from oval shapes: the room is surrounded with wood and arches that are a reminder of the…
The sound of a fairy tale Paola Ferrario - December 5, 2019 - Design Once upon a time, there was an eclectic, multifaceted cube. It’s not a fairy tale; instead, it is a dream come true: Rippotai, which is Japanese for “cube”, is an innovative start-up, a hothouse for designing and producing ideas. Now the brand’s experimentation has yielded Soundpotai, a multi-purpose object which adapts to its surroundings like…
Wall architecture Paola Ferrario - October 7, 2019 - Design Wood-Skin – a crucible of ideas applied to the world of design and architecture – is following up its first collection of products from 2017 with the creation of a line consisting of surfaces made from new materials and employing exclusive shapes. The concept of surface is reinvented and transformed into a vital furnishing element,…
ITS-Academy in eyewear design and technique has its first graduates Paola Ferrario - July 19, 2019 - Eventi They came from even as far afield as India to become junior Product Managers in the eyewear sector and on Wednesday 24 July their dreams will come true: they are the students of the ITS-Academy in Eyewear Design and Technique, a unique programme that sees them completing a two-year training and internship course begun in…
Vitra Pop-Up Stores wmido - November 8, 2017 - Design Vitra – Switzerland’s renowned design furniture company – will inaugurate two pop-up stores, one in Zurich and the other in Amsterdam. The new temporary outlets will be dedicated to the Eames Plastic Chair by Charles and Ray Eames. For a period of three months visitors will be able to discover the huge versatility of this…
Are you eco-friendly? wmido - August 2, 2017 - Design Emerging always more frequently in the worlds of food, fashion, architecture and design, are eco-aware attitudes that translate into a search for products that are sustainable, eco-compatible and environment friendly. This preference is beginning to appear also in the home, with the choice of furniture, furnishings and materials that have a positive impact on the…
