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2008 Salone Del Mobile Preview Part2

The highly anticipated, not to mention comprehensive, Salone del Mobile is one of the world’s most revered furniture and design shows. With over 2,500 exhibitors from nearly 40 different countries, it goes without saying there’s quite a bit to see. We are literally days away now, it will run from 16 to 21 April, and to save you scouring more than 200,000 square metres of exhibition space, we’ve put together a preview of the designers, products and projects we’re most excited about.

2008 Salone Del Mobile Preview

The highly anticipated, not to mention comprehensive, Salone del Mobile is one of the world’s most revered furniture and design shows. With over 2,500 exhibitors from nearly 40 different countries, it goes without saying there’s quite a bit to see. This year it will run from 16 to 21 April, and to save you scouring more than 200,000 square metres of exhibition space, we’ve put together a preview of the designers, products and projects we’re most excited about.

2008 IMM Cologne Coverage Part 2

With more than 1,300 exhibitors from around 60 countries, imm cologne opened the doors of the global furnishings and design market and gave the 2008 furniture year a strong start. Top exhibitors, international design stars and creative newcomers provided settings that showcased the interiors of tomorrow.

2008 IMM Cologne Coverage

With more than 1,300 exhibitors from around 60 countries, imm cologne opened the doors of the global furnishings and design market and gave the 2008 furniture year a strong start. Top exhibitors, international design stars and creative newcomers provided settings that showcased the interiors of tomorrow.

Super Design Garden

Earlier this month in the heart of London, the works of people like the Campana Brothers, Ron Arad, Tord Boontje, Zaha Hadid (pictured) and Ross Lovegrove were shown as part of Covent Garden Super Design. The UK’s first exhibition showcasing the cross over between art and design, curated by Kenny Schachter, The Apartment and Greenwich Village Gallery.

Source: Greenwich Village

Tokyo Design Week Coverage Part 2

Another set of photos sent by Maria Okamoto.

Tokyo Design Week, the largest and most influential design event in Japan started as of yesterday. Events Tokyo Designer’s week, 100% Design Tokyo & Design Tide will be all running until November 4. We were fortunate enough to have one of our readers Maria Okamoto to send us her photos of 100% Design Tokyo event.

Tokyo Design Week Coverage

Tokyo Design Week, the largest and most influential design event in Japan started as of yesterday. Events Tokyo Designer’s week, 100% Design Tokyo & Design Tide will be all running until November 4. We were fortunate enough to have one of our readers Maria Okamoto to send us her photos of 100% Design Tokyo event.

2007 Dutch Design Week

On show in Eindhoven until Sunday 28 October is the latest in Dutch design. During Dutch Design Week virtually all design disciplines – ranging from product design, graphic design, and spatial design to brand design, textile design, and fashion design – are represented in more than 40 large and smaller venues across the city.

Exhibition: Dutch Design Week

Jacob Jensen Generations Exhibition

If ever there were a scenario whereby we were only allowed to live with the portfolio of one designer in our home, Jacob Jensen would be our choice, hands down. And strolling through the halls of the Skive New Museum of Art in Denmark one gets an impression of what it might be like as the museum is playing host to a retrospective of two generations of Jacob Jensen Design.

Designer: Jacob Jensen

2007 Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Finalists

The ten finalists for the $30,000 Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award, which also includes a trip to the Milan Furniture Fair, are now known. Among them: 1. Nick Rennie’s Squash bowl. 2. John Smith’s Sting-Ray chair and footstool. 3. Simone LeAmon’s I wish candle-beds. 4. Elliat Rich’s Urban Billy Glass. See all the finalists at Object Gallery in Sydney’s Surry Hills, 11 September – 4 November.

Exhibition: Object Gallery

Door Cycle Exhibition

Friedrich Petzel Gallery, in collaboration with Edition Schellmann Contemporary Art Production, is pleased to present the Door Cycle. Between 1964 and 1966 Willem de Kooning painted a series of female figures on hollow-core wood doors, which were later exhibited as the Door Cycle at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1996.

Exhibition: Door Cycle [ Via: Apartment Therapy ]

Zaha Hadid – Architecture & Design Exhibition At The Design Museum

Not many architects would have the patience, passion and persistence to design, take part in competitions and constantly produce work for over 10 years, with most of their projects never actually getting realised until very recently. And this is not the only reason that made Zaha Hadid stand out of the crowd, and become one of the most creative living architects.

Designer: Zaha Hadid

The Turtle Laughs at Me

Tal Gur, a graduate of Bezalel’s Department of Industrial Design, became known in the last decade as one of Israel’s prominent designers in the area of plastic light fixtures and objects manufactured in the rotation technology. Gur has been exploring various areas of craft in domains where design forms an integral part in a dynamic texture of life-culture.

Designer: Tal Gur