it’s a pleasure to read the apartamento magazine: no annoying advertising pages, no lifestyle tips, no luxury items I can’t afford, no butts and tits (ok, I do not mind these normally.. ).

just people who show how they life in their private moments and you just think that you want to sit next too them and share a cookie with them.

2nd issue of the bi-annual ‘everyday life interiors magazine’

british designer max lamb, chinese artist terence koh, argentinian artist julian gatto, london-based photographer felix friedmann, and many more..

duesseldorf-based dorlis tellmann is combining everyday’s objects like radiators, that are usually designed to be unobtrusive as parts of a playful installation created by light and movement. she is presenting her work in context of the transversale at the ‘pro forma’ exhibition in the kuenstlerhaus dortmund which runs until 22 march.

british designer ross lovegrove has announced in january during the design week in cologne that he is collaborating with issey miyake. he said that for him a dream comes true that he is able work with the japanese designer. I wouldn’t mind either to work with him.. ;-)

creatives like japanese designer naoto fukasawa or finish designer harri koskinen have already worked for miyake’s watch brand and now I am curious what the appointed captain organic will design. is it a watch in a shape of a waterdrop? or a membranous shape that surrounds the wrist? we will see in march. and as far as I know it is the first watch designed by lovegrove.

a sketch – a result of a telephone conversation –
I just had ross in my mind

I have been at the surface exhibition at the designers fair in cologne last month. see the previous post. I was disappointed that the company responsible for the project – heimatdesign (who describe themselves as a platform for young local talent) – did not actually present any german designs.

2 weeks ago they moved with the exhibition to dortmund, germany to participate in the transversale – an event about art and design. they settled down in a great location and added a new designer. one of them is dortmund-based designer pierre kracht who was one of 30 contributors at the [d3] design contest at the imm.

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I have seen the stool’s of dutch designer willem de rider already last year at the design academy graduation show. but I totally forgot about them and saw them again in the yksi design store in eindhoven. unfortunately I didn’t take a picture with the cow tag on the side..

the (nothing to) HIDE stools are made of identical leather covers, shaped by their own nature, says the designer

when you find yourself in the south of the netherlands and you talk about bathroom facilities you are automatically talking about sphinx. It is an important player in the european bathroom market, which is celebrating 175 years in business.

the amazing things is that you imagine hundreds of people working in the factory. especially because my experiences with ceramics are reduced to making some cups. I’ve expected that working with this fragile material is a primary manual work. but in fact there are just 15 employees in the rotating shifts. basically the hole production is accomplish by machinery. just the technical details and frequent observations are still done by humans.

sphinx factory inside – on the right is the massive oven
around 1000 sanitary arrangements are manufactured every day

toilet mould made of porous plastic material – its more expensive than plaster but can be used about 30.000 times

freshly moulded clay washbasin

air-dried, glazed toilets with a screenprinted logo
which are ready for baking

on the way into the oven – assembly line baking at 1200 degrees

strijp x is a new cross-over store in the industrial area of eindhoven. its a place where different creative disciplines melt together in a single location, an old industrial building.

check the strijp x website for more informations. see the video from designguide.tv for a proper view on the hole concept store. and if you think your work is worth to exhibit and can be sold contact them!

concrete animals by nacho carbonell

wire chaise lounge by dave keune

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