cologne

cologne-based grassland is into grass. absolutly all of their products and installations are made with real grass. when you buy a grassland product you receive a lush green object that transfers naturally into a dry straw-coloured object after a month or two. right now grassland is exhibiting at the designers fair in cologne till tomorrow.

orb – the grass ball

next – the grass subscription

don’t really know the name of this lamp

cologne

korean jungyou choi and joonsoo kim from studio joon & jung are presenting their ‘rocking on the beach’ chairs at the d3 contest at the imm furniture fair in cologne till sunday. the chairs are made of plastic pipes filled with sand. while using the chair a seashore sound appears.

joonsoo kim shows how one of the chairs works

cologne

the contain gallery has teamed up with veltins to make a special design lounge in the city center of cologne. maastricht-based fabian von spreckelsen and lisboa-based mathias witte were responsible for creating a matching interior for the new veltins image which shall point at a younger target group with a sense of style. yesterday they opened the lounge to the visitors of the interior design week in cologne. It is open till sunday from 11am – 11pm. beer is on veltins!

in the lounge

the gallery after the temporally redesign

fabian von spreckelsen and mathias witte
the designer of the veltins design lounge

ioanna paraskeva from the contain gallery +
markus gogolin from designspotter

essen

the thing with office chairs is that they mostly look hideous. but this prestigious red dot design award winner manages to pull it off. the ‘silver chair’ designed by architect hedi teherani for Interstuhl. the silver surface reminds me of my bread burner.