london design festival

wallpaper magazine commissioned london-based designer martino gamper to create a chair arch in the atrium of the victoria and albert museum. the multicoloured installation is build from original ercol stacking chairs.

london design festival

london design festival is on. yesterday evening I went to the johnson trading gallery to see max lamb‘s china granite project. the english designer spend 2 weeks in china to turn black granite into a collection of furniture pieces.

berlin

16 students from the esad strasbourg were presenting their work under the name zou! during the international design festival in berlin earlier this year. this shelf is called ‘up’ and is made by mabon leblanc.

maastricht

last week I visited maastricht based entrepreneurs paul rinkens and suze thomma in their office. damn, they could request money for the admission. I came across a nice collection of furniture and products. the globus, a compacted office space by michiel van der kley for artifort was my favourite.

berlin

belgian designer damien gernay was exhibiting within the brussels spacioline design studio during the dmy, international design festival in berlin. his ‘textured sideboard’ was presented at the dmy allstars location.

london

this is gio ponti‘s ‘wall light’ from 1959. his work is one of the most important influences in design.

last year I went to the preview of philips de pury ‘s auctions during london design festival and saw this brass and painted metal beauty which was manufactured by arredoluce.

80 x 20 x 12,7

berlin

german designer sebastian schönheit has created a oversize knitting that aims to make people think it is from a fairy tale.

the work with the title ‘300’ was exhibited at the dmy allstars during the international design festival in berlin.

1,80 x 1,40 m

milan

spanish designer martí guixé has created this chair in 1999. this year he presented his concept of the chair at the prophets & penitents exhibition from the damn magazine. basically it is just a newspaper. also a chair.