David Report is featured in Luxury Society, a global community for luxury professionals. We are presenting an outtake from the 2007 Future Luxury report. It is interesting to see that the eight trends that we brought forward back then are as relevant today. The trends we pinpoint are: Timeless Quality, Security and Safety, Emotional Branding, Good Karma, Seize the Day, Supreme Regionalism, Food and Health and finally Individual Editions. Read the complete report about Future Luxury.

Stitch is a new wall and ceiling lamp by Swedish designer Mattias Ståhlbom for Zero. The construction and the appearance of the lamp are inspired by the same principle as an embroidery frame.

When attached on the wall or in the ceiling it is possible to adjust the frame in different angles to direct the light and gain the most effect out from the light source and the lamp. Stitch is made of roller milled aluminium with a diffuser of matt acrylic.

It exists in two sizes and in various colors.

Probably you saw our yesterday update with Lomo and their new analogue system. Today we report about a brand new 24 karat gold plated camera body wrapped in finest leather called Lomo LC-A Gold. It is a crispy collectible with only 130 piece limited edition with engraved serial number and certificate of authenticity. It is a celebration  of25 golden years with Lomo. The camera comes with the legendary Russian Lomo LC-A+ lens for vignetted and super saturated photos.

It’s specially designed to keep this bling safe, it holds two Lomography 800 ASA films in gold-coloured anniversary tins. To round this package up a hard cover book tells everything that has to be known about Lomography.

Celebrating its 25th birthday with a big bang last year, the Lomo LC-A was the first member of an ever-growing circle of Lomographic cameras built for creative infinity and spontaneous joy. In 1991, a group of Viennese students re discovered this little fellow and the Lomographic bug began to spread fast around the globe. For 25 years, the Lomo LC-A has been a reliable and robust travel companion and its resurfacing reaffirmed for thousands of Lomographers that the perfect tool for artistic, everyday life photography was here to stay. It was only a matter of natural evolution until the Lomo LC-A would take the next step to instant photography and capture its characteristic vignetted and super saturated shots on instant film. This result of Lomographic evolution will be a powerful tool for all instant-fanatics out there to let their creativity loose and shoot away with the Lomo LC-A Instant Back+.

Using Fuji Instax Mini Film with the Lomo LC-A Instant Back+ the super saturated colours of the Lomo LC-A have found their perfect match to glow in an instant. To enjoy instant fun, the Lomographer only has to exchange the Lomo LC-A back door joint with the interchangeable joint that comes with the Lomo LC-A Instant Back+ once to attach the Lomo LC-A Instant Back+. After this simple procedure the Lomo LC-A will be ready for instant or regular film any time.

The Vitra Home Collection has got a new home – the VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron. The VitraHaus is a place where you can explore your sense of design. The products in the Vitra Home Collection are arranged according to a variety of living and working situations – classics by designers Charles & Ray Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Jean Prouvé and Verner Panton along with contemporary designs by Maarten Van Severen, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Antonio Citterio, Hella Jongerius, Jasper Morrison and others. Here you can find inspiration for your own home furnishings and also try out, order and buy furniture and other objects on site.

In the VitraHaus you’ll find information about our production and quality control. You’ll also learn about Vitra’s attitudes to sustainability and its approach to the world of work and to its office chairs. Our colour laboratory will assist you in choosing the right colours. In its exhibition “Ein Blick in die Sammlung des Vitra Design Museums” (A Look at the Vitra Design Museum Collection), the VitraHaus showcases a selection of 19th and 20th century chair designs. The Vitra Design Museum Shop features items, accessories and books that may be purchased on site, and you may enjoy fresh local specialities every day at the VitraHaus Café.

So the VitraHaus is a place to learn, to try out, and to consume – an experiential space in which furnishing is accorded the importance it deserves as a means of providing your private life with a place where you feel safe and secure.

Follow this link for a 3D panorama of the VitraHaus.

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Precise and conceptual, the first womenswear collection designed by Masataka Matsumura for Giuliano Fujiwara leaves no space for casualness: it looks deeply rooted in  the ancient Japanese tradition of origami, whose key elements are interpreted through a contemporary and personal vision. Expert cross contaminations between eastern sensitivity and western culture turn this first ladies collection into the full and coherent expression of the brand’s evolution, as well as of the young creative director’s personal training.

The collection is extremely focused: it includes 20 ready to wear items , 7 shoes styles, 9 bags styles and 8 jewellery pieces.

As in the origami, the volumes of each garment are unusual, with extremely structured cuts and pleats that help defining them with precision and geometric rigour: at times strips of fabric line the skirts, strips of leather extend the shoes silhouette, as if they still had to be folded to turn into the actual items women will wear. Proportions meet and cross, in a harmonious alternation of opposites, tiny skirts are worn over extra long jumpers, whose hems sneak out of the skirts that, in this way, look like belts at a first glimpse. The focus is on the shoulders, important, geometric, often enhanced thanks to the addition of pleats.

Knitwear is super soft and feminine, thus contrasting openly with the rigorous silhouettes of the outerwear. In the materials range, technical fabrics with a thick and consistent texture, wool crêpre, leather and a very light silk/cashmere blend are outstanding.

Accessories, following an unusual creative path, are not perceived as a mere complement, but rather as  central elements of utmost importance, around which the whole womenswear project rotates: the origami concept blooms in the bags collection and develops through the shoes collection, where pleats and overlappings give shape and structure to each and every item, and includes also the jewellery collection, where metal is folded to contain extra bright and extra big crystals.

The colour palette is essential, and perfectly in tune with the brand’s philosophy: only black and dusty pink for the clothing line, for the accessories black is mixed with a light shade of grey and a warm champagne tone.

The exhibition 18 YEARS OF PLAYING at The Design Museum in Gent, Belgium will be the biggest, but more important the nicest, retrospective about the work of Richard Hutten Studio, which was founded oktober 1991.

Richard Hutten, a self declared Homo Ludens, will show a cross section of his work of the past 18 years, varying from his well know pieces such as the Table-chair and the Dombo/Domoor mug up to relative unknown and recent work, such as This chair and the Book-chair.

In the playful setting, which is also designed by Richard, you can see unique, unknown pieces, limited editions, mass produced work as well as a selection of interiors. The exhibition will be up and running between 26 February and 6 June.

Claesson Koivisto Rune was founded in Stockholm in 1995 as an architectural office but soon added furniture and product design to the practice. Books and exhibitions about both the buildings and the furniture design have been made previously. But for the first time, the smaller objects; things that can be put on a table, have been gathered and presented.

With photos by Anthony Hill and graphic design by Gabor Palotai the exhibition took place at Hotel Skeppsholmen during Stockholm Design Week.

From manga to anime to music, Japanese soft power, also known as “Cool Japan,” has captured the world’s attention. In the fashion world as well, the profound creativity of Japanese products has great potential on the international market. As a way of broadcasting Japanese fashion culture to the rest of the world, the government supports the Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo (JFW). Now in addition, tokyoeye has been established to further strengthen Japanese fashion businesses in the world’s fashion capitals.

tokyoeye is a project for supporting Japanese fashion brands in their expansion outside Japan. Taking “Cool Japan” and filtering it through a Tokyo perspective, several fresh, modern Japanese fashion brands have been selected for exhibition in either Paris or Shanghai. In cooperation with local showrooms and press, they will have the opportunity to appeal directly to buyers, press, and consumers.

The goal is to support brands with potential that are planning to extend their business overseas.

Together with a showroom in Paris and industry press, creators will have the opportunity to show their collections directly to professional buyers, to the public and to the press. Several brands already successful in Japan have been chosen by the selection committee.

Two commercial events are scheduled : the “corner” of Colette from February 15th to 27th, 2010 and TRANOÏ SHOWROOM from March 4th to 11th, 2010.

During the Stockholm Design Week David Report stayed at the newly opened Hotel Skeppsholmen. Situated only a stone’s throw away from the city centre – on the green and lush islet skeppsholmen, animated by art, culture and busy maritime activity. combined with the surrounding water and the view over scandinavia’s capital this is a truly unique place. It also seems like the international design community will find Hotel Skeppsholmen. During our stay prominent guests like Jasper Morrison, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rashid, Inga Sempe, James Irvine and many more could be seen at the hotel.

Hotel Skeppsholmen is modern and of minimalistic design, but Erséus Architects together with Claesson Koivisto Rune keep its swedish heritage with beautiful antique floors and great embrasures. the hotel, earlier known by locals as “the long Row” has functioned both as barracks for karl XII:s personal elite force and a hospice for the poor people infected with the plague during the early 18th century.

– Naturally this has put exceptional demands on the renovation, says ola Rune, architect at Claesson Koivisto Rune. we have put an enormous amount of time and energy into creating perfection. we have kept a lot of the buildings character and used traditional materials such as soaped wood floors and linseed oil-based paint on the timber, but also a reception desk in solid, brushed aluminum. showers with glowing water droplets, magical sinks and a seven meter long dining table from Botswana. our design influence has been something that appears between sea and land – ‘fog’.

Hotel Skeppsholmen offers a nice and relaxed atmosphere. Almost like you are staying somewhere far away at the countryside.

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