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CREA AWARDS Vibia 2012 – €25.000 to be won

Architonic — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:00:24 +0000

The CREA AWARDS from VIBIA, in cooperation with Architonic, is an ideas competition that invites the best and most creative minds to discover the potential of Vibia’s new modular lighting products through applying them to their own architecture or interior design projects. Only professionals in the fields of interior design, architecture, project development, product & lighting design [...]

Photo tour of Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012, SaloneSatellite

Malgorzata Stankiewicz — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:14:30 +0000

Featuring some of the most creative, up-and-coming young (below the age of 35) designers and design schools from all over the world, this year SaloneSatellite celebrated its fifteenth birthday by ‘dedicating the 2012 edition to technology.’ In case you’ve missed it while in Milan, Architonic was there, with our ubiquitous camera on hand. Follow the link to [...]

Widlund House by Claesson Koivisto Rune (SE)

Malgorzata Stankiewicz — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:10:33 +0000

Equally, or perhaps even more known for their furniture and product design rather than architectural projects, the prominent Swedish practice Claesson Koivisto Rune have recently completed this crisp-white, minimalist, seafront villa. Located on the second largest Swedish island of Öland, the development is made of solid white, precast concrete which enabled the architects to achieve ‘the ultimate precision in manufacturing tolerance [...]

‘MAY’ chair by Simo Heikkilä for Nikari (FI)

Malgorzata Stankiewicz — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:21:08 +0000

As part of Nikari’s year-long project DESIGNS FOR NATURE, which brings together 12 renowned designers or design studios, who, each month, create a wooden product, the renowned Finnish wood manufacturer has just unveiled the latest, fifth design ‘MAY’. Created by the Kaj Franck Design Prize 2011 winner, interior architect, designer and lecturer Simo Heikkilä, the beautifully simple and quintessentially Scandinavian ‘MAY’ [...]

Photo tour of Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012, Parts 5 – 7

Malgorzata Stankiewicz — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:35:49 +0000

In the last three parts of Architonic’s photo coverage of the nucleus of iSaloni, The Fiera, we’ve gathered no less than 600 images with some of the best, most innovative and inspiring new products and collections from a vast array of international furniture brands. So, here’s what’s in store: Architonic’s photo tour of Salone Internazionale del [...]

Milan 2012: ‘Branch’ chair by Staffan Holm (SE)

Malgorzata Stankiewicz — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:35:22 +0000

To celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Milan’s SaloneSatellite, this year its organisers invited fifteen international designers who presented their designs under the theme of ‘Design<->Technology’. Among the the exhibiting designers, all of whom were either former or current participants in the Satellite, was the award-winning Swedish designer Staffan Holm who showcased this delicate, bentwood chair. Inspired by nature, [...]

Friday Food For Thought: Bauhaus: Art as Life at the Barbican

Malgorzata Stankiewicz — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:37:35 +0000

‘Junge Menschen – kommt ans Bauhaus!’ read a 1929 promotional brochure written by the Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus school Hannes Meyer. Now, more than eighty years later, the same slogan has been inscribed above the entrance to London’s Barbican Art Gallery where a new, extensive exhibition surveying the world’s most famous modern [...]

Park life: the evolving approach to designing urban public space

Malgorzata Stankiewicz — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:12:22 +0000

It could be argued that the pinnacle of urban landscape architecture was reached in seventeenth century France and the French formal gardens of Jacques Boyceau and André Le Nôtre, or in Britain in the nineteenth century, when Joseph Paxton and John Nash were transforming former Royal Hunting grounds into places for Victorian gentry to promenade. Contemporary urban [...]

Milan 2012: ‘Paul & Paula’ tables by Matthias Ferwagner for Moormann (DE)

Malgorzata Stankiewicz — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:05:00 +0000

Having previously designed an elegant, minimalist ash side table ‘Minimato’, the German designer Matthias Ferwagner continues his collaboration with the Bavaria-based manufacturer Nils Holger Moormann and his two latest side table designs, ‘Paul & Paula’, were recently unveiled in Milan. More about the tables: ‘Paul and Paula – they feel most comfortable as a couple and really [...]

Milan 2012: New flooring collection by Missoni for Bolon (SE)

Malgorzata Stankiewicz — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:51:32 +0000

Two family-owned businesses: the legendary Italian fashion house Missoni and the Swedish flooring specialists Bolon have collaborated on this latest collection of woven vinyl floor coverings. Bearing Missoni’s unmistakable bold patterns, the vibrantly coloured collection comprises three different designs: reminiscent of Missoni’s trademark zigzag ’Optical’, linear ‘Bayadere’ and equally distinctive but toned-down in its colourway, the monochrome ‘Flame.’ In total, [...]