Three geniuses, a few too many drinks, and a design icon from 1949.
Philippe Malouin challenges office furniture archetypes with Industrial Office collection
Designer Philippe Malouin has used industrial materials including dyed nylon and polyurethane-coated steel to create an experimental collection of office furniture and accessories.
The Bouroullec’s New Collaboration with Skyline Design Harnesses Generative Design
Debuting at NeoCon this month, the glass panels use custom color analysis software to create an abstract, immersive “stained glass” effect.
Patricia Urquiola Unveils Her New Resimercial Collection for Haworth
The best collaborations evolve into partnerships, as has happened with Haworth and the Milan-based architect and designer Patricia Urquiola over the course of seven years.
See the classic Eames Shell Chair redesigned 13 different ways
There’s something Duchamp-esque about the latest work of Chris Labrooy. The British artist and designer’s ongoing remix project, Garden of Eames, transforms the classic Eames shell chair, designed in 1950, into surreal fine art that packs an absurdist punch.
Exclusive photos go inside the home of one of the century’s most important designers
Documentarian Gary Hustwit takes us inside the home of Massimo Vignelli just a year before the legendary designer’s death in these never-before-seen photos.
Listen: Industrial Designer Carl Gustav Magnusson
On this episode of Clever, Amy and Jaime talk to industrial designer Carl Gustav Magnusson, who was born in Sweden and grew up on a farm in Canada.
YES, INTERIOR DESIGNERS HAVE A ROLE IN RESILIENCE, TOO
Resilient design is no longer an idea to be explored – it’s an essential conversation for interior designers to have with landlords, brokers, and tenants alike to create spaces that go beyond their most basic stated functions to ensure total human wellness, including physical safety and mental health, well into the future.
This influential chair was too provocative in 1937, but it’s finally being released
Podcast: How Danish design took over the world
“It’s the simplicity that makes it so easy to use in other cultures and combine in other types of design traditions.”
- Tine Mouritsen
Q+A with Designer Patricia Urquiola
I think the way that ideas come to me in the process of design is not by moving and searching for them.
Konstantin Grcic on Designing Furniture for Non-Territorial Office Environments
In a sea of tricked-out office chairs at Milan Design Week, the Rookie chair designed by Konstantin Grcic for Vitra stood out as a more pared back version.
Making simple things even simpler
Konstantin Grcic in conversation with Thomas Edelmann on his collaboration with Plank, the two new products, the “Cup Lounge Chair” and “Fila”, and the importance of a second attempt.
This is the first commercial product made using generative design
Video: CFN Exclusive Walk Through of the entire Salone del Mobile 2019
Watch: Michele de Lucchi transforms Poltrona Frau showroom into an "Earth Station"
Architect and artist Michele de Lucchi explains how his takeover of Poltrona Frau's flagship store during Milan design week explores new ways of working and learning, in this movie Dezeen produced for the Italian brand.
Ideo CEO Tim Brown, who helped popularize design thinking, steps down
Bauhaus turns 100: Here are the 13 best exhibitions to check out
April marks the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the immensely influential art and design school founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, in 1919.
Keeping critical: Odoardo Fioravanti
Odoardo Fioravanti loves experimenting and is always surprising people with unusual designs. During a visit to his Milan studio Anna Moldenhauer talked to him about his deep attachment to Pedrali, what he wished for design students and why he finds excavators fascinating.
Co-design is an old idea, but it belongs to the 21st Century like never before
The upshot of this for those of us in the workplace sector, is that co-design represents a fundamental change in the traditional relationship between suppliers, designers and occupiers.