Solo is a playfully interactive storage box designed by Franck Tawema with randomly placed cubes as handles totaling 36 drawers in varying lengths. The drawers are strategically placed to maximize storage. Inspired by architecture and typography, the design has even spawned its own eponymous font.
The Tree Hotel, located at Harrads Sweden, is a place inspired by the documentary film “Trädälskaren†(Treelover) by Jonas Selberg Augustsen and by the idea of creating a comfortable, well designed hotel which allows visitors to live in harmony with nature amongst the trees .
The concept “live in a tree house†has been handed over to a select group of established modern designers and architects. The result is a hotel with a unique collection of rooms, all different, where you can enjoy a comfortable, and truly memorable experience up in the trees.
Rooms available are the “Mirrorcube†by Tham & VidegÃ¥rd Architects, “The Cabin†by Cyrén & Cyrén, “The Nest†by Inredningsgruppen, “UFO†by Inredningsgruppen / Bertil Harström, “A room with a view” by Marge Architects and “Blue Cone†by Sandell Sandberg.
Design:Made:Trade is a diverse and inspiring trade exhibition space of over sixty 3×3 metre VISY cardboard booths, including some of Australia’s leading furniture, fashion and industrial design brands.
Design:Made:Trade returns for its third year and will be accompanied by a huge number of programs including workshops, talks, exhibitions and displays. This historic site comes alive with activity during the first week of the Festival, register to visit if you are part of the design industry or enjoy the event during the days opened to the public.
Mandarin Oriental, Barcelona has a superb address on the city’s famous Passeig de Grà cia, near the Casa Batlló by Gaudi with its fabulous façade. Our new luxury hotel is situated in an elegant mid 20th century building, recreated with a highly stylised contemporary interior by Spanish born designer Patricia Urquiola.
Barcelona is an enormously stylish city, overflowing with fashionable boutiques and chic retailers, particularly on the Passeig de Grà cia, where the hotel is located. Nearby Mandarin Oriental, Barcelona are the famous Gaudi Houses, Casa Batlló and La Pedrera and not far away his grand opus, the Sagrada Familia church.
www.mandarinoriental.com/barcelona
The New Rest collection from Vondom was inspired by Origami, the Japanese art based in the folding of paper in order to get different forms and by the thinking line “Less is moreâ€. The composition is formed by an armchair, sofa, and table, of which modular structure allows you to adapt them freely to any purpose in any space.
The manufacture technique is the rotomoulding, focused on a technology process that guarantees the maximum quality taking care of every detail. Rest shows the essence from its creators always loyal to elegance, beauty and exclusivity as the total adaption to customers.
From geometrical defined forms, along with the dynamic, elegant and lightness features, Rest is a collection that offers the maximum comfort to its users and is integrated perfectly in avant-garde architecture, thanks to its contemporary design from Spanish architects JoaquÃn Torres and Rafael Llamazares of A-cero Studio.
The futuristic watches or wearable gadgets that we usually watch in sci-fi movies lack one important thing, which is simplicity. Who told that future devices always have to be weird and complicated when Dew wearable mobile device is being so simple in design and can do all the required things of our everyday life in style and convenience. The simplistic design with one ball shaped operating button on the surface can surely make your life easier. With Due’s unique functionality, you will also be able to enjoy 3D hologram of different functions and options of the stylish and lightweight wearable phone.
DMY Berlin is an international design network for contemporary product design. At the yearly DMY International Design Festival Berlin both renowned and young, experimental designers launch new products, prototypes and foresighted projects. The exhibition is accompanied by a wide program of symposia, designer-talks and workshops, able to reflect current topics of contemporary design and to reveal necessary future trends of design and its related disciplines.
In collaboration with the Bauhaus Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, DMY yearly assigns the DMY Awards for excellent projects. With international exhibitions and activities in Europe, Asia and South America, DMY gives visibility to unconventional and innovative projects and products that go beyond the mainstream.