Industry

Following the great success of the Telling Tales exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Carpenters Workshop Gallery proudly presents the Industry series by Studio Job.

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“Hands On”

Industry Gallery will open “Hands On”, the first solo U.S. exhibition for renowned and innovative Dutch designer Tejo Remy, a founding designer at the Droog Design collective, and René Veenhuizen, his design partner of the past decade. The exhibition will run through May 8 and will premier a prototype for a new series of poured concrete furniture. Atelier Remy & Veenhuizen, based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is critically acclaimed for its product and furniture design, and noted for using simple materials in strikingly original ways. “Hands On” will feature approximately a dozen works created from concrete, bamboo, tennis balls, and old woolen blankets.

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Space and Time

Furniture designer, Jason Phillips adds a new project on to his resume, the Continuum Table. Continue Reading

        

Ikepod x Jeff Koons

Ikepod presents the new Horizon “Cannonballs” watch collection by American artist, Continue Reading

        

Barware Re-invented

The shape of a glass tells us what we should pour in it. When you’ve got a hankering for a Cosmo, you grab a Martini glass. When you’re drinking bubbly, you use a champagne flute. A well stocked bar has a whole army of glasses of different heights and shapes, from the stout tumbler to the tall, triangular martini glass.

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Seduction By Form

“My vases originate from 2 dimensional drawings which are built by using simple arranged geometrical forms. The drawing components become a vital element of my vases and show clearly that what is normally not visible such as the rest form of a radius. Continue Reading

        

Go Big or Go Home

Marseille – based sculptor, surfer and biker Lionel Scoccimaro explores the ways in which globalisation brings the margins from what was once counterculture—surfing, skateboarding, motorcycling — to the centre.

Go Big or Go Home is a phrase urging extravagance with an all or nothing response, indicating a desire to live life to the fullest. Here it showcases Scoccimaro’s appropriation of kitsch and popular culture, melding them with fine art techniques.

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Swarovski Crystal Palace + Design Miami/

As main sponsor of Design Miami/ 2009, Swarovski Crystal Palace unveiled a show-stopping hi-tech installation by Greg Lynn at Design Miami, which opened on December 1st.  Located at the entrance to the Designers’ Lounge, the structure extends over 80 square meters and reaches over seven meters in height, where the ‘walls’ and ‘ceiling’ are made of Swarovski crystal-encrusted suspended panels or “sails” where molded, curved and billowing shapes overlap and intersect.

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On The Shelf

HSBC Private Bank confirms its commitment to design by launching. The Connection Collection, a private collection of limited edition design to grow out of HSBC Private Bank commissions. The Connection Collection will debut with new work by Arik Levy, to be created in an edition of two. Levy’s design will be launched at Design Miami/ 2009 in the HSBC Private Bank Designers’ Lounge, a dedicated area for VIPs at the pre-eminent international fair for limited edition design.

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“Limited Edition Experiences” at Miami Design District

Limited Edition Experiences, a program that brings together the world’s most innovative fashion houses to create retail experiences of unique inventiveness will launch in the Miami Design District on November 30th for a limited time. The program will gather together some of the world’s most sought-after designers, including Fendi, Proenza Schouler, Duncan Quinn, Jessica Trosman, Christian Dior Homme, L’Eclaireur, Stubbs and Wootton, Pharrell William’s Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream, Katherine Fleming, Maia N., Cynthia Rowley, Neon Monster and others, to present limited edition merchandise as well as radically innovative programming and environments that reflect their creative viewpoints.

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