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Tord Boontje's beautiful new hardbound book is helping to cement his place in design history as one of the foremost designers of the era. Like our recent video on the designer, the book is a visual survey of his work and a tour of his studio in rural France. With stunning photography that's anything but white-backdrop conventional (think rings of fire and chairs dotting an open field) and delicate patterns punched into the actual pages, the edition has tactile appeal as well as being a refreshing retrospective take of a designer's career.
We have four signed copies to giveaway to four readers who can tell us what inspired the chandelier that Boontje shows us in the video. To enter, follow the contact link at the bottom of the page, select "Tord Boontje Giveaway" from the pull-down menu and let us know before Thursday, 21 June 2007, 11:59 p.m. EST. We'll choose the winners at random.
A surefire way to impress that guy or girl you take home Friday night is to stack scholarly books on your bedside table, as if you casually dropped them there after breezing through some weighty tome on relational aesthetics or quantum theory. For those without the time or brain capacity, you may consider the Poetry Nightstand, designed by Marian Lassak. Although it's not a...
Like furniture porn, the new book Furnish: Furniture and Interior Design for the 21st Century is over 200 pages of full-color photos of design objects made by the world's brightest furniture stars. With work by emerging designers such as Jason Miller, Joris Laarman, &made and Jamie Hayon, as well as by more established names like Tord Boontje, Tom Dixon and Hella Jongerius, the images...
For nearly two decades, Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams have been making the kind of furniture that has become an American interior design vernacular, while also setting new standards in the workplace with their progressive business practices. With their recently released book Let's Get Comfortable and five new stores opening in the U.S. (for a total of 18), we thought we'd check in with...
The first in a series of conceptual shelves called Juxtaposed by design duo Mike and Maaike, this shelf brings all the major religious texts (the Bhagvad Gita, Bible, Qur'an, Confucious' Analects, the Tao Te Ching, Discourses of the Buddha and The Torah) together and puts them on the same level. For atheists and believers alike, the Religion shelf's an artful comment on the many religions...
Rome-based Central Unit Design, a four-person architect-design collective, introduced their sectional Dino Sofa at Milan's Salone Satellite earlier this month. Designed for indoor and outdoor use in public places like museums, airports, and parks, the animalized seating is made of Waterlily and Framefoam, both eco-friendly materials. Though not yet in production, each vertebrae-like section is intended for two people and makes the transition outdoors...
The most talked about exhibition during the Salone del Mobile was that by Maarten Baas. Set within the chaotic mess of a working auto garage in the Zona Tortona, the show covered works to date, along with a preview of new collections for Contrasts Gallery and Established & Sons Limited. The choice of space initially felt to me like a commentary on the hyper-produced...
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Interview with Maarten Baas
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