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| Arrivederci Vico

September 19, 2006 _designers

The great Vico Magistretti has left us today. We will find him again in each of his magnific objects: simple, elegant, intelligent; just as the man who conceived them. Thanks Vico!

From 100% Design London.
Helen Amy Murray is a talented designer that creates stunning sculptural fabrics. Using precious materials such as leather, suede, silk and other luxury fabrics she has developed her own techniques and nature inspired patterns that enrich any surface.
In the pictures Retro, a swivel chair upholstered in nubuck leather and Diva chair featuring the Rose pattern design.

|Perfectos Dragones

September 14, 2005 _designers

Perfectos Dragones is an Argentinean multidisciplinary design group founded on 2000. They design and produce their own collections of furniture, fashion accessories and objects. Their main focus is on innovation and technological research.
Their objects are simple yet extremely clever, and the results they have achieved are enormous considering that they work in a country with a reduced industrial force.
Trape is an armchair in solid oak and textile upholstery, Mesa Tres is a smart coffee table made of cardboard and lacquered MDF. Lucas is the name of these lovely slippers made of neoprene and elastic bands. One of my favourite’s objects is the Morral Luis, a shoulder bag obtained using a modular piece of leather joined with tiny aluminium pieces. X-Frame is a picture frame obtained with the same modular piece, in this case of neoprene.
Perfectos Dragones’s outstanding collection is available at the moment in US, UK, Italy, Japan, Canada and of course Argentina.

|Yves Behar

July 6, 2005 _designers

Born in Swizterland in 1967, after the studies in Industrial Design at Art Center College of Vevey moves to California where he finishes the studies at Art Center College of Design of Pasadena.
After several years working at Lunar and Frog Design he decides to open his own office: Fuseproject
Since then he has developed projects for Toshiba, Mini, Birkenstock, HP, Aliph, Swarovski among others.
In the images gardening clogs for Birkies, shoe and watch, part of a collection of products and apparel designed for Mini and Jabone wireless headset for Aliph.

|Form us with Love

June 17, 2005 _designers

The Swedish design agency Form us with Love recently launched two brand new projects.
BIO stands for Bendable Interior Objects, a laser-cut in aluminium system of flat furniture. The user snaps the objects out of the sheet metal and folds them into the
intended shape by force of hand. Designed for Oskarshamn Steel Products.
Group of Trees is a flexible and modular room divider designed for public spaces made out of sound absorbing injection moulded plastic designed for Lustrum.

|Alfredo Haberli

June 1, 2005 _designers

Born in Argentina in 1964, graduated in Industrial design at the Hohere Schule fur Gestaltung in Zurich, in 1993 he set up his own studio and since then works with main design companies in Europe.
Alfredo Haberli's impressive porfolio includes projects for Alias, Authentics, Edra, Driade, Luceplan, Thonet, Zanotta, Asplund, Bd Ediciones de Diseño, Cappellini, Classicon, Iittala, Moroso and Magis among others.
Origo (photo) is a multicoloured table service made of seven pieces that interact with each other or work alone. The colorful stripes make the set suitable for any tablecloth.
TT sofa (photo) designed for Alias took two years to develop, Haberli loves research and experimentation and has a reputation for solving complex problems.
Take a Line for a Walk (photo) is a lounge chair with big ears designed for Moroso that has become very popular and has given Haberli big exposition in Italy.

|Nendo

May 27, 2005 _designers

Nendo is a japanese design office named after the japanese word for clay.
Free-formed, and flexibility, adaptability in the scene of design is their motto.
Among their projects the stool Wind conceived to obtain the maximum structural performance with plywood, and the table Snow made by simple snowflake shaped plywood pieces for Swedese, Chab table for De Padova, that switches from side table to coffee table according to how the stand is fixed and the lamp Sorane for Oluce, a transparent acrylic disc with LED technology that gives sound and light from above.

|Charles Kaisin

May 14, 2005 _designers

Charles Kaisin obtained a Master at Royal College of Art in 2001 after a material reserch program held in Kyoto, Japan.
Since then he has been working on recycled and expandable objects, experiencing with materials and their possibilities.
Basket (in the photo) is a lovely extendable leather bag designed for Delvaux. Flat when open, it develops and acquires volume when closed.
K-Bench is a modular and extendable bench in polypropylene designed for Vange, the bee-hive structured bench expands from 30 cms to 300 cms and it can be shaped according to one's need. Kaisin has also developed an extendable bench in newspaper.

|Big Game

May 5, 2005 _designers

Elric Petit, Augustin Scott de Martinville and Gregoire Jeanmonod are Big Game, a design team created a year ago and presented officially at Salone Satellite 2005.
Heritage in Progress is their first collection, a series of objects and lamps created by confronting two radically opposed notions: heritage and contemporary lifestyle.
In the photo an overall image of the collection with the designers and a close up on Hunting Trophies.

|Salone Satellite 2005

April 26, 2005 _designers

For the third consecutive year Tonerico exhibited at Salone Satellite. The studio from Tokyo presented this year the light sculpture Memento designed by Hiroshi Yoneya, Ken Kimizuka, Yumi Masuko. Memento consists of two cylinders with different sized diameters fitted into each other made of white steel numbers. Light spreads out into the room creating an unusual shadow game. They received the First Prize of the Design Report Award 2005.

Photographs by Nacasa & Partners Inc.

| Patricia Urquiola

June 14, 2004 _designers

Patricia Urquiola is one of the most popular designers in Italy at the moment and the only woman to stand out in the world of design.
Born in Spain, she now lives and works in Milano where she opened her studio in 2001. She started working for Maddalena De Padova's product development office and later collaborated with Magistretti and Castiglioni, two key figures in Milanese design that influenced her outlook and led her to cultivate her talents and abilities.
Patricia Urquiola works for Alessi, B&B, Foscarini, MDF, Molteni, Moroso and Knoll among others.
Bague is a table lamp made of a perforated metal net covered with a silicon resin, with a satin screen diffuser she designed together with Eliana Gerotto for Foscarini

|t-a-p-e

March 25, 2004 _designers

No sewing, just tape. Grit and Jerszy Seymour have come together to present the t-a-p-e collection.
Imagine the liberty and spontaneity of just cutting and sticking clothes together, free of any constraint, a new technique, the result of a subverted experiment.
Tape is permanent, stretchy and washable. Tape is patent pending.

|Design from the north

September 30, 2003 _designers

Scandinavian Design stands for elegance, quality, minimum but highly creative and intelligent solutions, materia as good as it gets, sensorial experiences. If you enjoy the work of Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, Poul Kjaerholm or Verner Panton, visit the site scandinaviandesign.com, you will find everything you need to know about nordic design.

|design RAW

September 9, 2003 _designers

By day they're a bunch of San Francisco's leading product designers. By night they're a guerrilla band of concept hackers. designRaw is a collective of industrial design professionals working in San Francisco, Ca. The collective was formed with the objective of offering members an opportunity and forum for exploring design issues outside of their professional activities.