Category: Design
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‘Like a shimmering sea creature’: Britain’s first amphibious homes
A luxury floating house on the Thames that rises and falls with the water levels is just the start for the architectural duo set on addressing problem flooding
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The British Eccentrics Garden by horticultural showman Diarmuid Gavin – An alternative take on a quintessentially English garden
Diarmuid Gavin is back with The British Eccentrics Garden featuring bizarre garden gadgetry that comes to life every 15 minutes. Once again in May, Chelsea will be packed with amazing plant displays and the best cutting-edge garden designs. For five days in May, the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea will be transformed into the…
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The Chocolamixture : The ultimate chocolate dessert experience
A single bar of chocolate with a surface divided into 12 faces, each with diverse texture. This is the chocolate heaven imagined by nendo and by | n in 2015. For 2016, nendo designed new innovative chocolates based on different textures. “chocolatexturebar” is a single bar of chocolate, but the surface is divided into 12 faces.…
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Environmentally-friendly furniture for kids: Flowerssori
A 100% environmentally-friendly furniture collection – with PEFC certified wood, low-emitting formaldehyde adhesives, and no plastics or iron. This is the signature of the Italian high-end brand Flowerssori, recognised by the Chiaravalle Montessori Foundation, for its Montessori accredited furniture, by the ADI DESIGN INDEX Prize in 2013 and nominated for the industrial design award Compasso…
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Model house: let Kate Moss style your living room
With the rumoured launch of Kate Moss Interiors, can the queen of the skinny jean make the leopard-print cushion 2016’s must-have item?
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Maison & Objet 2016: Hipolite made-to-measure televisions
French start-up Hipolite aims to transform the humble TV into a decorative object. For this year’s Maison & Objet Paris fair, Hipolite brings televisions into the age of made-to-measure putting the TV on equal footing with the rest of premium furniture. “Five years ago, I was in a magnificent chalet which had been very elegantly renovated.…