Category: Design
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Naturally Clicquot 3.0: champagne house transforms grapes into eco-packaging
Veuve Clicquot presents eco-packaging from grapes. French champagne Maison Veuve Clicquot unveiled the third version of the groundbreaking “Naturally Clicquot” eco-packaging made of a byproduct of its own winemaking process. Veuve Clicquot was able to create eco-packaging using grapes. 100% biodegradable and recyclable. This latest eco-responsible innovation follows two previous generations of biodegradable Veuve Clicquot…
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Museum of Tomorrow: a captivating invitation to imagine a sustainable world
Rio de Janeiro’s new museum, focusing on ideas rather than objects, ecology more than technology, is a little trippy, a little hippy, very worthy but rarely dull
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Rowan Moore: the best architecture of 2015
From dumb towers to cool interventions, 2015 saw the gap widen between the big and brainless and the small and thoughtful• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in full
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Next-gen Energy Solutions at Eco-Products 2015: A vision of a carbon-free, comfortable, and safe hydrogen society
How can we build next-generation houses in which comfortable living leads to eco-friendliness? Panasonic‘s lithium-ion batteries for eco-conscious vehicles, “Zero-Eco House” and a hydrogen fuel cell that can create energy from pure hydrogen (prototype currently under development) drew great attention at the recent Eco-Products 2015 in Tokyo, Japan, a prestigious fair which was held at…
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Poltrona Frau Babel. A home bar unit, three cupboards, for the living room.
Ebony, steel, and Pelle Frau. Designer Roberto Lazzeroni joins elegance and innovation in Babel – a compact home bar unit comprising three cupboards in two different sizes. The largest, placed on the floor to support the other two, is in multiple birch with an ebony veneer MDF top and it has a chromium- plated tubular…
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A star ceiling in your home cinema
There’s nothing quite like a star ceiling to add the finishing touch to a dedicated home cinema room, helping to make the room a special refuge where you can really relax. Seen in cinemas, on yachts, cars and theatres, these professional convincingly realistic starry-night effects can be added to your ceiling. Fibre-optic Infinity ceiling panels…