Category: Design
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Helsinki, 2012 World Design Capital. The events not to be missed.
Helsinki, the 2012 World Design Capital, is hosting over 300 events related to design and fashion – exhibitions, conferences, festivals and gallery showings throughout 2012. For the City of Helsinki, design has for decades been a pivotal enabler to building an open city. The concept of ‘Embedded Design’ has tied design to innovation and has…
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Spike or Mies? A safe distinctive as your own personality
Doettling Colosimo Spike-studded Spike and quilted leather Mies Your investment timepieces need an exclusive safe? Not an ordinary safe, but a customized one. Doettling, manufacturer of finest handcrafted luxury safes since 1919, came with a facelift to its Colosimo, world’s smallest high-security safe. The three-watch Colosimo rotor case has two new finishes: the spike-studded Spike…
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Natuzzi Armonia. 2012 Milan Furniture Fair
At the fifty-first edition of the International Furniture Fair in Milan (17 – 22 April 2012), Natuzzi Italia will present the new Armonia sofa, a piece inspired by the design of the Cambré model, a Natuzzi collection icon which was launched at the 2010 Milan Fair. The sofa has an essential design, thanks to its…
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Singing in the rain: Neustadt Kunsthofpassage in Dresden
The house that plays music when it rains Singing in the rain…What a glorious feelin’. It’s happening in Dresden (Germany), where a unique colorful wall becomes a charming musical instrument. Neustadt Kunsthofpassage or the The Funnel Wall turns into a real orchestra. Only when it rains. On the walls you will find a long-term experiment…
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Where the Kaiser sleeps: inside Karl Lagerfeld’s bedroom
Karl Lagerfeld guest editing French edition of Architectural Digest Karl Lagerfeld’s Parisian apartment on Quai Voltaire is on display on French Architectural Digest‘s cover. The designer is guest editing the May 2012 issue of the French edition of AD magazine. Before the offical launch on 13th April 2012, the AD magazine is on a preview…
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Gyroplanes: PAL-V flying car could be the future of personal transportation
The ideea of flying car is in the air and it becomes clear that it is shaping the future of urban mobility. After the US-based Terrafugia said they had successfully tested their own street-legal plane called the “Transition”, the gyrocopter of a Dutch company has just proved it can handle the skies as well as…