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DMY Berlin

June 26, 2014 - DMY Berlin is certainly one of the events with the highest concentration of good design in Europe and for this reason one of the most interesting. Former Berlin Tempelhof airport hangars were the perfect venue for the exhibition that gives a quick sneak on the upcoming international design trends, showing products from around the world. Among the others, names from Taiwan Designers Week, Norberto Fonseca (Portugal), Rahyja Afrange (Brazil), Ermanno ...

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Materials as story-tellers

April 25, 2014 - On a grey and rainy morning in March I have an appointment with the Danish Designer Boris Berlin. Boris is greeting me at the front door of the building housing the design studio Iskos – Berlin Design. On the stairs is a lovely smell of wood. A very appropriate introduction to the conversation we are about to start on right on the doorstep. Boris is heading straight to his point: ”The ...

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Moomin lamps

Feb. 12, 2014 - During the Stockholm Design Week, the Furniture and Northern Light Fairs presented an impressive range of Nordic designers. Nordic design is recognised for its simplicity, but to the international visitor this may at times also be experienced as rather austere. From that perspective the meeting with the Moomin lamps seem like a greeting a friend. The attractiveness of light in the Northern darkness is enhanced by the shape of the ...

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Design Lighting Tokyo 2014

Feb. 11, 2014 - “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson We are always at someone else's house and, as guests, we must have the utmost respect. It is with this mind-set that I had the pleasure of discovering a land linked to design in a visceral way, if we think of the Japenese attention to the harmony of forms. From January 15 to ...

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The essence of Scandinavia

Jan. 14, 2014 - On this week’s Copenhagen design fair – Design Trade – the public had the opportunity to experience the new brand Skandinavisk. The industrial design brand translates the Scandinavian key concept of hygge, which may be translated into cosiness, in its products for the home. With their clean lines and no-nonsense expression the Skandinavisk scented candles, cups, and plates clearly subscribe to the region’s design heritage of simplicity and unambiguousness. But ...