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Zaha Hadid Architects have designed the new Roca London Gallery. Zaha Hadid Architects, acclaimed winners of this year’s Stirling Prize, have designed the new Roca London Gallery located in the well-known Chelsea Harbour district near King’s Road. Roca is a leading global bathroom brand  which, through its renowned Innovation Lab, is dedicated to developing cutting [...]

Upcoming international designers gather at Kolding School of Design to meet one of the great resource challenges: Adding emotional value to energy  We treat energy as if it were an inexhaustible resource. It is not. We have to start using energy with consideration and reflection. Experts agree that the behaviour of end-users is the key [...]

Kolding School of Design’s Series 7 Chair Parasite Design exhibited at Republic of Fritz Hansen, Copenhagen Arne Jacobsen is a design icon. Kolding School of Design represents a strong setting for innovative design. A group of first-year design students have created parasite design on and with Arne Jacobsen’s world famous Series Seven Chair™ and the [...]

(from Volkswagen Press Release)  NILS. The NILS electric vehicle reflects a new form of minimal mobility. “The single-seater was developed for commuters, because – in Germany, for example – 90 percent of car commuters are alone in their car,” says Prof. Dr. Jürgen Leohold, Director of Volkswagen Group Research. This study with its progressive aluminium [...]

VOLKSWAGEN’S CITY SPECIALIST HEADS FOR THE BEACH Amid the raft of new car concepts at the Frankfurt Motor Show this month, one of the head-turners was Volkswagen’s bright orange ray of sunshine, the buggy up! concept. The buggy up! is inspired by the Californian beach buggies of the 1960s. These buggies, pioneered by people such [...]

Vienna-based designer Thomas Feichtner has created the M3 Chair. from the designer: For Vienna Design Week 2011, Neue Wiener Werkstätte will be showing the M3 Chair developed specifically for this exhibition. This unique object will be juxtaposed with the mass-produced FX10 Lounge Chair, an earlier work by Feichtner which has since become a classic of Austrian design. [...]

Strangeway Sunpetals Women Collection SS12  Angelos Frentzos Website

Jorge Hrdina Architects have designed the Lilypad house in Sydney, Australia. From the architect: The Lilypad House was designed to accommodate ease of access by wheelchair and provide the inhabitants with a sanctuary from typical suburban consolidation. The refined twin portal frames of radial timber laminations stand as freestanding structures that anchor the two ends [...]

Kilo Architectures have designed the Virage Mulsanne Hotel in Le Mans, France. From the architects: On the circuit of the world’s oldest sports car race, the 24 hours of Le Mans, this project addresses questions of architectural scale and ‘speed.’ Architectural speed is the manner or rate at which a building is viewed or experienced. [...]

    Opel RAK e Concept: Lightweight EV Debuts in Frankfurt Needs 10 times less energy than modern small car and is one third the weight FRANKFURT – Opel today formally introduced the RAK e experimental vehicle – an all-new battery-powered electric vehicle that can travel 100 kilometers (61 miles) for one euro ($1.36), weighs [...]

NOW VOYAGER…MEMORIES OF AFRICA…THE RUSTIC MODERNISM OF THE LEBOMBO LODGE…AN EASY LAID BACK ATTITUDE…SOFT DJELLABAS AND CAFTANS…LANGUID PONCHOS AND CAPES…THE SLOUCHY WIND COAT…RELAXED SARONGS.…ARTISANAL TEXTURES… RAW BEAUTY…. DISTRESSED CASHMERE, LINEN, AND LEATHER WITH A LUXE SAVAGE EDGE…RUSTIC PATCHWORKS AND BOLD HAND DYING…EARTH TONES OF LIMESTONE, OLIVE AND CLAY…CREAMY TONES OF IVORY, IMPALA AND ANTELOPE…WARM SUNSET [...]

This spring, Bottega Veneta takes surface and hand as the starting points for an exuberant romp through extraordinary materials, unusual finishes, and exaggerated prints. The palette is vivid and saturated, centered on lush shades of tourmaline, dark denim, and indigo. Blood red, Irish green, burnt orange, plaster, and chocolate brown heighten the vibrant mood. The [...]