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London Design Festival: Brilliant Brits, fantastic furniture and a global showcase

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 20, 2013

The London Design Festival (LDF) has been in full swing for the last few days, but to cover all of…

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Neri Oxman designs a chair. It probably won’t go with your current decor and DFS won’t stock it.

Posted by Stephen Holmes - March 27, 2014

Neri puts her feet up after designing the Gemini Alpha chair Having recently moved home, from one grim hovel to…

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NOMA Tokyo to include designs that combine flavours of home and history

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 15, 2015

Wahl&Ross’s shelving design blends Viking rope bracings with Japanese timber lashing Copenhagen’s NOMA, universally known as one of the best…

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Weaving new textures for visualisation

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 7, 2015

In order to render complex woven textures such as rattan, CIC had to be creative with existing visualisation tools Having…

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Digital vase wins wood award

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 23, 2015

The award winning digitally carved Ves-el vases British furniture makers, craftsmen, and all-round wizards with wood, Benchmark, has won an…

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Last chance to see: Prototypes and Experiments VIII

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 13, 2016

Scale models and tests for Corkigami by Carlos Ortega The eighth edition of the Aram Gallery’s Prototypes and Experiments exhibition…

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The people and wood at the heart of De La Espada’s beautiful furniture factory

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 15, 2016

An internal wood grading system is entrusted to De La Espada’s craftspeople, who make many of the decisions about the…

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Leave nothing behind: The hotel room Butler

Posted by Stephen Holmes - April 20, 2016

Ever left something behind in a hotel room? The Butler hopes to solve that problem with style Given the number…

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Insight into how Zaha Hadid and Patrick Schumacher designed their 3D printed chair

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 3, 2016

//giphy.com/embed/AJsx70S4D9CWQ In time for the Zaha Hadid retrospective, a 10 room showcase of the late designer’s work running as part…

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Wood Awards 2016 – mixed styles, clever storage and natural lines pick up prizes

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 23, 2016

Winner of the Small Project award, Twist by Emergent Technologies and Design, Architectural Association Stepping back from a world of…

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