Business news: luxury brand B&B Italia could be sold to a major American furniture group, Dezeen understands. (more…)
NORDAM: B&B Italia in takeover talks with American suitor
Design
NORDAM: 3D-printed weapons found during Australian police raid
NORDAM: Brian MacKay-Lyons wins 2015 RAIC Gold Medal
NORDAM: Jury distances itself from Morphosis appointment for Vals hotel
News: the jury tasked with selecting the design for a new hotel adjacent to Peter Zumthor‘s Therme Vals spa in Switzerland has “dissociated itself” with the client’s decision to appoint Los Angeles firm Morphosis. (more…)
NORDAM: SO-IL’s Storefront gallery installation vandalised with “poor quality” graffiti
News: SO-IL co-founder Florian Idenburg “knew” the design studio’s facade for the New York architecture gallery would be a target for graffiti, but hoped it would be “better quality”. (more…)
NORDAM: Bureau de Change combines furniture with digital projections for second Made.com showroom
NORDAM: Brooklyn warehouse overhauled by Snøhetta to create art studio for painter José Parlá
Snøhetta has renovated a Brooklyn warehouse to create a studio for Cuban-American artist José Parlá, whose murals adorn the lobbies of One World Trade Center and the Barclays Center (+ slideshow). (more…)
NORDAM: Anderssen & Voll creates a collection of tools for indoor gardening
Oslo design studio Anderssen & Voll has designed a watering can with a long, precise spout and plant pots especially for cacti and herbs, as part of a collection of tools for indoor gardening (+ slideshow). (more…)
NORDAM: Fluted brick walls frame scalloped views of the sky above Thai hotel by Onion
NORDAM: Iskos-Berlin updates the plastic shell chair with recyclable equivalent
Maison&Objet 2015: Copenhagen designers Aleksej Iskos and Boris Berlin have created an injection-moulded wood-fibre composite chair that is 100 per cent recyclable for Danish design brand Muuto (+ slideshow). (more…)
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