Dezeen to co-host Assembly 2019 talks programme at Design Shanghai

March 1, 2019 Ben Hobson 0
Assembly 2019 at Design Shanghai

Dezeen is co-hosting a programme of architecture and design panel discussions at Design Shanghai on 7 and 8 March 2019. Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs and chief content officer Ben Hobson will each moderate a panel discussion at the Assembly 2019 architecture and design forum, which is hosted at the Design Shanghai 2019 trade fair. Hobson

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The Cuts Along This Wood Bench Give It A Surprising Flexibility

February 26, 2019 Erin 0

Photography by Alfredo Cardenas   Mexican architect and designer Ricardo Garza Marcos, has created the BEND Bench. The bench has cuts along the wood, which create a unique characteristic to the material, an unusual flexibility. This allows the wood to ‘bend’ when someone sits on it.   Photography by Alfredo Cardenas The designer conducted multiple test using different […]

Students build woven pavilion to shade archaeologists in Peru’s desert

February 24, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Pachacamac by Studio Tom Emerson and Taller 5

A woven white canopy, bamboo cane walls and earthen floors form this workspace for archaeologists on digs in Pachacamac, Peru, which was built by architecture students from Zurich and Lima. The Room for Archaeologists and Kids is located an archaeological site 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of Lima. Called Pachacamac, it covers about 600 hectares of

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10 designs worth knowing by the late Alessandro Mendini

February 22, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
Alessandro Mendini

Following the death of influential Italian architect, designer and theorist Alessandro Mendini this week, here’s a look at 10 projects completed across his 60-year career, from the seminal Proust chair to a chequered bus stop. Proust armchair, 1978 Mendini’s most iconic project, the revolutionary Proust combined a baroque shape with a pointillist surface pattern derived from

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ChiaramonteMarin Designstudio Has Created A Glass Lamp Named KNOT

February 21, 2019 Erin 0

  ChiaramonteMarin Designstudio has created KNOT, a collection of lights that combine a coarse natural fibre with smooth, transparent blown glass. Designed for lighting manufacturer BROKIS, the light collection consists of four pendant lights and a table lamp that are made from full-bodied globes in various shapes and sizes.   Each of the pendant lights […]

Studio Drift deconstructs everyday objects for Materialism series at Frieze LA

February 21, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Materialism by Studio Drift

Amsterdam-based Studio Drift “de-produced” a bicycle and a pencil into the chunks of the materials used to make them for an exhibit at the inaugural Frieze Art Fair in Los Angeles. The studio deconstructed the manmade items to highlight the amount of natural resources and effort involved in the extraction, labour and manufacturing of their

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The Teepots Plant Stand Collection by Mauro Canfori

February 20, 2019 Erin 0

  Designer Mauro Canfori has recently launched Teepots, a minimalist plant shelving system. The three designs in the collection include Mur végétal, Pot suspendu and Tableau vegetal.   The Pot suspendu (Hanging Pot) presents itself as a simple cable upon which the plants slide in order to be fixed at the desired height. The Mur vegetal (Botanical […]

Iker Gil and Luftwerk emblazon Barcelona Pavilion with laser grid

February 20, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Geometry of Light installation at Barcelona Pavilion by Luftwerk and Iker Gil

Luftwerk and designer Iker Gil have projected a grid of red lasers onto Mies van der Rohe’s seminal Barcelona Pavilion to create the Geometry of Light installation. Media-artist duo Luftwerk collaborated with Mas Studio’s Iker Gil to create the light show, which took place during of Barcelona’s Llum BCN and Santa Eulàlia festival. Named Geometry of Light, the

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