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Areaware @ NYIGF 2012

Click on the cover above or here - to view the – 2012 Areaware novelties catalogue

Valentines Day with Cubebots

Limber and loveable – these Cubebot pairs ( Julien, Guthrie and Cubebot) from Areaware are not your typical callous robots.
They’re crafted from hardwood and fold into many different poses.
Hand outstretched with a ring, perhaps?
Remember—there’s no operating manual for love.
Cubebots are available from dedeceplus here

Eclectic by Tom Dixon

Tom Dixon’s first collection of accessories, gifts and objects of design comes after ten years devoted to the creation of furniture and lighting products.
Tom is now regarded as Britain’s most original designer of his generation. He completed courses at Chelsea School of Art and began his career as a sculptor. Materials such as copper, marble, [...]

Spotlight on Nadja Swarovski

Story featured in Introspective Magazine – by Clair Watson
Once upon a time, in 1895, in the small Austrian village of Wattens, a great industrial concern was born.
One of four sons of an ornamental glass stone cutter from Bohemia, a young man called David Swarovski invented a revolutionary mechanical cutting device (a “comb”), which not only [...]

Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds & Las Vegas

The 1969 pop charts were one of the strongest in years with the political, ‘Bad Moon Rising’ by Creedence Clearwater Revival, ‘Something in the Air’ by Thunderclap Newman mixing with the innovative, David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ and the classics, The Rolling Stones ‘Honky Tonk Women’ and The Beatles ‘Come Together’.
“Suspicious Minds” was Elvis Presley’s seventeenth [...]