Archive for January, 2014

Tom Dixon 2014 Accessories Collection

Tom Dixon 2014 Accessories Collection

British “Designer of the Year” Tom Dixon, presented his latest range of gifts and accessories at the Maison & Objet, Paris trade fair last week.

Dixon‘s newest range is inspired by the industrial qualities of engineering with a beautiful play on industrial machine parts, with three range’s that feature accessories made from semi-precious materials like brass, copper and glass.

George Freedman – A Life of Colour & Design

George Freedman – A Life of Colour & Design

George Freedman is an American-born interior designer who has made great contributions to Australian interior design culture over the past 40+ years.

He is a lover of vivid, varied and inventive colours. However whilst he is often stereotyped as a gifted colorist, with skill in the formulation of distinctive palettes, he also demonstrates a selective ability to manipulate essential form.

Knoll 75th Anniversary Party @ Dedece

Knoll 75th Anniversary Party @ Dedece

Since 1938, Knoll has been recognized internationally for creating workplace and residential furnishings that inspire, evolve and endure.

To mark this 75th anniversary achievement, Dedece asked George Freedman ( renowned Sydney interior designer) to curate a new showroom presentation, featuring Knoll’s iconic and new residential and workplace designs, reflecting its rich design heritage of furniture, textiles and accessories whilst being grounded in clarity of form and honesty in materials.

Eclectic Restaurant, Paris by Tom Dixon’s Design Research Studio

Eclectic Restaurant, Paris by Tom Dixon’s Design Research Studio

Tom Dixon’s interior design consultancy business ” Design Research Studio” displayed its talents with its first designs for a Parisian restaurant project, “Eclectic” – a new restaurant from Fabienne + Philippe Amzalak and Jean-Louis Costes – which officially opened during Maison Objet last week

Knoll Outdoor Collection Classics

Knoll Outdoor Collection Classics

“Our legacy is the product and product culture that we leave behind.

What we have done at Knoll with the products which we inherited and what we have done to create new things to move the company forward, we have done to honour and preserve the Knoll legacy.”

Now architecture speaks the language of computers — which have three buttons:  ” Copy, Paste, Delete “

- Ai Weiwei -

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Florence Knoll + The Planning Unit

Florence Knoll + The Planning Unit

Florence Knoll Bassett established herself as one of the most influential American interior planners and designers of the second half of the twentieth century.

Her belief in “total design”—architecture, manufacturing, interior design, furniture, textiles, graphics, advertising and presentation—meant that she integrated all aspects of spatial planning, furnishing, and decorating into one seamless package.

Her application of design principles in solving space-planning problems were radical departures from the standard practice in the 1950s, but were quickly adopted and remain widely used today

Florence Knoll changed the world’s conception of how to decorate an office space with her innovative, art-centered and Bauhaus-inspired notions about functional design