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"Don’t take the future too seriously, it’s already happened!" says Sancal. Sancal's Futura Collection’s retro-futuristic theme reaches new heights with a collection of  limited edition sculptures. The inspiration for the Futura Collection comes from 60’s futurism. So artists José Ángel Rodríguez Corral and Miriam Hernández Ros of Número26 were set the task of rendering decorative objects from our past as...

TWA Terminal, New York City; by Eero Saarinen and Associates (1962). In 1962, New York City's TWA terminal at JFK Airport set the bar for futuristic urban design. Today, the tubular terminal  is abandoned, following TWA’s financial deterioration and eventual sale to American Airlines. Great Big Story  has unlocked its doors in the below video, come explore with us.   Images...

Japanese design firm Nendo's latest chocolate creations are just as much (if not more) about what's on the outside than the inside. And we can't wait to get our hands on one. Divided into 12 faces each with a different texture, the 'chocolatexturebar' allows you to experience the different tasted created by distinctive textures. Speaking about their editable creation Nendo wrote...

One of our favourite designers, Eugeni Quitllet was recently named Maison & Objet Paris Design of the Year. He readily describes himself as a ‘Disoñador,’ a Spanish contraction of designer and dreamer. His invented future is gravity-free, with incredible aesthetics summarised in a combination of digital precision and flowing curves. Eugeni creates bestselling objects between drawings and sculptures, mastering fullness and voids...

Alejandro Aravena. Photo by Cristobal Palma. He practices architecture as an artful endeavor in private commissions and in designs for the public realm and epitomizes the revival of a more socially engaged architect. Furniture Free Friday returns in 2016 with Alejandro Aravena of Chile taking out the 2016  Pritzker Architecture Prize. An award that has come to be known internationally ...

Best of Year 2015 Awards. Photo courtesy of Interior Design Magazine For the third year in a row, the Best of Year Awards, hosted by Interior Design Magazine, was held at Frank Genhry's IAC Building in New York. The event saw over 900 designers, architects and manufacturers come together to celebrate the winners and merit honorees.   Amongst the...

With clean, rational lines, Tiptoe by Rafa Garcia for Sancal takes contemporary pieces one step forward. A design based on a philosophy of simplicity and functionality, it is a sofa that can be used with different styles to create calm, serene environments.The slim legs give the piece its name, a model that is quiet, subtle, light and nimble, as if it were...

At Sancal they believe that all spaces should be friendly and open, places where they can grow and develop without constraint. With their products helping to create working environments with that ethos in mind at Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon and Visa, to name just a few, Sancal thought they could utilise their home-grown skills to greater effect on their own workplace. ...

Frames by Jaime Hayon for Expormim has been selected winner of the German Design Award 2016 for Excellent Product Design! What the members of the jury Prof. Oliver Grabes & Sebastian Herkner said: "In the Frames furniture collection, traditional outdoor furniture for the interior and thus for use all year long was newly interpreted. With a classic framework structure produced in...

A common childhood memory is of time spent playing outdoors and the sense of wonder and adventure the natural world inspired. As French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance demonstrates  with his new Colours Collection of upholstered benches for Bernhardt Design, these simple childhood memories can provide fertile ground for exciting new ideas. “When I was young, I loved playing in streams and...