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There’s something incredibly refreshing about reinvention.   There’s also something incredibly romantic about tradition, and maintaining some of the customs and social law we bring with us from the past. Merge the two – and you’ve got Daniel Forkin’s new advertising campaign for the New York City Opera. Innovatively transporting images from famous operatic pieces forming part of the NYC Opera’s...

We brought you the new Vondom products launched at Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2013 recently, and now, here is a great video by Archiproducts showing the oh-so-cool Vondom party in Milan, together with interviews from two of the collections designers, Ora Ito, Fabio Novembre. Note, if you're as fortunate as we are and have bilingual members on staff, bring them...

The story of Sixto Rodgriguez is a fascinating one.  If anyone has seen the Academy award winning film “Searching or Sugarman”, the documentary outlining his life and delayed rise to fame will know this. For those who don’t, Sixto Rodriguez was a drifter, a construction worker from Detroit whose lyrical content and entrancing voice was discovered in the 1960’s.   Signed...

Indecasa unveiled the new collection designed by Jordi Ribaudí Studio, the multi-disciplinary creative team hailing from Spain.  Including chairs, low-wide chairs, tables, coffee tables and stools, the collection is an exercise if optical illusions, weaving and solid construction practice.   Fusing functionality with high-end aesthetics, Espiga is a geometric beauty which no doubt will find itself comfortable in any setting. The...

Sellex’s aim to produce and distribute well designed products for the home market at prices which a wide segment of consumers could afford turned the company into a Spanish powerhouse of production in close collaboration with a bevy of some of Spain’s most acclaimed designers. Sellex products are now sold in 30 different countries around the world, predominately for...

Artifort have put their thinking caps on this year.   Adding to their collection of exclusive licences in re-releasing design classics by Geoffrey D. Harcourt and Pierre Paulin, Artifort have introduced a junior range of smaller sized furniture aimed at the design-conscious little ones and managed to squeeze in enough time to work with Missoni to create a set of printed...

Back to the grindstone eh? What better way to kick off another week than with a heart-starting electronic dance floor stomping beat from English duo Monarchy. Starting their career remixing songs by the likes of Kylie Minogue, Ellie Goulding, Lady Gaga, Kelis and Jamiroquai – one of their first releases under their own name is “Disintegration”.  Taking time out of...

Nanimarquina, the green and ethically conscious Spaniard and rug manufacturing guru took a new approach for her 2013 campaign, with a collection titled “Naturals”, and releasing a black and cream dyed version of the popular Losanges II by the Bourroullec brothers. LOSANGES II Expanding on the colourful patterned original Losanges rug for nanimarquina which was an experiment reinterpreting the traditional...

Here’s one we’ve been waiting for. Sancal’s Tierra Collection (as introduced in the video below, as well as the landscape of Yecla, Sancal’s home town) outlines the new collection from the Spanish manufacturer.  Tierra, translating to soil, earth, or ones homeland in Spanish.   Again working with bold shape and colour, Sancal has employed some serious design heavyweight to round out...

The film Get Yourself a College Girl of 1964 by the Sidney Miller is the beach house teen movie musical which formed the perfect platform for the Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto to launch “The Girl from Ipanema”, the international Grammy award winning hit which we bring to you today. The Metrocolour film houses interior set decoration in an interesting mix...