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Spanish-designer Jaime Hayon has racked up a long list of well-deserved accolades, including most recently being named Elle Decoration’s Designer of the Year 2016. Hayon seamlessly blends his intricate knowledge of craft and artisan skills with a good dose of experimentation, fantasy and humour to create furniture and lighting characterised by slender lines, curvaceous forms and soft textures. You’ll find a...

Each year Wallpaper* magazine's Design Awards single out the people, places, pieces and phenomena that have raised our pulses and this year KE-ZU supplier Parachilna was named Best New Brand! Inspired by the timeless landscape of a small town on the edge of the Australia desert, Parachilna is forging a philosophy built around honesty in design, an appreciation of the value of precious...

Why I choose… Neri & Hu. With all of the products out there to source, how do I choose which pieces for what project?  And why does Neri & Hu so often fit the bill? Here’s a checklist that I employ. Style – If there is one era of furniture style I’m wild about it’s mid 20th Century.  I can’t get...

What’s the frequency, Kenneth? Yes, it’s the title of a famous REM song; a track inspired by the quite surreal bashing of CBS news anchor Dan Rather by a bloke who kept asking: Kenneth, what is the frequency? But it could also be us asking Mr Kenneth Cobonpue how many awards he has picked up from the time he began...

Jaime Hayon has revealed his design for Room 506 at Copenhagen's iconic SAS Royal Hotel (now the Radisson Blu Hotel) which includes his latest lighting designs for Parachilna, the Aballs Suspension Light and the Chinoz Table Light. Commissioned by Fritz Hansen, Hayon has transformed room 506 in an ode to Arne Jacobsen’s original design. The interiors feature furniture, works of art, bedspreads and lamps by...

On chair designed by Jasper Morrison for Andreu World.

Gemini for Artifort has been designed as individual furniture pieces which can be placed as single seating elements, in pairs or in groups of various sizes and configurations. The concept for the design of the chair centers on flexibility of movement, versatility in seating positions and variety in spatial experiences. Set upon an asymmetric frame, the generously proportioned single-surface body...