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swing from the flexing Chandelier

Award-winning PRECIOSA Lighting, recognized for generations as masters of Czech chandelier-making, are working to develop exciting new concepts at the company‘s recently-opened Innovation Lab (Research & Development Center).  Among the projects that had their premiere in Milan were Merkur and Venus, two new chandeliers that make up the Crystal Fortune Collection, designed by world-renowned Czech artist Rony Plesl. The Merkur chandelier, designed by Czech artist...
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Table Bling

Who doesn't love a little bit of tasteful bling? Created by designer Joe Doucet, Janus is a family of candleholders with a form that allows for both a standard taper (regular candles) and a tea light candle to be used interchangeably by rotating the holder. Says Doucet, “Made from hand turned solid steel, the tall candlestick weighs in at...
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Doble & Strong + Behruz Studio

For some years now Simon Strong and Robert Doble have been collaborating on a unique body of work that explores not only the human body, but the extremes of their own use of materiality. Combining cutting edge photographic technologies with the time honoured use of paint in abstraction, Forever restless, Doble & Strong have expanded their collaboration and in...
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Euroluce Mian 2015 with John Bechini and Fiona Venn 1

Part of the annual Salone del Mobile in Milan, Euroluce is the biannual lighting exhibition of this major international fair. It presents the new and interesting from the worlds leading lighting companies as well as offering a stage for new up and coming designers to present their interpretations of where lighting is heading today. The beauty of this latest lighting fair as compared to others in...
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Euroluce Mian 2015 part 2

Euroluce Mian 2015 part 2 by John Bechini and Fiona Venn DCW Editions Paris – Here Comes the Sun, Designed by Bertrand Balas in the spring of 1969, the Here Comes the Sun hanging lamp takes on a magical quality once illuminated. Darkness loses its rawness and metamorphoses into something reassuring. Here Comes the Sun is available in combinations...
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Mindcraft Milan 2015

Curated by design duo GamFratesi, Mindcraft is a concept showcasing of Denmark’s most talented craftspeople and designers. Previously located at Ventura Lambrate, the Danes decided to try Brera, with the Chiostro Minore di San Simpliciano instead. Their theme for this year, ‘In Between’, punctuated all the more by the mirrored floor and cage-like contraptions encasing some of the works in the space. Mindcraft was...
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Breathe

Studio BAAG is composed by Swedish designer Caroline Bauer and Italian architect Pier Francesco Galuppini. Their different cultural backgrounds lead to projects balancing between Nordic minimalism and Italian creativity and provocation. The focus is to create a unity between functionality and aesthetics, evolving around the experimentation of materials and production processes with a refined craftsmanship. The use of natural...
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Soft for for Glas Italia

Soft is a series of glass tables by Tokyo based studio Nendo for Glas Italia. Three box shaped low tables each using five sheets of frosted glass. For the joints between two sheets of glass, the 45 degree cross-sections were printed with bright colours. The cross-sections were then bonded together. The colours create a gradation effect, from purple to...
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the Urban Philosophy chair

Designer Nissa Kinzhalina‘s Urban Philosophy is a chair made of transparent acrylic with a thin, black, contiguous line running along an outer edge. Made from only two materials: polycarbonate and metal with a chair height of 850 mm. The line doesn’t trace all the edges of the chair, so depending on your perspective, it can look like the outline of a...
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