Wow, what a month! Design Festival in London, Fashion Weeks in New York, London, Paris, Milan… Lots of new styles, shapes, materials and colours to be discovered, recurrent and new emerging trends. We compare fashion vs. furniture – two fields that have more in common than you might think.

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More and more designers are starting to embrace food and it’s different qualities as a new design material – exploring the possibilities afforded by edible products.

Observing how we interact with our food on a day-to-day basis, designers play with it’s role beyond just nutritional purposes.

Our selection includes the work of diverse artists and designers, who show us ordinary food from a different angle.
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“There is an image, an idea of Africa that lives deep in human imagination. Its form often transcends the power of the world and its profile lies under layers of conscious retrieval. it is alive within each one of us on a primordial level, inexplicable yet undeniable.” Maya Angelou
Summer is coming! Inspired by beautiful colours, patterns as well as the upcoming World Cup, we would like to dedicate this post to influences, trends and projects happening in and around Africa.
Image: detail Moroso chair, design Philippe Bestenheider,
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Fashion houses have been extending their brands outside the intrinsic couture space for a long time now. Their cosmetics and accessories -including watches- are almost a given these days. But when we ran into this guitar by Chanel we were blown away by the shear beauty of the object itself and Chanel’s audacity at exploring the limits of where their brand could go.
So, for our latest blog entry we decided to look at Chanel and other leading fashion houses to see how they are extending their reach to new spaces and demonstrating the power and flexibility of premium lifestyle brands.
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Well, we finally did get some snow here in London. I guess that we are getting into a festive mood as we have decided to end the year with a blog entry about snowflakes. Here you will find a beautiful collection of man-made snowflakes that we think will surprise you and make you smile. And while the mood is right, we want to use this opportunity to wish you all a lovely and successful new year. Read more »

Inspired by Alexander McQueen’s incredible collection for 2010, we had a look into other fields of design, where new technologies such as digital printing on textiles and 3D printing of complicated shapes have a growing effect on the work of designers.
Welcome to a world of insects, micro-organisms, alien-like shapes and beautiful textures.
Above: shoe of the Alexander McQueen collection ‘Plato’s Atlantis’. |  Photo style.com

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Having somehow managed to survive the London Fashion Week followed by the London Design Festival, we thought that it would be fun to treat them as a single event and look for trends that would connect them both. If you ask us, the result is more interesting than looking at each one separately… maybe they should mix things up a bit next year.

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These are some samples picked from our favourite haute couture collections for the coming season. Rather than giving you yet another summary of everything out there, we have decided to look at some of the interesting details and find out the elements that bring them together. (photos Chanel if it’s hip it’s here; other designers style.com)

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While Graffiti is moving into our art galleries, homes and even wardrobes, knitting seems to be taking it’s place as the pastime of choice for ‘real rebels’.

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The increasing awareness of ecology and people’s growing desire to reconnect with nature -or at least to take a piece of it with them- is reflected in this collection of contemporary jewellery designs. Classic materials like gold and diamonds have made room for more organic treasures.

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