Irish furniture designer Martin Gallagher has created the Ardú console table, and will be exhibiting them at the Designers Block event in London this week.   The inspired by skeletal structures, Ardú is a piece of sculptural craftsmanship.  Repetition of form creates a rib – like formation resulting in a piece of intricate beauty.  The sculptural [...]

Johann Bretz created his first cosy “Kautsches” (couches) in Gensingen, a German wine village on the Rhine river, in 1895.  Carolin Fieber – a fashion designer and stylist trained in Milan, Paris and London – is completing the evolutionary pathway by putting the ancestral Kautsch to contemporary rebirth with new sofas, armchairs, stools, tables and [...]

The City of London Information Centre showcases how contemporary design can be used to great effect in a heritage context. The ambitious brief called for a new structure to accommodate a state-of-the-art information service. In addition to serving as an exemplar of sustainable design, championing accessibility for visitors and employees alike, it also required a [...]

The Trattoria Chair was designed by Jasper Morrison. The play that part of the week The Milan Design Week 09, was designed for Magis company in translucent material and wood. Jasper Morrison was born in London in 1959, received the degree of bachelor of design at Kingston School of Art in 1982 and his master’s [...]

Re-using existing resources and a fabulous design sense combine to create this versatile and easily adaptable piece of container architecture, the Greentainer Project in Gandino, Italy. The Greentainer is a shipping container that has been gutted to provide flexible public space, perfect for a number of uses. And the best bit, as it is a [...]