"My, my, my, Delilah! Why, why, why, Delilah!" The morning of Friday September 27th 2013 was one of those misty autumn occasions that cause SANAA's immense new Vitra Factory Building in Weil am Rhein to merge, almost unseen, with the grey background. Even Herzog & de Meuron's new Basel Messe complex was reduced to nothing more grand than a continuation of the uncaring monotonous sky. The glitzing, shimmering palace of high summer just the weak shadow of a memory. And so it was perhaps fitting
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"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in" Arlo Guthrie's quote features on interror.be in conjunction with the product sevenup - a light that ironically proves that although a dark can be helpful to a light ... it aint a pre-requisite. Reminiscent of Rody Grauman’s 85 lamps for droog - just with only seven bulbs and with the bulbs elegantly held apart form one another - sevenup is a wonderful modern interpretation the classic chandelier. Stripped to the bare essentials - cables,
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Truth be told we'd expected a bit more bravery from our favourite Amsterdam anarcho-artisans. But no, no tree-trunk bench on the droog presence in Cologne. At least there was people - in comparison to their stand at ICFF 2009 in New York where they made do with a shadylace. High-point for us, however, was without doubt the Rag Chair. And especially the woman who sat on it, looked at her companion and said "Hard as stone!!" And Rag Chair is; which is of also why it is comfortable. The
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