There are a thousand good reasons to avoid travelling through Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport. And a couple of very good reasons. The public transport connections, for example, between Israel's only relevant international airport and Israel's only relevant metropolises are so arduous and poorly co-ordinated it makes one long for the days of The Crusades, when reaching Jaffa or Jerusalem from Europe involved little more taxing than travelling for eight weeks by horse and sailing ship. And then
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In the past we have often talked about airports, airport design and airport furniture. And not just because we want to demonstrate how much we travel and how often we are in airports. But because we find it just as important that high-quality furniture is available in public spaces as in the home or office. If you think your office furniture is well used - imagine the stress your average airport chair is put under. From March 23rd until March 25th Europe's largest airport terminal
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Despite the many disadvantages, problems and general chaos budget airlines have brought into our previously well structured and ordered lives, they have brought one clear advantage: The opportunity to visit really remote airports. More through necessity than freewill, thousands of air travellers now find themselves avoiding the likes of Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle or Frankfurt am Main Airport, and instead experiencing the delights of Klagenfurt, Tampere or Altenburg. At least in all modern
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Firstly apologies for the small delay... the internet connections in Milan aren't all they could be :) A couple of months ago we mentioned the Terminal trade fair and introduced Vitra's range of public seating solutions. And so it was with a particular joy to experience the chairs in action this morning at both Munich and Leipzig airports. Wheres in Munich we just saw Sir Norman Foster's "Airline" system, in Leipzig we saw both the "Airline" and .03 from Maartin Van Severen. Both airports
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Passenger Terminal Expo is Europe’s largest airport terminal exhibition. And while such is always good to know, why are we at (smow)blog telling you. Because it is a opportune moment once again demonstrate that designer furniture and furniture by top designers can be found everywhere. Even in an airport – an environment that is normally considered as a design desert. Among the exhibitors at Passenger terminal expo is smow partner Vitra. For over 40 years Vitra have been developing and
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