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Bratislava Design Week 2014 Transmission Lights Studio deFORM
Designer | 07.10.2014

(smow) blog compact Bratislava Design Week Special: Transmission Lights by Studio deFORM

At Bratislava Design Week 2014 Jakub Pollág and Václav Mlynář a.k.a. Studio deFORM re-premièred their Transmission light family; "re-premièred" because although initially created in 2012 for Prague based Kavalierglass, since earlier this year the lamp family have been part of the portfolio of another Czech glass manufacturer, Lasvit. Constructed from a series of concentric glass structures which become ever more elongated as their diameter shrinks, the Transmission lamps present an

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Bratislava Design Week 2014 Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava Studio of Industrial Desig
Designer | 03.10.2014

(smow) blog compact Bratislava Design Week Special: Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava Studio of Industrial Design

Having announced in our introductory Bratislava Design Week post that we are in favour of a global network of regional design weeks that focus on local designers, we did of course start our coverage of Bratislava Design Week 2014 with a product designed by a Swiss designer and manufactured by an Austrian company. In our defence Fidelio by Christian Spiess was being displayed as part of the exhibition "Work is all around" and as such was in Bratislava because curators Lubica Husta and Viera

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Fidelio by Christian Spiess
Designer | 01.10.2014

(smow) blog compact Bratislava Design Week Special: Fidelio by Christian Spiess

According to Christian Holmsted Olesen, Hans J. Wegner's famous JH540 Valet Chair with its coat hanger shaped backrest and pop up seat almost never saw the light of day. Following its presentation at the 1951 Copenhagen Carpenters Guild Exhibition Wegner decided he didn't actually like the four legged chair after all, and announced that it shouldn't be produced. However King Frederik IX had seen it, was fascinated by both concept and design and demanded that it be produced. He wanted one. He

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Bratislava Design Week 2014 Work is all around

Bratislava Design Week 2014: Introduction

Since 2013, and in what one could almost term a "Danube Design Festival", in addition to Vienna Design Week late September has also seen the nearby Slovakian capital Bratislava host an annual design week. We know, we know, design weeks are the new marathon or the new film festival, every city needs one as part of their location marketing, "LOOK!!! WE'RE CREATIVE!!!" scream metropoli from Australia to Scandinavia, from Asia to America. We know. However we also belong to a very select group

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