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Light + Building Frankfurt 2018: High Five!!
Architecture | 19.03.2018

Light + Building Frankfurt 2018: High Five!!

While it is generally the case that the development, evolution, of product design is dependent on the development, evolution, of technology, such is particularly the case in context of lighting design: ever since a burning stick was first employed to create a relaxing evening atmosphere in a neolithic cave, technological developments have been the driving force behind the development of lighting design, be that formally, functionally or technically. The nature of Light + Building Frankfurt,

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BuzziJungle by Jonas Van Put for BuzziSpace, as seen at NeoCon Chicago 2016
Architecture | 20.10.2016

NeoCon Chicago 2016 Interview: Tom Van Dessel, CEO, BuzziSpace America

"The fact that you are European allows you to be quirky. Europe has a great reputation for good design but that is just the ante to the game, and allows you then to be interesting, but you also have execute." BuzziJungle by Jonas Van Put for BuzziSpace, as seen at NeoCon Chicago 2016 Established in 2007 as a producer of office acoustic solutions, the Belgian manufacturer BuzziSpace has quickly grown to become not only one of the major producers of acoustic products but of what one could

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New Perspective Mirror by Alain Gilles for Bonaldo (Photos © and courtesy Alain Gilles)
Designer | 04.07.2016

smow blog Interview: Alain Gilles - For me the benchmark is never to lose the functionality, I like to create works which have a very graphic character, but they need to work as intended and to work well

Whereas the careers of most product and furniture designers follow a very similar path and pattern over apprenticeship, internships and college, Belgian designer Alain Gilles took a "somewhat" different route: a degree in political science being followed by five years working in the Brussels' office of international finance concern J P Morgan, before, aged 32, he began to study product design. And that with a fair degree of success. Since establishing his own studio in 2007 Alain Gilles has

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Presto by Thorsten Franck for Wilkhahn, as seen at NeoCon Chicago 2016
Designer | 16.06.2016

NeoCon Chicago 2016: High Five!!

At the risk of getting political, the term "neoconservative"/"neocon" hasn't always had the best reputation, especially not in Europe where its connotations of American supremacy through military force has long made it a subject for suspicion, intrigue and popular rejection. Thus for us it is all the more amusing that one of America's main contemporary furniture trade fairs should be "NeoCon". The imagery the name conjures up easily keeping us amused for the duration of a transatlantic

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