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Low Chair Tom Frencken, as seen at Dutch Design Week 2016. Here at the NRE Arena
Architecture | 01.11.2016

Dutch Design Week 2016: High Five!!

It goes without saying that picking a "best of" from an event such as Dutch Design Week is impossible. Too varied are the projects, too wide the scope, too incomparable the works be that classic product design, classic architecture, classic craft, or more conceptual and/or research projects in and across genres. Rarely does urban planning sit so comfortably and naturally alongside pottery, high-tech and politics. While everywhere in Eindhoven one finds people 3D printing with all manner of

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milan design week 2013 caroline olsson pencil light
Designer | 10.04.2013

Milan Design Week 2013: Pencil Light by Caroline Olsson at Salone Satellite

Back at Designers Open 2011 Norwegian designer Caroline Olsson caught our attention with "Curious", a wooden lamp inspired by pencil cases. At Salone Satellite 2013 Caroline has gone one better and is presenting a wooden lamp that is a pencil case. Which seems like an obvious development. Nothing more complicated than an oblong birch box, the beauty with Pencil Light is the metal mechanism that allows the lid to be raised, lowered and positioned. The illumination is in the lid, set a little

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