As reported last week we sadly couldn't make it to the opening of Cirkel by Daphna Laurens at Galerie Gosserez in Paris. Because we were at the opening of Kibbutz and Bauhaus in Dessau. However Daphna and Laurens were kind enough to send us a few photos of the works. As older readers will know we are always very wary about judging articles on the strength of photos alone; that said, the Cirkel collection does look very promising. For us the highlight is probably "Leaning Lamp". Resembling
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Although we beef a lot about the amount of time we have to spend travelling to ensure that the (smow)blog remains Europe's premier product design blog, there are a lot of nice things on the European design circuit. Stockholm on a crisp February evening. The vegetarian catering at Neue Räume Zürich. Daphna and Laurens. Two of the nicest people you can meet. As they once again proved when we bumped into them in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week. And you've got the chance to meet them as
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