A few months ago our local baker started offering a new bread roll variety called KNAX You can imagine our disappointment when instead of a streamlined, almost invisible product with cleverly integrated features we received a somewhat cumbersome bakery product with the various grains apparently inserted at random. What would Charles and Ray Eames have to say? Although it is a bit harsh to blame the baker, for not everyone can have the talent of Harrit and Sørensen, the design studio behind
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Winter in Europe and while the weather outside is at it’s less attractive, it’s good to know that at home one has a functioning, stable and unobtrusive coat hanger. For as long as coats have existed, top designers, and those who aspire to such, have tested their art on the challenge of creating the perfect construction on which to hang said coat. A hook is a hook you think, think again, Knax from loca, is characterised by its unostentatious, functional design. The hooks sit within the
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