The Top 5 chairs from the smow design spring. In no particular order. We lie: there is a slight order. First up is our favourite chair from the smow design spring: Stuart Miller's unnamed foldable cardboard chair from the designersblock showcase in Milan. Over the course of the smow design spring we didn't see any thing that even came to close to capturing Stuart's simple, practical and comfortable chair. We've sadly lost sight of the project a little, and lack the requisite degree in
read moreIn our entry on the designersblock showcase we mentioned a foldable cardboard chair that had caught our attention. Now we know as well as everyone else that are our heads are readily turned by free beer and bagpipes (thanks Calum) - and if you throw in some dub and finest Italian ska and we would lie for you in court. And so we thought we had better wait a day or two before saying anything more about Stuart Miller's fine folding cardboard chair. In case we found something better. We thought we
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Here in Milan we have the main trade fair in the exhibition centre, the main "off-site" around the Via Tortona, and then the more extensive off-off-site which encompasses more or less the whole of the city. And so it was that we ventured yesterday evening into the wilds of north Milan in search of the designersblock showcase - the 9th of its kind organised by the London based collective After the compulsory getting lost and walking in the wrong direction we eventually arrived ... and quickly
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