A Thursday evening in New York and the finer elements of Manhattan society meet to celebrate the opening of the Smithsonian Institute's Cooper - Hewitt National Design Museum "Design for a Living World" exhibition. Your (smow)blog team are of course also in attendance. For the exhibition The Nature Conservancy sent 10 designers into rural environments and asked them develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials. The aim being to tell a unique story about the life-cycle of
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Although there are still nine whole days until Christmas, it may still be an idea to organise one or the other gift. And so in the second part of our series on gift ideas we "present" here some more wonders of designer furniture that cannot fail to impress: The elephant stool, a paper basket and some exquisite cushions. Number 1: "The Christmas Elephant" The Eames Elephant simply belongs in every children's bedroom. Through its's irresistable form this imaginative and practical children's
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