Industrial Design

OMA chose the latest Prada fashion extravaganza to debut its new range of furniture for Knoll.

The product is not plated or lacquered in any way, thus allowing its surface finish on the rim and back to change with age.

Pierre Charpin is currently celebrated with a retrospective at the Grand Hornu Museum in Belgium

Simplifying, means to me proposing a suspension of meaning, it means proposing some shapes that are not exactly filled, filled with meaning.

PIERRE CHARPIN

Early twenty-first century aesthetes have no choice but to venerate the industrial and the machine made

Exactly...our cup of post-industrial design tea.

Long live the vitality of strong ideas activating beautiful objects.

So I'm trying to be nonchalant and...poised as I wait for my buzzer to sound but deep inside I am seriously bugging out.

Dieter Rams: one of the most influential industrial designers of the late 20th century : Elegant, legible, rigorous

"Rams’ objective was to design useful products which would be easy to operate. Yet he achieved much more by dint of the formal elegance and technical virtuosity of his work. Rams’ designs always looked effortless with an exquisite simplicity borne from rigorous tests and experiments with new materials and an obsessive attention to detail to ensure that each piece appeared flawlessly coherent. Dieter Rams remains an enduring inspiration for younger designers, notably Jonathan Ive and Jasper Morrison, who have acknowledged his influence in their work at Apple and Rowenta respectively."

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Volido has been doing architecture, industrial design and urban planning from their base in Chinatown Manhattan since 2007

A sound proofed sofa! TI must have this one for the living room. The neighbours will appreciate it.

Perfect for dangling over TI's platform bed

While on vacation I've been reading legendary industrial designer Dieter Rams 10 Commandments of Design.

Leather especially when re-purposed is always compelling

TI's revered design queen Matali Crasset makes a return appearance,

TI is mad for The "Itis"