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In recent years 100 % Design at Earls Court had lost its sheen. Now new owner Media 10 is set to inject its trademark dynamism into the London Design Festival’s biggest event. onoffice’s parent company, Media 10, has unveiled its exciting plans for 100% Design at this September’s London Design Festival. There is good news for onoffice readers as, for the first time ever, there will be a show dedicated…

Anyone feeling adventurous might want to pay a visit to Guangzhou, China at the end of next month to visit one of the world’s biggest office furniture shows. CIFF – Office show sprawls over 190,000 sq m and will feature over 900 exhibitors. Marking a change from last year, the show has expanded to cover hotel and school furniture, in addition to commercial furniture for laboratories, hospitals and theatres. The…

There was a time when air travel promised adventure. Jet-age optimism was crystalised in Eero Saarinen’s swooping TWA terminal at JFK International, completed in 1962. Although no one knew it at the time, it was to prove a high-water mark. Catching a flight in the 21st century is banality incarnate, a foul soup of queues, excess baggage fees and endless retail. In the air, free drinks and nibbles have morphed…

“I don’t know if it comes across in my work, but I’m very emotional.” No, Reinhard Dienes doesn’t mean that he goes weak at the knees every time he sees another excessively cute kitten on YouTube. It’s more that he invests a lot of himself in his work, and aims to create things that have more than a bit of personality. The idea of expressive, personality-infused products is a fashionable…

As a client, Red Bull certainly has form when it comes to setting the pace in workplace design. In the UK alone, its work with Jump Studios set a benchmark for the playful workplace in the mid-noughties which was all ping-pong tables and slides, while a few years down the line, they surprised us all with a more pared-down, austerity-chic look courtesy of MoreySmith. At its new headquarters in Amsterdam,…

The height of banker bashing might be over – replaced with unease over deep Government cuts and the fiscal insecurity of our European cousins – but financial institutions are still seen as secretive fortresses by a sceptical public. It was the desire to fight this impression and to promote openness and greater community within different business departments that led investment banking and financial services group Macquarie to rethink how it…

Like most things in publishing, this project was driven by high ambition and tight deadlines. Occupying the fourth and fifth floors of a historic building in Riga’s old city, Latvian publishing house Rigas Vilni wanted a lightening-quick turnaround for its new headquarters. It gave design agency Open AD a mere two months – from initial meeting to working up designs, making any necessary structural changes, sourcing and ordering products and…

London furniture showroom Coexistence is hosting an exhibition that examines the different processes of contract furniture making. The show, Input, will focus on four areas: design, skills, materials and teamwork. Held in conjunction with Kvadrat and Cornish furniture company MARK, the event will also see the launch MARK's Verso chair (pictured), designed by Tomoko Azumi. Input runs from 16 March - 3 April.

Berlin studio Böttcher+Henssler has designed a task lamp made from stained maple for Slovenian lighting company Vertigo Bird. Mantis features LEDs placed in a hollowed out wooden fixture to produce a warm white light. The structure comprises an aluminium tube driven through a stand and a bright blue cable. 

Belgian furniture brand Feld has expanded their Wood Collection to include upholstered versions of the range’s solid oak chair and bench. The new pieces use Polo 2 fabric from Kvadrat – a hard wearing combed yarn textile by designer Anne Gry. The pieces are available in four subtle, earthy tones reflecting Gry’s recent interest in Scandinavian colours and patterns.