Onoffice magazine

Onoffice caught up with product designer Paul Brooks at Clerkenwell Design Week and asked him to explain some of the thinking behind the Ahrend 2020 Chair. Ever obliging, Brooks delivered a comprehensive review of the design process, talking through the challenges and successes of the chair. Click on read more to view the video.

You can’t miss Ineke Hans. The Dutch designer is never without her plaits, for a start, and she tends to wear clothing of the colourful and floral sort. The anti-designer uniform, if you like. Which is fitting because when you first clap eyes onto Hans’ furniture and objects, they have a similar effect as the woman herself: playful and unselfconscious, but seemingly down to earth. Even when she  decided to design three collections of purely black things several years ago,…