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Alberto Alessi, representing the third generation of the family business||

Alberto Alessi on classic design

Alberto Alessi, who has been CEO of Alessi for more than four decades, talks to onoffice about creating enduringly popular…
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06 Jun 2014
(L-R) Andrew Haythornthwaite, Peter Marigold, Liliana Ovalle, Oscar Narud, Amy Hunting, Ed Swan and Mathias Hahn||

VIDEO: Okay Studio discusses Five

Five members of the Stoke Newington-based collective Okay Studio discuss 'Five': five different projects to celebrate the fifth Clerkenwell Design…
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05 Jun 2014
Je Ahn, architect and director of Studio Weave||

Video: Je Ahn of Studio Weave

Je Ahn, architect and director of Studio Weave, discusses the architecture group's installation for Clerkenwell Design Week 2014, which pays homage to the…
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03 Jun 2014
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VIRTUAL CUPPA with Neil Usher

This month, Neil chats to Monica Parker, workplace director for office design and consultancy practice Morgan Lovell, about the symbiotic…
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30 May 2014
|The DYB centre de competénces, a skills centre for watchmakers|Exhibition design for the winners of 2005's Swiss Federal Grants for the Decorative Arts|Allegro lights for Foscarini|Oasis cafe chair and table for Moroso|Reel for B&B Italia is made from string woven taut around a frame|Oïphorique, a light installation that expands and contracts like a sea creature|Theatrically spinning fabric pendants make up Les Danseuses|Ruckstuhl's Silento panel|Furniture brand USM's stand in Milan, festooned with strings of ball bearings||

Profile: Atelier Oï's elemental approach

Swiss architecture and design studio Atelier Oï begins its projects, be it a perfume bottle or building, on an elemental…
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29 May 2014

VIDEO: Russ+Henshaw on the Tile Mile

Lianne Russ and Phil Henshaw, co-founders of Russ+Henshaw talk to onoffice magazine about their Tile Mile installation, which proved to…
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28 May 2014
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Video: Form Us With Love co-founder Jonas Pettersson on the role of the designer

Jonas Pettersson, co-founder of Form Us With Love, talks to onoffice magazine about the Swedish design industry and explains why…
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23 May 2014
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Video: Ron Arad talks to onoffice

Renowned architect Ron Arad talks to onoffice magazine at Clerkenwell Design Week 2014.
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22 May 2014
Jake Dyson with Ariel, his latest ultra-long-lasting LED light|Motorlight's beam angle adjusts from eight to 80 degrees|Arieal. A tube with a vacuum inside carries heat away from the LED|The CSYS. Tall, engineered to last 37 years with daily use||

Profile: An illuminating talk with Jake Dyson

From his small London studio, Jake Dyson is creating groundbreaking lighting technology that's making the corporate giants sit up and…
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22 May 2014
Sam Wilkinson with the Blown pendent – traditional manufacture meets 3D CAD|Decode's Vessel shade with a groundbreaking Plumen energy-saving bulb|L'arbre de Flonville, a piece of street furniture in Lausanne, Switzerland|Colour and tactility come to the fore in Lexon's Babylon desk accessories|Case's Mantis desk is intended to look good both in the office and at home|Pendola; the whole clock acts as a pendulum, swinging once a second|Lightweight stacking chair Grace, part of a wider outdoor range for Emu|The sturdy-looking Rock chair for Decode works on its own or in groups|&Tradition's Hoof tables have feet that look like giant sharpened pencils|Cloak, an elegantly asymmetrical wood and metal table for Versus||

Profile: bright ideas from Samuel Wilkinson

Best known for his curvy Plumen bulb, industrial designer Samuel Wilkinson has got plenty more bright ideas – as well…
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21 May 2014
L-R: Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby|The Mariposa Sofa for Vitra with mechanically adjustable armrests|The Wood Table and Wood Bench for Vitra|Planophore Shelves for Vitra, a duel purpose room divider and book shelf||

Barber & Osgerby discuss their designs for Vitra

onoffice caught a quick five minutes with Jay Osgerby and Edward Barber to talk about the new Barber & Osgerby…
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20 May 2014
Kenneth Grange by Ellie Foreman-Peck|Grange’s April seating, new for Modus, puts comfort back in the foreground|Hitch Mylius’ HM 82, designed specifically for elderly care settings|The TX1 cab was safer and more accessible than its predecessor|The High Speed Train, designed for British Rail in 1978 and still going|Grange shaped a generation of kitchens with his work for Kenwood|Ranger, a steel clock designed in the 1960s for Short and Mason|A 1972 monitor for Reuters, with a keyboard that slides neatly under it|The elegant Milward Courier battery shaver, designed in the mid-1960s|Parker’s 25 pen and pencil, made from black enamelled stainless steel|Grange’s most successful project, the Kodak 33 camera, sold 25m units|The ergonomic Royale razor for Wilkinson Sword, with rubber hand-grip||

Kenneth Grange profile: A man facing forward

Sir Kenneth Grange talks to onoffice about Kenwood, Kodak and the unprecedented success of Ikea "I came at this project…
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19 May 2014
Alex Lorenz, designer of Kivo|The Kivo can be configured in an 'S' or a 'C' shape|The geometry and material properties create acoustic dampening as well as visual screening||

Herman Miller's Kivo: A workspace revolution?

German designer Alex Lorenz explains how his fascination with algorithms led to a collaboration with US furniture giant Herman Miller…
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19 May 2014
Javier Mariscal|The Hilton trolley, produced for the first Memphis collection in 1981|Mariscal's H&M store in Barcelona, since changed back to standard branding||

Q&A with Javier Mariscal

Since the early 1980s, Spanish designer Javier Mariscal has been known for his expressive flair for colour, movement and personality.…
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29 Apr 2014
Brodie Neill sitting on his Pleat bench, part of Made in Ratio's second collection|Tetra, an oak shelving system made from multiple stacked trapezoids|A felt stackable stool made from recycled PET. The stool is also recyclable|Prism, a glass a steel table: "Like a Noguchi coffee table, but harder-edged"|The Pleat bench, made from Corian, neatly overlaps at the ends to form its feet|The Stem stool is a curvy piece of Corian set on top of a swivelling base|Supernova's trestles can be placed in different positions to alter its height|Italian glassblowers make the rounded, flower-like Cumulous pendant|The looping E-turn fibreglass bench, made for Kundalini|Glacier, a limited-edition chaise made from 300kg of clear glass|Inspired by a shell, the Cowrie rocker has a satisfying simple outline|Like the rocker, the Cowrie chair is made from a single sheet of plywood|The Reverb chair expressed Neill's interest in parametric design...|...also explored in Made in Ratio's Matrix coat stand, a woven thread of steel||

Brodie Neill: the computer-aided craftsman

Complex and curvilinear, Made in Ratio's debut collection fused digital design with hand-making. Now, its Australian-born, London-based designer is heading…
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17 Apr 2014
Enrico Fratesi and Stine Gam with their textile mobiles in Stockholm|Casamania's Chariot table. The curve at the top of the frame acts as a handle|A "freestanding" acoustic "object", Wheel is weighted so it won't fall over|Masculo's softly curving upholstery contrasts with its rigid angular frame|GamFratesi reinvents the broom with the slightly incomprehensible Baffi|Antropomorfo is the prototype for the Cartoon chair|Cartoon chair|Fraga, a hybrid table and footstool for Ligne Roset, mixes soft and hard|Nubu, a drop-down desk, has GamFratesi's characteristic curves|Danish brand Fredericia makes the enveloping Haiku sofa|Rewrite, a "working bubble" that can isolate the user in open-plan spaces|Cheshire by Fontana Arte, a pendant light with a soft, uniform glow|Danish Pulse, the Shanghai show that GamFratesi co-curated||

GamFratesi: Strength in balance

As guests of honour at Stockholm Furniture Fair, GamFratesi took 'balance' as a theme - an apt concept for a…
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31 Mar 2014
Dixon among his shiniest creations at The Dock, his west London HQ|McCann Erickson's New York HQ, created by Design Research Studio|Bespoke furniture mixes with off-the shelf Tom Dixon lighting|Completed in 2007, members club Shoreditch House was designed by Dixon to appeal to east London's new entrepreneurs|Produced by Cappellini, the S-Chair set Dixon on a course to stardom|The Etch light, made from digitally etched stainless steel|The Fan Chair, modern take on the Windsor, has a more crafted feel|Flask is made from two hand-blown components and gives a rippled glow|In 1994, Dixon experimented with plastic for the first time with the innovative Jack light|True to its name the copper clad dining table Mass is overscaled and monolithic|Launched in 2013, the robust Y chair is designed for commercial settings|Dixon's Copper Shade is a bestseller, kickstarting a whole line of polished lights||

Tom Dixon tackles the office

Via his interiors firm Design Research Studio, Tom Dixon has finally got round to creating a workplace, ad agency McCann…
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06 Feb 2014

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