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Marie and Annica Eklund|The Flow Collection is made from 33% recycled material|The Flow Collection|The Flow Collection|The Flow Collection|The Flow Collection|The Flow Collection|The Lake House, Bolon's inaugural hotel|The Lake House|The Lake House|The Lake House||

The Bolon sisters: creating 'Fashion for floors'

Bolon's Marie and Annica Eklund turned a family firm that made camping mats into the purveyors of 'fashion for floors'…
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25 Feb 2015
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Brian Condon on making co-working work

For the past five years, Brian Condon has run the groundbreaking Centre for Creative Collaboration; now that the project has…
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18 Feb 2015
Gerard Taylor at Orangebox’s unfinished Clerkenwell showroom extension|The discordant form of Quasi-modo, designed with Daniel Weil for Anthology Quartett|As a student, Taylor tried to avoid traditional notions of form, following function instead arranging primary forms to produce colourful and decorative objects|Developed from Taylor’s student work, the beanpole-like form of Piccadilly remains in production|As a student, Taylor tried to avoid traditional notions of form, following function instead arranging primary forms to produce colourful and decorative objects|Perth was the final piece designed in 1986 as part of a travelling Memphis exhibition that toured Europe and the US|A prolific sketcher, the volume of Taylor’s portfolio landed him a job with Ettore Sottsass|The Celo work table, also for Orangebox, has a storage bin beneath its slide-back top|Neeky, a distinctive chair from the Network Landscapes range; the high back acts as an acoustic control|Avi, shown here with a wire base, is a lounge chair with optional hood|Ara, a product for Orangebox that was the first European task chair to attain Cradle to Cradle accreditation|Bernhardt’s Wave table features a timber curve that swoops from the tabletop to the floor|AD-31 seating, from the Away From The Desk range; here, two of the three-pronged seats have been placed together|Orangebox’s Away From The Desk system features collaborative furniture in all its forms, from pods to benches|Away From The Desk also includes snug high-backed booths that are compatible with technology|The simple angular form of Hella has a domestic flavour|The cavernous Habitat in Croydon, one of ten Taylor-designed stores|Habitat Hamburg: Taylor picked up the retailer as a client in the 1990s when it was headed up by Vittorio Radice||

Gerard Taylor on the Orangebox reinvention

For the last 40 years, designer Gerard Taylor has landed in the right place at the right time. As Orangebox's…
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18 Feb 2015
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FCBS partner Jo Wright moves to Arup

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios partner Jo Wright has left the firm after 27 years, to join Arup Associates as practice…
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18 Feb 2015
IdeaPaint in use at A.C.O. Tokyo|Robin Bayliss||

Robin Bayliss heads up Ideapaint, London

Boston-based company IdeaPaint has appointed former BuzziSpace director Robin Bayliss to head up its new London office. It will be…
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09 Feb 2015
|Emmanuelle Moureaux|Sugamo Shinkin Bank, Nakaaoki branch (2014)|Sugamo Shinkin Bank, Nakaaoki branch (2014)|Sugamo Shinkin Bank, Ekoda branch (2012)|Mille-Feuille storage series (2013)|Mille-Feuille was designed for German furniture manufacturer Schonbuch|Sugamo Shinkin Bank, Ekoda branch (2012)|Sugamo Shinkin Brank Ekoda merges the interior and exterior with 48 coloured sticks|Sugamo Shinkin Bank, Tokiwadai branch (2010)|100 Colours, Shinjuku Central Park (2014)|Venice Architecture Biennale (2014)|Venice Architecture Biennale (2014)|Uniqlo window display (2014)|Tokyo Designers Week (2014)||

Emmanuelle Moureaux: adding colour to Tokyo

Paris-born, Tokyo-based Emmanuelle Moureaux is 'colouring' Tokyo with her architecture, interiors, fashion and installations and her concept of 'shikiri'. What…
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02 Feb 2015
Afroditi Krassa (Image credit: Bernd Ott)|Suede, leather, brass, concrete and timber are used to reflect the local area’s dualities|An aluminium mesh curtain transforms the space from bright, open cafe to dark, moody bar|Hilton Tower Bridge’s 300sq m bar, TwoRuba - designed by Krassa and opened in 2014|Heston Blumenthal’s restaurant, located in Heathrow Terminal 2, opened in June 2014|Krassa’s design for Dishoom in Covent Garden is inspired by Irani cafes in Bombay|Krassa’s studio is behind the brand and retail design of Japanese-inspired food chain Itsu|The AKollection’s Pleat Mirror Panel echoes all the graphical glamour of the 1920s|Piano Tile, part of the AKollection, can be laid out in a variety of different formations|Krassa’s AKollection features art deco-inspired lighting, wall panels and tiles||

Profile: Hilton's heroine Afroditi Krassa

The first ever female designer at Seymour Powell explains how she turned her back on industrial design for the thrill…
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17 Dec 2014
Manuel Molina, Jeanette Altherr and Alberto Lievore (from left to right)|Kinesit: The studio's "Soft Tech" task chair for Arper|The Leaf collection mimics natural forms|Sculptural hanging lamps designed for Vibia|Ronda armchairs use flexible foam|The Ply tables and Loop sofa share a fluid aesthetic||

Profile: Lievore Altherr Molina

Barcelona-based designers Lievore Altherr Molina talk about their latest work for Arper and explain the studio's  'Soft Tech' concept  Simplicity…
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08 Dec 2014
Martin Ballendat||

onscreen: Ballendat's Mobica collaboration

German designer Martin Ballendat talks to onoffice about his latest collaboration with Mobica.
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25 Nov 2014
CoCo, an outdoor chair for Oasiq that combines “the humanity of wood with the strictness of steel”|CoCo, an outdoor chair for Oasiq that combines “the humanity of wood with the strictness of steel”|Oasiq’s Serac table. Outdoor furniture has to be designed in a completely different way, according to Gabbertas|Mark Gabbertas||

Mark Gabbertas on his designs for Oasiq & Lyndon

Onoffice caught up with British designer Mark Gabbertas at west London store The Chelsea Gardener, where a solo exhibition of…
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25 Nov 2014
Designer Bethan Gray|Ella has several customisable elements, including the legs, and the choice of a plain or buttoned back|The curvaceous Ella range for WorkHouse, signalGray’s move into the contract market|Carve, a coffee table made under Gray’s G&T label, a collaboration with Thomas Turner||

Bethan Gray brings a homely touch to contract design

The Welsh-born, London-based designer is satisfying demand for contract furniture with a homely touch with a new range for WorkHouse…
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20 Nov 2014
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VIDEO: Onoffice talks to Ross Lovegrove

Industrial designer Ross Lovegrove talks to onoffice magazine about his latest products and the role of nature and biomimicry in…
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22 Oct 2014
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VIDEO: Onoffice speaks to Ronan and Erwan Bourellec

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the winners of this year's Panerai London Design Medal, talk to onoffice about their approach to…
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22 Oct 2014
Blasius Osko (right) and Oliver Deichmann (left) photographed by Thomas Meyer|The height-adjustable Dress stool for Brunner will be unveiled at Orgatec|Kink is a limited-edition range in pine and tubular steel sold through Berlin design gallery Helmrinderknecht|Straw by Blå Station is made from tubular steel folded at the joins, like a bent straw|The fold-away Clip Chair for Moooi was inspired by a wooden fruit basket|The Clip chair for Moooi, shown open|Pebble was picked up by Blå Station after stalling with several other manufacturers|Plot, by Brunner, lets specifiers build modular, multi-level ‘landscapes’ of seating|The otherworldly Abyss, a flexible rope light for Italian brand Kundalini|Tweet, a tablet stand (also for Ligne Roset) shaped like a birdhouse|The sushi roller, an early hit: it sold 5,000 units in three years|Created by the pair as students, Airhopper piqued Adidas’ interest|Lightweight and fluid in form, Ficelle, for Ligne Roset, was inspired by cooked spaghetti||

Berlin double act Osko + Deichmann

Their youthful product designs – an automatic sushi roller; a pair of boots for jumping around the city – were…
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21 Oct 2014
Simon Henley||

The Shredder: HHbR's Simon Henley

Simon Henley is an architect, writer researcher and teacher, combining a day job as principal of Henley Halebrown Rorrison with…
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09 Oct 2014
Alain Gilles|Acoustic cocoon BuzziHood, the first of Gilles' products for BuzziSpace|Gilles' latest from BuzziSpace, BuzziPicnic is a friendly meeting spot|French brand Qui Est Paul? made Gilles' rotational-moulded Translation chair|Rechargeable LED light Nomad can be carried, hung or set on the floor or table|Casamania's Container sideboard is like a little city of modular office storage|Tracks for Bonaldo sees the table's extending mechanism put on show beneath the table|With wire or smooth tops, Bonaldo's Tectonic tables can be combined|Gilles experimented again with tessellating shapes for his Tension table|Multicoloured steel legs lend Bonaldo's Big table a sense of irreverence||

Alain Gilles: creating a buzz

Best known as the creator of cheery acoustic products for BuzziSpace – but he's also unusual among his peers for…
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02 Oct 2014
(L-R) Russell Curtis, Tim Riley and Dieter Kleiner|TNG has been designed flexibly so that anything seems possible|Timber and natural light sidestep the usual community building cliches|Enfield Business Centre's new glazed frontage provides a welcoming face|Enfield's flexible reception space: "More like a pavilion than a foyer"|Building a sense of ownership: TNG Wells Park Youth Centre|Open Eye Gallery, whose Corian facade is the canvas for changing artwork|The gallery bookshop: an outward-looking design helps to increase footfall|Sinta Tantra's Together Yet Forever Apart, 'wall art' for 2012's biennial|The Europan-winning housing scheme for Stoke-on-Trent|RCKA's three-storey extension added to tech company De La Rue's HQ|The De La Rue building fosters the cross-fertilisation of ideas|Acoustitch, RCKA's artwork for the Crown Estate's 11 Waterloo Place||

RCKA: activist architects

From high-tech laboratories to community buildings, this trio creates spaces without a trace of gimmickry, where users feel a sense…
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02 Sep 2014

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