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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
AHMM: pictured left to right: Simon Allford, Paul Monaghan, Jonathan Hall and Peter Morris|The Yellow Building's simple industrial aesthetic, a recurring theme|Monsoon/ Accessorize's workplace, White City's Yellow Building|The Angel Building, unrecognisable after AHMM's work to reinvent it|The stripped-back Tea Building launched a thousand warehouse-like offices|The building marked a pivotal moment in Shoreditch's ascendence|The tuft-roofted Notley Primary School|Walsall Bus Station aims to "civilise the experience of bus travel"|The model for the University of Amsterdam's new building|The drum-like Chobham Academy in east London, opened in 2013|The Angel Building, now an exemplar of sensitive refurbishment|240 Blackfriars, AHMM's tallest building to date, will be finished in 2014|Google's King's Cross HQ: AHMM has since been asked to rethink the design|Derwent London's White Collar Factory, squarely aimed at tech firms|Exposed concrete and double-height ceilings at the White Collar Factory||

AHMM: Intelligent intervention

In the last ten years, AHMM has changed the face of office design, conjuring landmark buildings from once-unlovely structures and…
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20 Dec 2013
Stefan Diez at the townhouse where Wrong for Hay took up LDF residency|The New Order shelving system for Hay|New Order comes in many guises, working as a space divider, too|Diez's rainbow-galvanised version of his Chassis chair|A firm that paints military vehicles was used for the galvanising process|The Chassis chair attempted to be an 'everychair'|Wrong for Hay's gravity-defying Rope Trick floor lamp|Cleverly folded pieces, like Moroso's Bent seat, were an early signature|Bent table, part of a wider range for Moroso|E15's lightweight Houdini chairs, made from veneered lacquered plywood||

Stefan Diez: Straight talker

It’s ten years since Munich-based designer Stefan Diez opened his studio, but he’s looking forward, not back – anticipating a…
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08 Nov 2013
Memphis Building by Shuttleworth Picknett Associates|Wilkinson Eyre's design for The Crystal||

BCO names best workplaces of 2013

Michael Laird Architects' revamp of W. L. Gore & Associates' Edinburgh office was named Best of the Best workplace at…
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03 Oct 2013
Studio Weave outside their classroom/studio in Dartford's Central Park; Ahn and Smith are far right|The practice's pitch for Belgian home - automation firm Niko's office|But a small section of Littlehampton's 300-seater Longest Bench|Freya, one half of Freya and Robin, two sheltered stop-offs at Kielder Water|Paleys upon Pilers, Aldgate's "timber palace" celebrating Chaucer|Lullaby Factory, a 10-storey installation at Great Ormond Street Hospital|A Here Here, one of four huge ear-trumpets at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire|The Here Heres magnify the sounds of the countryside around them||

Studio Weave: Narrative Thread

Known for its public realm sculpture-meets-architecture - from Littlehampton's Longest Bench to giant ear-trumpets in rural Derbyshire - all Studio…
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01 Oct 2013

Lauren Geremia: Silicon Valley's go-to designer

In under a decade, she's gone from art school student to hip interior designer, bringing her creative flair to San…
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25 Jul 2013
Note, clockwise from top: Cristiano Pigazzini, Johannes Carlstrom, Susanna Wahlin and Kristoffer Fagerstrom (fifth Notester Alexis Holmqvist was away)|Dezibel, an acoustic panel, makes a virtue of the product's thickness|MCE lamp, a glass orb sitting in a jointed wooden cradle|Marginal Notes, the experimental collection that began the firm's rebirth|Suburbia, a wall organiser for Seletti inspired by Vitra's Uten.Silo|Cork-topped Boet stools (Boet means "nest" in Swedish), for Mitab|The Fuse lamp harnesses maker Ex-t's expertise with porcelain|Office accessories range Kopiad; its coloured interiors make it glow|Rondell reimagines an office mail-sorting hub as a circular piece of furniture|An aerial view of the Telluria candelabra, inspired by an astrological model|The Soot desk: black on the outside, it opens to reveal a pine interior|Svensk Travsport's HQ features Note's pleasingly chunky Boop armchairs|The IT department at bookmakers ATG; staff grew to love it (eventually)|Avanza Bank's head office: the brief was for something non-bank-like||

Note: From the margins to the mainstream

Swedish collective Note Design Studio were once booed by the office workers for whom they had designed an open-plan workplace…
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24 Jun 2013
Kral's new Ray Lights, shown in a colourful combo of sheet and mesh metal|Tomas Kral, our one-to-watch from Milan|An aluminum trench, to catch paraphernalia, skirts around the Homework desk|The 1/4 pen pots are divided into two sections by a folded metal disc|Terracotta is the first in a collection of lamps by Kral for Spanish brand PCM|Flex, a series of desktop stationary pots for Praxis, made from silicone|Clown Nose jars feature a cork stopper attached by an elastic band|The aluminium Array stool, whose design is intended to minimise waste|Kral designed the Plug collection during his MA at ECAL, fusing glass and cork|Wire, a range of lights created for Kral's BA, is made from steel wire|For Upgrade, Kral gilded and engraved glass milk bottles and sauce jars||

Tomas Kral: Hot tip

He studied under a Bouroullec and he's now working with some very cool independent brands. Meet the definition of 'up…
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28 May 2013
"Organised chaos" - Werner Aisslinger at his eclectic Berlin studio|Bikini Island, a modular system formed from blocks of seating, shelves, planters, tables and curtains|Level 34 for Vitra is an adaptable system that caters to future work habits|Chair Farm, a naturally grown chair, presented at the 2012 Milan Furniture Fair|NETwork, computer-generated 3D embroidery, 2010|A-Chair for L'abbate, made from steel tube met by network of rods, 2009|Coral Seating, geodetic structure inspired by marine micro-organisms, 2009|Juli Chair in polyurethane integral foam, 1996|Soft Chaise for Zanotta, made of gel cells, 2000||

Werner Aisslinger: Rational radical

Berlin-based designer Werner Aisslinger has made a 17-year career out of challenging conventional thinking - within a framework of research,…
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17 Apr 2013
Abbott at her latest job, a revamped industrial building in Paddington|Atrium at the heart of i2i's offices, with glass brick feature and brand colours|Reception area reflects the building's roots, with exposed service details|Abbott designed Double Negative's Great Portland Street HQ while at MCM|Offices for 4C, part of Top Right Group: another of Abbott's first commissions|A secluded meeting hub at one of Abbott's recent projects for a media firm|Abbott worked on the fit-out for property firm EA Shaw's Covent Garden office|A break-out space and canteen area at IBM's Algorithmics headquarters||

Lucy Abbott: Light exposure

Doggedly focused on her career, Lucy Abbott hoped never to have to explain her work to the public, but gave…
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17 Apr 2013
The architect shares his grand plans for Salone Ufficio|The Cartier foundation, a glass palace built around a tree|The Musée du Quai Branly, whose lush planting is a vital design component|An almost spectral view of the Cartier Foundation's cedar tree|Barcelona's Torre Agbar, 4,500 LED panels change the facade's colour|Torre Agbar's "pixellated" appearance, as seen from its interior|One New Change's glass boulevards frame the dome of St Paul's Cathedral|City slicker: One New Change as viewed from the cathedral's dome|Ad agency CLMBBDO's office, complete with retractable roof|East meets west at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris|Automated aperatures on the Institut's facade let in the light||

Jean Nouvel inhabits the office

At this year’s Salone Ufficio in Milan, the charismatic French architect has been given a platform to express his vision…
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18 Mar 2013

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