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"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
Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom|Rubber light's long, slim profile echoes that of a stretched elastic band|Muuto's new Up light, which has a rotating funnel-shaped shade|The Adaptable table: its reinforced corners, were inspired by sticking-plasters|Lost Ice Cream, a playful one-off piece for Örnsbergsauktionen auction|Trotters, for Swedish brand Pieces, comes with interchangeable legs|Set design for Elephants, a show for Stockholm Design Week|Zero's Buoy light, whose wiring is concealed inside a silicon tube|Exuberant exhibition design for a 2010 show at the Stockholm Furniture Fair|The nets for each Fisherman light are hand-knitted on the Swedish coast|Hay's Upside Down table, more products are planned for Danish brand|An adjustable spotlight on a tripod, in brightly coloured aluminium||

TAF act to follow

If you haven't heard of Swedish duo TAF, you may well recognise their clever, warm and unexpected designs Amid the…
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18 Mar 2013
Rab Bennetts|Bennetts' work on Wiggins Teape's Basingstoke HQ, done while still at Arup|Finished in 1982, the building featured a large naturally ventilated atrium|Wessex Water's low-energy HQ on the edge of Bath, finished in 2000|Bennetts' own-devised wind-rose diagram to assess the sustainability of buildings|The Wessex Water building's orientation helps regulate solar gain|New Street Square (2008), the City's first BREEAM Excellent office|Bennetts Associates' own office in Islington knits together old and new|Edinburgh University's Potterrow Development, now a fixture of the city's skyline||

Rab Bennetts: True to form

Unwavering in his commitment to sustainable architecture, Rab Bennetts has been equally consistent when it comes to raising the bar…
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18 Feb 2013
Nina Tolstrup in her east London studio, before a recent move to Stockholm|Before: Tolstrup's collection of chairs found near her Bethnal Green home|After: the Re-Imagined chairs, with David David textiles, are unrecognisable|Chairs made by skilled cabinet-makers from Bloomberg's waste pallets|Lexon's On/Off alarm clocks; users tilt it onto its side to turn it on or off|T-table, made from walnut, glass and powder-coated steel|Chair from the Pallet project; Tolstrup sells the instructions for £10|Lamp from the Pallet project|Pallet chandelier|Habitat's One Line range|An alternative Pallet light||

Nina Tolstrup: Master of reinvention

Nominated for this year’s Designs of the Year prize for her Re-Imagined range of upcycled chairs, the Studiomama co-founder fully…
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18 Feb 2013
Tilt's Dermot Egan (left) and Oliver Marlow (right)|Amorphous Fruit & Nut tables at Club Workspace's Chiswick space|LeafDesk, also in situ at Chiswick, interconnects on a pivot for lots of flexibility|Tilt's all new Suitcase Design desk at Club Workspace in Waterloo|Wheelbarrow chairs at the Southbank's Festival of the World|When not in use, the Fruit & Nut tables can be mounted on the wall|Co-design workshops with end-users are a starting point for projects||

Tilt: Collaborate to accumulate

Tilt wants to banish top-down architecture and replace it with a more fluid, participatory approach. Is its method the way…
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21 Jan 2013
Markus Jehs (r) and Jürgen Laub (l), photographed at Orgatec|Characteristically simple. the A-chair makes other designers jealous|Shrimp, for Cor, whose segmented shape was inspired by the crustacean|Brunner's Hoc bench and table presents a curvy, sculptural profile|The Stelton clock, with its moving rim, breaks with J+L's usual lack of whimsy|Rounded upholstery meets a rigid frame for Wilkhahn's Asienta chair|Wilkhahn's Graph chair now has a suitably virile-looking matching table|The slender and elegant Leo MK2, a task light for Italian brand Nemo|Talk, a table system for boardrooms and conferences, made by German firm Renz||

Jehs + Laub: one step beyond

Rivals, then friends, the German designers have used their creative tensions to make some seriously coherent products   Creative partnerships are…
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22 Nov 2012
Simon Pengelly at this year's Designjunction, where he launched 15 products|New products for British brand Chorus include the Drum tub chair...|... and Jonty, a stacking chair, stool and table range in plastic and timber|The Theo table and bench, a complement to Chorus's stacking chair|Montis's Dim Sum, an upholstered rocking chair|First designed in 2001, Modus's Meta shelving has been recently tweaked|Hitch Mylius's hm87, a high-backed version of the best-selling hm86 chair||

Simon Pengelly - It's all so quiet

Simon Pengelly’s knack for intelligently simple and subtle products is based on pragmatism and a love for manufacturing  Unlike many…
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17 Oct 2012
Prestwich at OPM Furniture in Woolwich, where his studio is based|OPM's Exchange table, with easily accessible wiring hatch in the pedestal|The cable management system includes options for power, data... and water|Connect, for Modus, can be a meeting table or bench desking|Hold, a plywood canteen chair that also supports a typing position|The frame-hugging Mayze, newly launched for Allermuir|Mayze again, this time with a cross base||

Jonathan Prestwich - Serious Pedigree

The designer’s steady stream of good work – rigorously tested and thoughtfully conceived – continues with new LDF launches   “We…
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17 Sep 2012
Gold standard: the 80-year old Hertzberger in his Amsterdam studio|Apollo Schools - two school building projects for the Dutch government|Centraal Beheer features multiple communal spaces, and a central street|Some of the 60 cube-shaped towers that make up Centraal Beheer|Breda's Chassé theatre, with its "draped" aluminium exterior|Utrecht University's Faculty of Science (2006 -11)|People first: a preliminary sketch for Utrecht's Faculty of Science|Waste company Waternet's twin-towered HQ in Amsterdam (2000-2005)|Vredenburg's Music Palace, where work is ongoing|Delft Montessori School, built in 1996 and revamped in 2007-2009||

Herman Hertzberger: The super-humanist

Herman Hertzberger may be the recipient of this year’s RIBA Royal Gold Medal, but it is his buildings – people-centric,…
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15 Aug 2012

Spanish designer Tomás Alonso

The Spanish-born, London-based designer has a way of making things come to life, exemplified by a new desk for hone…
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24 Jul 2012
Frechman Emmanuel Gallina in his adopted home|Tapparelle, for Italian brand Colé, inspired by an English secretaire|The roll-fronted then continues for the Tapparelle storage cabinets|Poliform's oak and leather Grace chair|The Concorde table, also for Poliform, with its ultra-thin marble top|LED lamp from Forestier's elegant and angular Birdy collection|Sketches for Lampion, a contemporary update to the paper lantern|Temaris, a tree-like screen for Clen: "It puts you in an organic universe"|Nouvelle Vague, named for the new look it presented for its trad manufacturer|Soft, rounded details make for "non-aggressive" workplace design||

The industrious Emmanuel Gallina

French designer Emmanuel Gallina adopted Italy as his second home 15 years ago; opportunity and acclaim followed, along with a…
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16 May 2012
Alain Berteau, in Brussels: "Belgian design is a strange and messy melange"|Sylvain Willenz's Matt tech accessories for Objekten|The Berteau-designed Swing lamp|The stacking Side chair, made by Belgian firm Vange|Fur Pocket tablet holder by Clare Debien for Objekten|Have your cake: Berteau's slice-shaped Cake stool for Wildspirit|Strates, a desk by Mathieu Lehanneur, has modular interlocking shelving|Tamawa, a bakelite USB stick in mix-and-match|Dock Box, a desktop stationary holder with handy built-in docking|Inflated idea: the Quilted stool is pumped up with air by hand||

Alain Berteau takes manufacturing to task

With a simple philosophy – if you can’t make it locally, don’t make it at all – the Belgian designer’s…
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13 Apr 2012
Principals Alex Lifschutz (left) and David Sandilands (right)|Proposed plans for 120 Moorgate, with Lutyens' Britannic House next door|Furniture adds a few extra curves to the already shapely Asticus Building|The practice's own HQ, the former Island Studios building in Hammersmith|The Asticus Building, trickiest of all tricky central London plots|The Charlotte Building, recipient of BCO's Best Commercial Workplace award||

Multi-talented Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands

Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands understands the nuances of the capital’s office market – and, crucially, the way we’ve also evolved as…
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19 Mar 2012

Profile: Swedish trio Claesson Koivisto Rune

Their first piece of commercial furniture was meant to be a one-off and they thought it was a practical joke…
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19 Mar 2012
Columbian-born, German-based designer, Reinhard Dienes|Mixed materials, and modularity: the Capa desk reveals Diennes' preoccupations|Tonic shelving: screw-free fixings mean it can easily go from horizontal to vertical|The curiously life-like La Grande light, which can be adjusted to point up or down|Strong and light, the 60cm-diameter Wyzer clock is inspired by a plastic bottle||

Reinhard Dienes: the art of the simple

Creator of friendly, expressive furniture and lighting, the Columbian-born, German-based designer explains why making things look simple is actually the…
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15 Feb 2012

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