... Today goods can be produced abroad. And the creations of the leading contemporary designers largely are. Barber Osgerby currently work with Vitra, Magis, ClassiCon, flos. Benjamin Hubert with De Vorm, De La Espada, &Tradition. Doshi Levien with Moroso, Cappellini, Richard Lampert. We...
... We're thinking here especially of works such as the Slow Chair for Vitra, Steelwood for Magis or Facett for Ligne Roset. We've not visited the exhibition in Copenhagen and so can't comment on it. However we are huge fans of Finn Juhl's work and are generally of the opinion any...
... In 2010 Barber Osgerby completed their first project for Vitra - the Map Table and Tip Ton Chair. The launch of Map Table and Tip Ton Chair in Milan came shortly after the announcement that Barber Osgerby had won perhaps their most prestigious contract thus far: the commission to design the...
... Luddites! Not a phrase normally associated with (smow) To the best of our knowledge no (smow)employee has ever smashed an iPad or capped a WiFi service in protest at the creeping and increasingly obsessive proliferation of technology into our lives. Despite that, the early summer weeks in the...
... Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec started the second half in much the same fashion as the first; a Steelwood chair and shelving combination for Magis posing a tough challenge for Charles and Ray Eames. The pair responded to the challenge however producing a quickfire DSR, DAR, RAR triple to...
... Ron Arad responded with a Vitra Tom Vac, but it was too little to late and a quick Trattoria chair for Magis and a Monopod chair for Vitra sealed another runaway success for Jasper Morrison. The Group C table and all Group C results can be found...
... Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec's cooperation with Magis began with Case (Valise) in 2003, since when the brothers have gone on to produce Striped Chair and the Steelwood range. Their latest products for Magis -the tables Baguette and Central - were launched at Saloni Milano 2010. In ... "We have to do less, and better" - Ronan Bouroullec, Saloni Milano 2010 In the course of the conversation Ronan Bouroullec reflects self-critically on the brother's canon to date, indicates that in...
... In 1992 James Irvine left Olivetti and since then has worked with companies as varied as Artemide, B&B Italia, Whirlpool, Magis and WMF. Among his most public projects is without doubt his redesigning of a fleet of Mercedes Benz buses as part of the Expo 2000 trade fair in Germany. ...
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