Love it or loath it Milan Design Week remains the biggest event in the global furniture industry's calendar. We loath it. Our colleagues at smow love it. And we're delighted they do: not only because it means we don't have to go, but because we know they take a lot of pleasure from the experience. And we also know from decades of trips to Salone how indescribably agreeable the weather in Milan in early April is. Our colleagues are now back from Milan, back from cacophony of Milan to the
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The result is as beautiful as each individual blossom: Muuto Kink vases in full splendour Strictly arranged? Tightly tied? That was yesterday. Loosely arranged floral arrangements are currently experiencing an exciting revival. The new trend emphasizes lightness, naturalness, and the skillful interplay of individual blossoms. Instead of bulky bouquets the focus today is on loose compositions that deliberately leave space – for lines, for air, and for expression. This look can be achieved
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The Room for Focussed Activity, as seen at The Biophilic Workspace, Technische Universität München, Munich Creative Business Week 2024 For all that the office is popularly considered an 'environment', over a great man decades it was essentially a monoculture in terms of flora and fauna: humans were there, but little else. Save that half-dried out Yucca sp. or Philodendron sp. in the shadiest corner of the office. Or sat on the sunniest window still. Objects that have not only accompanied the
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According to the posters to be found liberally distributed throughout the city, IMM Cologne 2019 promised to present "1000 furnishings ideas for your home" And it may very well have done. We didn't count. Not least because.... What interest the number, if the ideas themselves ain't meaningful? What interest the number, if the ideas themselves ain't logical? What interest the number, if the ideas themselves ain't justifiable? Or reducing the thought to its essence, what interest the idea if
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