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Born in Toronto, raised and graduated in Tokyo, Oki Sato established a collective of multi-disciplinary professionals in 2002 to stand against the grandiloquent and self-referential design […]
Born in Toronto, raised and graduated in Tokyo, Oki Sato established a collective of multi-disciplinary professionals in 2002 to stand against the grandiloquent and self-referential design […]
Founded by the Guigliermetto brothers, Gufram is the non-conformist Italian furniture brand that produces iconic avant-garde furniture since 1966. Gufram, (an abbreviation of Gugliermetto Fratelli Arredamenti […]
Once upon a time, a graduate in stage design, Adelaide Acerbi, her husband, architect Enrico Astori, and his designer sister Antonia, joined efforts to found a […]
Designing a product that’s of use to somebody is a designer’s purpose, whereas designing a product that’s of use to millions is a designer’s dream. One […]
Born in Milan in 1920, the son of an architect, Ludovico ‘Vico’ Magistretti was one of the key figures for the reconstruction of postwar Italy, a […]
In 1291 the Venetian government ordered glass masters to move their furnaces to an island in the lagoon on the Northside of Venice, for fire safety […]
Achille Castiglioni is part of that generation of creatives that crucially contributed to the Italian miracle after World War II, able to attract investors on made […]
Born in Copenhagen in 1923, in the mid 40s Nanna Dietzel started practicing with ebony, giving life with her touch to objects inspired to nature, transforming […]
It’s been a century since 1921, when Max Braun, a mechanical engineer, opened a small engineering store in Frankfurt, producing components for radio sets. In a […]
Looking back at the history of design, it looks like many landmark contributions at the heart of architecture and design’s most fundamental trends and methods came […]
Almost a century ago, brothers Cesare and Umberto Cassina from Meda, a town in Northern Italy, founded Cassina as a family workshop processing wood for furniture. […]
Today, Dyson’s yearly revenues grew to more than 5 billion pounds. When James Dyson and his wife moved into their new house, he found himself unsatisfied […]