Modern home furnishings retailer West Elm today launched an eco-friendly office collection created in collaboration with the Pratt Design ...
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Earlier this month, architect Alberto Alfonso designed the first building dedicated to glass artist Dale Chihuly. A result of an intimate collaboration between Alfonso and Chihuly, The Chihuly Collection is an exhibition, theatre and retail space in St. Petersburg, Florida. "Early in the design process" Alfonso said, "we discovered a shared affinity for th...
The One Good World series, a partnership with Sustainable Furnishings Council (SFC) and Las Vegas Market, features in-depth discussions and high-profile speakers focused on eco-friendly issues during Las Vegas Market August 2-6, 2010. "Once considered a fad, buzzword or marketing tag, sustainability is now a force that’s here to stay," says ...
Founding editor of Condé Nast's now defunct domino magazine, Deborah Needleman has been named editor in chief of WSJ., the The Wall Street Journal's glossy lifestyle magazine, and editor of a new weekly Saturday lifestyle section in development for the Journal. "Deborah has shown in the originality, professionalism and energy of her development work in recent months...
The International Jury of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, titled People Meet in Architecture, taking place August 29 – November 21, 2010, and directed by Kazuyo Sejima and organized by la Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta, has been appointed. The International Jury is formed as follows: Beatriz Colomina (Spain), historian and theorist, Professor of Architect...
This week kicked off Project UDesign, a competition for furniture design students at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) to design an upholstered wing chair that is both sustainable and sellable. The contest will engage the entire furniture industry and consumers to select the winning chair design at North Carolina's famous High Point Market in October. Century Furniture (for more i...
Now in its 15th year, the RIBA Stirling Prize is awarded to the architects of the best new European building built or designed in Britain. The six buildings competing for this year's title include: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Rick Mather Architects; Bateman's Row, London by Theis and Khan; ...
Kravet and Lee Jofa have created an application for the iPhone, the "eDesign Assistant," that allows their clients to shop and order their products from their iphone. The tool enables designers to search over 36,000 Kravet and Lee Jofa fabrics and furnishings to find the right color, pattern, texture or style in each product category. Users can organize products in their "Favorit...
