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LULA bed is a biomorphic nap furniture, designed by talented young product designer Gaudutė Žilytė experimenting with the sculpting boundaries of foam. Young designers prize is an annual competition organized since 2011 by Design Innovations Center of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, aiming to encourage the professional development of design students and present their ideas
Targeted at children with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, the Luna Ankle Foot Orthosis uses a toolless modular system to adapt to as they grow. Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia is a progressive disease that causes weakness and stiffness in the leg muscles. It can affect a patient’s gait and often requires assistive devices known as an ankle-foot orthosis
Sprout – designed by Raymond (Shiyu Guo) – is a planter and an air freshener that can improve the quality of air in your kids’ rooms. It can give children aged 6 to 9 years, an idea of how plants filter CO2 and produce clean air. Just like real plants, it is powered by sunlight. The “leaf”
Download our DWalking guide (pdf, mobile-friendly) with all the info for visiting. One represents a design that translates abstract notions in Chinese typography into physicality and materiality. By isolating the ostensibly disconnected components of Chinese typography, from calligraphic origin to aesthetic realization, the desk itself attempts to explore possibilities of examining the activity of writing Chinese
Download our DWalking guide (pdf, mobile-friendly) with all the info for visiting. Small, prestigious, convivial: Small Living Kitchens™ is a totally brand new system designed by Andrea Federici for Falper that maintains the high standards and convivial layouts of large kitchens in previously unimagined compact spaces as small as just 2.5 square meters. Display-worthy objects create
Download our DWalking guide (pdf, mobile-friendly) with all the info for visiting. Formed of a collection of pillows in various tones positioned on a metal structure with flowing curves. The Plasma armchair merges the simplicity of a persistent visual character with the intricate technology of the structure, produced with computerized bending and welding techniques. © Plasma
Download our DWalking guide (pdf, mobile-friendly) with all the info for visiting. By announcing the opening of its first two boutiques dedicated to furniture and home decor, Dolce & Gabbana Home presents its new collection. Blu Mediterraneo, Leopardo, Carretto Siciliano, Zebra are the graphic decoration that can be found on candles, glasses, and mirrors to seats
Download our DWalking guide (pdf, mobile-friendly) with all the info for visiting. Gaspar Bonta turns furniture into a dance between transparency and color with its geometric plexiglass furniture collection. The iridescent multi-colored surface enables the nightstand, bench, and coffee table to change color depending on the lighting conditions and angle vision, making them an ever-changing spectacle.
Download our DWalking guide (pdf, mobile-friendly) with all the info for visiting. Grace Prince’s work crystallizes in seemingly random forms – but in reality, they are the fruit of extensive study and synthesis – some primary human sensations such as the sense of fragility, the lack of balance, and precariousness. Objects that, while fully preserving their
The Firm’s Yachthouse by Pininfarina Takes Home Win in the Skyscraper/High Rises Category for its Brazilian residential tower project. International design firm Pininfarina, known around the world for bringing its distinct automotive heritage and sleek aesthetic to the built environment, is pleased to announce that the firm’s Yachthouse by Pininfarina, a residential project located in southern Brazil’s
Kengo Kuma’s architecture is open to many interpretations, but contextuality is the common denominator of all his work, especially the latest: well aware of his nation’s history, at the same time the Japanese architect takes a journey into modernity with a candour that is typical of his culture. Every planning act is characterized by that
The Line 3 floor lamp by Jan Goderis consists of a terrazzo base with grooves in which a simple, sleek lighting profile can be set up in different positions. Meanwhile, materials have been chosen for their low environmental impact. The overarching inspiration for Belgium studio Jan Goderis Design Lab was simplicity. As suggested by the
Specializing in furniture, lighting and everyday things – Berlin-based designer Hayo Gebauer crafts an extraordinary ‘Blur Table’ featuring warm beech wood, aluminum as well as glass. Through domestic objects that are long lasting – his aim is to provide a vision of functionality, beauty and quality. “The individuality in my work is deep rooted in
Inspired by sweet childhood memories, Candy is a new series of glass objects designed by Studio Berg to bring the joy of the candy shop into the living space. Candy canes, lollipops and more remind us of objects’ ability to transport us across time and space, and the potential of common shared experiences to connect
A century ago, Larry Perkins and Philip Will Jr met as roommates at Cornell University, shared a tiny office in Chicago afterward, and designed their first project together, a house in Illinois, for a fee of 15 cents an hour. Perkins&Will today is ranked among the top global design firms, with more than 1500 professionals
Farming is a series of handmade furniture – by the Latvian company Sampling – with crocheted upholstery and wooden details. The concept of this collection is a mutation of volumes that evolve from a traditional piece of furniture – pouf. The creations assume forms that relate to nature, landscape elements, and the animal world, although there are
For the series entitled Spaghetti Bench, Pablo Reinoso used public benches, which are anonymously designed and travel across cultures with an out-of-time, old-fashioned quality, as a starting point for his reflections. Starting in 2006, these new creations have multiplied and found homes in very diverse places. © Spaghetti Bench by Pablo Reinoso In line with
The Playwood series, made in Germany by Hamburg designer Silvia Knüppel, lives up to the promise of its name: playful use of this table is not only possible but positively required. The table is made up of 33 loosely stacked individual layers of solid wood, reminiscent when fully closed of a classic side table
In March 2020, while the Covid19 lockdown took over Italy, Slamp, producer of quality handcrafted illumination since 1994, led their Research and Development team into a new creative frontier: the PurityCapsule. Scientific studies published in the Virology Journal showed that Covid19 can survive on surfaces for up to 28 days; it favors plastic, metal, paper, and glass
It features a carbon-infused memory foam and a cover made with pure silver fibers that help it to maintain a self-cleaning surface, which helps to prevent bad bacteria growth. Product designer and entrepreneur Ivana T. Lowchareonkul developed the Alpha Pillow 2.0, following the success of its predecessor on Indiegogo. Similarly, it uses innovative materials to
Precious Plastic just released a brick made from 100% recycled plastic to empower people to build constructions just like with LEGO (but a whole lot bigger). The brick design is published open-source, meaning that anyone can download the drawings online, for free, and start turning plastic waste into a useful building material. The bricks are
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