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Download our DWalking guide (pdf, mobile-friendly) with all the info for visiting. Nikki Alagha focuses on handmade details that add an emotional value. Her collection, Blume, is a handmade planter with a customizable trellis. Each trellis piece can be linked together at multiple angles to grow with the plant. She practices sustainability by creating made-to-order objects
Download our DWalking guide (pdf, mobile-friendly) with all the info for visiting. Annalisa Iacopetti is an Italian designer who recently graduated from Central Saint Martins in London. Her journey as a designer began while working with blown glass at Venini in Murano. The alchemy of glass is a surreal installation where water is the actual performer.
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly Albright-Knox Art Gallery, will open to the public on…
The STARH architecture firm, based in Varna, Garcia, designed a residential block, defined by sharp…
A neurosurgeon has spent years developing a science-backed solution called the HiccAway, a straw-like device that distracts parts of the nervous system involved in hiccups. Boo! Only joking. The only thing more annoying than hiccups are the old wives’ tales and zany folklore remedies that are supposed to cure them. Now, scientists say they have
LUCTRA is the first biologically effective LED lighting range that closely replicates natural daylight. Daylight ensures that we sleep well, feel rested and are productive during the day. However, in our busy lives, we rarely spend a lot of time outdoors and do not expose ourselves to enough natural daylight. © LUCTRA Even seemingly brightly
A simple feeling that “we don’t have enough time”, triggered Studio DWAS in 2018 to design 2 timepieces with a simple message: moments matter. Areas of work and free time are dissolving, which has a clear impact on our social lives. Buying happiness and the drive for status conflicts with our need for free time
The design for the 2023 Serpentine Pavilion, which will be built at Kensington Gardens in…
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”
A former architectural complex consisting of a hospital and several old factories has been converted…
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
Bjarke Ingels Group, Austin technology company ICON, and Lennar homebuilder have designed large-scale 3D-printed homes…
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
Unveiling the design of one of London’s largest timber development projects, Foster + Partners has…
Announcing the design of the tallest residential tower in the United States of America, Austin-based…
