Tilted mirrors often found in shoe shops have been the inspiration for this cabinet, due to the mirror angle the users can look at their choice of shoes from up close. This function has been incorporated into an elegant piece of furniture, which has especially been designed for the entrance hall. Through this modification the cabinet appears individual and is at the same time very useful. The angle of the mirror has been carefully chosen to allow the customer to examine his or her shoes without stepping away too far from the cabinet, especially for narrow corridors this is a great advantage.

A former entrance hall of an office building in the heart of Zurich is transformed in our temporary exhibition space. Our new group show features a variety of works from national and international designers alongside new objects exhibited for the first time.
Works by: Frédéric Dedelley, Martí Guixé, Florian Hauswirth, Kueng Caputo, Nicolas Le Moigne, Studio Makkink & Bey, osko+deichmann, Samare Studio, Moritz Schmid, Judith Seng,  Jerszy Seymour, Flynn Talbot

Location: temporary exhibition space, Bleicherweg 21, CH-8002 Zurich
Opening hours: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 until Saturday, January 28, 2012

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We will be presenting a light object at the BLACK BOX during the QUBIQUE in Berlin.

The Qubique Black Box will be placed at the center of the trade show. It will display approximately 20 prototypes that have been personally selected by Hermann August Weizenegger. Only manufacturers will be admitted to the Box; the press and the broad public will not be permitted.

Location: Berlin Tempelhof Airport
Opening hours: Wednesday 26 October to Saturday 29 October 2011 from 10.00 am to 7.00 pm.

Prototypes from the following designers and design studios will be presented:

•    Werner Aisslinger (Berlin, Singapore)
•    Tomoko Azumi (London)
•    Ett La Benn (Berlin)
•    Mark Braun (Berlin)
•    Thomas Bendel / Jürgen Mayer H. (Berlin)
•    Matali Crasset (Paris)
•    Frédéric Dedelley (Zürich)
•    Marco Dessí (Vienna)
•    Martí Guixé  (Barcelona)
•    Mathias Hahn (London)
•    Florian Hauswirth (Bern)
•    Läufer + Keichel (Berlin)
•    Daniel Lorch (Berlin)
•    Christoffer Martens (Berlin)
•    Torsten Neeland (London)
•    Osko + Deichmann (Berlin)
•    Moritz Schmid (Zürich)
•    Hermann August Weizenegger (Berlin)

We are proud and happy that the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has acquired the Straw Cantilever Chair for its Permanent Design Collection.

Stedelijk Museum
Paulus Potterstraat 13
1071 CX Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Stedelijk Museum

Smart has come up with a unique project in collaboration with the artband Apparatjik. A remodelled smart fortwo electric drive is covered in reflective glass discs from nose to boot, the hubcaps glitter and even the windows are mirrored. Judge for yourself that the mobile disco ball does not just cut a smart figure, it is also fully functional.

Link to YouTube:   smart & Apparatjik: ElectriCITY – there, but not there

The Inspiration for this series of 19 vases, accessories and lights derives from a phenomenon we have noticed in Paris and London. In the city center a lot of street furniture, like junction boxes, lamp posts and bollards are covered with a extraordinary stucco-like coating.We instantly liked the visual and haptic quality and later found out, that it was a special anti-fly-poster-coating to prevent people from putting stickers and posters everywhere.

The project was on display at Gallery S. Bensimon in Paris part of an exhibition called Natural Indigo.

The inspiration for the Design-Kit was a simple orange, an inherent part of the proper preparation of the classic Spritz. Fittingly the fruit crate is the perfect frame for the Aperol Spritz Kit. The wooden crate, built to transport all kinds of things, has become more than simply  a commodity. It has become a subject that triggers emotions. Whether it is a market in Italy, a harbour on the Cote d’Azur or a corner-shop in the South Seas – the wooden crate inevitably evokes a positive feeling. This feeling of warmth and relaxation also arouses in those who reach for the crate to mix themselves an Aperol Spritz.

With the orange being the central theme, the glasses are wrapped in branded parchment paper and Aperol logo, looking just like an adhesive label one can find on fruits.

In order to support the main concept of the collection, which was college library, the booth was built almost entirely from 10.000 used school books. The walls of books served as shelfs for all kind of different props like trophies, maps, schematic drawings, sports equipment etc. These items underlined the 4 additional topics of the Hilfiger Kids spirit: Time of Exploration, Sports, Education and Travel.

Straw Lounge is a lounge chair constructed entirely of steel. What makes Straw and Straw Lounge unique is the way in which the tubular steel has been deformed. Instead of forming the frame in gentle bends, the steel tubes are folded. Folds and kinks are the most obvious way to deform a tube, but the contrast with the otherwise rounded shape of the tube produces a result that seems almost to have been fashioned by hand.

A family of tubular steel furniture with kinks. The tubing used in the furniture is not bent – as is normally the case – but rather functionally folded, dented and kinked. The chairs, tables and other furniture derive their final form and function by means of this intentional process of “damaging” the tubular steel: the process’ traces, which would normally be regarded as defects, are in fact integral to the furniture’s design.

The series “KINK” consists of a table, chair, writing table, cantilever chair, sideboard, shelf, coffee table and floor lamp made exclusively of tubular steel, pine wood and clamps. All exhibited objects are part of a small limited edition and exclusively available at HELMRINDERKNECHT contemporary design gallery.