Looking at the post that Emma and Annaleenas Hem, did about the Stockholm Furniture Fair ,I got in a black, gray and white mood. Don’t miss the green room from the Danish design school at Annaleenas Hem blog.
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Olafur Eliasson Danish-Icelandic artist known for employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research. From a small team in 1995, when Eliasson first moved to Berlin, Studio Olafur Eliasson has slowly grown to its current structure in response to the possibility of generating a wide range of projects. The studio now consists of a team of about 35 people, from craftsmen and specialised technicians, to architects, artists, archivists and art historians, cooks, and administrators. They work with Eliasson to experiment, develop, produce, and install artworks, projects, and exhibitions, as well as archiving, communicating, and contextualising his work. Additional to the artworks realised in-house, Eliasson and his studio contract structural engineers and other specialists, and collaborate with curators, cultural practitioners, and scientists.
Din blinde passager, UTOPIA project, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Denmark.
Your atmospheric colour atlas 2009
your eye activity field.
Your welcome reflected
One-way colour tunnel, 2007
Take Your Time,2.009.
To read more got to :Olafur Eliasson
(images & text taken from:http://www.olafureliasson.net/index.html,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olafur_Eliasson)
Erik Magnussen was born in 1940 in Copenhagen. Educated as a ceramist at the School of Applied Arts and Design – graduated with a silver medal in 1960.
For a number of years he worked for Bing & Grøndahl and among the latest works are furniture for Fritz Hansen a/s , door handles for Franz Schneider Brakel gmbh, tabletop in pewter for Royal Selangor, tabletop in stainless steel and plastic for A/S Stelton, porcelain lamps for Licht & Form and furniture for Paustian a/s.
Erik Magnussen’s designs are exhibited in museums throughout the world and he has received the Lunning Prize in 1967 and the Furniture Prize in 1977. In 1983 he was chosen “designer of the year” by the Danish Design Council and his products have several times received the ID-prize by the Danish Society of Industrial Design. Erik Magnussen received the Bindesbøll Medal in 1996 and he has received grants from the Ole Haslund Fund, the Royal Jueweller A. Michelsen’s Anniversary Fund and Knud V. Engelhardt’s Memorial Fund.
In 1997 Erik Magnussen was awarded “The Red Dot” in the “Design Innovations 1997” competition held by Design Zentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen and he won the “Good Design Gold Prize” awarded by Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization
Skyline for Stelton
Porcelain signs for Bing & Grøndahl
Plateau lounge chair
Stelton Vacuum Jug
To read more go to:magnussen-design
(text © :http://www.stelton.dk/DesignerView.aspx?id=3 )
It is Villa Collection´s clear purpose to be a trendsetter. Whilst continuing to focus attention on the smallest detail, a strong sense for quality and design is also an important component in the development of they collections.Each year they spend over 200 days travelling to uncover new trends and ideas. There are always new things and new places to discover. They spend many hours with suppliers and craftsmen all over the world, to make sure all new designs are in line with their philosophy – that details are everything…
to read more go to : Villa Collection
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