Un Swissroll RSS

Webmix

Commentaire de l'actualité (gaie ou non!) sur terre, au ciel, à gauche, à droite, de Genève, de Londres ou d'ailleurs
News and views (gay or not!) on earth, in heaven, left or right, from Geneva, London or elsewhere

Dezeen teams up with WantedDesign, Muji, Lladró, and more for New York’s design week

Dezeen is hosting events with several international brands during NYCxDesign, with talks and social events throughout the city, including conversations with Tom Dixon and Luca Nichetto and parties with Japanese brand Muji and local design gallery TRNK. Read more

Voir sur le site

Applied Arts Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale aims to « complicate the history of tropical modernism »

A 36-metre-long brise soleil has been covered with screens showing the colonial history of tropical modernism at the Applied Arts Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Read more

Voir sur le site

Usurai table by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for Koyori

Dezeen Showroom: design duo and brothers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have created a sleek wooden dining table for Japanese furniture brand Koyori that « rethinks modelled plywood furniture ». Read more

Voir sur le site

Pedrali launches six fresh furniture designs to celebrate 60-year anniversary

Promotion: as part of Salone del Mobile 2023, Italian furniture brand Pedrali has released a number of products in collaboration with Italian and international designers for both residential and contract environments. Read more

Voir sur le site

Mangas Outdoor rugs and seat covers by Patricia Urquiola for Gan

Dezeen Showroom: designer Patricia Urquiola has developed a collection of outdoor rugs and seat covers for Spanish brand Gan, which reference knitted jumpers. Read more

Voir sur le site

Australia’s Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion « questions the relics of the British Empire »

The Australia pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is exclusively revealed here, features a copper reconstruction of the Empire Hotel in Queenstown. Read more

Voir sur le site

Africa a « powerful place from which to examine the issues that will dominate the next century » says Venice curator Lesley Lokko

Venice Architecture Biennale opens this week. In this exclusive interview, curator Lesley Lokko explains why she placed Africa at the heart of the festival for the first time. Read more

Voir sur le site

Visitors’ experiences of cities to be plotted on moving calligraphic scrolls at Singapore’s Venice pavilion

Moving calligraphic scrolls will continually plot the response of visitors to a series of questions about architecture’s intangible qualities at the Singapore’s Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion, which is unveiled exclusively here. Read more

Voir sur le site

Ooty stool by Allermuir

Dezeen Showroom: British furniture manufacturer Allermuir has released a stackable plywood stool named Ooty, created by London-based design duo SmithMatthias. Read more

Voir sur le site

British Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale encapsulates « the incredible diversity we experience in Britain everyday »

Designer Mac Collins is among those exhibiting works at the British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, which celebrates how global diasporic communities design space. Read more

Voir sur le site