Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From the always-anticipated product launches at the Stockholm Furniture Fair to new exhibitions and installations, innovation and sustainability were at the forefront. The exhibition also includes the winners of the annual Ung Svesnk Form competition for young Swedish designers, whose entries span disciplines from furniture to fashion.

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Indeed, when the three-seat Togo sofa was introduced at Paris trade exhibition, the early buzz didn’t immediately translate to commercial success. The post How Ligne Roset’s Togo Conquered the World appeared first on Azure Magazine. And while well over 1.5 The special edition La toile du peintre Togo.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 27, 2024

A vignette in ICFF’s feature exhibition The Crossroads featuring a rug by Liora Manné and furniture by Office of Tangible Space. Adding to the strong visual impact was The Crossroads, a special exhibition jointly curated by ICFF, Rockwell Group and design editor Pei-Ru Keh that returned for its second year. 13/29 Zachary A.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Entitled Made by Fire , a standout group exhibition explored how both pottery and glass — jointly formed by this core natural element — are strongly rooted in Czech culture, industry, and history. The post Prague’s Designblok Shines a Spotlight on Glass Heritage — and Evolution appeared first on Azure Magazine.

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Azure Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

One of Tacchini’s Costela lounge chairs joins a selection of colourful Sacha seating from New Zealand manufacturer Resident. Rather than operating out of any one permanent location, Verso plans to hold its exhibitions in a variety of pop-ups all around the world — with upcoming shows currently scheduled for everywhere from L.A.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 7, 2023

From the Salone del Mobile – the MDW’s anchoring behemoth – to hundreds of offsite exhibitions and events, the itinerary seems to have returned to pre-pandemic fullness. On show, a selection of 18th-century ceroplastic works and 72 exhibition copies of anatomical drawings are presented in vitrines.

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Design Milk

JANUARY 6, 2023

Others include the Museum of Modern Art, Knoll, Aesop, Vanity Fair , and the New York Times Magazine. Manufacturers stamped their names into the lamps’ clay bottoms to physically distinguish them from the competition and build a reputation for quality, allowing them to charge a premium. Fortis was the most popular Roman pottery brand.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 20, 2022

This strategy is especially effective when adopted by manufacturers in sectors like kitchen and bath that otherwise tend to steer clear of vivid hues. A few booths over, UK concrete basin manufacturer Kast unveiled a playful tapware collection, Alto , available in no less than 28 concrete colourways. Alto tapware by Kast. Eric Mutrie.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

To celebrate, the organizers have planned a full assortment of design exhibitions, product launches and showroom events spread all across the city. The nylon tiles are backed with Mohawk’s EcoFlex One and manufactured with carbon-neutral production. See you in New York. Silo by Lambert & Fils. Each tile measures 30.48 wide by 91.44

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

She has been quoted in the New York Times regarding her efforts, and Forbes magazine described her as “the powerhouse woman…actively changing history with a simple mission: women and designers of colour must claim and be credited for their contributions to the built environment.”

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

She pointed out that much of the film was shot in Modena, “the district of ceramics,” and that the biopic’s high-adrenaline teaser reflected the drive of ceramics manufacturers, which have raced ahead with exciting new launches in spite of ongoing business difficulties posed by high energy costs and the lingering pandemic.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 25, 2023

New York’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair ( ICFF ) reached a major turning point this year — which made it all the more fitting that the physical heart of the show was dedicated to a prominent feature exhibition entitled “The Crossroads.” 25/43 We also loved these charming glassblown table lamps exhibited by TZ Maker Studio.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 6, 2023

Salone del Mobile’s Euroluce exhibition has always served as a preview of bright new things to come, hosting high-profile unveilings from top lighting manufacturers. The post Euroluce 2023: Previewing 5 Exciting Highlights appeared first on Azure Magazine. Courtesy the artist, Kaufmann Repetto Milan / New York.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Recent exhibitions held as part of Toronto’s DesignTO festival and Stockholm Design Week have reignited our longtime love affair with glass. He is also a frequent collaborator of French crystal manufacturer Baccarat. The post 3 Glass Designs to Make Hearts Flutter appeared first on Azure Magazine. Beauty influencers, take note.

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Somerset House’s exhibition explores the impact of skateboarding in the UK. Having never lost the love of, and for, skateboarding, when I saw an upcoming exhibition about it earlier this year at Somerset House , it was a must-see. Both of these inadvertently; I was like a sponge soaking it all up.

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Design Week

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Exhibition: The Future of Home. Earlier this year, Design Week wrote about the design opportunities that might exist in the home of the future – this Brompton district exhibition explores the topic further. A total of 20 Scottish designers from 15 Scottish design studios have worked on the exhibited projects.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

Moroso (above) is always one of the most exciting manufacturers to show at Salone. This pre-eminent kitchen exhibition, usually a biennial affair, returns to the Salone fairgrounds. The post 7 Major Moments We’re Looking Forward to at Salone del Mobile 2022 appeared first on Azure Magazine. Eurocucina is Back.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

But nowhere is Milan’s role as a global lighting capital more evident than at the city’s Fiera Milano exhibition centre during Euroluce — a biennial showcase of all things illumination held as part of the larger Salone del Mobile furniture fair. Fiat Bulb: The Edison Syndrome Feature Exhibitions What Was the Scene?

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Alongside over 140 exhibitors — showcasing the latest in textiles, furniture, floorings and finishes, as well as art and architecture — the 2023 show includes an expansive four-day program of installations, exhibitions, seminars and talks, organized around the theme of Moving Parts: Design for a Complex World. Best Face Forward.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Grumpy Ant plush toy by Aysha Tengiz Diana F+ CMYK by Lomography Felt hanging decorations by Wrap and various artists Built upon creative collaborations with designers, illustrators and artists, Wrap started life in 2010 as a magazine and now includes a stationery and product range, online shop and editorial content in print and digital.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2024

A trend exhibition that’s anti-trend? Focused on new launches in home and contract textile, the behemoth Frankfurt expo , which takes place January 9 to 12, always puts together a fascinating showcase of new directions in design and manufacturing. That’s what Heimtextil 2024 is promising in its Trend Space feature next week.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: Since establishing his eponymous furniture manufacturing business in Toronto in the 1960s, Klaus Nienkämper has been a revered champion of contemporary design. LUCERNE SOFAS AND UNESCO CHAIRS, BOTH BY ROBERT HAUSSMANN, MANUFACTURED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SWISS DESIGN OF CANADA. “We It’s important to do both.”.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2020

The international furniture and design fair IMM Cologne – held annually in the eponymous German city – is set to run from January 13 to 19 and showcase a host of cutting-edge concepts, from the next generation of design thinkers to the latest offerings from trusted manufacturers. 520 Chair by Marco Dessí. Aspa by MUT.

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Design Week

OCTOBER 4, 2021

“By the time he was 25 he had opened and sold 5 restaurants, opened a furniture manufacturing business, gone into partnership with a textile mill in Manchester (to start Conran Fabrics), art directed a magazine, worked at the Festival of Britain, married his second wife, and published his first book,” he says.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The other big story in Miami last week was the arrival of Alcova , the independent design exhibition that has made a name for itself with its edgy, experimental Milan editions each spring. 22/37 For Alcova’s first Miami edition, the exhibition operated out of the Selina Gold Dust Miami Hotel. This image only.)

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Following the 2008 economic crisis, the makers movements in many North American cities (Brooklyn, Toronto and more) and the expansion of online platforms like 1stdibs, emerging designers began looking to galleries rather than more traditional manufacturers for opportunities and exposure.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 4, 2024

At the height of Pesce’s illustrious career, Gerry Bergeron met up with the designer when he was in Montreal for an exhibition on his work — and, with a wink and an unparalleled wit, challenging the capital-M Modernist giants who came before him. Simple, inexpensive materials and low-tech fabrication are his trademarks.

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Large mobile exhibits demonstrating the laws of motion hung from the exposed canopy, which recalled the lofty railway stations of 19th-century Britain. In addition to housing ambitious exhibitions, learning and research functions required accommodation. And it had to be a showpiece, with a strong identity, for its academic host.

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Azure Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

This ecologically minded construction method allows the manufacturers to work without steel reinforcements or extra cement — both of which are notoriously carbon-intensive materials. Striatus will be exhibited at the Giardini della Marinaressa at the Venice Biennale until November 2021.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 4, 2023

I knew Hamilton only as a place glimpsed from the highway, its eastern waterfront of steel manufacturing plants like something from the Industrial Age or a dystopian film set. It was a momentous move, and one I made alone.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Case in point, this mirror that was mounted as part of Empathic , a Luca Nichetto–curated exhibition extolling glass that was shown at InGalleria, the Art Gallery of Punta Conterie a Murano. At their Annual Briefing meeting in 2021, Danish manufacturer +Halle asked a contentious question: “How do we gain collective trust in a public space?”

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Complementing the architecture, light-filled and crisp-white interiors and – of course – the artwork, is a new site-specific seating collection designed by Norway’s Andreas Engesvik and Jonas R Stokke and manufactured by Scandinavian urban furniture brand Vestre. Photo: Nicolas Tourrenc.

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Azure Magazine

JUNE 14, 2020

And what of furniture manufacturing, a tradition-bound industry whose leading production centres — China, northern Italy, the United States — also happened to be COVID-19 hotspots? A similar ecosystem, meanwhile, is being nurtured by Thonet , the German manufacturer.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 19, 2020

Today, La Biennale di Venezia announced that the 17th edition of the Italian city’s International Architecture Exhibition has been postponed until 2021, with the six-month showcase now set to take place from May 22 to November 21 of next year.

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Canny

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Where: SEC, Exhibition Way, Glasgow. Held at the SEC in Glasgow, this event will welcome over 500 companies to exhibit thousands of products to retail buyers looking to source products for the new season. The Nîmes Exhibition Fair. Where: National Convention & Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China. Tickets: TBC.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2021

Utilizing a restricted materials palette of glass, wood and locally made brick by a manufacturer that dates back to the 1800s, Ghotmeh’s passive structure seamlessly merges with the terrain — a former brownfield that has been sensitively transformed by landscape architect Erik Dhont — and will produce more energy than it consumes.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 31, 2021

While it may look simple at first glance, it’s a deceivingly complex object that continues to fascinate designers and manufacturers across the globe. As part of the long-distance project Connected, the Spanish designer and British manufacturer unveiled Mesamachine. Castor Stool Plus by Big-Game.

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