Showing posts from January, 2011

HBL Tradeshows: Live from Paperworld

Coppenrath de Spiegelburg at Paperworld 2011 WGSN-homebuildlife reports live from the 2011 edition of Paperworld in Frankfurt, highlighting the top three trends to emerge from the stationery tradesh…

HBL Tradeshows: Live from NYIGF 2011

Designs Abroad at New York International Gift Fair 2011 WGSN reports live from this season’s New York International Gift Fair , highlighting the three key trends to come out of New York City’s first …

HBL City Guide: 72 hours in Manhattan

The High Line WGSN-homebuildlife is at New York International Gift Fair this week, and as a lot of our subscribers will be  too, our US editor Jean Lin has put together a guide to occupy fair visito…

Mr Christian Lacroix designs first range of furniture

Christian Lacroix for SICIS French fashion designer Christian Lacroix has designed his first ever range of furniture, for Italian brand SICIS The Art Mosaic Factory . The collection will be launched …

Sustainable Luxury at Alicia Adams Alpaca

Fusing luxury and sustainability is at the heart of WGSN's Autumn/Winter 2012/13 macro trend Eco Hedonism , and homegrown brands like Alicia Adams Alpaca are the quiet commercial trailblazers in…

HBL Events: Loaded at Spring Projects

Hotel (Imaginary Architectures) by El Ultimo Grito. Photo: Michael Tolke London gallery Spring Projects ' latest exhibition, Loaded, explores the phenomenon of 'design art', using example…

HBL Analysis: designing for disaster

Atelier Van Lieshout WGSN-homebuildlife normally forecasts 2-5 years into the future, with Think Tank providing long-term analyses of consumer behaviour and Creative Direction tracking the cultural…

Nemo Cassina launch new collection

Italian lighting brand Nemo Cassina have released details of the new collection they will present in Milan this April, including the UMA chandelier by Giancarlo Turino (pictured above). AM2Z by Nemo…

HBL Tradeshows: Live from Maison & Objet

Simon Pattison at Maison et Objet 2011, Paris WGSN-homebuildlife has been in Paris all weekend and today reports live from the first Maison et Objet of 2011, highlighting the three key trends to eme…

HBL Events: Love from Darkroom

Design retailer Darkroom are to host a charity auction on behalf of Kids Company on 14th February 2011, the second in their now annual series of Valentine's Day auctions. Over forty designers, …

HAL by Jasper Morrison for Vitra

Jasper Morrison 's latest chair for Vitra comprises a moulded plastic seat shell which can be combined with a number of base variations. HAL aims to be "a universal chair" suitable for…

HBL Tradeshows: Live from imm Cologne

Tvilum at imm Cologne 2011 WGSN-homebuildlife reports live from one of the most important furnishing fairs in the international design calendar, imm Cologne - this year joined by its new sister show…

HBL Tradeshows: Live from Domotex 2011

Floor to Heaven at Domotex 2011 WGSN-homebuildlife visited Hanover this week for its annual flooring tradeshow, Domotex . To read our entire live report from the event, subscribers should click here …

Preserved 19th Century Mansion Opens to Public

The BBC has published the story of Louis Mantin and his late 19th Century townhouse in central France. Mantin's last wishes, which were recently fulfilled, was to leave the house untouched for a…

HBL Analysis: Interactive light displays

A still from Whistling Sea by Jun Ga Young (2009) At architectural lighting fair the Arc Show in London last week, two light installations on show as a preview for Kinetica Art Fair were proving ve…

Small House in Nakanohigashi by Small House Design Lab

Pushing the boundaries of what a residential interior can look like, Small House in Nakanohigashi by Small House Design Lab , utilizes subtle level differences, materiality and colour blocking to cre…

HBL Analysis: Students design new cutlery for Gense

Scandinavian cutlery brand Gense recently gave students of Stockholm design school Beckmans the challenge of designing cutlery which explored contemporary eating rituals. The students' solution…

HBL Analysis: Ruth Mastenbroeke launches scented homewear

As a result of consumers seeking multi-sensory experiences, use of fragrance within the home and public spaces has become widespread - confirming WGSN-homebuildlife’s spring/summer 2011 macrotrend Se…

HBL Events: An Exhibition for Hipstamatics

An exhibition celebrating the Hipstamatic app for the iPhone, which captures images in the heavily filtered style of analogue photography from the 1980s, has opened at Orange Dot Gallery in London.…

HBL Trend analysis: open source design

Triso typeface by Ric Bell is available as a downloadable graphic for CNC machining at SomeRightsReserved by Kithkin At recent trade shows and student exhibitions, a clear trend has emerged that sees…
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