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Bucky Lamp by Lagranja Design

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Lagranja Design of Spain built the Bucky Lamp for Spanish lighting manufacturer Pallucco while paying tribute to Buckminster Fuller’s tensegrity structures,. The pendant lamp is composed of three blown glass tubes inserted with colored glass filters, and suspended on cables.

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Iris van Herpen S/S 2011

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The highly technical collection by Iris van Herpen was unveiled at the recent Amsterdam International Fashion Week. Working with rubber, leather, metallics, chains and plastics, Iris designed ten looks representing the concept of water: from fluidity to structured ice crystals. (via Peter Stigter)

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Wood Pavilion: Wing Yi Hui and Lap Ming Wong

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Wing Yi Hui and Lap Ming Wong, students at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, conceived the Wood Pavilion resulting from their exploration on the performance of wood. The pavilion is made up of wood strips bent and laminated together to form a diamond-shaped lattice.

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Rope by Eleanor Bolton

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The Rope collection is the brainchild of British jewellery designer and recent graduate of London’s Royal College of Art, Eleanor Bolton. Check out the gorgeous neck pieces crafted by coiling and stitching cotton rope.

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Vera Thordardottir part II

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Recent graduate and fashion designer Vera Thordardottir continued her frost-inspired collection showcased on Pleat Farm in March of this year. Constructed of silicon, fish leather and dotted with Swarovski crystals, Vera’s dramatic garments recently won a celebrity fan in the form of in Lady Gaga who wore her designs at Elton John’s White Tie and [...]

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Tensor Voting: Skeletal Wall Sculpture/Storage by Giulio Parini (UPDATED)

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Tensor Voting is a skeletal system of iron components conceived by Swiss designer, Giulio Parini. It consists of iron rods in varying lengths which are slotted into fasteners, and in turn are nailed to the wall. Tensor Voting allows the user to play with varying geometrical configurations by rotating the rods and switching the location [...]

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M Chair

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Polish designer, Małgorzata Mozolewska, created the M Chair made by pleating fabric. When a seater wants a little privacy, simply pull the handles on both edges, and the chair transforms into a partitioned seat. Depending on user preference, the size of the partition can vary by pushing and pulling.

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Shanghai Expo 2010: the Spanish Basket

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The Spain Pavilion, aka ‘The Basket’, is next on my list of favorites after Heatherwick’s cathedral and BIG’s bike haven. Designed by Spanish architect, Benedetta Tagliabue of EMBT (Enrique Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue), the key design element is its dramatic envelope which is cladded in a sea of undulating wicker panels in tones of beige, brown [...]

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Shanghai Expo 2010: Folding Stool Sightings

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For a day, the Shanghai Expo was awashed with visitors sitting on a motley of bubble-gummy folding stools, thanks to the F&B vendors selling these portable contraptions at the Expo entrance. Your weary legs will be forever grateful if you pluck this hotcake for that 9-hour wait into Saudi Arabia! Just drop it to the [...]

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Snapshots from Shanghai Expo 2010

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Featuring hand-picked snapshots taken from my recent trip to the Shanghai Expo:

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Shanghai Expo 2010: UK Pavilion

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Greetings! Finally I’m back to the posting board after a short hiatus which took me to Shanghai, China, where I had the privilege of visiting the EXPO. Navigating the gargantuan site was a physical challenge, let alone braving the haze, some occasional rain and a massive crowd rivaling the World Cup, but experiencing the pavilions [...]

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Kimono-inspired storage racks by Noi

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Inspired by the large sleeves on Japanese kimonos, German design duo Nora Schmidt and Ines Königsmann of NOI created two types of storage systems called Haori and Yukata. Each rack consists of a system of storage sacs made from Tyvek, and is hung on a minimal wooden structure.

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Changeable Table/Chair by Wing Fung Ng

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German designer Wing Fung Ng, came up with a furniture concept that works as a space-saving measure in response to Hong Kong’s tight living condition. The Changeable Chair transforms instantly into a coffee table by simply unfolding the seat portion.

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Featuring: Elizabeth Delfs

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Part of my formative years as an architecture student was spent fiddling with fabric while making references to fashion to solve issues of space and structure: a process which I truly enjoyed. Hence I was really excited to come across Elizabeth Delfs – a Perth, Australia-based visual artist whose soft sculptures function as fashion with [...]

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Octagonal Series by Studio MS

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A set of chairs, a couple of fun book lights and a handbag with pleating elements made up the Octagonal Series, conceived by designers Mi-Seung Kim and Myung-Seo Kang of Studio MS. By studying and exploring origami, the designers discovered numerous possibilities of pleating octagonal shapes which produce flexible and structurally rigid forms.

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Help Save Paper: curated by Anonymous

by pleatfarmer

Singapore has held a special place in my heart, partly from my childhood days spent in the island/country, and partly for dear momma who still calls it home. So I’m pretty stoked about an exciting exhibit coming up at the DMY Berlin Design Festival, which will feature artists and designers from my favorite city dealing [...]

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