Ambra Toba collection by Studio Davidpompa
Mexican Studio Davidpompa unveils the Ambra Toba light sculptures made of volcanic dust and aluminium.
Pleated for Frank by Svenskt Tenn
Svenskt Tenn teamed up with Folkform design studio to create the Pleated for Frank lighting design collection.
Stockholm Design Week 2023: ten furniture designs debuting in the Swedish capital
Convivial Y-shaped urban benches, shifting hammocks/sofas, and 3D-printed high-end circular seats. Archipanic explored Stockholm Design Week 2023. Check what we liked the most!
Best of 2022: check our favourite design launches of the year
From Japanese calligraphy-informed furniture to lighting designs inspired by brutalist places of worship. We rounded up our favourite design launches of 2022.
3 Days of Design 2022: 7 furniture designs debuting in Copenhagen
3 Days of Design 2022: Denmark’s furniture and lighting festival returns with a positive attitude, theme and incitement: ‘Remember to play!’ We have selected seven designs on display.
Superblue’s ‘Pulse Topology’ installation glows along visitors’ hearts in Basel
6.000 dangling lightbulbs glow in the ‘Pulse Topology’ interactive installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer for Superblue and BMW.
With the Divine Inspiration exhibition Lee Broom unveils lighting collections inspired by places of worship
Divine Inspiration is the first lighting release for Lee Broom in four years, showcasing a series of new ethereal lighting pieces in a range of materials, including a limited-edition collection in white plaster, which is hand crafted by the designer himself.
Mexican volcanic rocks shine and float in David Pompa’s ‘Magmatic Parallelism’ lighting design collection
With the ‘Magmatic Parallelism’ collection, David Pompa balances metal and volcanic rock to create exquisite suspended lighting designs.
DesignMarch 2022: 6 sustainable projects on show at Iceland’s largest design festival
DesignMarch 2022: up-cycled minerał wool, crayons made from Icelandic clay, an icy puffer coat filled with discarded face masks found in the street of Reykjavik and more…
St. Patrick’s Day: 7 clover-shaped designs to celebrate Ireland’s national day
From Verner Panton’s modular sofa to Mathieu Lehanneur’s street lamp and Ron Arad’s armchair, we picked 7 clover-shaped designs. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
September floor lamp by Fernando Mastrangelo celebrates Nature in the Post-Antropocene
With its carved organic body and brass branches embracing a luminous glass globe, Fernando Mastrangelo’s ‘September’ floor lamp delivers a ‘sort of’ optimistic message on the climate change issue. Because Nature will survive us and thrive again.
Paul Heijnen’s Hyperion is both a spotlight and a creature of the night
Hyperion is an articulated wooden lighting design which looks like a giant, fictional insect hunting wildly in the night.
Studio Drift and Sou Fujimoto create a poetic installation for Superblue in Basel
A landscape of upside-down blossoming lightings by Studio DRIFT and a dynamic forest by Sou Fujimoto mark the European debut of Superblue at Design Miami/ Basel 2021.
7 lighting designs shining at Milano Design City 2021
Ethereal lanterns, glowing concrete mushrooms and luminous abstract sculptures. Discover 7 lighting designs debuting at Milano Design City 2021.
Carlotta de Bevilacqua’s ‘Funivia’ lighting design shines with a mountaineering spirit
Artemide launches FUNIVIA, a scalable and flexible lighting design inspired by cable cars. Energy runs through cables that can be arranged both vertically and horizontally, crisscrossing each others. Light sources hang from the cables allowing to create infinite lighting solutions going far beyond the limits dictated by the rigidity of systems.
Tom Dixon virtually launches the ‘Burst’ chandelier and the ‘Hydro’ chair in Milan
Tom Dixon visited Milan as a hologram to launch the BURST and HYDRO collections across two iconic architectures in town by Ignazio Gardella and Oscar Niemeyer.
Nendo unveils the Hyouri lanterns collection at the Life in Vogue virtual exhibition
Made from bamboo, washi paper and translucent silk, the Hyouri collection pays tribute to traditional Kyoto lanterns and comprises designs that “seem to swallow parts of themselves.”
Stockholm 2021: 7 design launches in the Swedish capital
Stockholm 2021: the largest Nordic design week went mostly virtual this year. But that didn’t stop brands and designers from unveiling brilliant furniture designs. Check what we liked the most.
Farewell Ernesto Gismondi, Artemide founder passes aways aged 89
A synthesis of functionalism and technology, this is how Ernesto Gismondi embraced lighting design as both entrepreneur and designer.
Best of 2020: 10 quirky furniture designs
Frugal chairs by working-class migrants in the UAE and tumbling ‘carwash’ poufs, ‘Dimmable’ measuring tapes-like lamps and 3D printed brutalist chaise seaters. We rounded up 10 quirky furniture designs we liked the most in 2020!
Milan shining: 6 lighting designs debuting at Milano Design City
Covid-19 sanitizing light technology, ‘dimmable’ measuring tapes and luminous suspended mathematical grids… 6 lighting designs debuting at Milano Design City. Milan shining!
‘Illan’ lighting design by Zsuzsanna Horvath for Luceplan floats in the air like an ephemeral thought
On the borderline between art and design, Illan hanging lamp is made of laser wood sheets suspended by the force of gravity that react to the slightest movement of the air.
Artist and architect of light Nanda Vigo passed away aged 83
Master of light, transparency and immateriality, Nanda Vigo was one of the most visionary postwar Italian architects and artists. Her creative journey began as a child fascinated by Giuseppe Terragni’s architecture and Flash Gordon comics. During her carrier she collaborated with some of the most influential avant-garde movements and creative minds such as the Zero Group, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Gio Ponti.
BUZAO’s HALO design collection blends gradient colour with hazed glass
Rainbow gradient splashes and geometrical misty glass surfaces contrast in BUZAO’s HALO design collection for Gallery All.
VSHD Design blends optical illusions, brutalism and colour in the new Warehouse Gym in Dubai
A cosmic vibe with an underlying brutalist and underground fight-club aesthetic define the ultimate Dubai Warehouse Gym by VSHD Design.
8 French craftswomen raising the design bar at Maison&Objet
Upcycled luminous creatures, delicately balanced wooden compositions and blown glass furniture with an architectural imprint… French craftswomen shine in Paris!
Pure Talent 2020: 8 innovative furnitures by young designers on show at IMM Cologne
Pure Talent 2020: a multifunctional worktable and a yo-yo lamp that dims as the time goes by but also a carpet turning into a basket by pulling a rope and more… 8 innovative furnitures tuning with millennials lifestyle.
2019 Best Design: sinking Venetian furniture, rippling benches and tech-crafted chairs
2019 Best Design. A chair made from 100 % recycled plastic from fishing nets in the Arctic, a floor-to-ceiling luminous belt and violently psychedelic benches are among our favourite furniture designs of the year.
Pinterest: a tribute to the late ‘Poet of Light’ Ingo Maurer
We have dedicated a Pinterest board to the visionary and tongue in cheek lighting design of Ingo Maurer; the ‘Poet of Light’ passed away, aged 87.
Farewell Ingo Maurer. Visionary industrial designer and ‘poet of light’ passed away aged 87
The legacy and message of Ingo Maurer for future generations of designers is to be humble, controversial and ironic at the same time.