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.
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!
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.
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.
Lee Broom’s KALEIDOSCOPIA lighting installation shines in London
Lee Broom creates KALEIDOSCOPIA, a deceiving optical chandelier composed of reflected optical illusions for London Design Festival 2019.
Guns ‘n’ Roses and W. Somerset Maugham inspire PARADISE CITY lighting design
Lindsey Adelman’s PARADISE CITY poetic glass and metal lighting installation in Basel hangs from the ceiling embedding light sources directly in the glass surface.
WantedDesign 2019: 10 rising designers on show
A mountainous ‘crumbling’ cabinet, an astro-mathematical lamp, a Caribbean architecture-inspired side table and a recycled rubber squishy daybed… Check our top picks at WantedDesign 2019.
Stickbulb upcycles wood from Brooklyn’s demolished skyscraper into the ‘Chime’ chandelier
“If a tree and a chandelier had a baby… it would look something like Chime” says to Archipanic the founder of lighting design brand Stickbulb which unveiled an architectural chandelier at ICFF in New York.
Ukrainian design is the ultimate – and probably the most hype-free – creative frontier
Ukrainian design blooms blending the country’s wilderness, ancient craftsmanship and mysterious folklore. In Milan, Sergey Makhno Architects, Victoriya Yakusha and emerging talents from Kiev showcase ‘earthy’ collections connecting past, present and future.
From Isaac Newton to Steve Jobs: Nemo’s lighting designs are imbued with science
Iconic scientists such as Newton and Kepler, astronomy and the laws of physics are behind the new collection by Nemo lighting.
LA LINEA by BIG for Artemide contours spaces with endless possibilities
Artemide launches LA LINEA, a modular and flexible ‘thread of light’ designed by BIG which allows to “interact with the environment in new and unpredicatable ways,” says Bjarke Ingels.
Euroluce 2019: fasten your belt, the ultimate lighting design trend is all about flexibility
Who said that lighting design should come in the shape of a hard object? At Euroluce 2019 innovative solutions snake on walls like electronic circuits, arch over furniture and stretch from floor to ceiling.
The Manzoni: Tom Dixon challenges Brexit and outdated retail spaces with a permanent restaurant/showroom in Milan
Monochromatic lava interiors and verdant alcoves frame Tom Dixon’s latest collections at The Manzoni, the British designer’s permanent restaurant and showroom.
Foscarini brand-new showroom in Milan showcases the company’s ultimate lighting designs
Ferruccio Laviani has designed Foscarini brand-new showroom which showcases a ‘motherly’ table lamp/vase, a half-Art Deco/half-Memphis architectural light-sculpture and a tubular metal floor lamp inviting to be moved around the room.
The Baker’s House: Färg & Blanche pay homage to family heritage, design-wise
Bulbous loaf-shaped table lamps, a Swedish crisp bread-inspired chandelier and Mr N great grandpa chair. Färg & Blanche’s new furnitures and objects debut at The Baker’s House exhibition in Stockholm.