Phat Knits created by Dutch designer Bauke Knottnerus is a series of brilliantly over scaled furniture pieces. Despite the fact that the designer claims that he doesn’t really see himself as a furniture designer. “I’m more like a material designer,” he explains. “These things I make could end up as furniture or as textiles, it’s more like creating media that can be used to construct a coat...

The giant threads, some knitted and some not are produced industrially. The process of knitting these ‘threads’ together requires a team of up to 4 people and PVC needles up to 13 feet long. Phat Knits is a series of brilliantly over scaled furniture pieces, despite the fact that the designer claims that he doesn’t really see himself as a furniture designer. Bauke Knottnerus is the designer of...

Add Jean Prouvé. A very difficult task, we might almost say arrogant, untouchable aura from the great master designer of French modernism has especially in recent years, thanks to a rediscovery by averaging, interior designer and galleries and a decisive burst upwards in the value of his historical pieces to auction houses. In this case, though, the go-ahead to the operation is started by the heirs...

Graphic study Raw Color, Based in Eindhoven from Daniera ter Haar and Christoph Brach, is distinguished by a particular inclination to work on material and color, experimenting with both the texture of the paper with printing techniques for image effects tailored to each project and each customer . For example, for Dutch food designer Keukenconfessies was not only created a logo, but the whole visual...

The experience so far, the most beautiful of the preview of the exhibition? Of course it came to serendipity . Yesterday evening stroll through the streets of Tortona, for the moment less jokes than usual, we stumbled by chance into the space of Master Haute Ecole d’Art et Design at the University of Geneva. Inside, a Matali Crasset in great shape to a child explaining the functioning of its...
