In a few days Maison & Objet 2011 will be presented to the industry and the press, the new collection of carpets created by modern Esprit home. The collection is inspired entirely renovated in 8 different lifestyles with over 100 design. The stand Esprit home (at Hall 6, Stand J48) will have a preview of the entire collection will be available to the public beginning in late January on the site....
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...

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...

Wants to remind us of the possible existence of parallel worlds the Belarusian designers (but now Parisian of adoption) Dzmitry Samal with his collection called “Parallel World”. Furniture that defy the impenetrability of the walls and seem to emerge from another dimension (or possibly moved elsewhere), in a sort of indissoluble bond between universes that communicate. Made of MDF (panels...

Also this year renewed collaboration among young Fabricadesigner, coordinated by artistic director Sam Baron, and the design gallery SecondomeRoman. The collection is titled Here & here (T) and consists of 8 items were produced in a limited edition of 30 pieces signed and numbered. The blown glass, material that has traditionally characterized the spent collaborations, accompanies this year oak...
