This week, Clerkenwell will be London’s centre of creativity. Clerkenwell Design Week 2013 will host 60 showrooms, a large number of manufacturers with new projects and designs, with special guests, designers and architects. For three days, all showrooms in the area will open their doors and host lots of exhibitions, workshops, debates and parties that we’re very much looking forward to.
Here are some highlight of our partners and events which we’ll follow…
Humanscale will open
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With many businesses expanding and modernising, there is a increasing demand to turn to hot-desking type environments. This calls for flexible innovative furniture solutions to cater for these types of situations. If you have the #attitude, we have the #furniture.
In our May newsletter, we bring you some of the best innovative and elegant solutions created by our partner CBS (Colebrook Bossom Saunders). Also, learn about Après’ Mobile storage box solutions.
Special report: Après Furniture supports:
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[Click to continue...]This year’s winners of the Design Guild Marks have very diverse styles. Most of them are friends and partners of Après Furniture and we congratulate them all for this recognition. Even if these awards are quite young, only in the 6th year, they put a stamp of excellence in British furniture designs. Here is an overview of the winners:
Vitra received a new recognition for the Tip Ton chair designed by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. The
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April is the month of furniture in Milan. Euroluce and SaloneUfficio, together at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition and SaloneSatellite will showcase some of the latest and most innovative home and office concepts.
We are excited to see the new products our friends and business partners they will bring along. Here’s what we know so far…
The organisers promise a strong bias towards energy saving, environmental sustainability and combating light pollution, in keeping with the growing commitment
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GrumDesign studio was founded in 1989 by Troels Grum-Schwensen, an award-winning designer who specialises in furniture and interior design, architecture and exhibitions. Through the years, Grum has created some innovative furniture pieces.
The studio works with both Danish and international furniture-manufacturers, including our partner Randers+Radius. They have manufactured the incredible Grip Table. It was inspired by tightrope walkers who balance by means of a long pole – gravity challenging balance. Grip tables become
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2013 starts with exciting news! Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec were nominated at the Furniture category of the Design of the Year awards by Design Museum for their creative shelving solution, Corniches.
Corniches solves the need for small storage spaces to spontaneously keep items. You can arrange as many Corniches as you like on the walls of your home where you need small storage spaces or want to create
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Our partner, Brunner Furniture announced that their newly designed Hoc Stool and Hoc Standing Table have won the iF product design award 2013. Congratulations!
Because of its elegant and sculptural design, Hoc Bar Stool convinced the iF jury that it deserves this year’s Product Design Award. The Hoc Bar Stool stands out because of its design as an innovative interpretation of the archetypal stool. This stool was made by
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Vitra has shown its newest products and concepts at Orgatec 2012 in Cologne. They have introduced an exquisite range of products by famous designers, like Charles & Ray Eames, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Alberto Meda and Antonio Citterio, that you can now admire on our website. We present to you our favourites:
Our favourite new products manufactured by Vitra is the Aluminium Chair Dark Chrome Chairs. They are a new addition to the Eames
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As we finish the process of evaluating and discussing the products and information collected at London Design Week, this year’s Orgatec fair approaches. Orgatec 2012 will take place between 23 to 27th October in Cologne, Germany, and will feature office facility planning, construction and extension services, furnishing for office & facilities and office and administrative organisation. With the ongoing changes in the working environment affecting workplace design, Orgatec’s main theme is “Moderne Arbeitswelten”,
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The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games have now come to an end. As we are watching the athletes parade in London, the Après Furniture team send congratulations to all involved in this awe inspiring occasion. It was a truly great event!
Over a month ago, we announced the manufacturing of the BBC Olympic sofa. Many of the Team GB Olympians were interviewed on the sofa which overlooked the Olympic stadium. This was a project that we are all
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