This year’s Clerkenwell Design Week 2013 was an exciting visit that Après couldn’t miss. We explored through The Farmiloe Building and some other prominent furniture show-rooms around, met with many friends and partners and had the happy surprise of meeting some new designers and see new products and ideas. We also took a lot of photos that we want to share.In its fourth year, Clerkenwell Design Week aimed to showcase the very best in design, from
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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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[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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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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What better occasion to have a look at the design creations of Ray and Charles Eames than the 100th birthday celebration of Ray on December 15, 2012. Celebrate Ray’s life and work as a painter, furniture and textile designer…
Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser was born in 1912 in Sacramento, California, but moved to New York City to study abstract expressionist painting with Hans Hofmann. She came from a creative middle-class family, her father used to be a theatre manager. After
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Last week we had a stroll through The Farmiloe Building and some other furniture show-rooms around Clerkenwell for the Design Week.
Each spring, design, architecture and a lot of creativity gather in the heart of London for a week of exhibitions, massive showrooms and exciting debates. Après couldn’t miss it!
We saw some very nice office arrangements, new products and concept-furniture items and met with some of our partners to have a look at their newest ideas. The
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Photo by Après Furniture
Bauhaus was a German art school that changed the world. Going to London’s Barbican Centre to see the ‘Bauhaus: Art as life‘ exhibition, I await to enter a world of creativity and artistic chaos. I imagine that the designers of those good-looking Barcelona chairs and unbalanced installations would’ve been some free-spirited artists with a lot of imagination…
Instead,
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