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Linehouse designs space-themed cafe in Shanghai for creator of "Australia's most Instagrammed dessert"

Dezeen

Design studio Linehouse combined stainless steel and meteorites to create a space -themed cafe in central Shanghai as Australian chain Black Star Pastry's first Chinese outpost. Shanghai-based Linehouse designed the space to evoke the feeling of being in space. A terrazzo staircase leads guests upstairs to a dining space.

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Norm Architects fashions industrial yet warm interiors for Notabene flagship in Copenhagen

Dezeen

When it came to devising a fit-out for the Notabene store in Copenhagen's Old Town, Norm Architects worked on fostering "contrast and beauty" between the site's existing industrial features and the warm, tactile material palette that the studio felt was representative of the footwear brand. The store's main room has exposed concrete walls.

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Visionnaire blurs the lines between art and design

Design Wanted

And yet, for well over a century, artists and furniture designers have turned this maxim on its head, blurring the lines between art and design. The collection can be experienced at its showroom in Milan’s Piazza Cavour, a former cinema which the brand renovated as its flagship in 2008. Pavone collection. Amos Dining Table.

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David Taylor upcycles scrap materials into “rough-luxe” furniture

Design Wanted

Silversmithing, designing, making sculptural objects, furniture or public space installations all boils down to the same thing,” he explains. A pivotal moment for me came in 2008 during the global financial crisis when Taylor was working mainly as a silversmith at that time and almost overnight my customers just stopped coming by.

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Proudly made in China: How Chinese consumers are reclaiming domestic brands

Inside Retail

Once popular in the 90s through to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the brand was quickly cannibalised by Nike and Adidas, and eclipsed by other local competitors. Instead of selling through car dealerships or third-party agents, Nio sells cars from its brand-experience centre ‘Nio House’ – a living space for owners, and their friends.

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