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Gentle Monster opens HAUS SHANGHAI

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In addition, various forms of collaged media art and aesthetic furniture provide a distinct F&B experience. The Shanghai store, expressing elegance and individuality through the delicate balance of spatial elements, captures Tamburins’ artistic vision. Dessert of your dreams.”.

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Customers exchange urine for soap at Het Nieuwe Instituut pop-up shop

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Het Nieuwe Instituut has launched its debut pop-up shop at Dutch Design Week Taking over Residency for the People – a hybrid restaurant and artist residency in Eindhoven – the pop-up also serves up two different versions of the same fish dish, one made using imported catch and the other using locally caught fish so diners can make their own choice.

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Is Art Nouveau making a comeback? Here’s a design guide, just in case…

Design Wanted

An iconic movement that combined luxurious lines and organic forms at the turn of the 20th Century. Not limited to dazzling storefronts, Art Nouveau was an artistic movement that flourished in Paris in the 1890s , touching everything from architecture and design to the decorative and fine arts. Merge ornament and structure.

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Takuto Ohta’s Deku is a playful, modular furniture set

Design Wanted

The modular wooden blocks can be stacked at various angles to form different furniture pieces. Ohta’s Deku collection addresses this trend, if not with a strikingly artistic interpretation. . The blocks are formed of wooden planks that bear 45 degree cuts along their edges to help them slot into each other. © Takuto Ohta.

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Alex Cochrane Architects designs shops to "embrace the elegant proportions" of National Portrait Gallery

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A green marble cash counter adds a subtle pop of colour The practice used arched forms in their design, taking their cues from the historical door and room openings within the space and in the wider gallery. "We

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Pillow potential: 6 unique ways to tackle cushion design

Design Wanted

Cushion covers are as the Greeks and Romans intended them to be, offering artists and designers a blank canvas on which to highlight their works. It features an elegantly unstructured form to accentuate its pillowy softness. The careful hand-stitching process led to the transformation of the pillow into an art object.

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Neo/craft reexamines traditional materials with striking effect

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The Berlin studio designs and fabricates exceptional furniture that re-examines conventional notions about materials, form and function. Berlin is the centre for artists and designers in Germany…[It] gives me the freedom I need to live and create.”. The Neo/craft label was founded in 2014 by the Berlin-based designer Sebastian Scherer.

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