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

Dezeen

It features artworks by four emerging international artists curated by Black Star Pastry creative director Louis Li to create an imaginary futuristic habitat. Blackened wood covers the floor of the room in contrast to the exposed concrete of the cafe's other spaces. Read: Linehouse transforms Shanghai swimming pool into office 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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David Taylor upcycles scrap materials into “rough-luxe” furniture

Design Wanted

To give them their sheen, Taylor washed away the residue revealing a vibrant glass-like rock and in his signature fashion, he fused the slag chunks with other, sleeker materials, contrasting them with aluminium and polished brass. By layering epoxy resin, Korean artist Seungjin Yang creates balloon sculptures that double as functional seats.

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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. Lego Console and Low Table.

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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. In contrast, Victoria’s Secret has been on the decline since the time it debuted in China after the backlash grew from its Shanghai Fashion Show in 2017.

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