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Plantea Estudio designs intentionally unfinished Veja store "to look like we didn't do anything"

Dezeen

Read: Plantea Estudio creates cosy cave-like room within bar Gota The building's functional pipes and pinewood supports were left exposed while the ceilings are clad in roughly textured sound insulation and embedded with graphic rows of strip lighting.

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Belgian designers highlight steel and sustainability at Milan Design Week

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Since 2008, Belgium is Design has formed part of Salone Satellite at Milan Design Week, offering a platform for young designers and graduates in the country to present their work to industry professionals. After a long wait, Milan Design Week is back and we’re on the ground to bring you the latest and most exciting projects.

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Visionnaire blurs the lines between art and design

Design Wanted

Form follows function ” goes the old saying, a design directive prioritising an object’s use before any unnecessary decoration. 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. Who said furniture isn’t art?

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Norm Architects balances "richness and restraint" in refresh of Alsterhaus' menswear department

Dezeen

We looked to Mies van der Rohe and Adolf Loos for inspiration on natural materials with inherent characteristics that form textures and colours while evoking sensations of warmth, cold balancing feelings of soft and hard to the touch," she told Dezeen.

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Pianca introduces echoes of nature into their new furniture for Milan Design Week 2021

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Pianca presents its latest products for the bedroom and living room: furniture with soft, embracing forms, with echoes of nature and textural balance , designed by Raffaella Mangiarotti, Note Design Studio, and Emilio Nanni. Its classic-inspired forms are reassuringly solemn, distinguished, yet also inviting.

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