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Following the previous post we feel we should say a few more words about the design duo Iskos-Berlin. Although the studio has only been around since 2010, founders Boris Berlin and Aleksej Iskos are veterans on the nordic design scene. Berlin co-founded, with Paul Christiansen, legendary Komplot Design studio in 1987 where also Iskos worked as an assistant.
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Copenhagen based studio Iskos-Berlin has a very particular way of consolidating organic form with industrial design aesthetics and the Fiber Chair for Muuto is their characteristic take on the iconic shell chair. A while back we stumbled upon some versions of the chair at Muuto HQ.
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We were sorry to see innovative interior retailer Please Wait To Be Seated close down its gallery on Borgergade in Copenhagen, however they have not been idle and now return with their first own production designed by ingenious Dutch studio OS Δ OOS.
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The nomadic Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition or S.E (short for Snedkernas Efterårsudstillning) has this year taken up residency at KADK (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation) with 34 prototypes on display. As usual there is a theme, and the pieces on display presents variations and interoperation on this theme. This year’s theme: textility.
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During the past years we visited a number of exhibitions that in different capacities presented ideas and speculations on the future.In Panorama Konstantin Grcic draws from his own works, Sense No-sense examine recent Dutch design experience and technology and The Fab Mind consider design approaches to social issues. Closer to home, curator Petra Lilja departed from recent resurrection of craft for The Future is Handmade, outlining the current state of craft-oriented design and studio production. It’s a diverse collection of obejcts ranging from more traditional craft (Carsten Nilsson) to conceptual projects (Studio Formafanstasma) using newly developed manufacturing methods (Staffan Holm).
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