Category Archives: Furniture

Be Here Now

October 13th, 2010
Bring­ing flexy back – Form­way launches 'Be' into New Zea­l­and market. OK, Ok, enough bad musical puns. It was a while ago now that we first broke the news of Formway's latest office product offer­ing – Be – with this story on the rather innov­at­ive design of the new chair. Be, designed at Formway's Lower Hutt stu­dio, is finally avail­able in New Zea­l­and, [...]
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Gal­lery: Kat­rin Sonnleitner

July 13th, 2010
While we're on the build up to Semi-Permanent, it's worth men­tion­ing the works of Ger­man fur­niture designer Kat­rin Sonnleit­ner. They are, you'd have to agree, quite some­thing else — a clever mix­ture of humour with light fancy — and worthy of a gal­lery spot in their own right. I'll spare you Sonnleitner's bio­graphy (you can read that here); let's just enjoy [...]
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Behind the Scenes

May 31st, 2010
Frank Nel­son talks to United States-based New Zeal­ander Nick Bogle, a movie stu­dio model maker turned fur­niture designer. Though you may not be able to place Nick Bogle’s name or the face, the New Zealander’s career cred­its read like those of a Hol­ly­wood A-lister. He’s worked on the Star Wars pre­quel tri­logy – The Phantom Men­ace, Attack of the [...]
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Cologne Diary

April 28th, 2010
An exhibitor's report from the [D]3 at imm Cologne. Words: Emma Fox-Derwin. Images: Well-Groomed-Fox; Koelnmesse/Lutz Sternstein.
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Alex­an­der Loter­sz­tain at UFL

February 26th, 2010
Two days ago, UFL in Auck­land brought across three inter­na­tional guest speak­ers: Argentina-born designer Alex­an­der Loter­sz­tain, from Derlot, was one. He shared his thoughts on, amongst other things, sus­tain­ab­il­ity, ‘mono-materiality and why design­ers have a respons­ib­il­ity to help poorer countries. For starters, Loter­sz­tain ticks the first box to which all ser­i­ous design­ers should aspire – like Kon­stantin Grcic, [...]
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Product Design: Fink by Fletcher Systems

November 6th, 2009
A New Slant Des­pite it's quite un-Nordic name, Fink is a chair that seems to live up the essence of Scand­inavian mod­ern design prin­ciples. It's sur­feit of style is a dir­ect response to the sim­pli­city of the concept, the choice of mater­i­als and the qual­ity of con­struc­tion. It's a chair that looks well bal­anced and firm on its feet. There's [...]
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