Tag Archives: Furniture

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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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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Inter­view: Jasmax’s Tim Hoo­son & Nick Moyes

January 25th, 2010
Max in, Max Out Jas­max were respons­ible for both the base build­ing and the interi­ors at the recently com­pleted NZI Centre. ProDesign spoke with two lead archi­tects about the motiv­a­tions for the 5 green star-rated building. Inter­view: Michael Bar­rett. Pho­to­graphy: Simon Devitt. From ProDesign, issue 104 (with addi­tional images). Share/Save
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Where we Work

November 19th, 2009
For­ging On – A Steel­works Home for a Graphic Foundry (and its sneaker collection). Words: Michael Bar­rett. Pho­to­graphy: Phil­lip Simpson. Ok, call me totally super­fi­cial. The reason I really like Switch’s new work­space at the Steel Works is because it has really cool stools. Yes, those ones –the Pantone-referencing custom-made wheelie stools that glide so eas­ily across the über-smooth, newly [...]
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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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