For the 2011 edition of Dutch Design Week, Netherlands-based giant Philips will be showing five lifelike models of concepts for the Microbial Home, a forward looking group of design concepts that represent an innovative and sustainable approach to energy, waste, lighting, food preservation, cleaning, grooming, and human waste management.
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With its mission to promote and celebrate Architecture with the greater hope of making it accessible to a wider public, the ''Lively Architecture Festival'' came back in full force for the sixth consecutive year in the city of Montpellier in the South of France. Being a must see event in the summer calendar, the FAV festival (Festival des Architectures Vives) transformed Montpellier during the course of five days, into a creative hub with 11 Architectural teams in response to this year theme: “The Encounter”. Via Yatzer
Furniture designer Valentin Loellmann will be showing a new collection of stools and benches as part of an exhibition starting in April at Galerie Gosserez in Paris. To produce the Fall/Winter furniture, Loellmann used mortise and tenon joints to connect hazel branches to an oak top. A mixture of sawdust and glue was used to smooth over the connections, producing a seamless, organic form. The legs were then burned and treated with wax, resulting in an interesting visual contrast between the smooth, light top and the matte black legs. via LSN GLOBAL
Bus cabinet BC01 Made from decommissioned, scrapped aluminium sections of a London bus, salvaged window handles, reclaimed plywood hoardings, metal base and steel top surface. One of two variations made. via Styling and Salvage