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The structure is made of certified tropical solid wood called Muirapiranga. A multilayer compound spring gives the backrest stability and flexibility in one. This chair is incredibly comfortable. It's extraordinary light and looks - depending on the cushion-covering - futuristic or nostalgic, but always grafically faultless!

Designer :: Alfredo Häberli

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This year, the 2006 International Design Biennial is happy to send a mainstream invitation to both professionals and the others who, as privileged few, will open out to the world.

There will be several exhibition sites scattered around the city and its outlying parts ; there will be highlights along a course with topics that concern eath of us.

This approach to design is made of diverse points of view and far from being thorough, it is strongly biased as it purports to deal with innovations that it tries to illustrate with many complementary examples... technological examples, scientific, social or even cultural ones.

It is a different way of taking an interest in design for specialists as well as for simple visitors or those who have queries about it ; this shows how design interacts with other fields of activity like science, art, sociology, and philosophy... or even food.

These are different ways of looking at it, combining different professional backgrounds and points of view, allowing our eyes to rest on a new perception of daily life, here and elsewhere, today and tomorrow.

This Biennial relies on the success of the last four editions led by the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Saint-Etienne and spurred by its Director Jacques Bonnaval in 1998.

The 2006 International Design Biennial is worked out and organized by the Cité du Design team, directed by Elsa Francès who is in charge of the Commissariat Général of the Biennial.

The 2006 Biennial team has built this exhibition programme by gathering different exhibition curators, whether they are French or foreign, or people working for the Cité du Design team, French creators and designers and their foreign counterparts, many local companies, regional and international ones, but also students from the Ecole Supérieure d'Art et Design de Saint-Etienne and fifty other schools in the world.

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The second edition of design brussels takes place in Hall 7 of Brussels Expo from 18 till 26 November and runs parallel with two other fairs, Cocoon and Smart Living.

For some time now, Cocoon has specialized in more conventional home style, from traditional to modern. Smart Living is a brand new fair, focusing on the latest technological gadgets for homes, from household appliances and home automation systems to swimming pools.

Together with design brussels, these events now form the home and interior fair, an event unequalled in the Benelux, both in terms of numbers of visitors and size, and offer and completeness.

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3XN’s winning proposal for a new British national museum, the Museum of Liverpool, will establish a dynamic, open and accessible structure that grows out of its riverside site, responding to its historical urban context:

The Museum of Liverpool is to be built at the world famous Liverpool Waterfront. The site is one of the most prominent, located between the Albert Dock and the Pier Head, next to The Three Graces of the Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building and Harbour Board.

The site falls within the Liverpool’s World Heritage Site which was inscribed by UNESCO in 2004. The building is conceived as inclined or elevated platforms, gradually forming a sculptural structure. It will be fully accessible and will contribute to the pedestrian flows along the waterfront instead of blocking them. Situated next to the Pier Head, the Museum will be visible from both the river and the city.

The Museum of Liverpool will become the world’s leading city history museum, showcasing social history and popular culture, and will look at Britain and the world through the eyes of Liverpool.

It is estimated that the new Museum will attract at least 750.000 visitors on a yearly basis, and that Liverpool, with the Museum as a symbol of the Liverpool’s ongoing regeneration, will be elevated into the front rank of European tourist destinations, as well as providing a brilliant place for local families to find out about their own history.

The Museum will be a focal point of 2008 when Liverpool becomes European Capital of Culture. It is with this impetus that the construction of the building will be complete in 2008 and will thereby become a key attraction of the celebration year. Final completion of the museum with the fitting out of the exhibition spaces and experience theatres will be in 2009.

Address :: Mann Island, Liverpool, UK
Client :: National Museums Liverpool
Awards :: 1st prize in limited competition Dec. 2004, Silver Medal at Miami Bienal 2006, USA
Construction period :: 2005-2008; 2008-2010
Museum completion :: 2010
Size :: 10.000 sqm
Project budget :: £65m

Architect, teamleader :: 3XN / Kim Herforth Nielsen, Bo Boje Larsen, Kim Christiansen

3XN team :: Kim Herforth Nielsen, Thomas Käszner, Michael Kruse, Per Damgaard Sørensen, Kim Christiansen, Martin Musiatowicz, Melanie Zim, Thomas Kranz, Jeanette Due Andersen, Jakob Nielsen, Marianne Els, Morten Mygind, Rikke Zachariassen, Pia Halstrup, Jørgen Søndermark

Engineer :: Buro Happold

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The fresh patterns are printed in a color-saturated palette - now with water-based inks - on a variety of grounds, including matte silver and gold foils.
The organic promenade sports a bundle of french tulip blossoms arranged in loose horizontal bands - a tulip festival on a roll. the dramatic, yet sweet, peekaboo, features a high-impact, graphic trellis accentuated by a dimensional shadow.

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Architect Eva Harlou - located in Copenhagen, Denmark - is a former competition design managing architect in 3XN. Eva Harlou provides small and large scale buildings, residential-areas, exterior- and interior design.

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Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space?

The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialise free hand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique method where two advanced techniques are combined. Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture(...) >> FRONT website

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Diava

Simple and compact night lamp with a fluorescent light bulb.
Two kinds of glass are used: clear (transparent) and colored (pigmented). The light bulb is inside.

Homage to BLOCK LAMP by Harry Koskinen.

Tolik

A table lamp.

Semitransparent plastic lampshade in a classical shape is built into a chrome-plated steel frame.
The frame is made this way to allow an easy carrying of the lamp, using the frame as a handle.

Studio MWD (MANWORKS Design) was found in 2006.
We make original and technically accurate design for different products.
Well sold product must be up to a certain quality, which is why our job is creating the circumspect and effective solution.
Industrial design for us is the right idea & perfect realization.

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