2010 Designer Furniture World Cup: Italy 1 – Denmark 1
The opening match of the 2010 (smow) designer furniture World Cup pitted not only two of the great design nations against each other, but two of the most influential post-war European designers: Verner...
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Day two of the 2010 (smow) designer furniture World Cup and the first all female match: Patricia Urquiola against Hella Jongerius. As expected Urquiola started in her typical robust, voluminous fashion...
View Article2010 Designer Furniture World Cup: Scotland 1 – Israel 1
Although stylistically worlds apart both Ron Arad and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are united by their individual and uncompromising style and approach to design. As expected it was Charles Rennie...
View Article2010 Designer Furniture World Cup:Italy 0-Belgium 0
Following his ankle injury Cesare “Joe” Colombo was replaced for this match by Antonio Citterio, one of the most experienced designers in the Italian squad. Opening with a quick Mobil for Kartell...
View Article2010 Designer Furniture World Cup: Japan 0 – Israel 0
Although the majority of Ron Arad‘s work could squash most of Isamu Noguchi’s, he played fair and held back from producing a Well-Tempered chair, preferring instead to work on variations in plastic....
View ArticleKartell chairs and Prada handbags
The other week we briefly swapped our designer chairs for designer jeans, our crazy student sideboards for crazy student hats and and our designer bookcases for designer handbags: It was Berlin Fashion...
View ArticleAnna Castelli Ferrieri
August 6th marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Italian architect, designer and Kartell co-founder Anna Castelli Ferrieri. Despite initial flirtations with modernism, including a trip to...
View ArticleStockholm Design Week 2011: Interview with Front
As part of Stockholm Design Week 2011 Kartell presented the magazine rack Front Page by Stockholm design studio Front. Clever word play and all….. Although formally launched at Milan 2010 Front Page is...
View Article(smow)intern: The Designer Furniture Catalogue 2011
Luddites! Not a phrase normally associated with (smow) To the best of our knowledge no (smow)employee has ever smashed an iPad or capped a WiFi service in protest at the creeping and increasingly...
View ArticleA&W Designer of the Year 2012: Patricia Urquiola
For a decade and a half the unofficial start to Cologne Furniture Week has been the honouring of the “A&W Designer of the Year” Awarded by the German magazine “A&W Architektur & Wohnen”,...
View Article(smow) blog Design Calendar: 18th January 1949 – Happy Birthday Philippe Starck!
A few years ago the (smow) blog telephone rang….. “Good morning is it possible to speak to Philippe Starck please?” enquired the caller. “I’m sorry he’s not here at the moment” we replied, truthfully,...
View Article(smow) blog compact: Kartell celebrate a decade of Bourgie by Ferruccio Laviani
It’s probably indicative of the transiency of the contemporary furniture business, but during the recent Maison & Objet in Paris, Milanese manufacturer Kartell celebrated 10 years of the lamp...
View Article(smow) blog Design Calendar: August 6th 1920 – Happy Birthday Anna Castelli...
“Plastic was equivalent with America for us. Only Bakelite came from Europe. Right? But after the war, everything plastic came to Italy from the States. Purely commercial stuff, but every year a new...
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Happy Safer Internet Day 2010 – Think before you Post
Safer Internet Day 2010 9th February 2010, Brussels Under the motto “Think before you Post” the from the EU funded Safer Internet Day 2010 is focused primarily on how one deals with privacy in the...
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(smow) in Milan 2010: Kartell “Welcome Black 2010″
The undisputed highlight of the Kartell stand at Saloni Milano 2009 was the cat and mouse game with the special forces Kartell had hired to prevent visitors taking photographs. Despite the Kartell...
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Kartell chairs and Prada handbags
Finally a good use for designer jeans..... The other week we briefly swapped our designer chairs for designer jeans, our crazy student sideboards for crazy student hats and and our designer bookcases...
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Anna Castelli Ferrieri
Anna Castelli Ferrieri (1920-2006) August 6th marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Italian architect, designer and Kartell co-founder Anna Castelli Ferrieri. Despite initial flirtations with...
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Stockholm Design Week 2011: Interview with Front
Front Page by Front for Kartell As part of Stockholm Design Week 2011 Kartell presented the magazine rack Front Page by Stockholm design studio Front. Clever word play and all….. Although formally...
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(smow)intern: The Designer Furniture Catalogue 2011
Luddites! Not a phrase normally associated with (smow) To the best of our knowledge no (smow)employee has ever smashed an iPad or capped a WiFi service in protest at the creeping and increasingly...
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A&W Designer of the Year 2012: Patricia Urquiola
A&W Designer of the Year 2012: Patricia Urquiola For a decade and a half the unofficial start to Cologne Furniture Week has been the honouring of the “A&W Designer of the Year” Awarded by the...
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