(adam štěch) One can now admire one of the most original approaches to design and fine arts in general from the second half of the last century in its complexity - a surreal and humorous production by the Lalannes is currently exhibited in the Museé des Arts décoratifs in the form of a large retrospective exhibition.   ...more

(jiří macek) Paris-based British designer Lee West has designed the Nemo beverage set, which combines cork and porcelain for the interesting French brand of Eno.   ...more

(jiří macek) Kitchen utensils and glass jars, designed by Jonas Flavio Stokke and Oystein Austad as part of the Basic collection for Frost product, are very simple – so simple and modest that the poetics that originates in them is both wind and motionless meditation. Thus, a new path that links Scandinavia with Japan opens. Even though these are mere kitchen utensils, if Kings of Convenience were not a band, the utensils would suit the name.   ...more

(jiří macek) The winners of the Czech Grand Design 2009 Awards were announced yesterday in the Stavovské divadlo (The Estates Theatre) in Prague. Here they are.   ...more

(jiří macek) Tonight, the Czech Grand Design 2009 Awards will be handed out to the best designers and companies in the field of design in Stavovské divadlo (The Estates Theatre) in Prague. The awards look like submerged angular blocks in which designer Jan Čtvrtník tried to express his perspective on designer work.  ...more

(jiří macek) Jonas Wagell designed a bar in the form of a hyper-naïve landscape for the furniture trade fair that took place in Stockholm in February. Apart from a forest, clouds, little balloons, plus Montmarter chairs and tables, the Odd collection of lights and bowls played a significant role in it.   ...more

(adam štěch) There is no better way to enjoy your tea at five than in the wooden set designed by Japanese designer Jin Kuramoto. He gave an ordinary cup a sculpture-like quality thanks to timeless morphology.   ...more

(adam štěch] One of the biggest annual events of fans of bicycle design starts today, on February 26. The North American Handmade Bicycle Show, a.k.a. NAHBS, opens at the gates of Greater Richmond Convention Centre in Richmond, Virginia where bicycle manufacture and design will be presented as a sacrosanct craft.   ...more

(jiří macek) The brutal architecture of the 1970s and the romanticism of cosmic flights seem to have come alive in the Glove chair designed by the heroic British duo of designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. However, reality is more realistic: the chair is derived from a boxing glove.   ...more

(jiří macek) Even though it is still February, the catalogue of the Danish brand of Hay already includes two new and remarkable chairs. Both of them have been designed by the relatively new Copenhagen-based studio of KiBiSi, which was established by the merger of three renowned studios: Kilo Design of Lars Holme Larsen, the architectural studio of BIG Architekts founded by Bjarke Ingels, and the Skibsted Ideation creative lab of Jens Martin Skibsted, who designed the Biomega bicycles.   ...more