Liquid Geology is a collection of tables designed by the London-based architecture studio CAN. The series features a dining, coffee and side table and continues CAN's experimental research into innovative material use in unexpected contexts.
The products are characterized by chunky rubber coated bases and slimline, steel enamel tops. The steel is hand cut and…
Initiated by Andrea de Chirico in 2015, a project that many of you have already heard of, SUPERLOCAL is a global network that promotes local production.
Born as an alternative to current production methods, SUPERLOCAL pays particular attention to the social and environmental feasibility of industrial processes. Everything is based on the real networks that…
NotPla is a sustainable startup that has created an edible, biodegradable packaging made from seaweed and plants. The product is designed to replace plastic. It all started with Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez and Pierre Paslier who co-founded Skipping Rocks Lab while studying Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art. After their first Ooho video…
deDraft is a young architectural and interiors studio based in North London. Founded in 2010 by practice director Grant Straghan, their aim is to produce simple well-crafted spaces manipulating natural light and using materials rich in character. One of their latest works is AC Residence, a project that required some radical transformations to the interior…
T&V Architects is a London-based studio for architecture, interior design and art, founded by Paola Tuosto and Lorenzo Vianello. The office design approach is rooted in the 15-year experience of the directors, who had been collaborating with leading international practices, such as Foster+Partners, Studio Fuksas, UNStudio and OMA. The firm is inspired by imagination and…
Since the mid-1980s Chila Kumari Burman has been exploring the experiences and aesthetics of Asian femininity in paintings and installations, photography and printmaking, video and film. Challenging stereotypical assumptions of Asian women, her work is informed by popular culture, Bollywood, fashion, found objects, the politics of femininity the celebration of feminity; self-portraiture exploring the production…
According to Adam Nathaniel Furman, design education "brainwashes" students into rejecting colour, pattern and ornament, but a group of London designers is overcoming this bias against their use: Adam named the movement "New London Fabulous" and described it as "design and architecture as a visual and cultural pursuit, which is highly aesthetic, sensual and celebratory…
Founded by Ben Ridley in 2009, Architecture for London is a collaborative, innovative, informed and aspirational studio, which aim is to improve people’s lives by reimagining the city in which we work, live and play. Environmental impact is a key consideration in their work: they take a research-based, fabric first approach to sustainability that carefully…
O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects is a London based practice that was established in 2016 by Jody O’Sullivan and Amalia Skoufoglou having met whilst in practice together fifteen years previously. The studio enjoys involvement in projects of all scales, types and location. One of their project is Harrow Road, undertaken in collaboration with Cathie Curran.…