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(jiří macek) The Magic Hole polyethylene hollow chair with a disclosed cut, which reveals the artistry of the top-class chemists from the Italian brand of Kartell, is the latest piece by Philip Starck. We have become used to the fact that Kartell continues to exceed the technological possibilities of plastic and our imagination in the field of chairs with each passing year. However, the company always has something more to say.   ...more

(jiří macek) The opulent Luciola chandelier, designed for the luxury Italian brand of Driade by Fabio Novembre, looks like a birdcage from the 19th century. The diodes sit on perches and silently glow from their songs.   ...more

(jiří macek) The Dutch designer duo of Arjan van Raadshooven and Anieke Branderhorst designed the Flex vase, on which one can change the top part and, thus, have several vases, plus the edition of CableLamps made from cables for their own label of vij5. Although they describe their style as very simple, their products conceal a lot of unexpected solutions in which the designers combine existing elements.   ...more

(jiří macek) We often write about the British duo of Israeli designers, Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay. So far we have focused only on their auctorial projects. However, their premiere in the field of products made in lot-productions deserves mentioning. The renowned Italian brand of Cappellini presented the first results of their collaboration at Design Week in Milan.   ...more

(jiří macek) Marcel Wanders, the vizier of mannerism and decoration, has created a very decorative Sparkling chair from recycled PET bottles for the Italian brand of Magis. Even though he skillfully plays with the traditional morphology of PET bottles conditioned by manufacturing technologies, it is great that he has nothing in common with the horrors frequently created under the banner of recycling.   ...more

(jiří macek) The London-based Royal College of Art recently had a joint presentation with other Dutch and British schools and independent studios as part of a new designer spot located close to the Lambarte metro station. While their Dutch colleagues from the city of Eindhoven occupied the ground floor of the new residential building and queried the meaning of designer work, the royal Londoners transformed a run-down factory building into an imaginary conceptual hotel.   ...more

(jiří macek) The luxury Milan-based showroom of Sawaya & Moroni contains a bench in the form of a prehistoric saurian. The bench was designed by the French and New Zealand designer duo of Jakob & MacFarlane who considered the geometry of the bench to be much more important than the saurian.   ...more

(jiří macek) The Comeback technopolymer chair by Patricia Urquiola, presented by Kartell in Milan last week, is a beautiful quotation of the traditional Winsdor chair and a demonstration of the possibilities of plastic, which is Kartell’s sovereign material.   ...more

(jiří macek) The Transformation table, designed by the Swedish studio of Front for Established and Sons, is at first sight just a minimalist, refined, delicate, rounded, layered, wooden, flower table or shelf. As if that was not enough, one can turn a part of the table through an angle of 180 degrees and discover a brand new world determined solely for the user.  ...more