Spanish hospitality - Andreu World One furniture manufacturer which has recognized and supported the potential of Spanish creative talent ever since the 1950s is Andreu World. The initially small furniture company has specialized in the production and sale of designer tables and chairs for home living and the commercial world.

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Jörg Boner - Design is teamwork by order He started his career in a team, has been self-employed for the last five years but enjoys working on development projects as part of a group, for a change. The Alma light, for example, is the result of a joint venture with Swiss fashion designer, Lela Scherrer and product designer Christan Deuber.

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Turin - the new World Design Capital The International Council of Societies for Industrial Design (ICSID) has chosen the north Italian city of Turin as the "World Design Capital 2008". We already know that Italy is renowned for its good design. But that a city can be designated the "world design capital" is something new.

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Stephen Burks - or The readymade spirit Marcel Duchamp's famous readymades are objects which have been removed from the sphere of the useful and placed in a new context. For US designer Stephen Burks, this "multiple use" and the fact that our perception influences the intuitive use of an object are highly inspiring.

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Solid jewels Now that the market for big boys and girls is saturated, it is evidently the little ones' turn. Jacobsen's Ameise chair and Panton's chair have long been available for children too, and now Living Jewels is continuing the trend with its Serie_01 furniture. The items are a miniature version of the LC2 series designed by Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand, or rather something close to the original. After all, the cubic armchair LC2, which we know well enough from talk shows and reception areas, is one of the modern furniture classics.

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The choreography of production - Sarah van Gameren She is not an engineer, yet she loves machines. She is not a performance artist, yet she gives design a theatrical component. She is not a pyrotechnic, yet she loves playing with fire. Sarah van Gameren does not stage the end product, she makes the production process a spectacle.

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Explosions of light - Vicente García Jiménez Fields is the name of the luminaire, which builds upon the basic geometric shape of the rectangle, by the young Spanish designer Vicente García Jiménez for Foscarini. Different sized rectangles overlap on several levels, creating different areas of light and shadow. Jiménez developed the idea for this striking luminaire from a view of the rural expanses of the region where he grew up, La Mancha.

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Tobias Rehberger's "the chicken-and-egg-no-problem wall-painting" This is the place to enjoy it, the real fun of a productive confusion of the senses and the mind. Because Tobias Rehberger, who together with Claus Richter will this year be creating a major installation in the Frankfurt Festhalle on the occasion of "The Design Annual - inside: showtime", is currently leaving viewers marvelously puzzled, not to say astonished in Amsterdam.

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Mondrian speaks Italian - Ferruccio Laviani It can be quite a burden to accept an inheritance. In this case, it may help to nurture a somewhat uncomplicated dialog with color, material and form, like Ferruccio Laviani, born in Cremona (Italy) in 1960, whose approach gives him a definite advantage.

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It's my Favourite! - Sandra Hofmeister's book "My Favourite Chair" It is a man's best friend - even though it does not always have four legs and neither is it alive, but it is always there for us, especially when our steadfastness wavers slightly: the chair.

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On purposive beauty - Sebastian Bergne In the midst of limited special editions and installations fit for a theater, today some may be asking whether there are any designers left who create such profane things as vacuum cleaners, for example? Yes, there are! One who is full of enthusiasm when it comes to identifying functional shortcomings, user needs and other requirements is Sebastian Bergne.

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Fundstücke: Light and semantics in the work of Hannes Wettstein Living light can be felt and experienced in various ways - as brightness and darkness, as concentrated rays or as reflections on a wall. Swiss designer Hannes Wettstein speaks in this context of "light semantics". And it was the key factor determining his design for the Scope family of luminaires.

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