Monthly Archives: June 2012

At the recent New York Design Week, an unlikely pairing collaborated in a unique celebration of American craft and heritage. Raleigh Denim and Bernhardt Design, both North Carolina based manufacturers with strong historical ties to the local people and the region, staged an exhibition "America Made Me", that proudly brought to the for...

Wallpaper* Editor-in-Chief and prolific designer in her own right, Suzanne Trocmé, has been honoured with the 2012 Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Tribute Award. Officially celebrated at an intimate soiree in Milan, Trocme was joined by some of her closest friends and a gathering of International design heavyweights that only served to...

Raffaele Iannello has carved for himself a cosy little creative niche, where whimsy meets marketability. The Italian industrial designer, probably best known for his Alessi-esque (and completely macabre) "Voodoo/The Ex" knife block has a healthy sense of humour and the absurdity of his creations are well received not least in his late...

Award winning designers Lievore, Altherr & Molina (LAM) have spent the past two years rolling out their extensive contract seating and table collection: Lottus. Designed for Spain's premier contract furnishing house, ENEA - Lottus is more than proving itself to be the younger, most versatile and vibrant cousin to the once popular...

Pantone, never one to miss out on a colourful marketing opportunity have thrown their expertise in all things "hued" into developing a Royal Diamond Jubilee collection of colours... just because. Under the byline "Palette Fit for a Queen" Pantone teamed up with advertising giants Leo Burnett to put a right royal spin on this colour ch...

CU-C-ME turns eight this year, and still serves as one of Kenneth Cobonpue's most enduring designs for HIVE.  The CU-C-ME collection is, to this day, still one of HIVE's biggest sellers as well as being one of the most versatile, with the familiar intricate webbing of pulped salago grass fibres dyed and applied to mirrors, lamps, scr...