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Canadian studio I-V has created a tasty design for Campari Canada’s new Toronto office. Inspired by Campari posters and ingredients, the pastel-coloured workplace pays homage to Italian design. Gruppo Campari, which produces the famous 150-year-old Italian beverage along with a portfolio of other spirits, wines and soft drinks, acquired the Forty Creek Whisky distillery in Grimsby, Ontario, in 2014. The...

Milanese mosaic designer Orodè Deoro has transformed Vondom’s Curvado planter with a hand-cut ceramic coating for an exhibition at Chemin des Arts in Chartres, France. At 180 centimetres in height, the planter is taller than the artist and features a woman’s face and upper body at the front, and a parrot at the back. Created by Deoro and his brother...

Andreu World’s Reverse is an award-winning collection of tables with sculptural presence and great versatility. Designed by Piergiorgio Cazzaniga, Reverse includes a range of sizes and finishes to suit commercial, residential and hospitality environments. Cazzaniga’s work is defined by beauty, simplicity and functionality as he looks to mid-century Scandinavian and American design and the pared-back aesthetic of the Japanese style...

Parachilna in outback South Australia is a long way away from the Spanish design scene, but they both have one thing in common: their stars shine bright. Román Riera and Alfredo Valero established Parachilna in 2014 after many successful years in the lighting industry. Born from the designers’ dedication to decorative lighting, their desire for luxury and their wish to...

With its enveloping form, Andreu World’s Brandy chair works as effortlessly in the boardroom as it does in a living room or waiting room. Brandy is a highly versatile collection of armchairs and lounge chairs that feature an embracing and comfortable design. Designed by Barcelona-based Lievore Altherr Molina, Brandy reflects the multi-disciplinary studio’s humanist approach to furniture design with a...

A noticeable trend in commercial projects is to combine hospitality and workplace design principles to create highly functional office spaces imbued with the sophistication of a hotel. The New Work Project in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has jumped on this movement, creating what the design team describes as “a design-led, service-oriented workspace that sits at the crossroads of hospitality and co-working.” Located...

Voting for Interior Design’s Best of Year awards closes on 16 October. We’ve placed our votes. Have you? Interior Design’s Best of Year awards ceremony honours the most significant work of the year, and recognises the designers, architects and manufacturers that created them. Five KE-ZU brands are nominated this year with a variety of outstanding products that we can certainly attest to...

Blurring the lines of sculpture and utility, LZF’s lighting forms are imaginative and rhythmic. Meet co-founder and creative director of LZF, Mariví Calvo, who has made a career combining artistic and avant-garde methods. Spanish-born Calvo has an eclectic, creative background as an artist. In the early 1990s, while living in Paris, she wrote and developed a surrealist dance performance called...

Manhattan meets Melbourne at Kisumé, the Lucas Group’s newest hospitality venue designed by Wood Marsh Architecture with interiors by Fabio Ongarato Design. Kisumé means “a pure obsession with beauty,” and it is evident throughout the Flinders Lane restaurant and bar. Spread across three levels of a former 1950s office building, Kisumé is a moody, sleek and understated space, like an...

MUT Design is a Spanish practice that’s redefining the design of everyday objects. Creating distinctive and surprising pieces for brands such as Sancal and Expormim, MUT Design’s products have an unmistakable identity. Founded by Alberto Sánchez in 2010, MUT Design is a multidisciplinary team of designers that seek to offer a fresh take on the everyday by finding new forms...