Luxury automotive manufacturer, Bentley is unveiling a new line of contemporary furniture in collaboration with Club House Italia.
Combining Bentley Motor’s iconic penchant for traditional craftsmanship and luxury finishes with Club House Italia’s slick design aesthetic, the collection will comprise furniture and homeware pieces designed to adorn the interiors and offices of “discerning customers” and fans of each brand.
Bentley’s interior aesthetic
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The Design Museum in London has collaborated with Swiss design company Vitra to produce a pop-up garden that celebrates the start of summer.
The Design Museum Tank, the glass display area outside the Design Museum, is now home to a pop-up garden on the River Thames riverfront.
Pieces by the design world’s biggest names, including Edward Barber, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Charles
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New York’s newest design show, Collective Design Fair explores the blurring line between art and design.
Sebastian Errazuriz
Founded and created by Steven Learner, the fair comprises 24 international galleries that represent the best of what contemporary and vintage design has to offer. Our New York editor, Rita Nakouzi, selects her top picks from the inaugural edition.
When you first walk into the
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Tomorrow, European design platform Glass Is Tomorrow will arrive in Brussels.
This traveling exhibition and ongoing project aims to establish and promote, “a more fluid exchange of knowledge and competencies between glass and design professionals.”
Following stop-offs at the Biennale Internationale Design in Saint-Étienne, and MOST Salone in Milan in April, Glass Is Tomorrow will reside in the beautiful Ampersand House until
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Famous for vintage-inspired prints and cutesy homewares, Cath Kidston unveiled a concept house and café as part of the brand's F/W 13 collection preview.
Moving-on from the more traditional floral prints associated with the brand, over 30 new designs were presented, comprising “more hints of prints” than “kitsch print overload”.
To best showcase this younger, fresher aesthetic, a concept house was installed
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Opened today, global affairs and culture magazine Monocle has unveiled a stylish new cafe in the heart of London.
Monocle Café will serve coffee and edibles to busy city dwellers and visitors alike, in a stylish interior devised by in-house designer Yoshitsugu Takagi.
"We wanted to create a relaxed space for a morning coffee meeting, a lengthy weekend lunch with the papers,
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Winners of the W Hotel Designers of the Future Award were announced yesterday in a special ceremony in Milan, held during the 52nd edition of Salone Internazionale del Mobile.
Objects series by Seung-Yong Song
Designers Seung-Yong Song, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Jon Stam and Royal College of Art former student Bethan Laura Wood have all scooped the prestigious award for their preliminary
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With Milan Design Week already in full swing, our editors are out in the field reporting back to us with the key design directions and interiors trends from this world-renowned furniture fair.
Triangles by Bertjan Pot
Some of our top sightings from the show, so far, include the above, beautiful, kaleidoscopic rugs and furniture coverings by Netherlands based, interior design studio Bertjan
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Last Thursday, Stylesight attended the Issue 7 launch of design magazine Connecting the Dots.
Co-published with ELLE Decoration in a rich back-to-back edition, the magazine offers insight into contemporary Dutch design.
For the current issue, eight, influential and established Dutch designers have been profiled by way of interviews and individual portraits. The designers, all 50+ years, represent a generation that was trained
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This beautiful and intimate, pop up gallery space in New York is by appointment only, and is currently residing in a disused subway staircase in Lower Manhattan.
Discreet in appearance, S2A is accessed through a small red door. Once inside, visitors pay a small fee of $2.50 before being led down a narrow stairwell to the exhibition area. Only three visitors
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Fusing contemporary design with traditional African weaving techniques, the Interwoven exhibition at Habitat’s Platform Gallery on King’s Road in London features 40 interior design pieces, including stunning handmade baskets and tableware.
Mixing diverse materials including dyed grass and waste fabrics with fashion forward fluorescent hues and contemporary silhouettes, this intriguing exhibition includes the work of five U.K. designers (all former Central
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“Hand Made shows what crafts were, are and can be.” Stylesight traveled to Rotterdam this weekend to attend the Hand Made exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Dedicated to Dutch and European craftsmanship from the Middle Ages to the present day, the show presents a stunning array of objects, from everyday household things to extraordinary luxury artifacts. To enrich and complete
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Presented at the Saint-Etienne Design Biennial in France, these beautiful, pastel tables by Nendo are decorated and marked using colored pencils.
The process involves using a Japanese technique called Udukuri, in which the soft parts of Cyprus wood are gently carved to reveal its natural grain. Nendo have then laid sheets of light paper over the wood, before delicately tracing the
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Every year Muuto hosts a competition for Nordic design students, receiving hundreds of entries from all over Scandinavia. The winner was just announced for 2012: Swedish design student Charlotte Ackemar.
Her Tick Tock Wooden Clock is a beautiful sculptural piece inspired by the grandfather clock. Working entirely with birch, she stripped down the forms to geometries and lines, and brought the
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As part of a group exhibition at TextielMuseum in Tilburg, The Netherlands, design studio Formafantasma has created a series of silk textiles inspired by the museum’s rich archives.
The work takes inspiration from the museum’s Driessen collection; a unique acquisition of print experiments made by Felix Driessen and his family at their cotton printing company, Leidsche Katoen Maatschappij, during the early
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