This article was published 12 years Man has used leather since prehistoric times, for everything from clothing and shelter to boats and armour. Leather tanning is one of the oldest human activities – early methods using animal fats are mentioned in Assyrian texts and Homer’s Iliad. As the design industry…
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Confessions of a Design Geek
photos of numbers :: 34, 296 & 23
This article was published 12 yearsSticking with this week’s theme, these are all numbers I spotted in Stockholm when I was there for Design Week. The first one was spotted in the workshop area of Farg & Blanche‘s studio. I spotted 296 tucked in between T-bann carriages, much to the…
Confessions of a Design Geek
here’s one I made earlier :: wood tailoring
This article was published 12 years When I met Emma Marga Blanche and Fredrik Färg at Stockholm Design Week last year, they’d just bought each other a state of the art sewing machine for Christmas. They’d also just launched the highly FAB Chair Couture – chairs whose backs you can…
Confessions of a Design Geek
interview :: gamfratesi
This article was published 12 years Guests of honour at this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair were GamFratesi aka Danish architect Stine Gam and Italian architect Enrico Fratesi. I was lucky enough to bag an interview with them in the installation they created for the show… Are you enjoying the show…
Confessions of a Design Geek
out and about :: greenhouse, stockholm furniture fair 2014
This article was published 12 years It’s hard to believe it’s less than a week since I was in Stockholm for Design Week. The main event is the Furniture and Light Fair, and for me the highlight is always Greenhouse, a showcase of recently graduated and independent designers. The standard…