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(smow) Interview: “The thing that would be amazing to try to do is to work...

For 26 years James Irvine has been quietly and unassumingly influencing European industrial design. Immediately after graduating from the London Royal College of Art in 1984 James Irvine moved to Milan...

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Vitra Design Museum: “Zoom. Italian Design and the Photography of Aldo and...

Last summer we spent our annual holiday weekend in a small museum in the north of England discussing the life of a man who had hung himself 30 years previous. And folk say we don’t know how to relax....

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(smow)intern: The Designer Furniture Catalogue 2011

Luddites! Not a phrase normally associated with (smow) To the best of our knowledge no (smow)employee has ever smashed an iPad or capped a WiFi service in protest at the creeping and increasingly...

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(smow) intern: Designer Office Furniture Package

As any one who has celebrated as many birthday’s as us knows – there comes a point in every life where you’re just not prepared to compromise on quality any more. Be it your car, your choice of...

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Milan Design Week 2013: Empatia by Carlotta de Bevilacqua and Paola di...

As it was our first event of Milan Design Week 2013, we’re honouring Artemide with the first post from Milan Design Week 2013. And in specific Empatia by Carlotta de Bevilacqua and Paola di Arianello,...

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(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: April

The biggest April fool is…. us, for always going to Milan! That said, as ever, we did find a few gems amongst the senseless corporate trash….. And after Milan we had the joy of viewing the latest...

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Vitra Design Museum: Lightopia Talk. Richard Sapper – Lifetime Oeuvre.

With the winter solstice behind us and the days growing noticeably longer, the Vitra Design Museum exhibition Lightopia draws slowly towards its natural end. But before the lights finally go out on...

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Lightopia Talk. Richard Sapper @ Vitra Design Museum. Reprise.

Aside from the ability to accurately focus light, Richard Sapper had a further motivation in designing his Tizio lamp: “Another problem was that I am a very disorganised person. On my desk there is no...

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Passagen Cologne 2015: A&W Designer of the Year 2015 – Michele De Lucchi. The...

Much as we tend to shy away from “Designer of the Year” awards, the presentation of German architecture and design magazine A&W’s Designer of the Year award is always an early highpoint of the...

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smow blog Design Calendar: September 18th 1981- Inaugural Memphis Exhibition,...

Celebrated as the salvation of design. Denounced as kitsch. Fresh & invigorating. Vain & hifalutin. A watershed in design history. A passing fad. There are few architecture and design movements...

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