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New York businessmen are known for holding meetings standing up. Businessmen in Tokyo sometimes contemplate tricky problems for hours in group silence. But in London, thanks to Christopher Duffy’s novel design for this table and chairs, meetings will go with a swing! Read more

Photo: Michael Villardi.

Guillermo Bernal is an architect, academic, designer and artist with an interest in reptile skin and fruit with tough skins. Skins have physical functional qualities, such as protection, and containment, but their aesthetic and textural qualities such as colour and roughness also have function essential to the animal or fruit such as enticing the the fruit to be eaten by some animals but not others.

This piece is an experiment in the exploration of the processes that might form such skins and how by manipulating them, the forms and sculptural qualities of familiar objects might be explored. Read more

Photo credits: Jack Frost Design.

The Terranos Cabinet is the first major piece from a promising young Australian designer, Jack Frost, who is still at college!

He describes the piece as topography inspired by the natural topography of his beloved homeland, Australia. Read more

Photos: Nathan Yong.

I wonder how many of us would recognize the name Bob Clampett and Fritz Freleng? I think most of us however have seen and been delighted with their work. Clampet, a cartoonist, created the character in 1942 that Freleng would develop into “Tweety” in 1947. The cartoon also starring Sylvester the Cat that won Warner Brothers its first Academy Award for the Best Short Subject (Cartoons).

Have you got the connection yet? Read more

Imagine breakfast time: They are under starter’s orders, toast ready, and they are off! Red pulls into the lead with yellow on his tail, orange is close behind followed by blue…

There is a real chance that breakfast times could be chaotic given sufficient children each riding a Blooey rocking chair. But that is an adult talking… Read more