International Contemporary Furniture Fair designs
The wallpaper designed by Tracy Kendall catches the eye at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Passages from A Midsummer Nights Dream have been printed in different fonts, cut into strips and hand-sewn onto a wallpaper backing.
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Cara McCarty admires Tracy Kendalls wallpaper. “What I like about this is its really a piece of conceptual art, says the curatorial director of the Smithsonians Cooper-Hewett National Design Museum.
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Visitors check out Yves Behars prototype sofa for HBF: a minimalist curve cloaked in cloud-white lambs wool and equipped with a built-in desk that slides along the front on a track underneath the sofa. The C Collection was conceived as office furniture a place where employees could lounge in comfort, brainstorm ideas, take notes and work on their laptops.
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At the Pablo booth, fair-goers rotate a magnetized aluminum arm of LED lamps along a steel block base, instantly shifting the 18 lights with seamless ease. The magnetic design means light can be directed down over a desk, bounced up off the ceiling or even shined sideways onto a wall for ambient illumination all from a piece no thicker than a ruler.
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Joris Laarmans WirePod for Artecnica is a decorative riff on the humble surge protector: The vine-like design has individual outlets in the curls.
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Kartells Flip is a folding bar table whose plastic is so flawless in color and translucency that it looks like glass.
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The Dutch collective Moooi’s carbon fiber chair takes a sculptural turn.
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