Considering the quake

Runa Mathiesen
Feature, Glass Design
If you are curious about what lies beneath the skin of contemporary buildings, you might want to pay the exhibition Considering the Quake: Seismic Design on the Edge a visit. The two curators, Dr Effie B...

Going to the Source

Runa Mathiesen
Feature, Glass Design
Furniture company, The Source was established by the British designer Adam Collins at the start of 2012 with the aim of creating a small and exclusive collection of hand-crafted furniture designs, as well a...

Royal returns

Runa Mathiesen
Feature, Glass Design
  Even among Scandinavian design classics we find changing fashions and fads. Pieces of furniture that have been forgotten will suddenly become the latest "new" discovery. A Classic situation! Th...

A journey into LaLa Land

Runa Mathiesen
Glass Design
Maxime Jacquet’s introduction into the world of design is far from conventional yet his story is strangely familiar, like a classic storyline to a TV show or a film. It is the story of a boy growing up in t...

Many hands make light work

Emilie Lemons
Glass Design
What do you get when you cross an engineer with an art director and a photographer? Oh, and some furniture designers and a few industrial engineers? Haberdashery is the fruit of such a cocktail, a multi-...

A Modern Geppetto

Regner Ramos
Glass Design
The trick to interviewing someone you’ve never met before is to do your research. Not only so that you become familiar with their work but also to see  if you can find out anything about their personality t...

Architecture in time

Christian Parreno
Glass Design
. For philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin, “allegories are, in the realm of thoughts, what ruins are in the realm of things”. In this formulation, ruins constitute the material expression of places that o...

A chair in our times

Runa Mathiesen
Glass Design
The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford are surrounded by centuries of traditions and thus possess a very special historic allure, which does not only surround the actual buildings, but also the ...

Emotive design

Harry Cohen
Archive, Design, Glass Design
Despite her humble demeanour, British designer Ilse Crawford has a lot to be proud of. Originally the founding editor of interior decoration bible Elle Decoration UK, Crawford went on to found her own design co...