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Seat yourself

Design News > Product Design

Karim Rashid’s furniture designs for Punkalive combines elements of the natural world with mathematical constructs. >

29 Jan 11
Obstinate seating

Design News > Product Design

Jurgen Bey says chairs are never used in the way they were designed to be used. His Stubborn Chair rebels against this notion. >

9 Jan 11
Unintended

Design News > Product Design

Karim Rashid's latest collection of furniture explores the spaces between artistic concept and technological boundaries. >

13 Dec 10
Kurukuru-maki

Design News > Craft / Graphic Design & Illustration

A Heath Nash chair design that you can make at home. >

1 Nov 10
Stylish and stackable

Design News > Product Design

The Troy Chair by Marcel Wanders brings together elegance, comfort and practicality. >

27 Oct 10
Sitting on Bob

Design News > Product Design

Bob's not your uncle, but a new masculine garden chair designed by Hella Jongerius. >

13 Oct 10
Suspension seating

Design News > Product Design

The SAYL Chair is stylish, ergonomic and eco-friendly. But isn’t that exactly what we expect from Yves Béhar and Herman Miller? >

13 Oct 10
At home on a Paper Plane

Design News > Product Design

Doshi Levien’s new range of furniture for Moroso, Paper Planes, incorporates Swarovski crystal elements into functional design. >

1 Aug 10
Second chances

Design News > Product Design

Haldane Martin’s re-edition prototype of the Globe Chair is making this everyday household item a must-have. >

13 Jun 10
Young and grey

Design News > Product Design

Maarten Baas’s latest solo exhibition, Grey Derivations, deploys grey and red pigmented resin on a steel frame. >

7 Jun 10
Exhibitor success story: Tyred Furniture

Design News > Product Design

Using tyres as chairs seems like something you would do in the heart of the bush, around a fire. Tyred is a very different idea. >

30 May 10
Six chairs from Milan 2010

Design News > Industrial Design / Product Design

Alejandro Aravena, Tokujin Yoshioko, Patricia Urquiola, Marcel Wanders, Thomas Heatherwick and François Azambourg take a seat. >

21 May 10
BarberOsgerby stool made in KZN

Design News > Craft / Product Design / African Design

Design Indaba Expo 2010: Khumbulani Craft has signed an exclusive production contract with the internationally renowned BarberOsgerby. >

25 Feb 10
Respect cheap design

Design News > Product Design

Renowned Catalan designer Martí Guixé makes three new additions to his ongoing series of “statement chairs”. >

2 Nov 09
Hot metal

Design News > Product Design

Using three different production means, Tom Dixon explores metal in his British Steel exhibition. >

14 Jun 09
South Africans in Milan

Design News > Product Design / Craft

After debuting at the Design Indaba Expo, four South African designers exhibited at the Milan Furniture Fair under the Misael label. >

14 May 09
Stephen Burks answers all at DI2009

Design News > Product Design / Craft

Design Indaba 2009 was not Stephen Burks’s first visit to South Africa. >

16 Mar 09
Fabulous fantasia

Q&A > Product Design

Marcel Wanders has designed more than a lifetime’s worth of knotted chairs – he’s designed himself. >

2 Feb 09
A kick and a wink

Opinion > Industrial Design

Toshiyuki Kita has always applied his Japanese heritage to his European designs - and vice versa - to create flexible forms. >

1 Feb 08
New old solutions

Design News > Design Thinking

Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet. >

1 Aug 07
Super normal

Design News > Industrial Design / Product Design

Jasper Morrison has evolved from semi-industrial mixed components to a fresh appreciation of timeless or "super-normal" classics. >

1 May 07

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