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Design What

Design What featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Petra

Petra is a massive volcanic stone dining table for indoor/outdoor use: a homage to the Mexican terrain that portrays its whims and character through its materials and impeccable craftsmanship. Through its surface, etched lines run connecting each of the three circles of polished stone strategically mirroring the monoliths underneath.

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Relax

A chair that can be split into a furniture for leaning and a coffee table. Taking mortise and tenon which is the soul of Chinese furniture as the starting point, and combining the characteristics which can be assembled and disassembled, it can realize the multi-purpose of one thing in the form of combination. It can not only meet the requirements of modern furniture generalization and standardization, but also contain Chinese national characteristics and traditional culture.

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Liyue

The formation of Chinese "Ritual and Music Culture" is based on the harmony of heaven and earth and nature, which represents the spirit of Harmony and the natural order of heaven and earth. All things can be born because of the existence of harmony (the spirit of music). The designers seized the beauty of the rituals and rhythms in the "Ritual and Music Culture" to craft this chair that combines both Chinese and Western cultures, to perpetuate the amazing culture that has developed along with human civilization in an innovative form.

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Barro

Barro Lamp captures the warmth of nature in a composition of clay and glass. This pendant lamp is made of two elements where the Mexican city of Oaxaca is the main character. Molded by San Bartolo Coyotepec craftspeople who have mastered Barro Negro since pre-Columbian times; a blown-glass dome covers the clay structure: symbolic protection guarding precious objects. Barro lamp is available in two versions: red clay and transparent shade and black clay with a gray shade.

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Seven

Seven is a wind chime with a new structure utilizing Tensegrity structure. In the unstable social climate of recent years, people are constantly moving between stability and anxiety. The Tensegrity structure is the structure that embodies current society. It appears to be floating and stable, but external forces such as wind cause it to sway in order to maintain equilibrium. By converting this swaying into sound, it resonates through space and adds healing and color to daily life.

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Su Series

A spirit of refinement, Su is a power that develops inside through time. In other terms, it is an inward state of self-sufficiency. It is frequently not a demand that is directed outside toward nothing but rather an ongoing quest within oneself. Su have decided for the approach that is both the most natural and practical in expressing the showroom as a home. The limitless imagination and the yearning to investigate what it means to call a place "home" are both stoked by the combination of NAPP's highly methodical goods and a compelling brand design promise.

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