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

 

CACTO

Iconic design with functional piece of decoration. Cacto was made to fullfill the space with irreverence and humor. Where there is drought there is also beauty, and it was from there that the studio was inspired to create the Cactus. After all, the studio's greatest inspiration, the master Luiz Gonzaga, was already saying, "Mandacaru when 'blazing' in the drought ...". A design accessory that intrigues, delivers robustness in its shape and traces in a playful way the dry scenery of the Northeast.

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Mini Hatter (RA-501R)

Mini Hatter (RA-501R) is a built-in lamp which can be used both as a downlight and as a spotlight. Its operation is intuitive: when pulled out of the recess, it can swing 90 degrees upside down and rotate 355 degrees as a spotlight; when stay parallel, it's a downlight. The lamp is available with various beam angles and suitable for a focused illumination in retail, museums and household spaces. The LED achieves a particularly good color rendering and supports a pleasant visual comfort.

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Recliner (single)

The Studio Stirling RECLINER hanging swing chair has elegantly curved lines & is sculptural and dynamic with a considered balance point. Fluid & organic, it lends itself for use as a functional art piece. It's gentle movement gives a floating experience with panoramic views of the surroundings. Nature inspired the pattern detailing reminiscent of the veins in leaves, tree branches intersecting & patterns in dragonfly wings. It is extremely comfortable & has a cozy cocoon like feel that embraces your body and soul.

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Amoeba Wall

Amoeba Wall's design is inspired by the fluid forms and mechanisms of amoeba. It is primarily used as a tangible interface to allow users to achieve efficient workspace reconfiguration and dynamic lighting at the same time. The walls will autonomously shape the room around users such as creating small individual offices, open co-working spaces, and private meeting spaces, responding to their needs. Also, it can also form responsive art installation like an endless maze, or a dancing wall that follows the surrounding music.

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Wanda hotel cluster in Sipsongpanna

With a land area of 700 mu, this hotel group, one of the best mountain rain forest resort hotel in the world, is composed of three high-end holiday hotels. Combined with Dai nationality culture, lighting design creates the night in warm, sweet, delicate and artistic atmosphere, which comprehensively expressed the unique Dai nationality culture to the world.

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Greed

There ought to be a feeling of unease and discomfort which will serve as a reminder of the greed of people. The extraneous number of legs of both the table and the chair symbolize such greed. The section of the table connected directly to the cluster of legs expresses the descending negative void of greed. The process to achieve this effect was done personally using diverse fox and tail joinery techniques without requiring much other equipment.

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