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Design What

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

 

Cenear

The Cenear Bench draws inspiration from the graceful curves and rich heritage of tea gardens, seamlessly merging contemporary Chinese furniture elements with an homage to historical culture. Crafted to encourage open communication, it boasts a soft cushion seat affixed to a wooden frame, accompanied by two differently colored shaped cushions for adaptable comfort. The bench caters to the modern user's penchant for personalized seating configurations, featuring curved sections and supportive backrests that encourage relaxed and engaging conversations.

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Infinity

Cesare Arosio, architect and designer, designed the Infinity project with circles and compound curves, giving it an organic shape. His inspiration comes from art, contemporary design and the company's craftsmanship. He has managed to give the product a unique style that also makes the creative eclecticism appreciated, which blends modernism and minimalism in an organic form. This console revisits the unique detail of the geometric alveolar base, enhancing it thanks to a series of soft curves. To achieve this ambitious goal, raw materials such as wood.

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Hone

Hone shelf is a timeless and magnetic design inspired by natural forms, and arises as a reinterpretation of a traditional shelf through a conceptual alteration of the physical properties of the material. In this way, the solid wood becomes elastic in a conceptual way. By doing so, the vertical supports stretch outwards isolating the horizontal planes, giving movement to the whole piece and promoting load transmission. The aim is to highlight the organic essence of the piece, its living personality and to contrast the strength of its mass with the lightness and subtle contact with the ground.

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O3Connect

The stool with beautiful hollow bracing structure managed from the interlocking three circular curvature by laminated wood bending into shape, Using natural wood bending and multi-layer pressurized shaping technology, showing the elasticity and toughness of natural materials, covering with high quality of hand stitching leather. Warm and smooth visually and yet sturdy and strong to holds weight up to 140kg.

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Hana

Hana Chair is an elegant piece of furniture inspired by plant nature. Like a flower, Hana blossoms into two petals as a structural and functional solution to the requirements of a chair, forming the backrest, the seat and embracing the body of the user. The material used could only be solid wood, enhancing its curves and natural beauty.

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Xu Wei

Hidden in the ancient city with a history of 2,500 years, the project is fused with ambient small-scale residences. The lighting design is low-key and introverted, without noise or disturbing people. It uses light in a restraining yet precise manner, to balance the relationship between lighting and building, landscape and people and highlight the charm of architecture, a sense of depth of distant and close views of Xu Wei's ink wash painting and the night atmosphere and appreciation value of architecture and surroundings. It creates modes for various scenes in the urban cultural space.

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