Stay put with RETROit Dunes Also from SACKit is a new version of the popular RETROit casual lounge chair in cognac Dunes leather from Sorensen’s Leather. Sorensen Leather are the exclusive leather suppliers for Arne Jacobsen’s iconic Egg and Swan chairs, as well as many other classic design collections in museums, galleries and showrooms worldwide. […]
(smow) Australia is proud to introduce to Australia So Oder So, a simple and clever shelving system designed by Daniel Kern for the award winning German designer and manufacturing company Nils Holger Moormann. So Oder So translates from German into English as “either way”. It takes the concept of the least amount of sizes to […]
SACKit ® now available in Australia from (smow) Australia SACKit® from Denmark redefines the Beanbag – RETROit Always Comfortable! The RETROit beanbag revolutionizes beanbag design. The only beanbag on the market designed with two divided compartments giving you comfortable seating, just like a recliner. Unlike a conventional beanbag, you will never have to shape it […]
October is the office furniture markets bi-annual pilgrimage to Cologne Germany for the Orgatec expo. Orgatec can be, let’s say a bit boring (in a product sense) but Cologne has some good drinking establishments to lighten the trip. We can vouch that the multilevel and in parts medieval the “Frueh”; is well worth a visit! […]
Workshopped is an innovative Australian company who “…..nurture Australian design excellence and facilitate successful commercial relationships between designers, industry and the market, both locally and internationally.” To encourage this they have been running an annual exhibition that has now presented the work of over 300 Australian and New Zealand designers to over half-a-million people. This year as […]
“Nils Holger Moormann’s designs have won over 170 awards. Not just the furniture but also the catalogues of the furniture, win awards for their design. Nils has a dislike for the furniture industries ‘tear sheet” brochures, which usually end up being thrown away! Moormann’s catalogues are not only a reference book but also a beautiful […]
Replica’s Dirty Little Secret In Australia, or as I like to call it “Great Southern Land of the Knock off”, not just classic chairs but any product that might be selling well, even one from a young upcoming Australian designer, can be copied and sold under the guise of a “replica”. It’s not only the […]
Iconic Australian Houses- Iconic chairs Following on from the last post on the exhibition “Iconic Australian Houses” by Karen McCartney, we are delving inside these iconic houses and in particular looking at iconic chairs. The Rose Seidler House was Austrian Harry Seidler’s first commission ‘the most talked about house in Sydney’ when finished in 1950 […]
Nils Holger Moormann is now available as single pieces –well, more his furniture pieces: They present themselves on 160 pages in the new photo brochure Vol. 3 and they present themselves as well in their single components … …page through it here…
Is an exhibition that has just opened at the Museum of Sydney, the exhibition is curated by and based on two books, Iconic Australian Houses 50/60/70 and 70/80/90 by Karen McCartney. Karen has written for the British, ‘Elle Decoration’ and ‘Financial Times’ and edited Marie Claire, ‘Lifestlye’ before become founding editor for Australian interiors magazine ‘Inside […]
