Sé Flagship Showroom opening September

Sé Flagship Showroom opening September

An addition to Brompton Design District

Sé is proud to announce the opening of a flagship showroom on the Fulham Road to coincide with this year's London Design Festival.

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Kartell's London Flagship

Kartell's London Flagship

Brompton Design

Kartell opened its first Flagship Store in 2016 at 223 Brompton Road in London. Its collection comprises furnishings, tableware, lighting, fragrances, bathroom fittings and fashion accessories – a new concept for the multifaceted Kartell lifestyle.

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Cow Dung Goes High Design

Cow Dung Goes High Design

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Two Italians are turning manure into renewable electricity —and the inspiration for a museum.
Following the scent of one big idea.

THE DAIRY FARMER Gianantonio Locatelli climbed up the steel ladder and peered over the brim of a large corrugated vat, about the size of a very deep above-ground swimming pool. “It’s full!” he exclaimed, with warbling joy. “It’s beautiful!”

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Design of St Kilda centre on Isle of Lewis unveiled

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The design of a proposed visitor centre dedicated to the history, wildlife and geology of St Kilda has been unveiled.

The building is to be constructed at a cliff-top site at Mangersta in Uig on Lewis - about 41 miles (66km) east of the remote archipelago.

Building on St Kilda's main island, Hirta, was ruled out because bad weather can restrict access to the small group of isles.

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London Olympicopolis: the design we might’ve had

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Plans for the cultural hub to be built on the site of the 2012 London Olympics have been called ‘dull as ditchwater’. It could have all been so different, judging by an inventive, rejected proposal seen here for the first time

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Viewpoint: Bridging the gap between design research and practice [CARLOS GONZALEZ, STAR TRIBUNE]

Viewpoint: Bridging the gap between design research and practice

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Kelly Munson works as a “creative” at the ad agency mono and begins as a “designer in residence” at the University of Minnesota this week. “I feel that designers need to do more to better society,” she said as she got ready for her nine-month position at the U.

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David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue

David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue

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Last summer, early in the morning, I stood out in the main square of Florence to watch the tourists come in. It was quiet. A Zamboni-like street cleaner drove its rounds, leaving wet circles on the paving stones. A vendor unpacked tarp-wrapped souvenirs from the back of his white van.

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"Ugliness, in the cry of the beholder" by Ian Ground

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When considering design one often strives to create the most beautiful solution to the design problem they are faced with. In Ugliness, in the cry of the beholder, written by Ian Ground for the Times Supplement in July 2016, Ground reminds us that sometimes ugly can be just as relevant.

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SCUM Manifesto Revisited: The Verso Podcast with Juliet Jacques, Ray Filar and Sophie Mayer

SCUM Manifesto Revisited: The Verso Podcast with Juliet Jacques, Ray Filar and Sophie Mayer

“Solanas suggests that civil disobedience is more or less the most useless thing you can do. It's the classic radical or ‘extremist’ argument that suggests that a reformist approach to a system is the worst to take because it upholds it. I think that's something that's disappeared from a lot of radical writing — that refusal to collaborate with a system that you find abhorrent.” — Juliet Jacques

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Is Richard Serra’s Legacy Crushing His Brilliance?

Is Richard Serra’s Legacy Crushing His Brilliance?

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"In case you don’t already know it, Richard Serra is a very famous sculptor.

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Off to market: Museum of London shows off its new Smithfield site

Off to market: Museum of London shows off its new Smithfield site

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There are already more than 6m objects in the Museum of London, the largest urban history collection in the world, but its director, Sharon Ament, is acquiring a few more: a row of derelict shops, several tonnes of salt, a giant Edwardian gas burner, an entire street, and a working train line.

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First look: inside the Switch House – Tate Modern's power pyramid

First look: inside the Switch House – Tate Modern's power pyramid

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"Among the shafts of luxury flats sprouting up along the south bank of the Thames, from Battersea to Bermondsey, there is one new tower unlike the others. It is made of brick, not glass, and stands as a squat, truncated pyramid, twisting as it rises.

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Venice architecture biennale 2016 – ideas for real world problems

Venice architecture biennale 2016 – ideas for real world problems

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Architects are insecure about their usefulness. They work with buildings, which are generally large, expensive, long-lived and important to life, but it’s not always obvious what is significant about the specifically architectural aspect of their work – the refinements and rearrangements to the functional object that might otherwise come into being without architects’ help.

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JR makes Louvre pyramid disappear

JR makes Louvre pyramid disappear

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"The French artist JR has created an anamorphosis of the Musée du Louvre's pyramid by entirely covering one of its glass sides with a black-and-white photograph. The image of the museum buildings behind is intended to give the illusion that I.M.Pei's pyramid has temporarily disappeared.

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Sustainable high-rise keeps cool in sultry Singapore with passive design and green roofs

Sustainable high-rise keeps cool in sultry Singapore with passive design and green roofs

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Designing comfortable housing that doesn't require a ton of energy in equatorial Singapore is a challenging feat, but group8asia have risen to the task by creating an eco-friendly high-rise complete with passive ventilation and luscious green roofs. Incorporating vintage design with modern curves, Punggol Waterway Terraces offer both sustainable living and one heck of a view.

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