DeTnk - Featured Works

Iconic Design of the Month

Collecting Design — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:03:57 +0100

To celebrate the anniversary of the Bauhaus, where Mies van der Rohe was the director from 1930 until the closing of the school in 1933, Knoll are presenting a limited edition version of his iconic Barcelona Chair.

As a rising figure of the modernist movement, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was selected to design the Weimar Republic's Pavillion for the Barcelona Industrial Exposition of 1929.

Caesarstone presents 'Stone Age Folk' by Jaime Hayon

Collecting Design — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:06:41 +0100

Leading quartz manufacturer Caesarstone announces its collaboration with world renowned designer Jaime Hayon for their 2017 Designer Programme, which, since 2013, has pushed the boundaries of experiential design with work from nendo, Raw Edges, Philippe Malouin and Tom Dixon.

Moritz Waldemeyer has raised funds for his mori.london LED candles on Kickstarter

Collecting Design — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 15:27:44 +0100

Within days of launching their crowdsourcing campaign mori.london have raised funds well above their £10,000 goal. The campaign is open until the 27th of April - head tokickstarter to pledge your funding.

The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepard

Collecting Design — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:50:28 +0100

In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape.

Lina Bo Bardi: The Theory of Architectural Practice by Cathrine Veikos

Collecting Design — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 10:13:00 +0100

The architect, Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), has long been considered one of the major modern architects of the twentieth century in Brazil. Her iconic Museum of Art of São Paulo (1968), and the bold, Social Service for Commerce Building-Pompéia, São Paulo (1986), have gained recognition in recent years and her reputation is beginning to be acknowledged internationally.

The Punkt. MP 01 designed by Jasper Morrison

Collecting Design — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 09:16:02 +0100

The more our phones do, the more they demand of us. Sometimes it’s good to take a break. But until now, the only alternative to hyper-connected smartphones has been the kind of phone you find at the back of a drawer. The Punkt. MP 01 is a stylish, well-crafted mobile phone, designed by Jasper Morrison, which focuses on modern simplicity, inside and out. It makes phone calls and sends texts.

Eileen Gray: Her Life and Her Work. the Ultimate Biography

Collecting Design — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:22:26 +0100

Eileen Gray started her career as a lacquer artist in Paris creating new furniture and living accessories with striking colors and understated shapes. Remaining stalwartly independent, Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on geometric forms and industrially produced materials.

European Centre For Geological Education by WXCA

Collecting Design — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:22:27 +0100

The Swietokrzyskie Mountains are an unique place for geologists, as there are exposed rocks illustrating 560 million years of Earth's history located on a relatively small area.  A few steps in this area is like turning back time by 100 million years. The fact that the layers of rocks of different ages located around Checiny are now on the surface, is a unique phenomenon on a European scale.

Monocle 24: The Urbanist - Keep on moving

Collecting Design — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 08:35:49 +0100

In this episode, The Urbanist, catches up with businesses “on the go”, from a travelling cinema in Vienna to the delicious food-truck craze in Paris. Plus: they hop on a houseboat in London that doubles as a record shop.

"Thought of Train of Thought" by Ron Arad at Saint Pancras International

Collecting Design — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:38:51 +0100

Terrace Wires revealed the eagerly anticipated Terrace Wires public art installation, Thought of Train of Thought, by Royal Academician Ron Arad at St Pancras International.