OPEN STUDIO DURING CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK 22 – 24 MAY 2012
Clerkenwell Design Week, supported by OnOffice, invites you to participate in the Open Studio programme during 2012’s festival.
Building on the exciting, multi-disciplinary focus of the three day event, CDW is looking for creative companies to open their doors between 9am and 10am or 4pm and 6pm daily between 22 and 24 May to offer the public a through-the-keyhole experience into their day-to-day working life.
If you are an architectural practice, branding or advertising company, fashion house or other creative studio and would like to register your interest or request further information, please contact Hannah@carocommunications.com 02077139388
Tai Ping steps outdoors…in style
Tai Ping Carpets once again exhibits its exceptional design prowess with its first Outdoor rug collection, to be launched during Maison & Objet, at the company’s new European flagship in Saint-Germain in Paris.
Two materials and styles have been carefully selected for these innovative rugs, designed to resist rain and sunlight to maintain the beautiful and elegant appearance of traditional rugs.
PRESS DAY: 19 January 2012, 10am-5pm Tai Ping, 4-6 rue de Montalembert, 75007 Paris
Please contact sally@carocommunications.com for further information
Clerkenwell Design Week Returns for 2012
London’s premier celebration of design is preparing for its third showcase in 2012. After attracting record visitors over the last two years, with over 24,000 registered visitors in 2011, CDW 2012 looks to be bigger and better, cementing itself as the UK’s leading architecture and design destination
Many of Clerkenwell's design showrooms will be staging exclusive new product launches, talks with high profile speakers, installations and VIP parties. In addition site-specific installations and innovative product displays will be exhibited throughout EC1 and within various distinctive buildings not usually open to the public: The Farmiloe Building (a former lead and glass merchants warehouse), The House of Detention (a subterranean Victorian prison) and a number of new venues, still under-wraps, ready to be filled with some exclusively curated and art-led design content.
Please contact abby@carocommunications.com for further information
Glenn Howells Architects complete the Triangle
The Triangle, in the heart of Swindon, the housing development designed by Glenn Howells Architects for developer Hab Oakus, is now complete and fully inhabited.
Glenn Howells Architects has achieved a new, efficient and affordable Swindon vernacular. Unashamedly reinterpreting terraced housing based on traditional urban principles, The Triangle acts as a hopeful precedent for the future of housing.
For further information, please contact antonia@carocommunications.com
IT’S ALL ABOUT WOOD: REPUBLIC OF FRITZ HANSEN™ LAUNCHES THE NEW SERIES 7™ CHAIR
One of the world's most famous Danish design icons and Fritz Hansen's best selling design, the Series 7™ chair, goes 'au naturel' in an entirely new Series 7 collection that will be launched by Fritz Hansen™ in February 2012.
The new Series 7 collection celebrates the designs natural beauty as the chair is brought back into its original form in a series of new wooden veneer variations including Maple, Ash, Beech, Cherry, Oregon Pine, Elm, Oak, Walnut and Dark Stained Oak. The natural material was originally chosen by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen to furnish the Series 7 design and is an important part of Scandinavian design history.
Nine new colours are also being introduced which are inspired by the original colour palette designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1968. The new Series 7 collection will be available at the Republic of Fritz Hansen Store, London.
For further information, please contact sally@carocommunications.com